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WASHINGTON—Coming to the realization in front of millions of viewers during the broadcast of his show, a horrified Tucker Carlson stated, ‘I…I am the mainstream media’ Wednesday as he began spiraling live on air. “We’ve discovered evidence of rampant voter fraud, and the president has every right to call for an investigation even if the mainstream media thinks...” said Carlson, who trailed off, stared down at his shaking hands, and felt a sudden ringing in his ears as he looked back up and zeroed in on the production crew surrounding him. “The media says…wait. Those liars on TV will try to tell you…oh God. We’re the number-one program on cable news, aren’t we? Fox News…Fox ‘News.’ It’s the media. It’s me. This can’t be. No, no, no, no. Jesus Christ, I make $6 million a year. Get that camera off me!”
At press time, Carlson had torn the microphone from his lapel and fled the set in panic
At press time, Carlson had torn the microphone from his lapel and fled the set in panic
ONE OF THESE IS FAKE NEWS
AND IT AIN'T THE ONION
THAT'S SATIRE
Victor Davis Hanson to Tucker: Elites Have Turned Election Day Into an 'Entitlement'(SIC)
BLOG By Alexander Watson | November 11, 2020
Victor Davis Hanson speaks with Tucker Carlson on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."
Victor Davis Hanson speaks with Tucker Carlson on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."
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Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson said that "Big Data, Big Tech, Big Pollster" and more have colluded to turn Election Day into an "entitlement" while on Monday's "Tucker Carlson Tonight."
“I think it's a transition from a rugged individual who has to take a responsibility to know the issues, show up on Election Day, unless he's working or she’s sick, and then turning it into sort of an entitlement," Hanson told Carlson.
Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson said that "Big Data, Big Tech, Big Pollster" and more have colluded to turn Election Day into an "entitlement" while on Monday's "Tucker Carlson Tonight."
“I think it's a transition from a rugged individual who has to take a responsibility to know the issues, show up on Election Day, unless he's working or she’s sick, and then turning it into sort of an entitlement," Hanson told Carlson.
THE RIGHT WING PAVLOVIAN TROPE: ENTITLEMENT
"You just lay back, and whenever you contact a government agent, they’re going to send you a registration form, and somebody is even going to harvest that and knock on the door and fill it out, and the polls are going to tell you who you should vote for because they're scientific, and they have the authority of Twitter or Facebook or social media that you use," he said. "What we did was we took the prime element of citizenship, which is voting on Election Day, that has to be approved and have some authority and sanctity, and we destroyed it."
"You just lay back, and whenever you contact a government agent, they’re going to send you a registration form, and somebody is even going to harvest that and knock on the door and fill it out, and the polls are going to tell you who you should vote for because they're scientific, and they have the authority of Twitter or Facebook or social media that you use," he said. "What we did was we took the prime element of citizenship, which is voting on Election Day, that has to be approved and have some authority and sanctity, and we destroyed it."
A full transcript of the quoted section of the show follows:
Carlson: Victor Davis Hanson is one of the wisest people we ever speak to; he's a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and he joins us tonight. Professor, thanks so much for coming on. Where do you think we are right now? What’s happening?
Hanson: Well, I think you outlined sort of a tragic, last Orwellian convergence of Big Data, Big Tech, Big Pollster, Big Money, administrative state and what they did, Tucker, is they rendered the most hallowed date in American traditions, the first Tuesday in November, into an abstraction. It’s a construct. Even the word "absentee ballot" doesn't mean anything anymore. It's ceased to exist and what did they replace it with? This new concept of early voting and mail-in balloting. We never heard those words before and what they mean is 30, 40, 45 days before the election, you can keep voting casually, you can go in, vote, maybe not, any day, there's no one day you vote. Ballots can come in one, two, three, four days after the polls maybe. And if the rules are too oppressive, you can sue and overturn the constitutional right of the legislators who set the voting laws. And what do we miss? It used to be the last two or three weeks were the heated time of the campaign. That's when you showed the mettle of the candidate. So what did it matter if Donald Trump had a really good second debate? What did it matter if we heard about Hunter Biden when millions of people had already voted? And what did they vote on? What were the perceptions? As you said, they were massaged by polls. So they were being, their knowledge came, well, you know Wisconsin 17 down and 12 down in the national polls, and Trump’s favorability is 18 down, so, it really wouldn't be wise to give money or to vote; it's over with.
Carlson: Exactly.
