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🗓️ 11 March 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | Activists are calling for the firing of Fox News host Tucker Carlson after Media Matters |
0:05.0 | for America, an activist group, on Earth old quotes from him after he appeared on several |
0:08.6 | radio shows. The comments cover a wide range of topics, but a few notable ones talk about |
0:13.6 | child marriage and statutory rape. I gotta say this kind of feels like it may be foe outrage, |
0:19.2 | at least from where it's starting from, because Media Matters for America is a left-wing group, |
0:23.6 | and it's not the first time activists have tried to get Tucker Carlson taken off the air. |
0:27.4 | Only a few months ago, he lost a massive amount of his sponsors for things he said. |
0:32.1 | And these comments that are being unearthed were not made in secret. They're publicly available |
0:36.5 | comments. Tucker Carlson wasn't hiding that he was saying these things. He was going on public |
0:40.8 | shows with massive audiences and saying these things. So whether or not anyone is actually |
0:45.1 | outraged at least at the top, to me seems kind of unlikely, though I'm sure there are some people |
0:50.1 | who are offended. This seems like it may just be a political hit job. But today, let's take a look |
0:55.2 | at exactly what Carlson said and look at the issue of the left trying to get Carlson fired. |
1:00.4 | And I also want to talk a little bit about outrage culture and the mechanics of social media, |
1:04.5 | how it perpetuates this kind of outrage. But before we get started, make sure you follow us over |
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1:24.0 | video, the hashtag fire Tucker Carlson is currently trending number five in the United States with |
1:29.8 | thousands of tweets calling for him to lose his job. Though many of the people tweeting with the |
1:34.8 | hashtag are actually defending. Tucker Carlson, this all started with unearth quotes from media matters |
1:40.2 | for America. In an article they write in unearthed audio, Tucker Carlson makes numerous misogynistic |
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