Opinion: Tucker Carlson’s valiant stand in favor of 'dissent'
By Erik Wemple Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry. Email Bio Follow Media critic March 12 at 2:54 PM Tucker Carlson had a few options after Media Matters for America on Sunday published a bunch of decade-old misogynistic remarks that he’d made on a radio show hosted by “Bubba the Love Sponge.
Here at the Erik Wemple Blog, we thought it might be helpful to juxtapose Carlson’s chest-beating pronouncements about his stand in favor of free speech and righteous defiance alongside the speech that he’s actually defending. Let’s have a look: It’s really not that much you can do to respond ... it’s pointless to try to explain how the words were spoken in jest or taken out of context, or in any case bear no resemblance to what you actually think or would want for the country.
Precisely. Who are these thought-control freaks who refuse a free-flowing debate about the merits of prostitutes from Canada. Shame on them. Deprived of specifics, viewers were in no position to judge whether there really was a mob seeking to suppress dissent, or whether there was just a millionaire cable-news host trying to save his career by wrapping himself in the First Amendment.
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