If Tucker Carlson is dissing us, we are on the side of good
Fox News host mocks Jacinda Ardern, slams NZ and Australia’s COVID-19 response
A US television host who mocked Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and ridiculed New Zealand’s and Australia’s COVID-19 responses has been condemned online.
Fox News political commentator and talk show host Tucker Carlson questioned how far US officials will go to enforce COVID-19 restrictions as “bad attitudes” accelerate.
“How far can they go? Well, for the answer, look to New Zealand, a famously placid outpost in the fast-shrinking Anglosphere. A single COVID case in New Zealand, not a death from COVID, but a case of COVID has shut down the entire country.”
He expressed outrage that Ardern had asked New Zealanders to “don’t talk to your neighbours, keep to your bubbles”.
“Do you hear that? By the way, the lady with the teeth is very popular with people like (ex-CIA chief) Michael Hayden. She is considered super impressive, visionary really.”
There is no greater arsehole in global media than Fox News’ Tucker Carlson.
His malicious spite and gleeful ignorance is broadcast week nightly to an army of raving lunatics that make QAnon look measured.
His peddling of conspiracy, conjecture and downright stupid masquerading as a national debate should be fact shamed daily but it’s his dumbfuck resting face that always kills me.
It’s like his precious sensibilities have been so shocked by what he is hearing that he’s about to burst into tears.
He perpetually looks like a puppy who is being told his shitting on the bed has been videotaped right after he has assured us that it isn’t him.
I’d call him a cunt but he lacks the depth and warmth for that.
If Tucker fucking Carlson is dissing us, we are on the right track.
These global critics are shocked that we have a Government prepared to put the people before the economy. This shock says more about them than it does us.
NZ is a place that believes in looking after one another. The compliance with lockdown rules, our collective agreement to be good neighbors and citizens by not making each other sick, our willingness to curtail our own liberty for the collective good – this is who we proudly are and we should see criticism of that to be a projection of the critics own hollow values rather than an indictment of our own.
When history reviews this time, China will declare their brutal authoritarian approach to Covid was the success, but here in NZ we can hold our heads up high that we were able to defeat it not by crushing civil rights, falsehoods and violent police action, but via kindness, empathy and a belief that a well informed citizenship will act in good faith for the collective good.
A liberal progressive democracy can triumph at the height of a pandemic while maintaining our cherished civil liberties.
We should be proud of our kindness, it is our strength, not our weakness.
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…’We should be proud of our kindness, it is our strength, not our weakness’…
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Damn right , Martyn, – go Kiwi go ! Marvelous country we’ve got, and we do things our way and it WORKS! Theirs DOESNT ! Idiots like Carlson, what a sanctimonious little twit. How dare he.
It’s not only the overseas “experts’ who are adrift from reality, several NZ mayors, including Westland and Queenstown, wish to sacrifice lives for the economy. However, our economy is doing well so what are these clowns up to?
So Frank the Tank it would seem you think that if there is a possibilty of failure we should just give up – for me I would rather go down fighting, knowing that I had given it my all. Caling people names just because you disagree with what they say says so much about you. Are you a mathematician or microbiologist so can offer some reseasoned arguments for your opinions, or are you just one of the Qanon crowd¿
The right wing wanted us to give up,,, and be as stupid as a herd of stroppy stubborn goats at the beginning of NZs Covid ride……
…Martyn Bradbury was calling it correctly over the public health necessities of quaranteens and lockdowns ,,,, while Stuff, the Herald , the Nats and Hosking wanted the boarder to remain open,,, and to follow our wise big brother and our Mummyland….
… Trump and Boris,,, the usa and Britian ,,,
Thanks to the enormous failings of mainly right wing idiots we have constantly mutating variants ,,
“We estimate that each infected person carries 10 to the power of 9 up too 10 to the power of 11 virions during peak infection, ” ,,,, 10 to the power of 10 gives / means Ten thousand Million virons in a person with that viral load. ,,,, There is probably more coid virus in people right now than there is stars in the universe ,,,or all the grains of sand on earth . ,,,, . Even a tiny percentage mutating will be a huge number
,,,, A intellect of greedy morons has us in for the long haul
and thus we are only nearing the end of the beginning.
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Whats more, ,,,, is say the British once more allowed smallpox to escape their Bio weapons facilities as they have in the cold war past ,,,, then the western world would be fucked ,,,, having learnt nothing except to follow goats
And the Chinese would peacefully take over the world ,,,, Talk about handing it to them on a plate Frank the tank …..
