{"id":1545694,"date":"2022-07-09T08:04:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T12:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1545694"},"modified":"2022-07-09T08:04:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T12:04:43","slug":"ny-times-journos-attempt-at-confronting-tucker-carlson-blows-up-in-his-face-in-spectacular-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-times-journos-attempt-at-confronting-tucker-carlson-blows-up-in-his-face-in-spectacular-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times Journo&#039;s Attempt at Confronting Tucker Carlson Blows Up in His Face in Spectacular Fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-times-journos-attempt-at-confronting-tucker-carlson-blows-up-in-his-face-in-spectacular-fashion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1545694&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><\/p>\n<h2>Carlson was invited to discuss the future of journalism, but things turned sour<\/h2>\n<div id=\"authorDate\">\n<p>\u00a0on&#038;nbsp8th July 2022 @ 7.00pm <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<figure title=\"The interview quickly deteriorated and Smith struggled to maintain control after he asked Carlson whether he was a white supremacist\">\n<div class=\"articleImage\">\n<p><span class=\"creditNew\">\u00a9\u00a0press<\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>The interview quickly deteriorated and Smith struggled to maintain control after he asked Carlson whether he was a white supremacist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Tucker Carlson blasted the founder of the new global organization Semafor, Ben Smith after the former Buzzfeed editor-in-chief accused him of using racist language.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During a 20-minute remote interview as part of the pre-launch event for Smith&#8217;s new media company, Carlson steamrolled Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson was invited to discuss the future of journalism, but things turned sour.<\/p>\n<p>The interview quickly deteriorated and Smith struggled to maintain control after he asked Carlson whether he was a white supremacist.<\/p>\n<p>The interview included questions on &#8216;Replacement Theory,&#8221; which claims white people in America are being replaced by immigrants and minorities.<\/p>\n<p>When Smith confronted Carlson about his alleged support for the theory, Carlson was quick to shoot Smith down.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This is why you are considered, correctly, a propagandist and not a journalist,&#8221;<\/em> he quipped at Smith.<\/p>\n<p>He continued:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Because I just explained in detail with total sincerity what I believe.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You ignored it and invoked mass shooters,&#8221;<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WATCH: Former New York Times journalist spends 10 minutes trying to call Tucker Carlson a racist.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t go well. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/stg5MQ0h99\">pic.twitter.com\/stg5MQ0h99<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1545072358750404608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Smith, a former media writer for NYT, also asked the conservative pundit:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Do you think white people have more of a claim on America than other people of races do?&#8221;<\/em> Smith asked.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson seemed entertained, and responded:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;No, of course not.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A former NY Times reporter for several minutes tried to paint Tucker Carlson as a racist. He fails miserably. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tSxR8L69dV\">pic.twitter.com\/tSxR8L69dV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/1545204148907511811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8220;I think there are a lot of criticisms you can level at me,&#8221;<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I think sometimes I overstate the case, I get pissed, I get nasty,&#8221;<\/em> said Carlson, but claimed that the people he was angry at was &#8216;well-educated white liberals&#8217; not &#8216;black people.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/neonnettle.com\/news\/17544-biden-pushes-oil-and-gas-drilling-restrictions-despite-energy-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden Pushes Oil and Gas Drilling Restrictions, despite Energy Crisis<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlson was invited to discuss the future of journalism, but things turned sour \u00a0on&#038;nbsp8th July 2022 @ 7.00pm   \u00a9\u00a0press The interview quickly deteriorated and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1547284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}