{"id":83606,"date":"2023-07-16T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=83606"},"modified":"2023-07-15T19:38:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T23:38:04","slug":"tricksy-tucker-carlson-tricked-conservatives-into-accidentally-thinking-that-they-dont-like-the-former-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/07\/16\/tricksy-tucker-carlson-tricked-conservatives-into-accidentally-thinking-that-they-dont-like-the-former-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Tricksy Tucker Carlson &#8220;tricked conservatives into accidentally thinking that they don\u2019t like the former vice-president&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/p\/all-you-can-eat-bad-faith\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Bray<\/a> helps dispel the hypnotic trance so many American conservatives have been suffering under:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_83607\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Tucker-Carlson-and-Mike-Pence-20230714.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83607\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Tucker-Carlson-and-Mike-Pence-20230714.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"263\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Tucker-Carlson-and-Mike-Pence-20230714.png 502w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Tucker-Carlson-and-Mike-Pence-20230714-480x251.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Tucker-Carlson-and-Mike-Pence-20230714-150x79.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-83607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tucker Carlson busy hypnotizing innocent conservatives to think they hate poor Mike Pence.<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>A stupid trend is emerging in the coverage of campaign discourse.<\/p>\n<p>By now you&#8217;ve probably seen footage of Tucker Carlson interviewing Mike Pence in Iowa, a discussion that produced a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1679910002599788555\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">memorable exchange<\/a> regarding Ukraine. <em>Politico<\/em> would like you to know that it was a kind of hypnosis routine, a mental hijacking in which Carlson tricked conservatives into accidentally thinking that they don&#8217;t like the former vice-president.<\/p>\n<p>The former Fox News host, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/07\/14\/gop-field-tucker-carlson-00106473\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> the all-seeing Sally Goldenberg, &#8220;primarily used his perch to press candidates on issues of importance to him: namely, the United States&#8217; role in the ongoing war in Ukraine.&#8221; As the United States sends cluster munitions to Ukraine and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2023\/07\/13\/ordering-the-selected-reserve-and-certain-members-of-the-individual-ready-reserve-of-the-armed-forces-to-active-duty\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">calls up<\/a> thousands of reservists for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europeafrica.army.mil\/AtlanticResolve\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;combat-ready&#8221; service<\/a> in Eastern Europe, a journalist is asking political leaders about Ukraine only because it&#8217;s a quirky itch his ego needs to scratch \u2014 a selfish personal cause, pursued for whatever odd reason. Here&#8217;s Goldenberg&#8217;s eighth paragraph, and compare it to what you saw with your own eyes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><strong><em>Carlson \u2014 a fierce Trump defender who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/08\/business\/media\/tucker-carlson-trump.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">later soured on the ex-president<\/a> \u2014 challenged, interrupted and contradicted the soft-spoken Pence at nearly every turn. As a result, the devout Christian candidate faced hostility and jeers at a summit that would have once provided him with a friendly audience.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The hostility and jeers were inorganic and manufactured; they didn&#8217;t happen because the audience didn&#8217;t like Pence or his answers, but <em>as a result<\/em> of the performative maneuvering of an interviewer who challenged and contradicted him. It&#8217;s simply not possible that <em>the audience<\/em> actually didn&#8217;t like Pence or his answer; rather, journalism&#8217;s David Blaine pulled a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wTqsV3q7rRU\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;hey, do you wanna see some magic?&#8221;<\/a> on them, whisking them away into a world of illusion. Tucker Carlson entered a thousand helpless brains and drove a Pence-loving audience away like a bus. The story goes on the say that &#8220;establishment Republicans expressed dismay,&#8221; accusing Carlson of &#8220;pro-Kremlin misinfo.&#8221; They don&#8217;t have to write these stories any more \u2014 they can just cut and paste from all the previous versions.<\/p>\n<p>This is a template for all future campaign coverage: Voters were accidentally hypnotized today into wrongfully [fill in blank] after [select: Tucker Carlson \/ Donald Trump] challenged and contradicted more responsible leaders. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Bray helps dispel the hypnotic trance so many American conservatives have been suffering under: A stupid trend is emerging in the coverage of campaign discourse. By now you&#8217;ve probably seen footage of Tucker Carlson interviewing Mike Pence in Iowa, a discussion that produced a memorable exchange regarding Ukraine. 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