Protesters show up outside Tucker Carlson’s house...

Aaaaaannnndddd.....still waiting @Zombie

 

See, I'm all for protests. This country was built on protest and dissent. The problem is standing outside someone's home and threatening their lives, especially with their families there. It was good fortune that Tucker's kids weren't home, but that's still no excuse. You do not descend to the level of the KKK and use brute intimidation tactics. Don't roll in the same shit as the pig you're protesting.

 

And you'll be waiting forever.

You're not a priority.

 

In other words you just proved you're a shallow tribalist rather than a man of principle. Acosta did nothing wrong, and you know it. But your orange hero says he's bad so he must be, right?

You made the claim that Acosta did something bad. Now you can't even say what it is. Thanks for finally responding though Dayton.

 

indeed! Your motivations don't matter either - your actual behavior matters. Basically the world would be a better place if we just take a few seconds to ask ourselves one question:
"is this a dick move?" If the answer is YES then stand down and rethink your course of action.

 

Anyway, here's an article from someone who was actually there, and tells a different story than what Carlson says:

https://thinkprogress.org/i-was-at-...se-heres-what-actually-happened-665c2dc0cb67/

There's even.a video included.

 

Good thing they didn't pull this foolishness at Tucker's vacation home.

 

George Carlin was right about Tuckers.

 

Wait, what?

Tucker Carlson is lying??!!?!!?


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Completely not shocked.

 

and for the Wordforge record, this was my post on this subject on Facebook after the initial report:

Tucker Carlson is the worst sort of hate-mongering proto-fascist bigot (or worse, a non-bigot who plays one for profit damn the consequences) and should be a pariah BUT it does NOT help counter his bullshit to threaten violence and particularly against his family. STOP DOING THIS

The reality is that Carlson (and fellow Fox villains) need to pay a real and significant price for the damage they are doing to our society but that price CANNOT be violence nor concern for the safety of their family even though their rhetoric can lead to violence against others. That is specifically BECAUSE doing so allows the villainy the reinforce to self-identify as victims who must fight back thus making them more dangerous to US.

Antifa or whoever (and to be clear they are a microscopic proportion of the left) may very well think the solution to our current problems is fighting physically in the streets but ultimately that will encourage the alt-right to go after anyone they identify as on the left regardless of whether their chosen target agrees with attacks like this.

 

the linked eye-witness story mentions.......a TAMBOURINE! Nothing screams "bad ass" like a tambourine. Hell that was my "Plan B" if my M-16 malfunctioned in the sandbox.
Check out this rogues gallery of testosterone fueled tambourine wielding death-dealing widow-makers & heart-breakers! No, that's not yours truly on the far left BTW.
Oh shit - is that pussycat doubling down with TWO TAMBOURINES? Is that drummer mentally challenged or just a natural blond? Asking for a friend.....

 

Y'know who'd be scared of a tambourine wielding assailant?
Someone who's mama named him Tucker.

 

Maybe Johnny Cash should have performed "A Boy Named Tucker" back in the day! Maybe not....nothing much rhymes with that except "fucker".

 

Clearly to the Tiki Torch crowd, a tambourine is as dangerous as a nuke. To us normal folks, it's a profound wish that Dylan would finally learn how to carry a tune:

 

"A Fucker named Tucker"?

There's got to be at least a rap song in there somewhere

 

Where it is amusing when someone goes screaming in fear over a tambourine, I still have to say I don't blame him for calling the cops. Yes, it is uncommon for the left to go all shoot em up compared to the right. However, given the anger levels in the country I would not want people at my home shouting bullshit. He has a place of work, and he has corporate advertisers and sponsors. Those places of business are where you go to voice your concerns. He can be a bigoted slimeball in his home on his property as long as he is not harassing others in their homes.

I don't think protests should be in residential neighborhoods. We have public spaces for these things. It is one thing to have the klan at the park, and another to have them wandering armed down residential streets. They do that around here. There is a guy in a truck with trump flags riding down the streets of poor neighborhoods honking his horn at the brown kids getting on the bus at around 8 in the morning. He don't do that any more after some citizen followed him onto the highway and put his truck off the road, but he should have not been doing that shit in the first place. You do not go to peoples homes and threaten them or their kids.

