On Friday I was back in the anchor's chair for a full hour on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" - which, to judge from Twitter, is a more controversial hangout than it was a fortnight back. Nevertheless, in Tucker's absence, we started with President Trump's decision to go to Georgia in an effort to keep the Senate out of Chuck Schumer's hands. Sample quote courtesy of the Instapundit:
YEP: "Georgia Republicans need a record turnout in January to put Perdue and Loeffler beyond the margin of error, beyond the margin of lawyer, and beyond the margin of sewer..."
– Mark Steyn now on Tucker Carlson Tonight
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Great anchor appearance Mark. I'm not surprised that you're not caving or changing your views like so many others have been doing that appear on Fox. I suspect Paul Ryan and the many Democrat producers and other Dem Execs at Fox did not like your show but IMO, your last 2 anchor assignments were the best shows that network has produced in my memory. They were fresh, genuine, informative and entertaining.
You wrote that anchoring on Fox, (I presume)"...to judge from Twitter, is a more controversial hangout than it was a fortnight back."
I didn't see any offensive tweets or any negative ones directed at you. Only justified criticism of Murdoch's "Faux News" that turned on Trump and his supporters in many ways at the most crucial time for the USA in decades or more. These willing Fox hosts aided the Biden/Harris madness and their compulsion to drastically change America.
This betrayal will not be forgotten as long as the willing participants are still on the network. To add salt to their formerly loyal viewer's wounds, almost all Fox hosts have either mocked the fight against mass voter fraud or ignored it with other fluff.
All that aside, I will turn to Fox if you are on, otherwise, looking at all those formerly welcome faces, that IMO, betrayed the nation and their viewers is intolerable. Your 2 shows were like a temporary resuscitation of Fox but after you left, the network's death trajectory returned.
Note--My comment above was focused on the Mon-Fri Fox and there are some notable examples of Fox hosts and contributors that did not betray the MAGA movement. For example, Judge Jeanine who has been suspended twice for speaking her mind and others like (the "new") Mark Levin that have stayed the course.
Unfortunately, a few others are being pulled down in the ratings by their worst host turncoat colleague's or by their Dem producer's demands.
I completely agree with Mark's thoughts re: what the Dems would do with a Biden presidency and a senate majority. However, I have one additional prediction: I think one of the first things they would do/attempt is a massive bailout of the states hardest hit by COVID. It'll amount to one big taxpayer slush fund for the most poorly managed, liberal, (but I repeat myself), states, a golden parachute for years of mismanagement in CA, NJ, NY.
Yes indeed. I think that we may also anticipate measures to provide citizenship to all the millions of illegal entrants currently residing the United States. Boosting the American population (and welfare outlay) by over 2% is an obvious and indeed urgent measure in light of the certainty that the new voters will all be Democrats. Citizenship takes time, so there is no time to waste if the next election is to be at once fraud-free and safe.
If only the Poles and French had provided citizenship to the hardworking German soldiers doing the work nobody else wanted to do in 1939 and 1940. There would have been no invasion at all. Amazing. The wonders of American democracy.
So many priorities, so many miracles to perform, so little time...!
"Beyond the margin of sewer"... Gold!
Another Canadian (Conrad Black) and a Brit (Melanie Phillips) were quoted by Australians (the Outsiders) on TV this morning, vis-Ã -vis Trump and the situation in the US. Rowan Dean noted the pernicious part played by the MSM, but I'm not sure these people from paper ballot backwaters have any business weighing in - especially the Australians, with their VIC police state #wankercoppers.
PS. Please update us on the TCT ratings (especially Steyn vs Carlson).
First off, I must apologize. As a person who's lived his whole life in the U.S.A., I obviously don't know as much about this subject as you Canadians and Aussies and Brits, etc. As I see the Paradises your countries are becoming, I sure wish my country could be more like yours.
That being said, it seems there's a person who could settle a lot of this. There's a person who knows Tucker personally, has connections at Fox News and would know if he's being muzzled or has sold out or just thinks he's devoted enough time to the subject until there's some actual proof. I wonder why this person doesn't just come out and tell us what he thinks? After all, this person is a brave Canadian and not one of us wussy Americans.
Just as an aside here, I have loathed Joe Biden for a long time. I was following him since before this election, since before his Vice Presidency, in fact since about 1990. I'm sure that all of you have been following his career a lot longer than that, right?
For those of us with memories, Biden's possible ascendancy to the White House is a bad dream. He was forced to withdraw from the 1988 (????) for plagiarising, of all people, Neil Kinnock (!!!!).
Turns out that my favorite American patriot is a Canadian ... and I'm okay with that.
