Save Tucker Carlson hilarity
By John Amato Tuesday Nov 27, 2007 5:01pm
I wasn't going to post about this, but what the heck. It's too funny ...Apparently, there's a "Save Tucker" movement trying to flourish and they have a website to prove it. And a three-time Democratic office seeker is helping out...I wonder how long it will take Howard Kurtz to do a feature on it, but I digress. Here's where the fun begins...
MSNBC executives are considering cancelling 'Tucker' with Tucker Carlson which airs on MSNBC at 6:00pm EST weekdays. This decision by MSNBC will silence a [bleating, whiny, intensely irritating-ed.] conservative voice, part of a move by MSNBC to swing left and become "FOX for the Liberals," dropping any pretense of objectivity or balance.
Any guy willing to go on "Dancing with the Stars" and treat guests both left and right with spirited but congenial debate should not be purged in some ideological marketing plan. We respectfully urge NBC to reconsider this decision and save TUCKER!
I think all his problems are essentially illustrated in this pesky little ratings graphic below....
(click pic to make it larger) h/t TV Newser...Anyway, TRex started a new blog and talks more about this...
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"Click here to become a F.O.T."
That says it all!
At least they are admitting that Faux is a reich-wing station.
Please, get rid of Glenn Beck first. Hard to pull the biggest turd from the dungheap, I admit, but I'd still lean toward Glenn Beck. Of course, the biggest turd of all, O'Reilly, we seem to be stuck with.
That was a good laugh.
Third!!
Fourth!
Tucker: a man destined to have nasty limericks written in his name (his only legacy).
LOL.
Funny, I came to the computer to say something about Tucker and didn't want to go OT, now I won't be going OT
I think I just heard Tucker call Bill and Hillary neo-cons.
He was talking to Lanie Davis about Bill not being against the war when it began, even though Lanie had tons of stuff to prove him wrong. Then it sounded like Tucker said Bill and Hillary are neo-cons.
I think its more about him being unlikable and annoying. This is Cable and entertainment after all. He usually just takes the other side to try to sound smart with no real stance either way.
please!!!! give it to David Shuster.
email msnbc and voice your opinion!!!!!
viewerservices@msnbc.com
generalcomments@feedback.msnbc.com
phil.griffin@nbcuni.com
Preserve the serial comma!
Can that little bastard! I can't stand him! I can't stand Beck either. How he still has a job is beyond me!
im not a tv ratings guy but do those numbers mean that FNC is beating all the others? so i guess billo isnt lying about ratings???
not that i give a f*ck about ratings id rather hear the truth from a low ratings show than the bullcrap on FNC
He never really recovered after the famous Jon Stewart appearance on Crossfire.
Goooooooooooooood riddance. I can't beleive this no-talent contrarian talking head still has a show.
unfrozencaveman @ 14:
See, I always thought he was a straightman to Jon Stewart's barbs. He has his own show? Gross.
I'm absolutely on board with this! Save TUCKER!
I'll never understand some people, I suspect there's something more to this "Democratic" politician than meets the eye.
Just how does having a Conservative (or even Libertarian, the corporate approved alternative political ideology) contribute to diversity in media? Maybe it's just about the bowtie.
Wow... such bullshit. They're still keeping Scarborough, aren't they?... or is he not "conservative enough" because he stopped eating Bushit for the past year or so.
The really disturbing thing about the ratings image is that "509" number next to O'Reilly, and how FNC generally beats everyone else hands down in the ratings numbers.
May God have mercy on us all.
Tucker Carlson, political dingleberry.
As one of the heirs to the Swanson Food fortune, you'd think Tucker would take his "talent" and start a nonprofit organization for the unfortunate. He is really a sad, pathetic fool. Anyone who ever went away to camp or boarding school knows Tucker Carlson.
Matthews ratings are almost as bad as Tucker's yet they still keep him on. From what I have heard he has been bashing the Clinton's nonstop and singing the praises of Rudy. I'm sure Matthews will completely ignore the Guiliani story of his expensing his affair with Judith to the taxpayers of NY.
Water seeks its own level, I guess.
tucker would be good as an usher on the man show, helping people get to their seats.
