Pet Peeve number N+1

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

I LOL'd when Rupert Murdock bought Myspace, and everyone bolted. So of course I feel somewhat vindicated.

I might consider X/Twitter if I had anything worthwhile to say.

Myspace was always the superior platform, it's just that there weren't enough people that recognized that. The shift from Myspace to stupid Facepalm for idiots was my first realization that social media was always going to be corrupt organizations capturing uninitiated individuals.

I've watched a handful of Tucker on X. He's a bit out there, but I always respect an honest person. Never watched Tucker when he was on some legacy "news" platform.

[Piotrsko]

Where did you get the idea that tucker is honest?

Clue: rants

Second clue: historic comments debunked ad nauseam

Third clue. Not on original network, one not noted for "fair and balanced" anymore, if they ever were.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by Piotrsko

Where did you get the idea that tucker is honest?

Saying things that will alienate some of your base is a clue. Saying crazy things like the government is hiding aliens from us. Seems like a genuine person to me.

[freebeard]

Where did you get the idea that tucker is honest?

Clue: rants

Second clue: historic comments debunked ad nauseam

Third clue. Not on original network, one not noted for "fair and balanced" anymore, if they ever were.

What an odd position to assume.

He worked for every network; but has transcended them. Compare his opinion as it evolved over time. Most of us are glad to see him come around, based on his success.

Do you have an example of this 'deboonking'?

[JSH]

Is the Tucker were are talking about Tucker Carlson?

The guy that was fired from FOX after a liable case cost FOX almost a billion dollars largely because Tucker was continually feeding his viewers election fraud claims that he knew to be false and he didn't believe?

[freebeard]

...claims that he knew to be false...

I might buy believed to be false. But Big Steal/Big Lie is a point of contention.

[redpoint5]

I should clarify, I watch Tucker interview other interesting people, not just him talking into the ether.

[JSH]

Originally Posted by freebeard

I might buy believed to be false. But Big Steal/Big Lie is a point of contention.

In private messages he called what he was saying on air about Dominion changing votes to Biden lies and made fun of people that believed the stories.

Yet a good number of those people he privately mocks still listen to him. Strange world.

[freebeard]

In private messages...

g-u-l-l-i-b-l-e

[JSH]

Originally Posted by freebeard

g-u-l-l-i-b-l-e

Yes, people that still listen to Tucker are gullible.

The private messages I speak of are email, texts, IMs that became public record in the Dominion v Fox News case.

Some people don't seem to understand the concept of discovery in court cases and the fact that everything you thought you said privately can suddenly become public.

I had to recently break this news to a younger college last week as we prepare for litigation against a supplier that broke a contract. He turned a bit green when I told him that all his emails, TEAMS messages, phone records, and texts on his corporate phone can be requested by the opposing legal team. (One of the reasons I still pay to have a personal phone even though I have a corporate iPhone that works anywhere in the world.)