Being "outside of the box" gives a better perspective. The bigger the heist, the bigger the lies and collusion needed to pull it off. The drumbeat of "no evidence" didn't seem to stop the "Russian Collusion" narrative one bit. No signed affidavits by anyone for that hoax. The accusation counts for everything except when it doesn't.
Yet... Electronic evidence of vote transfers.. More returned mail in ballots than originally sent out. Returned email ballots with no crease or fold...gee..wrinkle free paper! on and on and on.
The evidence is not even falling on deaf ears as it was never spoken by MSM other than to say "lies". But it's out there and it is a touchstone for the nation. It doesn't fall on deaf ears of those concerned about the Republic. This is not a time of "reconciliation" that the Left demands but a "reckoning". The nation is at that hinge-point ..... Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. Getting increasingly difficult to avoid developing upper extremity second phalangeal pruritus.
But if there's a conspiracy, which it's pretty obvious there is, then you can present hard evidence and the courts will dismiss it until time runs out. And if the media/press don't report truthfully on these happenings, well, then they really "didn't happen". It's not only a distortion of truth, but of reality.
What I want to know is how the Left has managed to enlist the help of Republicans in all of this. Promises of increasing funding/money for their states/districts or pet projects? A clear path to their own re-election? It has to be something like that because the collusion is most definitely bipartisan.
The aggrieved party is not Trump, as I've been saying on this forum, but the American people. The entire establishment, political and otherwise, has put their foot on our collective throats and said "no more!" in regards to populism or electing someone who is not a political sociopath and who wants to honestly address problems with common sense solutions, i.e. immigration, foreign trade, etc.
Thank you, Mark, for one fine monologue after another. I especially enjoyed the Thanksgiving show. I have not been enjoying the news so much this year, as I have been reading a lot of Roman history. The soaring heights of Scipio, savior of the Republic, has given way to chronicles of the last hundred years of the Empire. Corrupt and cowardly senators, political mobs, riots, looting, degeneracy...not uplifting reading, but fascinating and eerily familiar. Thanksgiving blessings to you, sir, and best wishes in this (hopefully) Season of Peace.
Mark. In 1914, Edward Grey (British Foreign Secretary), on the eve of the 1914 - 1918 war said this: "The lights are going out all over Europe. I don't think we will see them again in our lifetime." In 2020, we see the same re-run of history. " The lights of freedom in America and possibly the west are going out. We won't see them again in our lifetime". I do not know what is wrong with the Anglo - Saxon democracies, in particular, but there exists a phenomenal inability to read history and to make contingency plans to deal with crises. I think that the main problem lies with the electorate, most of whom have no perception of the preservation of Christian civilization I am fed up with people saying (in the West) that things will get worse before they get better. Absolute nonsense! If things get worse, they keep getting worse ad infinitum. Look at the Covid crisis.
The elites are simply using it to re-set the world in their own image. Forget promises that any lockdown will be over by Easter 2021. They said that war would be over by Christmas 1914!
In a democracy, people get the government they deserve. Long ago, politicians learned that saving for a rainy day and preparing for a rainy day wasn't as effective in getting votes as was spreading "walking around money," aka welfare, health care benefits, etc.
Mark: With your allusion to election fraud on Tucker's Friday night show, you may now be out of the MSC doghouse. But will you ever be invited back to guest host again? Stay tuned for this exciting soap opera. Perhaps it can be turned into a Tale For Our Times.
I'm afraid FOX is toast when this election is settled and the world sees what has been done to the American people. Yes, I'll always stand behind Mark Steyn for his courage to speak the truth in the face of monumental adversity.
What is happening as we speak will send shock waves around the world. America is in the process of being stolen out from under us. President Trump won this election in a landslide. Joe Biden needs to concede and there's no place on earth for him to hide.
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We're still allowed our fantasies, last I checked, especially after the nightmare we're experiencing. Something good has to come of this walk through the fire. Let's hold onto that, Tari.
The Puritans would be shaking their heads in disgust right now if they knew that they went to great pains to leave one king behind and find freedom to practice their religion only to be confronted by King Cuomo. Any day that you can get the best of a Cuomo is a good day!
And re: Brit CNN anchor who doesn't understand why Americans don't behave like her docile brethran still doesn't get that it's simply not in our DNA to do so. If it were, we'd still be part of the Commonwealth, and obviously she's missed the "Brit Wanker Copper" series...
Lord at first I thought you meant the Shawinigan Express with former Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien from Shawinigan helping out with corruption and thuggery! Or teaching antifa demonstrators the famous Shawinigan handshake which is a neck chokehold Chretien used on an anti poverty demonstator.