Hanson: And so we really abrogated, took away that responsibility of the citizen and we outsourced it. And that wasn’t enough because we took the personal element out of it. We used to go to the polls and somebody would say "Mrs. Smith," "Mr. Jones, you didn’t sign. Your date, you got a day, remember that. Here is your address." And we just turn it over to this pseudo-scientific group of people that said, “we have computers, we’re exact. We can poll to the exact decimal point. And we dumped all these votes into these anonymous centers where there was no human contact, no transparency, no audit, and we expect them not to have 15 percent of the vote under the old absentee system, but 70, 80, 85 percent of the vote. And we expect them to get a result that's going to be accurate, audited, adjudicated. It can’t happen. And then to add insult to injury, on Election Night, we had these same pseudo-scientific experts say, “you know what? Two percent, 10 percent, this state is over with, and this state over here is not over with.” And they have nothing to do with reality but they form a narrative, a theme. So in the case of last Tuesday night, why would, if you were a Trump supporter, why would you object to what you thought was going on in Michigan and Pennsylvania when you were told that Barry Goldwater’s state, the bastion of conservatism, was lost twenty minutes after the polls closed or that Texas and Florida can’t even be called because Trump has been wiped out in his home base? That shapes perceptions even after the polls close.
So the only mystery is, what’s behind all this? And I think it's a transition from a rugged individual who has to take a responsibility to know the issues, show up on Election Day, unless he's working or she’s sick, and then turning it into sort of an entitlement. You just lay back, and whenever you contact a government agent, they’re going to send you a registration form, and somebody is even going to harvest that and knock on the door and fill it out, and the polls are going to tell you who you should vote for because they're scientific, and they have the authority of Twitter or Facebook or social media that you use. And then to add final insult, with all that, and then you’re going to be told you’re a winner or loser based on these perceived polls on Election Night and the analytics. So to finish, Tucker, what we did was we took the prime element of citizenship, which is voting on Election Day, that has to be approved and have some authority and sanctity, and we destroyed it. And without voting, you don’t have citizenship; without citizenship, you don’t have a republic. So that’s what’s at stake. And when people like Gavin Newsom and Hilary Clinton say that this COVID virus and lockdown was an opportunity to transform things, and a crisis never to go to waste, then we think maybe it wasn't accidental. Maybe it wasn’t accidental. Maybe it wasn't just the way things had to be. And that’s really scary.
Tucker: It is scary. I don’t want to reach that conclusion but you can see how people would. Victor Davis Hanson, it's great to see you tonight. Thank you.
Hanson: Thank you.
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Tucker Carlson apologized on-air for making a false accusation of voter fraud in Georgia
insider@insider.com (John L. Dorman)
The voter in question, Agnes Blalock, is the wife of the late James Blalock Jr., and her registered voter name is "Mrs. James Blalock, Jr."
"He's not voting," she told the Atlanta-based news station 11 Alive. "He didn't vote. It was me."
Carlson issued an apology on-air, saying that "we're always going to correct when we're wrong, and we were."
Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Friday apologized on-air after a Georgia news station informed him that he had falsely alleged that a dead man voted illegally in the state during the November election.
During a Thursday segment of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Carlson said that a ballot had been cast for James Blalock of Covington, a World War II veteran who passed away in 2006. In reality, the ballot was cast by his widow, who is registered to vote under the name "Mrs. James R. Blalock, Jr."
President Donald Trump's campaign, which has issued a litany of lawsuits in a range of swing states to back up debunked claims of voter fraud, inaccurately released Blalock's name as evidence of a dead individual who cast a ballot, which would point to voter fraud.
"No one quite embodies that story like James Blalock of Covington, Georgia. Mr. Blalock was a mailman for 33 years, until he passed away in 2006," Carlson said on Thursday. "Fourteen years later, according to state records, he was still mailing things. James Blalock cast a ballot in last week's election."
Officials in Newton County, outside of Atlanta, released a statement on Thursday saying that the report was incorrect. The record that the Trump campaign touted as evidence of fraud actually revealed that the registered voter was Blalock's widow.
"Her voter registration was signed as Mrs. James E. Blalock, Jr. and that is exactly how she signed her name when she voted in the Nov. 3 general election," the officials wrote. "Newton County conducts its elections and voter registration efforts with transparency and attention to detail and hopes that any reporting on this or any other election be done [with] the same level of fact-checking and accurate information."
The local Atlanta NBC affiliate, 11 Alive, pointed out the inaccuracies of Carlson's report after county officials refuted the incidence of voter fraud. The station spoke with Agnes Blalock, a 96-year-old woman, who confirmed that she was indeed the one who voted.