Fuck FUCKER
BRING BACK IMUS...........................
dorel @ 13:
It's the flipside to the reason why liberal blogs are so much more successful than conservative ones. Conservatives tend to get their news from radio and television. Plus fox is fair and balanced.
The sooner he disappears, the better.
if so many people wanted to save tucker, why dont they JUST WATCH HIS SHOW?
i mean no one watches his crappy show, and it wont be long before hes fired. besides, ideology aside, he sucks.
For a more complete ratings analysis of Tuckers subterranean ratings, go here:
Tucker Carlson: A Ratings Black Hole
And note that even Tucker's boss is not exactly supportive.
Do you think Tucker Carlson and Anne Coulter are the same person? Oh wait... Anne has a bigger adam's apple. Still, this could free him up for more "Anne" time.
I find him the least irritating of the con pundits - I mean think about comparing him to Billo or HAnnity or Beck - and that's why he cannot survive. On some issues (the war) he actually thinks for himself a bit and doesn't tow the line, and that dooms his chances of having a show - no conservative is ever going to follow him closely enough to watch his show unless he buys in completely.
I find this little fellow so very disgusting it is pitiful. I thought they were getting rid of him.
dorel @ 13:
LOL
It's really simple to understand when you think about it:
Fox is without a doubt very right leaning, and they are successful because so many drooling television watchers want to be force fed fluff and have others do their thinking for them.
In this regard, Fox is peerless.
Now, all those other channels?
Well, they have been doing their damndest to become "Fox-lite" for years.
Who wants to watch that bullshit?
1. Fox fans don't want to, they can go to the spigot and get the KKKool-Aid pure and fresh.
2. Anyone with a brain isn't interested either, because they still know they are being lied to, just in a nicer way than the lie that Fox presents for consumption.
So, only those soft-hearted simpletons who don't want to actually do the work of reading but want to think of themselves as still being "in the know!" watch the drivel that comes out of CNN etc. ad nauseum.
And everyone else, the vast majority of us, would prefer to not waste our time with Fox 100% bias and lies nor do we want to wade in the MSNBCNNbarforama that is just 80% bias and lies.
Problem solved.
Hey a carson daly and tucker carlson late night tv show
Twice as many people won't watch.
unfrozencaveman @ 25:
This needs a little context. Fox is the only overtly rightist destination for TV viewers, so Fox benefits by aggregating that segment of the audience. The rest of the audience is divided amongst the other conventional news networks.
Remember that the number of Fox viewers is FAR less than the number of non-Fox viewers. Most news watchers are selecting networks other than Fox. And for additional perspective, Bill O'Reilly, the #1 show on Fox, has less than half the viewers of SpongeBob SquarePants.
Just sayin...
raymond @ 21:
Today's WINNER!!!
No thanks. Tucker is another one of those that wants good men and women to enlist in the military to fight for his chicken ass in a war that he supports. I'm not about to do that for his worthless hide and I sure as hell am not about to save his job for him either.
I can't stomach tucker carlson. Tha man-boy needs a good come uppance.
Mark @ News Corpse @ 34:
[snip]
And for additional perspective, Bill O'Reilly, the #1 show on Fox, has less than half the viewers of SpongeBob SquarePants.
Just sayin...
Hilarious!
dorel @ 13:
It's pretty simple. With the paranoia of the so-called "liberal media" Conservatives have one network to choose from, FOX. Whereas us normal people have a choice between networks and are smart enough not to watch the propaganda network of FOX. So if you add up the numbers up during BillO's time slot, normal people ratings 551 to the paranoid wingnuts 509. Giving BillO a little credit, his ratings are a lot closer than all the other time slots.
Also check out tweety's ratings. No wonder he's desperate to host Coulter as the ratings booster. Let's hope he gets the ax as well.
Poor 'lil fella... his career's all Tuckered out...
MSNBC for liberals? Don't you need more than one liberal voice to become a liberal network? That Abrams and Mathews have been known to criticize a very unpopular president doesn't mean that they are liberal. Must the truth always have a right wing slant for these guys? Okay, that was rhetorical.
