Tucker Carlson is to Israel Supporter as Flag Burner is to...
NewsBusters is surprised and disappointed that Tucker Carlson is using his show to toe the anti-Israel line. This is because they have a poor sense of pattern recognition:
When the announcer ended the intro by intoning "Now from Limasol, Cyprus, Tucker Carlson," the stage had been set: yes, the Bush administration might be condemning Hezbollah, but on the ground, it's the Israelis who are inflicting the suffering. Hey, so long as MSNBC is in the market for a conservative, why not give Tucker's hour to Pat Buchanan? He'll give an even more 'fair [and] balanced' take on Israel's aggression!
At least as far back as a year ago, Carlson was claiming to "be on Israel's side" even while he turned his program into a megaphone for anti-Israel myths. He's on Israel's side in the same way that the refusniks are... which is the same way that anti-Iraq-liberation flag burners in the US claim to be "the true patriots" because they're "showing dissent". In other words, if you make up your own meaning of what a country's true interests are, then of course you can always claim to be on their side (even if the vast majority of that country's citizens have lost their way, of course... you're the one who's stayed true to the country's values even while they've strayed!)
All quotes are from Lexis transcripts, going back as far as a year ago. As our high school English teacher used to say, once is a coincidence...
After 9/11 almost all renounce scholars in Muslim world, including Sheik Kaladowi, Islamic movements, even the ones that are considered terrorists in the United States of America, like Hezbollah and Hamas denounced the attacks on 9/11. They disassociated themselves from any of these acts
Obviously false.
Twice is a happenstance...
TAMIMI: No. You referred to Israel. What's happening in Palestine is that because the Palestinians have been displaced from their land, because their land is taken by somebody else...
That's always been false, but the matter is now definitively closed since Hezbollah declared that their intention is outright genocide.
And of course, after the coincidence and the happenstance, the third time has to be considered enemy action...
TAMIMI: If you want to be fair, compare the casualties on both sides. Compare how many Palestinian children versus Israeli children, how many Palestinian women versus Israeli woman... But I'll tell you what. I have a better idea for both of us and for the world. Why don't we bring about an end to all of this violence in Palestine? Get Hamas and the Israelis to agree on a truce.
And didn't that work out well? Here's a memo: when Israel's enemies say "truce", they mean "time for them to regroup". That's what they've always meant (Bonus: this is the show where, instead of questioning any of the falsehoods and idiocies being spouted, Carlson meekly said that he doesn't "speak for the Israelis." No kidding).
When the announcer ended the intro by intoning "Now from Limasol, Cyprus, Tucker Carlson," the stage had been set: yes, the Bush administration might be condemning Hezbollah, but on the ground, it's the Israelis who are inflicting the suffering. Hey, so long as MSNBC is in the market for a conservative, why not give Tucker's hour to Pat Buchanan? He'll give an even more 'fair [and] balanced' take on Israel's aggression!
At least as far back as a year ago, Carlson was claiming to "be on Israel's side" even while he turned his program into a megaphone for anti-Israel myths. He's on Israel's side in the same way that the refusniks are... which is the same way that anti-Iraq-liberation flag burners in the US claim to be "the true patriots" because they're "showing dissent". In other words, if you make up your own meaning of what a country's true interests are, then of course you can always claim to be on their side (even if the vast majority of that country's citizens have lost their way, of course... you're the one who's stayed true to the country's values even while they've strayed!)
All quotes are from Lexis transcripts, going back as far as a year ago. As our high school English teacher used to say, once is a coincidence...
After 9/11 almost all renounce scholars in Muslim world, including Sheik Kaladowi, Islamic movements, even the ones that are considered terrorists in the United States of America, like Hezbollah and Hamas denounced the attacks on 9/11. They disassociated themselves from any of these acts
Obviously false.
Twice is a happenstance...
TAMIMI: No. You referred to Israel. What's happening in Palestine is that because the Palestinians have been displaced from their land, because their land is taken by somebody else...
That's always been false, but the matter is now definitively closed since Hezbollah declared that their intention is outright genocide.
And of course, after the coincidence and the happenstance, the third time has to be considered enemy action...
TAMIMI: If you want to be fair, compare the casualties on both sides. Compare how many Palestinian children versus Israeli children, how many Palestinian women versus Israeli woman... But I'll tell you what. I have a better idea for both of us and for the world. Why don't we bring about an end to all of this violence in Palestine? Get Hamas and the Israelis to agree on a truce.
And didn't that work out well? Here's a memo: when Israel's enemies say "truce", they mean "time for them to regroup". That's what they've always meant (Bonus: this is the show where, instead of questioning any of the falsehoods and idiocies being spouted, Carlson meekly said that he doesn't "speak for the Israelis." No kidding).
