Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
Come on, let's get real here.
Fox News is a business which makes money by delivering news with a conservative slant. That's their entire goal. Appeal to their conservative base, get money, sell ads aimed at that base, get more money.
Tucker is not doing anyone's bidding. He is one of several conservative hosts there who says what the audience wants to hear, and probably also believes most of what he is saying.
This doesn't mean he's brainwashed by the billionaire owners to then brainwash his audience to not support increased taxation of the mega-wealthy.
It just means that the billionaire owners hired him to make them even more money through their Fox News venture.
Rutger is peddling an insane conspiratard theory with no real evidence to back it up.
If he wants to argue that the super-rich need to pay more, that's fine. I don't agree with him for the most part, but at least I can understand the argument.
That's not what he's doing. He's acting like he's blowing the lid off a long-held, tight-lipped conspiracy by big media to brainwash the populace into supporting low taxes for the insanely wealthy.
It's no wonder that Tucker was getting tilted trying to debate with someone like this. I'm not defending Tucker somewhat losing his composure, but it's not like he was debating a logical guy who was owning him with salient points. He was debating a conspiratard who kept repeatedly talking over him with nonsense.
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