 

Wasn't there a movie about that with dinero and stiller called "meet the incredibly unfunny assholes we made a movie about?"

 

I’m pretty sure that was a collective fever dream. There’s no way any studio would make something that awful and it certainly wouldn’t somehow be successful enough to justify two sequels with even fewer laughs than each predecessor.

 

https://thinkprogress.org/i-was-at-...se-heres-what-actually-happened-665c2dc0cb67/

 

Turns out the only decent Tucker is Trip.

 

how do you massacre your own song? It must be some kind of desperate cry for help. BTW the Byrds cover of this is actually quite good.

 

IMO, Dylan's either tone-deaf or he's cultivated that style deliberately, because he's been singing flat since he started in the Sixties. Agree about the Byrds' version, though.

 

It seems to me, everything he does is to piss off baby-boomer hipster liberal college pseudo-intellectuals as much as right-wingers.
It's like "Jesus, I sing flat, I went electric, I joined the Traveling Wilburies, WTF to I have to do to get these pretentious assholes out of my fandom!!??".

 

Hey, don't diss the Traveling Wilburys!

 

The Shatner version is better than Dylan’s.

 

Everybody sounds better singing Bob Dylan songs than Bob Dylan .

 

Dylan once said that he thought Hendrix’s version of Watchtower was better.

 

That's a major understatement.Hendrix took Dylan's song to an entirely different planet.

 

True. He also did the same with “Like a Rolling Stone.”

 

more about Tucker's embellishments (read: Lies)

@DrRJKavanagh


One last point on the Tucker Carlson protest, you don't wanna believe the protestors, why not go with the police version of events? Cause there is a police report. I'm gonna say that's a more reliable source than Mr. Carlson. And it completely contradicts him. Here goes.


First, the police interacted w/ the protestors as they were leaving & they didn't arrest anyone. They actually saw the person spray-paint the anarchist symbol on the driveway. The protestors were walking away slowly. Two walked with canes (yes). No one tried to run.

BTW there were 4 legal observers at this protest. People going to someone's house to break in, don't usually take legal observers.

The police talked to the protestors about not having a problem w/ them exercising their first amendment rights but that spray-painting the driveway was crossing the line. That was the issue.

If the police had received a frantic 911 call from Mrs. Carlson saying she was terrified, had locked herself in her pantry & people were trying to break into her house, there is no way that the police would have let the protestors go. They would have made arrests.

They would have sent so many squad cars to that location if she represented what was happening in that way. Police tend to over-react. They didn't here. That tells me Mrs. Carlson did not call & say she was being terrorized.

In the police report, there is no mention whatsoever of any damage to the front door of Mr. Carlson's residence. Not a scratch. This is consistent w/ protestors' saying they simply knocked on the door and then left a placard resting on it before retreating to the street.

There is no mention in the police report of anyone chanting anything about pipe bombs or chanting any sort of threats against Mr. Carlson.
What the police appeared to be focused on was the spraying of the anarchist symbol on the driveway of the residence by one person. That was the extent of the property damage. That was the extent of the activity that could possibly be construed as unlawful.

Even when it was reported that the incident was being looked at as a hate crime, it appears that this was the focus of the investigation.

What is of concern now is that, since there has been such misreporting to which unfortunately people on the left like @StephenAtHome have given credence, there will be political pressure to bring criminal charges for activity that is not criminal.
I hope those people will take the time to reconsider and correct their misstatements.

Rebecca J. Kavanagh@DrRJKavanagh
So that protest at Tucker Carlson's house that's being investigated as a hate crime? Here's how it actually went down. https://thinkprogress.org/i-was-at-...e-heres-what-actually-happened-665c2dc0cb67/… via @thinkprogress

Oh, hey, let me add, I'm not one to point to the police as a credible source. I am a public defender, people. But they are a more credible source here than Tucker Carlson. I am also trying to beat the MAGA folks at their own game. Like, what, you don't believe law enforcement?