Heard of learning herd head ??? https://youtu.be/2FD54-7qc88?t=469
Over 10 years of temperature checks ,,,, proactively looking for the next disease crossing their border…. ,,, who knew ?
https://youtu.be/mxq1PCt98x0
Herd immunity with a more lethal pathogen ,,,, will be a big culling.
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P.s the people who are calling for the elderly relatives and loved ones of others to be put at risk with some sure to die ,,,,, strike me as the sort of people who would like their own parents to pass on their inheritance,,,,
sooner rather than later.
“There is no possibly about it. It is an inevitable as the tide coming in and smashing a sandcastle.”
Qanon right there!
bert. FTT’s rhetoric would be amusing if it didn’t represent a degree of unbalanced Qanon mentality, I agree.
Ah FtT, I’m confused as to why you think someone as clever as Galileo would drop objects from a tower to prove the world wasn’t flat.
Expletives completely necessary to add weight and gravitas.
The part that had me wobbling was this, ‘NZ is a place that believes in looking after one another.’ Whilst many folk do look after one another. I see plenty of evidence that some virulently do not care about others.
Statements such as citizens of Aotearoa/NZers look after one another are aspirational rather than factual. We also need to remember that many other countries have citizens who care for each other. The world world is not the USA.
Since Nationals ponzi immigration policy created a massive explosion in N.Z.s population, I see more and more people fighting for the same air, same house( thus the creation of the housing crisis)and this has resulted in less tolerance of your fellow human being. When you fight for the same oxygen, things get nasty.
So I agree, New Zealanders looking after one another was once factual but now only aspirational.
“I’d call him a cunt but he lacks the depth and warmth for that.”
Do you mind if I use this?
Martin a very valid comment. Can I suggest you remove the various expletives in your piece and you will find it still has exactly the same impact.
Ha ha Fwank you are so funny.
“I’d call him a cunt but he lacks the depth and warmth for that.”
Do you mind if I use this?
“I’d call him a cunt but he lacks the depth and warmth for that.“
Can I use this?
You need a lock on your door Fwank and a jacket that buttons up at the back.
and more thousands are queuing to come here. By your own reasoning FtT Covid is not going anywhere so the rest of the world is not moving on anywhere.
So there you have it, it’s all over then, Fwank has spoken.
Yep I’m in, considering they’ve all come back and bought up large. When was your brain drained Fwank?
Nostradamus Fwank. I’ll be here and N.Z. will be covid free again, Carlson will look the twat he is and Trump in jail.
Classic, mate.” I’d call him a cunt but he lacks the depth and warmth for that” Brilliant!!
I almost guarantee that the sensitive darlings complaining about the language sit through thousands of hours of television and film, watching murder, gore, decapitation and all manner of violence and what some call perversion against human beings, all without the slightest complaint.
Same goes for their siblings in sensitivity, those who in their writing censor out offensive letters of the alphabet with pathetic creations such as f*ck and sh-t.
If they really don’t want to hear or read such language they ought to normalise its use and then, given time, there will be no cause left for people to use it.
Tucker Carlson has issues. Were the expletives necessary? Should Carlson be described merely as a ‘silly person with strange views’? Maybe words out of psychiatry textbooks could have been used.
Here we have one of the most watched media people in the US focussed on a little country at the bottom of the Pacific. An insignificant place that most Americans have never heard about and don’t care about. Why would he be foccussd on us?
Lawyers for his employers, Fox, in a case in 2020 said the “‘general tenor’ of the (his) show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not ‘stating actual facts’ about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in ‘exaggeration’ and ‘non-literal commentary.’ ”
In the hinterland of online forums we have those with seeming intellectual limitations and political partisanship overflows using all sorts of childish epithets about the PM. Here we have the broadcaster, the entertainer, the centre-of-attention hog saying, “By the way, the lady with the teeth.”
He is not in the realm of serious commentators. He is not on some intellectual, ethereal plane offering invitations to erudition. Does he deserve the rigour of some intellectual analysis with all the high blown words that come with that? Or just a “Fuck off smart arse?”
Tucker and his company is dissing the whole world:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/07/american-anger-polarization-fox-news/
Tucker C. Oh God I’m of the same species a him. Am I really?
Anne with an E (She/Her)
None so unwise or stupid as the unteachable. It aint rocket science. Literally. And veterinary animal science aint human pathogenic science either you complete gorm.
“I’d call him a cunt but he lacks the depth and warmth for that.”
Priceless! 🙂