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Kenosha shots and the main talk show: Fox News host Tucker Carlson defends vigilante justice, Daily Show’s Trevor Noah places ads against Trump.
The start of the talk show has never been aimed at reconciling opposites, not even when filming in the country: Trevor Noah (left) and Tucker Carlson.
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Tucker Carlson has a decent title, a wife and four undoubtedly very good kids, and he’s an asshole – that is, he’s an avowed fan of the Californian band Grateful Dead. So you can’t be a bad person, even if you try really hard.
With his Tucker Carlson Tonight show, the 51-year-old has the best odds on cable station Fox News, where, with the expression of a concerned citizen, he spreads the gospel of Trumpism even more impressively than the founder of this doctrine. Like the publicity drums at the Republican nominating side convention, Carlson lamented the riots in American cities last Wednesday, most recently in Kenosha.
The unrest that began with the George Floyd shooting in May, he told viewers, “has now come to its inevitable bloody conclusion.” An underage gunman who wanted to promote himself as a deputy sheriff shot three protesters and killed two of them. Carlson nonchalantly ignored the cause of the street fighting and looting, namely that Kenosha police first shot a black man because he had a message for troubled America: “Why are we surprised that the 17-year-olds hold a gun of their own, decide they have to maintain order because no one else does? “
Tucker Carlson’s defense of self-righteousness, like his claim that the United States already resembles Kosovo, is not a coincidence, but a reason for his popularity. You can’t go wrong with your four million viewers, and you guarantee Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch enough advertising revenue to pay the host an annual salary of $ 10 million. Advertisers, who fund the show in addition to cable subscribers, cannot always be trusted – as is often the case when the moderator once again got too racist, this time the orders were also canceled. Carlson supporters are not bothered that it is an election campaign after all, and it is conducted with the greatest bitterness in big politics and on television.
“I don’t speak Spanish!”: Trevor Noah, the son of a Swiss father and a South African mother, placed this satirical ad in several American newspapers.
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Trevor Noah, Carlson’s rival on the Daily Show, also entered Kenosha in his own way. He asked himself and his audience if the police would not have shot the gunman if he had not been white but black.
Trevor Noah, a trusted critic of the president, facilitates the fight for the White House. He ran an ad in the New York Times and other newspapers., with which he offers legal assistance to the “future former president” under number 1-210-WH-CRIME. Uganda offered itself as an escape destination, as it was safe from extradition for tax offenses and enrichment in office.
The talk show principle (quota and escalation) has never been aimed at reconciling opposites, not even when filming in the country.
The New York Post tabloid, which is also part of the Murdoch empire and is considered the usual morning reading of Donald Trump, reacted more seriously. The surveillance, as it was shown in front of everyone in Kenosha, he said in an editorial on Friday, was “devastating” for the country: “Like the riots, vigilante justice means a violation of reasonable social order.”
