Hungary punked Tucker Carlson
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Fox News’s Tucker Carlson is a savvy purveyor of disinformation. He sheathes his arguments in historical references, speaks with the certainty of a studied mind and responds to legitimate pushback with ridicule — his signature high-pitched laugh.
Not even this master, however, foresaw the embarrassing trap that he laid for himself last week in Budapest.
In a much-commented-upon bit of cable-news maneuvering, Carlson spent the week broadcasting from Hungary, praising the record of authoritarian Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. “If you care about Western civilization and democracy and families and the ferocious assault on all three of those things by the leaders of our global institutions, you should know what is happening here right now,” said Carlson.
Perhaps fortified by the ambient democracy in his midst, Carlson launched into an attack against the New York Times for what he termed a “propaganda effort on behalf of China.” Have a look at the chyron that ran during this straight-from-Budapest segment:
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