Tucker Paints Dennis Kucinich as Anti-American
It was quite clear from Tuesday’s episode of his show, that Tucker was intent on painting Dennis as an anti-American traitor once he got back from his trip to Syria. However, Dennis held his own as loaded question after load question was fired his way. Kucinich drew attention to the fact that our destructive occupation of Iraq is not simply isolated to that nation, but has had disastrous effects throughout the region.
Kucinich states that 1.5 million refugees are in Syria with nothing but the clothes on their back and Tucker simply replies by stating that Syria is a terrorist state? This is a fairly big issue which Dennis is trying to draw attention to, yet Tucker simply passes it over. Isn’t the job of a journalist to report such a refugee crisis, not attack politicians from the opposite party who do their job for them? Tucker obviously didn’t listen to a word Dennis said the entire interview, and just waited for his turn to spout his pre-written insinuations about the congressman.
What’s just as disturbing as Carlson’s attempt to smear a Democratic Presidential candidate as anti-American is his misunderstanding of history. As is typical of any supporter of authoritarianism, Tucker believes that positive change comes from the top down. The idea that democracy can be achieved through undemocratic coercion is misguided to say the least. We managed to make it out of the Cold War alive in spite of the Peace Through Strength Strategy, not because of it. Dinosaurs like Hillary Clinton still strongly support this doctrine as the cornerstone of our foreign policy, and Tucker’s argument about Dennis’ visit being used “for propaganda purposes” seems to have been taken directly from one of her YouTube/CNN debate answers. This seemingly benevolent doctrine of global military and economic domination has brought with it the same security problems which faced previous imperialist nations, only with the added bonus of nuclear weapons being globally available as its byproduct.
What’s truly sad is that this kind of attack coverage is the only airtime Dennis Kucinich gets from the mainstream media. In that regard, perhaps we should thank Tucker for at least allowing Dennis to talk, something most talking heads still haven’t done. Bad publicity is perhaps better than no publicity.
One major hat tip to C-SpanJunkie for recording the interview and Bluegal for informing me of it.
Read about Dennis’ trip to the Middle East
Filed under: Politics, Kucinich, Video on September 8th, 2007
Tucker is such a tool. “Sworn enemy of the US and Israel” -HA!
Kucinich did a good job though deflecting his attacks. It was certainly clear that Tucker didn’t want to talk about Kucinich being there, he simply wanted to slander him as a traitor as you say.
The Kuch. American Hero. What I find interesting is how Lieberman can make his insidious comments about the Syrian Airport, leading Repubs visit Syria, yet the media coverage is lax on them.
We are witnessing a push for peace and the media are falling into the same ‘echo chamber’ trap as they did before the Iraq debacle.
You go Kuch! Stand up for America..stand up for the little guy.
Traitors are those who won’t allow diplomacy
Here is an interesting video of Brzezinski touting the virtues of Obama, Hillary as the Status Quo…and that he doesn’t understand Condi Rice’s diplomatic style..he termed it the “abandonment of intelligent diplomacy” A MUST SEE
http://newssophisticate.blogspot.com/2007/09/zbigniew-brzezinski-on-abandonment-of.html
hey
its very unconventional point of view.
Good post.
realy good post
thank you