Fox News host Tucker Carlson calls guy a moron on air when confronted by facts that he's paid to present billionaires views

[Indus]

Here's the link to the video:

 

[Gryz]

It doesn't happen often that I'm proud of a countryman. But what this guy said was awesome. So simple. And so true.

Rich people controlling politics and the media to get richer and richer. And everybody else gets poorer and poorer. Until we're back at the situation of 200+ years back. When you had a small, but powerful and rich aristocracy. And everybody else could go fuck themselves.

For some reason nobody mentions this anymore. The class struggle is now more relevant than ever. And everybody acts and talks like the world is fair already, everybody gets what they deserve, and equality "is socialism, is hitler, is fascism".

 

[Jhhnn]

Tucker Carlson, owned for the shill that he is. Most excellent.

 

[Blackjack200]

I stumbled on this earlier. Amazing.

 

[Blackjack200]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1098283273120350211

Tweet thread by the guest about the interview.

 

[sandorski]

Nice.

 

[woolfe9998]

Great clip. I'm curious how anyone was able to obtain the full interview when Fox refused to air it.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Dang that dude was great.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Great clip. I'm curious how anyone was able to obtain the full interview when Fox refused to air it.

The guy I’m assuming recorded it all from his end and released it.

 

[woolfe9998]

The guy I’m assuming recorded it all from his end and released it.

Yes that makes sense. We only see the interviewee, not Carlson. So he must have videotaped it himself.

Smart guy. Strikes me as a good idea especially when being interviewed by Fox News.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Id think it would good idea by anybody period. That way the interviewer can’t twist what you say around via edits.

 

[Sonikku]

Millionaires talking to other millionaires about the plight of the poor.

 

[esquared]

Wow, him telling this historian to "go fuck yourself, you tiny brained moron", really takes the cake.
Hope this really makes the rounds , at least on the other news sites.

Good for him, for calling carlson out for the shill that he is, for the cheeto and his billionaire brethren .

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Great clip. I'm curious how anyone was able to obtain the full interview when Fox refused to air it.

I didn’t watch the video but I read somewhere it was recorded on a phone. I’d guess an associate of the historian guy.

 

[Jhhnn]

Here's Tucker putting his spin on it-

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6004981762001/#sp=show-clips

Yes, Tucker, we know you shill for right wing billionaires of your own free will. They don't tell you what to say because they trust you to just say it for them.

 

[jman19]

Big surprise. Tucker exposed for the chode he really is. Who actually watches this guy expecting any sort of real insight?

 

[Moonbeam]

I blame the arrogant intellectual left for some of this. If they could just refrain from calling everybody stupid all those stupid people wouldn't be so eager to be in Carlson's audience where he prances about behind his counter-contemptuous smugness and laughing dismissiveness.

 

[Sonikku]

Here's Tucker putting his spin on it-

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6004981762001/#sp=show-clips

Yes, Tucker, we know you shill for right wing billionaires of your own free will. They don't tell you what to say because they trust you to just say it for them.

They didn't air it solely because of profanity? Why didn't they just bleep it out?

 

[soundforbjt]

Big surprise. Tucker exposed for the chode he really is. Who actually watches this guy expecting any sort of real insight?

The President.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

It doesn't happen often that I'm proud of a countryman. But what this guy said was awesome. So simple. And so true.

Rich people controlling politics and the media to get richer and richer. And everybody else gets poorer and poorer. Until we're back at the situation a 200+ years back. When you had a small, but powerful and rich aristocracy. And everybody could go fuck themselves.

For some reason nobody mentions this anymore. The class struggle is now more necessary than ever. And everybody acts and talks like the world is fair already, everybody gets what they deserve, and equality "is socialism, is hitler, is fascism".

What if I told you.... That everyone was getting richer...

The latest piece of evidence comes from economist Stephen Rose of the Urban Institute, who finds in new research that the upper middle class in the U.S. is larger and richer than it’s ever been. He finds the upper middle class has expanded from about 12% of the population in 1979 to a new record of nearly 30% as of 2014.

“Any discussion of inequality that is limited to the 1% misses a lot of the picture because it ignores the large inequality between the growing upper middle class and the middle and lower middle classes,” said Mr. Rose. The Urban Institute is a nonpartisan policy research group.

