(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . If you want a friend, kick Tucker Carlson's dog like Ron DeSantis [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-09-25 Easy to imagine, since DeSantis knows Carlson’s loyalty to Trump and DeSantis simply hasn’t invested enough of Florida’s money in Russia. Then there’s the issue with Desantis’s ‘inside voice’ at Carlson’s home likely scaring pets. That anecdote was disputed by both sides when it was made public in an excerpt of the book published by New York magazine last week. “This is absurd,” Carlson told Insider . “He never touched my dog, obviously.” The DeSantis campaign said: “The totality of that story is absurd and false. Some will say or write anything to attack Ron DeSantis because they know he presents a threat to their worldview.” “Had he kicked the dog?” Wolff writes. “Susie Carlson’s judgment was clear: she did not ever want to be anywhere near anybody like that again. Her husband agreed.” In his upcoming book, The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty, Wolff describes a scene in which the Republican governor of Florida and his wife attend a lunch at the Carlsons’ home in Boca Grande, Florida. DeSantis, in Wolff’s telling, made a terrible impression on Carlson and his wife Susie , speaking in an “outdoor voice indoors,” and obnoxiously rattling off his accomplishments, demonstrating “a total inability to read the room.” He even “pushed” one of the Carlsons’ dogs under the table. x The US government has banned Tucker Carlson from interviewing Vladimir Putin. “You know, I tried to interview Putin, and the American government stopped me. What, we can’t hear Putin’s voice?! Why? Nobody voted on this issue,” Carlson said in an interview with the Swiss magazine… pic.twitter.com/CWhuA3wUSI — Sprinter (@Sprinter99800) September 24, 2023 Weltwoche: The people working for news media seem to go along with it. Carlson: Of course they do, because they're terrified. They're just afraid. They go along with it, absolutely. They're afraid to say something that will offend the people who run the government, who run the biggest companies and, most of the time, they won't. And that's not just a perversion of what they should be doing, it's an inversion. They exist to hold the people in power accountable. Instead, they do exactly the opposite. They do their bidding. For example, they roll out this vaccine in the United States. It has massive consequences for the population. Hundreds of millions of people take it, and no reporting on that vaccine – no real reporting — is allowed. People are, literally, fired from their jobs if they'd question the efficacy and the safety of that vaccine. That's insane. In a functioning democracy, if you had a mandatory drug where everyone's required to take it, the news media’s job would be to report out whether or not it's safe and whether or not it works. They did just the opposite. Even the war in Ukraine. This is potentially a nuclear conflict between superpowers. Shouldn't we know all that we can? “No.” You're not allowed. I tried to interview Vladimir Putin, and the US government stopped me. So, think about that for a minute. By the way, nobody defended me. I don't think there was anybody in the news media who said, “Wait a second. I may not like this guy, but he has a right to interview anyone he wants, and we have a right to hear what Putin says.” You're not allowed to hear Putin's voice. Because why? There was no vote on it. No one asked me. I'm 54 years old. I've paid my taxes and followed the law. I'm an American citizen. I'm a much more loyal American than, say, Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, who didn't even grow up in this country; she grew up in Canada. And they're telling me what it is to be a loyal American? I'm just not even interested, at this point. I don't even care. When David Frum [a staff writer for The Atlantic magazine] from Canada gets to tell me that I'm a disloyal American, it's a joke. It's a joke. And I don't care what they think, actually, anymore. And I don't have to care. So, I don't. weltwoche.ch/... [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/25/2195378/-If-you-want-a-friend-kick-Tucker-Carlson-s-dog-like-Ron-DeSantis Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/