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Michael and Us

#268 - The Carlson Doctrine (w/ Alex Shephard)

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Tucker Carlson reigns as the most-watched personality on cable news. How did he get that way? How important is he really? And what does he actually believe? To answer these questions, he enlist the help of Tucker scholar and returning guest Alex Shephard, who guides us through Carlson's trajectory from a Tom Wolfe-ish magazine scribe to a Jon Stewart punching-bag to the living embodiment of the GOP's hard-right turn. "How Tucker Carlson Lost It" by Alex Shephard - https://newrepublic.com/article/163567/tucker-carlson-profile-lost-mind

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Crossfire. We're talking to John Stewart, who's just lecturing us on our moral inferiority.

0:04.7

John, you're bumming us out. Tell us what do you think of the Bill O'Reilly Vibrator story?

0:08.0

I'm sorry? I don't. I'm here to confront you because we need help from the media, and they're hurting us.

0:18.6

I made a special effort to come on the show today because I have mentioned this show as being

0:23.6

bad.

0:26.6

It's not so much that it's bad as it's hurting America.

0:31.6

So I wanted to come here today and say, wait, wait.

0:35.6

Here's just what I wanted to tell you guys.

0:38.0

Yeah.

0:39.3

Stop.

0:41.6

Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop hurting America.

0:45.0

But anyway, I guess just to begin, the thing that's been on my mind this afternoon

0:50.0

is this Bernie Sanders endorsement in Canada's election,

0:55.3

which follows a Hillary Clinton endorsement of Justin Trudeau this morning

0:59.4

and an Obama endorsement of Justin Trudeau yesterday.

1:04.1

You know, the Bernie endorsement I was obviously pleased about,

1:06.6

but it's funny now that it's just clearly becoming a convention

1:09.6

that, like, heavy-hitting U.S. politicians are just going to weigh in on Canadian elections.

1:15.6

And I just want to say to Pete Buttigieg, who has not broken his silence on the Canadian election, Pete, we need your voice.

1:24.0

You know, a lot of writings are hanging on the coveted Buttigieg endorsement.

1:29.3

You know, it's time to use your voice to elevate others.

1:32.4

Now, was Obama sort of allowed to start doing this or did it seem like it was acceptable

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