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Making America Dirtier

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I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it before, but Tucker Carlson is hack.  He is a right wing, dog whistling, opportunistic hack who cares more about placating his cribbed viewer base than making cogent points or saying things with any kind of value.  He repackages bargain basement talking points that high school debate students use when throwing mock cases together.  He provides no value in terms of discourse, and more than that, he knows it.  He’s been told to his face by better men than me that he sucks (Jon Stewart…where are you? We need you…).  Anyway, recently one of his bigoted dog whistle diatribes where he suggested that helping poor people was bad for the bottom line, which lead him to suggest that immigrants make America “dirtier”, caused some of his sponsors to FINALLY take notice that he’s a scumbag.  As of this writing, 4 of his sponsors dropped him, and it looks like he might lose more in short order.  This of course caused him to give a non-apology where he unconvincingly said that he did indeed like immigrants and immigration.  As it turns out, that didn’t help his situation.  Do I expect this to collapse his career?  Unfortunately, no, but it is nice to see that unlike Sean Hannity or Donald Trump, some bad people know that this level of humiliation is supposed to be a bad thing.  But make no mistake, the only thing making America dirtier are people like Tucker Carlson.

Beyond Repercussion

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So, on November 5, Monday night, right before the most contentious midterms in modern history, Sean Hannity was brought up by Donald Trump to speak and endorse his political allies.  Is that surprising?  No.  Not even kind of.  Sean Hannity is a scumbag who doesn’t care one whit about professionalism in his career, unless he thinks someone else is being unprofessional.  But still, people rightly had complaints about the optics of a journalist, who even as an editorialist, was stumping for Republicans.  Using his platform as a person who is supposed to be outside that bubble, to endorse politicians is the worst kind of behavior.  So again, not surprising, still gross and unprofessional on a profound level.  Even Fox News found his political endorsements and verbal backstabbing of fellow reporters to be distasteful, and put out a statement suggesting that they were going to take some kind of action to which I say “HA!”  Sean Hannity isn’t going to get so much as a wrist slap.  He is the highest rated cable news show in the country.  As gross as that sounds, the fact is that he’s the draw for many people to that network.  Which is discouraging to think about, but true none the less.  Sean Hannity is immune from basically any kind of action.  He could drop kick a baby on the air, and Fox News would suggest that it isn’t up to the standards of their Network, and then wipe their hands of it.