Putting aside all the posturing including my likes and dislike, the rating chart is truly sobering. The ratings for Fox are across the board much higher than any of its competitors. Surprisingly, Wolf Blitzer wins his timeslot, but otherwise Fox wins hands down. Despite all of his bravado, O'Reilly (who I can't stand) cleans the floor with Olberman.
Maybe we out to put aside our feelings about the situation and try to arrive at some sort of objective analysis of the situation. Fox is actually succeeding, and the others including CNN have lost the ratings war.
If there's any justice, he'll be cancelled. If there's any more justice, he'll be tarred and feathered too :-)
I can dream can't I?
Greg @ 39:
Personally, I think Fox News knows their propaganda. They know what to show the morons who tune in. The morons want to see flashing lights, high tech graphics, and pretty bimbos showing lots of cleavage and wearing short skirts. All Fox News has to do is throw in the the propaganda and they can get those fools to believe anything.
things are changing...goodbye Tucker and Fox.
Sounds like a great spot for the new Maddow show.
I like how this little ghetto tag of a website makes an effort to sound centrist and unbiased. For the life of me I never could figure out how Tucker has managed to keep a show even this long. Hasn't he had like 5 different shows in as many years, not counting the dance show appearances? I remember when he tried that PBS show ironically called "Unfiltered" mere weeks after Air America started a morning show of the same name. And then of course there was the Hardball grenade JS tossed to both Begala and Carlson. Both have been irrelevant ever since, and some would argue before even. At least Begala seems to have taken the hint. Tucker apparently doesn't get it.
Regardless, I hope that Tucker will at least grace Maher's show with his presence so I can see Bill administer a good bow-tie smackdown every few weeks.
As for MSNBC being liberal, man alive I wish there was a drug that cured mental projection. COME. ON. Olbermann a liberal army unto himself? This is obviously one facet of the old "liberal media" charge...that somehow liberals have invaded and subversively conquered every single corner of our society, yet the media is somehow largely war-mongering, petty, thin, vapid and unintelligent...all things any liberal I've ever talked to abhors. Is it even remotely possible to have a sane discussion with anyone conservative anymore? The stars would have to be in perfect alignment with hell freezing over simultaneously, methinks.
Tucker's 'T' can be replaced by the 'F' from flafel man.
We will have Bill O Fucker...dang i need a drink!
Must be that bowtie.....
What do Tucker fans call themselves? Tucker Fuckers?
Who is starting this webstie? That annoying fratboy sidekick so he can keep his job?
The problem with Tucker is he's the annoying rich kid wuss we all hated in high school, not if he's conservative or whatnot.
GLA @ 42:
Matthews claims herr dubyah should be on Mount Rushmore.
Greg @ 39:
reich-wingers readily admit that will only watch two stations: faux "news" channel and Fox
Save Tucker? Why?
Just get it over with already.
You have to take Billo's number with a grain of salt?
about 58% are really old white men, semi-comatose while blank
staring at Bill, Sean, and the rest of Faux noise....
About 1 to 2% drop dead during the course of the average Faux
news day, but are reported as viewers anyway?
The rest are angry young white males who think Ann Coulter
and Michelle Malkin are hot!
Sad....
LOL. I tried going to that website to send an email to encourage them to fire Mother Tucker but you can't edit the form letter of love they provide. Anyone have the email address we can all use to encourage them to fire him?
Natural selection Tucker. Natures way of telling you that you belong with the dodo and the carolina parrot...extinct.
OliverDreams @ 55:
I think they made that letter permanent knowing that the bulk of people would send tucker a nastygram before they'd send him a love letter. Usually, you get the option to add your own text to the forms. Obviously, the person heading up the effort recognized that and made the letter unchangeable.
I have to suspect that the people spearheading this must be tucker's family or close friends (if he has any). That man is a joke and he's hated by everyone. And besides, he's just an ass...
OliverDreams @ 47:
mmmmmmmmmm yes indeedie. I'd make it a point to be home in front of the TV by 6 p.m. for Rachel!
Carlson is just another spoiled rich kid who pissed away the education his parents paid for, never served his country in any capacity and never had an original thought in his empty little head. Come to think of it, he could be the next Bush.