"He's not voting," she said. "He didn't vote. It was me."
On Friday, Carlson issued an apology to viewers for giving them misleading information.
"We've got some good news tonight and an apology," he said. "One of the people who voted in last week's election isn't dead. James Blalock is still dead. We told you about him, but it was his wife who voted. She voted as Mrs. James Blalock. It's old-fashioned, and we missed it ... It was Mrs. James Blalock, so apologies for that, and of course we're always going to correct when we're wrong, and we were."
He also alleged that "a whole bunch of dead people did vote," but noted that "James Blalock was not among them."
A viral claim of thousands of deceased individuals voting in the election has spread across the internet in recent days and was debunked by The New York Times.
"Dead people whose identities were used to vote appear to be a popular subject for those who are spreading unsubstantiated claims of fraud about the election," The Times said.
Decision Desk HQ and Insider declared Joe Biden the winner of the presidential election on November 6 and called Georgia for the president-elect on November 14.
Trump, who fell far short of the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency, has so far refused to concede, pointing to largely debunked cases of voter fraud in an attempt to delegitimize the election.
Read the original article on Business Insider
insider@insider.com (John L. Dorman)
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson apologized on Friday after a Georgia news station let him know that he had falsely claimed that a dead man voted illegally in the state.
The voter in question, Agnes Blalock, is the wife of the late James Blalock Jr., and her registered voter name is "Mrs. James Blalock, Jr."
"He's not voting," she told the Atlanta-based news station 11 Alive. "He didn't vote. It was me."
Carlson issued an apology on-air, saying that "we're always going to correct when we're wrong, and we were."
Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Friday apologized on-air after a Georgia news station informed him that he had falsely alleged that a dead man voted illegally in the state during the November election.
During a Thursday segment of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Carlson said that a ballot had been cast for James Blalock of Covington, a World War II veteran who passed away in 2006. In reality, the ballot was cast by his widow, who is registered to vote under the name "Mrs. James R. Blalock, Jr."
President Donald Trump's campaign, which has issued a litany of lawsuits in a range of swing states to back up debunked claims of voter fraud, inaccurately released Blalock's name as evidence of a dead individual who cast a ballot, which would point to voter fraud.
"No one quite embodies that story like James Blalock of Covington, Georgia. Mr. Blalock was a mailman for 33 years, until he passed away in 2006," Carlson said on Thursday. "Fourteen years later, according to state records, he was still mailing things. James Blalock cast a ballot in last week's election."
Officials in Newton County, outside of Atlanta, released a statement on Thursday saying that the report was incorrect. The record that the Trump campaign touted as evidence of fraud actually revealed that the registered voter was Blalock's widow.
"Her voter registration was signed as Mrs. James E. Blalock, Jr. and that is exactly how she signed her name when she voted in the Nov. 3 general election," the officials wrote. "Newton County conducts its elections and voter registration efforts with transparency and attention to detail and hopes that any reporting on this or any other election be done [with] the same level of fact-checking and accurate information."
The local Atlanta NBC affiliate, 11 Alive, pointed out the inaccuracies of Carlson's report after county officials refuted the incidence of voter fraud. The station spoke with Agnes Blalock, a 96-year-old woman, who confirmed that she was indeed the one who voted.
"He's not voting," she said. "He didn't vote. It was me."
On Friday, Carlson issued an apology to viewers for giving them misleading information.
"We've got some good news tonight and an apology," he said. "One of the people who voted in last week's election isn't dead. James Blalock is still dead. We told you about him, but it was his wife who voted. She voted as Mrs. James Blalock. It's old-fashioned, and we missed it ... It was Mrs. James Blalock, so apologies for that, and of course we're always going to correct when we're wrong, and we were."
He also alleged that "a whole bunch of dead people did vote," but noted that "James Blalock was not among them."
A viral claim of thousands of deceased individuals voting in the election has spread across the internet in recent days and was debunked by The New York Times.
"Dead people whose identities were used to vote appear to be a popular subject for those who are spreading unsubstantiated claims of fraud about the election," The Times said.
Decision Desk HQ and Insider declared Joe Biden the winner of the presidential election on November 6 and called Georgia for the president-elect on November 14.
Trump, who fell far short of the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency, has so far refused to concede, pointing to largely debunked cases of voter fraud in an attempt to delegitimize the election.
Read the original article on Business Insider
