Tucker Carlson: Highest rated show in the history of cable news

And the impeachment took place on what grounds? Adam Schiff was telling you for years that they "had it all" on Trump... that he "colluded with the Russians".

So, since Adam said they "had it all", why was Trump impeached, again? If they "had it all", why is DJT still the President?

Talk about "blow hard posturing".

"The walls are closing in!".............

See above

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Biden is demented and you are wrong..2021 is looking worse than 2020.smh

Should the goal of news shows be to get high ratings or to tell the news?

Seems like a conflict of interest to maybe sensationalize things to get more viewers.

Beep Beep wrote:

If they "had it all", why is DJT still the President?

Because I refused to call any witnesses.

Mitch McConnell wrote:

Beep Beep wrote:

If they "had it all", why is DJT still the President?

Because I refused to call any witnesses.

Ohhh, because when Adam Schiff "has it all", the defense refusing to call witnesses is what keeps him in power.

You're pathetic.

Star wrote:

Should the goal of news shows be to get high ratings or to tell the news?

Seems like a conflict of interest to maybe sensationalize things to get more viewers.

Ratings are a good indicator of who is telling the news most accurately. Tucker is getting high ratings because he is calling out Democrats and Republicans. A couple days ago he HUMILIATED a republican senator. He keeps it real and tells it like it is.

Since mainstream media has been decimated by the internet, the general strategy is to report biased news. Natural Language Processing supports this notion, i.e. Fox reports more on post Floyd crime rates while CNN emphasizes police shootings. I have a friend who was the editor of an Ottawa newspaper in 2011. He was shocked at the complaints: lack of crosswords (?) and questions as to why his paper didn’t cover something else that some other media covered. As to the latter, why would someone care if they already read the story somewhere else? It dawned on him that in a splintered media world, it is all about producing material that enhances the users self esteem or validates a worldview. To gather viewers or readers, he needed to appeal to his idealogical base just to hold on in a splintered media market. It was not about a balanced presentation of the news. You are stuck with a base and you hammer away at making the base feel better about themselves-an important attribute in a world where personal self esteem looms large. The main problem he had is that even with a shared base, he was bound to offend someone on some issue and thus enrage them. Guessing as to how your move someone’s social status ranking is not a fun game at all.

Some takeaways on Tucker's ratings:

1. "Professional wrestling" also gets huge ratings. The fake, entertaining stuff will get more eyeballs watching than the real stuff, be it wrestling, news, or whatever.

2. A good number of folks watching Tucker will tune in NOT because they are true believers, but because they are curious how on earth Tucker will spin Trump's latest asinine comments, tweets or actions. Same with other Fox News shows or right wing radio nutjobs like Rush Limbaugh. They get a good amount of their ratings from their harshest critics tuning in.

3. Neil Young sings in his song "Powderfinger" : "Numbers add up to nothing".

Once again MSM including FOX running fake polls, they 're hoping they can do massive fraud with mail in votes and then have the outcome line up with the fake polls. Same thing they tried to do in 2016 but the fraud was stopped and HRC was never supposed to have lost, hence all the MSM talking heads crying. Tucker is awesome, USA agrees.

Tucker kicks ass wrote:

Once again MSM including FOX running fake polls, they 're hoping they can do massive fraud with mail in votes and then have the outcome line up with the fake polls. Same thing they tried to do in 2016 but the fraud was stopped and HRC was never supposed to have lost, hence all the MSM talking heads crying. Tucker is awesome, USA agrees.

So now Fox News is working to defeat Trump? If you truly believe that it’s pretty sad.

Carlson is a fraud.

Ignore the crappy Vox commentary but listen to Tucker’s own words. He is not one of us. He is an elite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNineSEoxjQ

Surprise surprise folks, they ARE racist.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/media/tucker-carlson-writer-blake-neff/index.html

https://www.thewrap.com/tucker-carlson-writer-blake-neff-racist-sexist-comments-resign-fox-news/

Does that guy post on here as well? Coevett?

name check wrote:

patriotic Americans agree wrote:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2020/06/30/tucker-carlson-has-highest-rated-program-in-cable-news-history/#7f7af3cd6195

Keep on believing those polls.

Biden winning by 15%????

Hahahahahaha!!!!!

Yeah, right!!!

It's clear there is a silent majority.

So where was this 'silent majority' in the 2018 election when the Dems picked up 40 seats in the house and 8 state and territorial governships?

charley wrote:

name check wrote:

It's clear there is a silent majority.

So where was this 'silent majority' in the 2018 election when the Dems picked up 40 seats in the house and 8 state and territorial governships?

Where was that silent majority in 2016 when Trump won LESS votes that his rival HRC?

It’s not a silent majority and never has been, it’s a loud mouthed minority.

Stop the faux righteousness.

Meanwhile on MSNBC an actual host who herself posted homophobic things and lied about them to try and cover them up is now a primetime anchor.

Not sure if that means her writer is racist or not.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/27/17286392/joy-reid-msnbc-lgbtq-gay-hack

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/business/media/joy-reid-msnbc-apology.html

Difference is people actually watch Tucker Carlson. You can pretend everyone who does is a racist or we can live in a more nuanced world. Decrying everyone you disagree with as racist or homophobic isn't productive.

Leaning heavily into white nationalism is the whole reason Tucker has become so popular at Fox News in the first place. This just burnishes his brand. My Pillow is gonna have a virtual monopoly on all of the advertising slots for his show by the end of the week, though.