Good Goddess, I had no idea ratings for MSNBC were that awful. And they want to move further left?!?
Rosie O'Donnell left?
Tucker should step it up and move over to Headline News. Grass looks a whole lot greener there.
Is Tucker the one who would theoretically be sacrificed from MSNBC for another liberal talk show? I know a couple weeks ago there was the whole Rosie O'Donnell thing (not that she would've been a good choice). I agree with others: give the spot to Schuster and watch ratings go up.
Are they trying to suggest that treating has-beens in a dance-off variety show "equally" in regards to their political affiliations is some kind of extraordinary talent? How is this statement even relevant? Unless they're admitting that repug political bobble heads are incapable of being unbiased even in a venue completely removed from such things.
I subscribed to the 'Friends of Tucker' page, although I am a liberal.
Why? Because although he is a rabid conservative he plays fair; he doesn't try to win any argument by shouting down his opponent.
Robert
Not one minority or person of color anchoring a prime time show.
SHAMEFULL!
tuck f*cker I hear ringling bros is hiring ass clowns
So does this mean we won't have to listen to someone in a bow tie, a BOW TIE for God's sake, sneering about how unmanly the Democrats are?
Wait. Look again. FucksNews has astonishing high level of human waste viewership. I thought Olbermann far outstripped those assholes...what am I missing here, and to be fair, why no mention about that in this otherwise beautifully hip commentary.
I worry about what's going to happen to Olbermann. Somebody tell me why we shouldn't be concerned.
It's just plain fucking scary to see the ratings on FNC. People are that STUPID?
Dump Tweety, save Tucker. No one watches Tucker except for comic relief.
Tweety is completely delusional.
Save Tucker?
I want to screw Tucker.
If there was ever a Republican I wanted hot man on man lovin' with it's him! I'm not gay but for Tucker I could make an exception! Ooooooo-yeeeeeeeeeah!!!
So Tucker ... 'should not be purged in some ideological marketing plan.'
Wasn't that what happened to Phil Donohue?
Where was Tucker then? (cheerleading the white phosphorus bombing of Fallujah!)
And the reason why O'Reilly is so high in the ratings has to do with all those Fox airport bars, they're all over the place, and of course the shut-in elderly whose fate capitalist society cares not a wink about.
OliverDreams @ 47:
Shutervision should be on every week night at 6pm. F Tucker. He's an elitist Swanson foods heir
Tucker is sooooooo pathetic...
David Shuster is the right man to replace him,
he can actually ask an intelligent followup question...
a real lost art on 'news' shows...
he's a snob - i once watched part of what he does - haven't watched him in years - there really aren't any conservatives out there - William Buckley is the last one that understood the concept. Actually it would be interesting to have a socialist vs conservative vs whatever the mainstream politico could be called (clintibush)
MSNBC has been rabidly neocon these last 7 years. For them to want to swing 'left' and become the “FOX for the Liberals,” they'll have to get rid of more than Tucker Carlson. Such as: Joe Scarborough, Chris Matthews, Tim Russert, Nora O'Donnell, Andrea Mitchell.
None of this is going to happen!
Tucker just isn't the right 'fit' for the job. If you think about it, Colbert is doing Tucker as a COMEDY. Tucker just appears too intelligent to be spouting the kind of stuff we expect from a drug addled boil infested Rush Limbaugh. He doesn't even have the false bully macho of Hannity(or Chuck Norris-WTF is up with that?). In short, Tucker make a bad career move when he decided to shill for the right. His feigned ignorance is totally unbelievable.
Enjoy.
If he would do his homework he would be much better. Often times he asks Fox lite type questions. He will have Democratic strategists on and ask him a typical Billo type question, "Are you in favor of our military defeat?" They just look at him with the expression that says, "are you that f**king stupid?"
I think we should save Tucker.
Does anyone have a large ziplock?
So, by looking at this. Is Olbermann really geting BEAT by Bill O?
Wow, Hardball has astonishingly lousy ratings. So much noise, so little result..
I like Olbermann, but how can he claim to be beating Bill O when he is not???
