Back in 2016 I was tuning into Fox News 60% of my viewing time as I enjoyed that conservative viewpoint a twist away from mainstream CNN Tucker was a thoughtful commentator ..Then Trump arrived and he just was fed lies and those lies passed on to the viewers. I suppose in wake of Defamation lawsuit, Fox made him the fall guy once it got out Tucker really thought via texts Trump was "a demonic force" ..Aside from that he was just a bullhorn for autocrats Putin and victor Ohrban When Don L had his nightly show on CNN I thought he had a few intelligent insights as well But when they transferred him to daytime sitting between Kaitlain Collins and Poppy Harlow, two bright and verbal young women , he really got his peacock feathers ruffled lol
I still have nightmares about the MacNeil/Lehrer Report. That usually came on a day when we were stuck inside on a rainy Sunday . . . after being subjected to golf. It gave me anxiety, not the other way around. Once the being bored comatose set in, oddly enough, it would get me nervous and jumpy. I bet that's how zoo animals feel. : (
You know CNN had already decided Lemon was a Lemon and they just dived on the chance to bury his firing under the avalanche of Tucker Coughlin getting fired.
They got rid of Charlie Rose, that was a hot one. I'm sure he was as awful as they said, but if he was that abhorrent to women in the workplace it took them all of that time? I'm not talking about cancel culture, which he got axed at the height of. I'm talking about after being sexually harassed became a justifiably punishable offense. That wasn't yesterday. A big part of why I watched PBS was for Edward Gorey.
I'm sure tons of people don't know who Father Coughlin was. What a POS that guy was. A hate monger with plenty of haters as a captive audience. It's funny how he coined the phrase "social justice". I'm also sure tons of people don't know that, either.
Sexual harassment of female underlings used to be the status quo in almost all American workplaces of any particular size. It was so expected that nobody talked about it. The executive secretaries making 35k a year in an economy where most women made less than half that suffered unusual predations. That's not saying that every boss was like that but any business had that guy taking advantage. I remember one particularly large company I worked at that had the problem in spades and the primary protectors of the assistants were the wives of the execs in question. They'd come in to inspect the new hires and they knew almost instantly if there was a problem. The solution? Fire the assistant and get an older less attractive replacement. Now we have more women executives and HR management has become mostly female and very sensitized to the issue. Not sensitized to protect the assistants, sensitized to protect the enterprise from bad news. Still a huge leap above where we were in the 80's, 90's and 00's.
Coughlin emerged in the same type of environment Carlson did: lots of social change and an organized elite rebellion against that change. In both cases there were interests with nothing in common with the average man but trying very hard to find common ground on the coarsest terms possible,
Lots of libs celebrating... but Tucker 2.0 may be an even worse nightmare. It's not like he's dead... he'll have plenty of options to get his voice heard.
