richard nixon himself disgraced, beach, forced from office in the end, got a pass by comparison to donald trump. reporters hate trump with an all-consuming mania. they hate him so intensely that at times it s been amusing to watch . i m sorry, what talker? who hates trump? hypocrisy given that we learned that he hates trump passionately but to this day he is still doing trump s bidding. global protests on this international women s day at a time when women s rights are being taken away and lots of countries including, here in the u.s. we began with the outpouring of praise donald trump has been bestowing on tucker carlson for his revisionist history of the january 6th interaction . calling it a great job by tucker calling for the members of the january 6th committee to be tried for fraud and treason. i know what you all must be thinking, joy, why are you starting your show with this tomfoolery and you are right. yesterday we learned what the guy trump is praising has
will see a disclaimer, will say to the audience, this is vicki s reporting, it has not been independently confirmed by msnbc, and that is how you build trust. but trust, we ve all learned, i m not sure to make any difference to the fox news ecosystem, but we ve all learned that it works the other way around at fox, that the journalist, they listen to the viewers for what they are going to say, you know, it s all wrong. but i will say this, tucker carlson, who you showed in the 2003 video clip there is the tucker carlson that i met. i actually was one of his editors at talk magazine, back end in 2000, back then he was the bowtie wearing incredibly
tucker carlson for his revisionist history of the january 6th interaction . calling it a great job by tucker calling for the members of the january 6th committee to be tried for fraud and treason. i know what you all must be thinking, joy, why are you starting your show with this tomfoolery and you are right. yesterday we learned what the guy trump is praising has actually been saying about him behind the scenes thanks to the latest filing of the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit by dominion voting systems. in the final weeks of trump presidency, carlson was texting with another person saying we are very, very close to being able to ignore trump most nights. i truly can t wait. i hate him passionately. i can t handle much more of this. in another text tucker rights, quote, we are all pretending we ve got a lot to show for it because admitting what a disaster it s been is too tough to digest. but come on, there isn t really
were completely unprepared for what happened that day. but wait, tucker, hold on, if they were all just meek little sightseers, what exactly was the capitol police unprepared for, what do they need to be prepared for? nevertheless, the man tucker says that he hates passionately donald trump is standing behind him. it s important to remind and remember that these clips are just a tiny glimpse of a four hour plus insurrection, one where people were killed including police officers, countless more brutally entered and where democratic and republican lawmakers feared for their lives. people were chanting, hang the vice president. and just because you show a couple of minutes where that wasn t going on doesn t change the reality. tim, you know the disingenuous
it was only at fox, with trump supporters that he found an audience eager to listen to his act, in a very real way, donald trump made tucker carlson. in joining me now is charlie sykes, editor at large at work and vicki ward, i want to play you a clip. this is from 2003. this is carlson discussing bill o reilly s success, the guy he ultimately replaced at fox, here is. i think there s a deep phoniness at the center of his stick, and it s built on the perception that he is the character he plays. his everyman, he s not right- wing, he s a populace, fighting for you against the powers that be. and that s great as a stick the moments that it s revealed not to be true, it s over. the whole thing is predicated on the fact that he is who he