{"id":118563,"date":"2019-03-13T15:14:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=118563"},"modified":"2019-03-13T15:17:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:17:28","slug":"tucker-exposes-media-matters-as-he-demolishes-the-southern-policy-law-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=118563","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Exposes Media Matters as He Demolishes the Southern Policy Law Center (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tucker Carlson Tears Into Media Matters, CNN, Calls Brian Stelter a \u2018Eunuch\u2019 in Fiery Monologue<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->by Josh Feldman<br \/>\nMEDIAite<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body\">\n<p class=\"jwvideo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/kigfkikW-zffGtjRq.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fox News\u2019\u00a0<strong>Tucker Carlson<\/strong>\u00a0opened his show tonight by tearing into Media Matters,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/research\/2019\/03\/10\/unearthed-audio-tucker-carlson-makes-numerous-misogynistic-and-perverted-comments\/223092\">the site<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/research\/2019\/03\/11\/unearthed-audio-shows-tucker-carlson-using-white-nationalist-rhetoric-and-making-racist-remarks\/223105\">that posted<\/a>\u00a0the clips from his multiple radio appearances with Bubba the Love Sponge.<\/p>\n<p>A defiant Carlson opened his show Monday night railing against the liberal mob. Tonight he narrowed his focus to Media Matters and other cable news networks.<\/p>\n<p>He said Media Matters tries to \u201cpunish critics of the Democratic party\u201d and that plenty of people in the media love them and what they do. One such person he brought up was\u00a0<strong>Brian Stelter<\/strong>, whom Carlson called \u201cthe house eunuch at CNN.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and this happened:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5048169\" src=\"https:\/\/am13.akamaized.net\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tucker-stelter-1200x675.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/am12.akamaized.net\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tucker-stelter-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/am12.akamaized.net\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tucker-stelter-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/am12.akamaized.net\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tucker-stelter-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/am12.akamaized.net\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tucker-stelter-288x162.jpg 288w, https:\/\/am12.akamaized.net\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tucker-stelter-432x243.jpg 432w, https:\/\/am12.akamaized.net\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2019\/03\/tucker-stelter.jpg 1280w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That set up a clip of Stelter saying \u201ca lot of what Fox does in primetime is resentment television\u201d and criticizing the rhetoric and lack of decency coming from some hosts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018It\u2019s about decency!\u2019 cries the eunuch!\u201d Carlson mockingly said. \u201c\u2018We must have decency!\u2019 By which the eunuch means, \u2018Less disobeying, more obedience.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the face of state media,\u201d he continued. \u201c\u2018Why does Fox even exist?\u2019 they wonder. \u2018We\u2019ve got 11 other perfectly good cable channels, all of them approved by management and obedient to the people in charge. How could anybody watch something different? Fox can\u2019t be legitimate! They must be lying! Their viewers must be stupid!&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At one point, in speaking with\u00a0<strong>Dave Rubin<\/strong>, Carlson said he has no interest in apologizing to Media Matters. Carlson also spoke with a former White House counsel\u00a0<strong>C. Boyden Gray<\/strong>, who believes that Media Matters has violated and should lose its tax-exempt status.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch Carlson\u2019s monologue above, via Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>image via screengrab<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/tucker-carlson-tears-into-media-matters-cnn-calls-brian-stelter-a-eunuch\/\">https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/tucker-carlson-tears-into-media-matters-cnn-calls-brian-stelter-a-eunuch\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucker Carlson Tears Into Media Matters, CNN, Calls Brian Stelter a \u2018Eunuch\u2019 in Fiery Monologue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}