Why Fox’s Nightly White Power Hours Matter
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Kevin Kruse has an excellent thread on the racism, strategic or not, of Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingrahm’s nightly smarmfests:
This bears strong echoes of the racist screeds of the 1910s and 1920s that paved the way for the rise of the Second Ku Klux Klan and immigration restriction at home, and much worse abroad. https://t.co/gPBsQCulPC
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 9, 2018
With the alt-right about to converge in D.C., the problem is all the more urgent.
On the other hand, a frequent guest of Tucker and Laura from the nominal left has found another commentator of the greatest intergritude:
— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) August 9, 2018
Cupp is beholden to no faction! Her love for the GOP is not unconditional. She can live with Trump, but if they ever stop offering upper-class tax cuts or criminalized abortion she’s out the door! As Owen says:
I shouldn’t be surprised — after all, he’s even convinced himself his support for the Iraq War doesn’t “count” because he wasn’t blogging then — but I love that his “people with integrity” and “people who might put Glenn Greenwald on TV” maps are identical
— Owen Ellickson (@onlxn) August 9, 2018
Well, to be Scrupulously Fair in addition to his bitterness over MSNBC failing to book him, he presumably likes Fox News hosts because they share his loathing for liberal Democrats. The as the recently returned best parody on Twitter observes:
Big congrats to @secupp on her new show,
One of the nicest, most
Objective &
Knowledgeable hosts on TV.
More importantly, she's not beholden to
Either
Party & has no
Loyalties, which over
Eager partisan
Animals can't
Stand,
Especially not Neera Tanden.— Glem (@GlemGreenwald) August 9, 2018