Is the NSA really spying on Tucker Carlson?

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hal2kilo

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No link yet. But, I just saw on the tube that Kevin McCarthy is so concerned about this that he's got his A team on it. Yep, you guessed it, the cow man, Nunes.
 
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Moonbeam

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All I know is that he could easily become the next Elvis if he were to rent a boat, wrap himself in chains ad jump overboard somewhere far at sea, and leave an itinerary with plans to sail to Guantanamo Bay.
 
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MrSquished

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Really not sure how the OP is giving probably the biggest piece of shit on cable TV any kind of credit for this conspiracy theory. Letting this clear loon get any credibility is just another step towards degrading our society.
 

woolfe9998

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Really not sure how the OP is giving probably the biggest piece of shit on cable TV any kind of credit for this conspiracy theory. Letting this clear loon get any credibility is just another step towards degrading our society.

You must not have read my OP.
 
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MichaelMay

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Really not sure how the OP is giving probably the biggest piece of shit on cable TV any kind of credit for this conspiracy theory. Letting this clear loon get any credibility is just another step towards degrading our society.

I don't see where he gave any credibility for this insanity, could you point it out?
 

BoomerD

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At this point, everyone should just assume the NSA is spying on them in one way or another...
 
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mikeymikec

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Soooo, Tucker Carlson claims that the NSA is spying on him. He alleges that a "whistleblower" within NSA approached him and told him NSA is reading his texts and e-mails, which, if true, is of course illegal.

I'm going to go with a Pirates of the Caribbean quote:

Murtogg : I know *why* we're here. I mean, why aren't we doin' what - what Mr. Sparrow said? With the cannons and all?

Norrington : Because it was Mr. Sparrow who said it.

Murtogg : [short pause; he turns to Mullroy] You don't think 'e was tellin' the truth?
 

sportage

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Just a continuation of THE BIG LIE.
Attempting to make its way full circle.
If Tucker is really THAT worried, he can always try wearing a tinfoil hat.
 
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trenchfoot

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Anything coming out of the mouth from a ratings hog with zero credibility who sings to his choir about how they are being victimized by the mysteriously mercurious "Establishment" that is whatever he and his audience says it is depending on what day of the week it is or how threatened they need to feel at that time of day is about as believable as Trump saying he was going to make Mexico pay for his wall. Same shit dished up hot and steaming, just different spicy condiments being stirred in.
 
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kage69

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Seb Gorka wants a piece of this...


Poor Gorka, he's doing whatever he can to keep his name in the news. Must be hard being so irrelevant when you've got an ego that large. It's downright shameful when you're somehow too full of shit for even Fox Noise or a group of pathological liars like the Trump family.

The King of All Karens has to contend with lesser shitbirds trying to cling to his influence now. You'll remember him not remembering Matt Gaetz's definitely of age dinner date that one night, right?

Fuck off back to Hungary Sebastian. Surely there's an anti-gay campaign there in need of a talent free, ethically bankrupt talking head addicted to lying and rage.

 

ElFenix

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dank69

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I did nazi this coming.
But not grammar Nazis:
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VRAMdemon

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So, in the absence of a time machine, and inability to go back to 1930s Germany, Tucker Carlson settles for 2021 Hungary. You take what you can get, I guess.

At least they’re openly embracing fascism now rather than using dog whistles. The American right has found a new darling. It’s a dangerous turn, though. It’s using a major national news outlet to normalize ethno-nationalist fascism. Tucker Carlson, along with Fox seems personally invested in this idea.
 

Amol S.

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If Tucker Carlson is a national security threat, then I do not see why the NSA would not spy on him.
 

K1052

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Tucker has been doing his show from Hungary because he admires Orban and is holding his country up as a model example of what the US should become: far poorer, less powerful/influential, smaller, more socially restrictive, possessive of a press that is the mouthpiece of the government, and of course whiter.

The argument is that the US could basically give up all it's advantages in service of building an ethno-nationalist authoritarian nation to make people like him feel better. He's not even flirting with white nationalism anymore so much as giving it full tongue on air.