Joe O. @ 45:
I think that it would be a good idea to get rid of all the neo-cons on MSNBC and make it the FOX alternative. This is why FOX has all the ratings. One message for one group of morons. Oberman is not beating Bill-O but is gaining in ratings. Fight fire with fire and stop being afraid of being called Liberal. Carlson is a joke. I can't stand him.
Don't y'all worry about 'Po' Lil' Tucker'. (Don't that sound like the start of a limerick?)
Anyway, he's got several offers to consider already.
One's from a car wash in Midland, TX, one from an Arthur Murray studio in Nome, and one from an all-weather radio station in Key West.
He'll make out OK.
Wow. If it were'nt for Keith, MSNBC would have about as many viewers as the Tennis Channel.
Looking at that graphic just reinforces my belief that Fox gets its viewership by having elderly people tuning in during the morning/early afternoon, and then falling asleep in front of the TV.
Listen to what KO says: He's not talking about the raw numbers as listed in the graphic, but rather the key demographic of (IIRC) viewers aged 25-56, which is where *advertisers* want to get their message across. KO has been nearing parity with - and sometimes besting - BOR in this group. Add to this the report that the average age of BOR's TV audience is 71 (just googled it to double-check) and you should be able to see why KO is happy about the reported numbers.
I'll grant that this would be considered "cherry picking" but shows need advertising to stay on air, and advertisers are targeting their best buying demographic -- in this case, not the elderly. ;)
I say dump him and while your at it, Tweety too.
fuck tucker. I'm sure that's a web site too. :smile:
Save TUCKER. He and Jonah Goldberg are perfect.
Ditto Howard Kurtz.
You want somebody good to do their job? Somebody effectual? Someone who got where they did on merit?
Mark N. @ 20:
I'll second, third and fourth that.
I had no idea Fox News was beating all the other channels by such a large margin.
That is SCARY.
I thought the myth of a brain dead conservative populace was just that, a myth.
Scary.
LEAVE TUCKER ALONE. YOU BASTARDS DON'T DESERVE HIS REPORTING.
ALL HE DOES IS GIVE, GIVE, GIVE.
Wuh oh. Looks like Tweety's next.
IMUS IMUS IMUS
not the fucker
Drop him like a bad habit.
Jonny Stew handed Tucker his own ass on a plate.
Are those stats correct ? I thought Olbermann was rated higher than BillO.
At least Keith keeps saying his show is doing better.
Or is he just rising and bill is falling ?
In defense of Tucker Carlson
I always felt Tucker to be a smarmy opinionated bastard with a ingrained partisan axe to grind. It gave me great pleasure when Jon Stewart smack down on Crossfire. For failing in his responsibilities as a journalist.
However most recent times I've noted a change in his approach that is bordering on good journalism, which would be a real problem for the neocons as that is the last thing they could stand.
I submit as evidence the fascinating video of him at a Ron Paul rally in Vegas where he was caught candidly on camera listening to Ron's supporters in what appeared to be a genuine attempt to understand the phenomena that is Ron Paul. You can see the video here:
Tucker Carlson at a Ron Paul Rally
part 1 http://www.youtube.com/v/eFDhudGbWvw&rel=1
part 2 http://www.youtube.com/v/QWgMP4Uk0nw&rel=1
part 3 http://www.youtube.com/v/XPgHmT7S1JQ&rel=1
part 4 http://www.youtube.com/v/h_olmjbcs2U&rel=1
part 5 http://www.youtube.com/v/8TwZroKJXCI&rel=1
He confirmed he had listened and understood when he was subsequnetly interviewed on radio about his investigation. Listen to it here:
November 28, 2007 - Ron Paul NPR Coverage interviews TuckerCarlson (8 min)
http://www.ronpaulaudio.com/rpaudio/RonPaulNPRCoverageWTuckerCarlson1128...
He sounds as though he is capable of being a decent human being, which could be reason enough for MSNBC to dump him.
Nick @ 3:
I can see why Beck would scare you folks--he's the best thing since Limbaugh. Smart, unafraid to tel the truth, plain-spoken--everything you NeoLibs are not.
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