{"id":237505,"date":"2021-03-17T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=237505"},"modified":"2021-03-17T11:00:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:00:30","slug":"why-is-brian-stelter-so-obsessed-with-tucker-carlson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-is-brian-stelter-so-obsessed-with-tucker-carlson\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Brian Stelter So Obsessed With Tucker Carlson?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fwhy-is-brian-stelter-so-obsessed-with-tucker-carlson%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=237505&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1531.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>During his show on Sunday, CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter claimed that \u201cTucker Carlson is the new Donald Trump,\u201d and that the Fox News star has \u201ctaken Trump\u2019s place\u201d as the leader of the conservative movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.8947368421053\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tucker Carlson is the new Donald Trump. Tucker has taken Trump&#8217;s place as a right-wing leader, an outrage generator, a fire-starter\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y8OzdAlSlN\">pic.twitter.com\/y8OzdAlSlN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianstelter\/status\/1371139124305002499?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cTucker has taken Trump\u2019s place as a right-wing leader, as an outrage generator, as a fire-starter, and it\u2019s all happening on Fox, just like Trump\u2019s campaign did,\u201d said Stelter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhich means Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are ultimately responsible,\u201d Stelter continued, adding his trademark expression of overblown seriousness. \u201cI mean think about all the ways these two men are similar. Every day, Carlson is throwing bombs, making online memes, offending millions of people, also delighting millions of others, tapping into white male rage and resentment. Stoking distrust of Big Tech and the media, generally coarsening the discourse, never apologizing for anything, and setting the GOP\u2019s agenda. Sounds like a recently retired president, right?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Setting aside this lazy political analysis of false equivalence \u2014 \u201cTucker Carlson has hair, and so does Donald Trump! See, they\u2019re the same!\u201d \u2014 it\u2019s somewhat impressive that Stelter is able to throw such a large rock through such a substantial glass house. Every weekend \u2014 unlike Carlson\u2019s nightly show, Stelter only has a weekly opportunity to share his thoughts \u2014 Stelter throws what he would describe as bombs \u2014 and what those who live in reality would describe as under-inflated water balloons \u2014 at conservative media. Every weekend, Stelter taps into woke rage over the acts of those who dare to disagree on any issue pertaining to politics or culture. All while, of course, never apologizing for his network\u2019s obsessive promulgation of stories which later turn out to be complete hogwash \u2014 Russian collusion, Trump\u2019s description of veterans as \u201closers,\u201d or the recently debunked claim that Trump told an investigator to \u201cfind the fraud,\u201d to name but a few.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.4947368421053\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Projection: CNN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianstelter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@brianstelter<\/a> Accuses Conservative Media of \u2018Obsession\u2019 With Russia Probe <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YQnlG2himy\">https:\/\/t.co\/YQnlG2himy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5Vact6MPio\">pic.twitter.com\/5Vact6MPio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreeBeacon\/status\/1260317786204667904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>It\u2019s also somewhat ironic that Brian Stelter and his comrades spread throughout the legacy media are now seeking to eradicate the \u201cwrong types\u201d of journalists after spending four years figuratively pulling out their hair over supposed attacks on the press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While Stelter is desperately trying to pivot our focus, it\u2019s important to remember that this isn\u2019t about Tucker Carlson, in much the same way that it was never about Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In reality, it\u2019s about you and me. American conservatives, who are entirely indistinguishable to Leftists like Stelter. A basket of deplorables who must be ideologically vanquished by the supposed heroes of our media. And while ideas are a decent target, it\u2019s far easier to condemn an entire group of people if you can find a central figure to build your entire strategy around. Until recently, they had Trump, and now they\u2019re trying to find their next boogeyman to use as a distraction from the radical activity of the Democratic party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Because, ultimately, without the \u201cbad guy,\u201d Brian Stelter would have no way of leaning into the camera and presenting himself as a \u201cgood guy.\u201d And what a shame that would be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"><i><span>@ighaworth<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his show on Sunday, CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter claimed that \u201cTucker Carlson is the new Donald Trump,\u201d and that the Fox News star has \u201ctaken Trump\u2019s place\u201d as the leader &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310663,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1531.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Why Is Brian Stelter So Obsessed With Tucker Carlson?","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1531.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Why Is Brian Stelter So Obsessed With Tucker Carlson?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237505","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=237505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}