There is no standard definition of the upper middle class. Many researchers have defined the group as households or families with incomes in the top 20%, excluding the top 1% or 2%. Mr. Rose, by contrast, uses a more dynamic method similar to how researchers calculate the poverty rate, which allows for growth or shrinkage over time, and adjusts for family size.

Using Census Bureau data available through 2014, he defines the upper middle class as any household earning $100,000 to $350,000 for a family of three: at least double the U.S. median household income and about five times the poverty level. At the same time, they are quite distinct from the richest households. Instead of inheritors of dynastic wealth or the chief executives of large companies, they are likely middle-managers or professionals in business, law or medicine with bachelors and especially advanced degrees.

Smaller households can earn somewhat less to be classified as upper middle-class; larger households need to earn somewhat more.

Mr. Rose adjusts these thresholds for inflation back to 1979 and finds the population earning this much money has never been so large. One could quibble with his exact thresholds or with the adjustment that he uses for inflation. But using different measures of inflation, or using higher income thresholds for the upper-middle class, produces the same result: substantial growth among this group since the 1970s.

Mr. Rose’s new paper is part of a broader body of research reappraising and seeking to measure the upper middle class. This reappraisal does not fit comfortably in the left or the right’s political narratives. While it underscores the growth of American economic inequality, it undermines the idea of lower- and upper-middle-class voters being in the same boat. It suggests that the majority of Americans have indeed struggled but that a large minority has thrived.

Research from Sean Reardon of Stanford University and Kendra Bischoff of Cornell University, for example, found in research published in March that the number of families living in affluent neighborhoods has more than doubled, to 16% of the population in 2012 from 7% in 1980. They define these neighborhoods as those where the median income is at least 50% higher than the rest of the city.

The Pew Research Center last month found that 203 metropolitan areas have seen their middle class shrink, but in 172 of those cities, the shrinkage was in part due to the growth in wealthier families. (In 160 of the cities, the share of lower-income families grew as well.) So Pew found the middle class shrinking from both ends—not just from families falling below the middle class, but also because of families rising out.

Richard Reeves, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a centrist think tank, is writing a book called “Dream Hoarders” that looks at the way upper-middle-class families perpetuate their status across generations, in ways that can sometimes be harmful to middle- or lower-middle-class families. Mr. Reeves argues that many of the social anxieties and resentments against inequality are in fact driven by what he calls “the dangerous separation” between middle- and upper-middle-income families.

Take high housing costs or the soaring costs of higher education. The spread of $3,000-a-month apartments or a national average $32,000-a-year college tuition bill is not driven by heirs or CEOs renting dozens of apartments or sending dozens of children to college. It’s driven by millions of upper-middle-class families with enough income to foot those bills, Mr. Reeves said.

“It’s true the top 1% or top .1% have galloped away more quickly,” Mr. Reeves said, but ignoring the role of the upper middle class “gets in the way of an honest conversation about what’s happening with American inequality.”

WSJ: https://outline.com/bMVvSx

 

[soulcougher73]

They didn't air it solely because of profanity? Why didn't they just bleep it out?

Im assuming they didnt air it because he got called out and owned.

 

[MooseNSquirrel]

I blame the arrogant intellectual left for some of this. If they could just refrain from calling everybody stupid all those stupid people wouldn't be so eager to be in Carlson's audience where he prances about behind his counter-contemptuous smugness and laughing dismissiveness.

Going with your sig.

 

[Jhhnn]

What if I told you.... That everyone was getting richer...

WSJ: https://outline.com/bMVvSx

So what? Tucker rightfully got called out for being a millionaire spouting the anti-tax ideology of billionaires while pretending to speak truth to power. His salary is $M's/yr.

 

[shortylickens]

I forget which Nazi said it, but one of the more important Nazis said "accuse your enemy of that which you are doing". And it really fucking works.

 

[MooseNSquirrel]

What if I told you.... That everyone was getting richer...

WSJ: https://outline.com/bMVvSx

What if I told you... numbers are hard.

I mean this is pretty funny on so many levels.

While it underscores the growth of American economic inequality, it undermines the idea of lower- and upper-middle-class voters being in the same boat. It suggests that the majority of Americans have indeed struggled but that a large minority has thrived.