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Were Missing the Point: Carlson, Fox & Friends Smack Medias Reaction to Trumps Sweden Admissionby Ken Meyer | 9:52 am, February 20th, 2017
Tucker Carlson made an appearance on Fox & Friends on Monday morning, where he gave his thoughts about how President Donald Trump used a segment of his show as the basis for one of the most striking moments of a speech this past weekend.
Trump has admitted that his apparent reference to an nonexistent terror incident in Sweden was based off of a report where Carlson addressed the countrys refugee policy. Today, Carlson said that Trump should be precise in the way he speaks, but the Tucker Carlson Tonight host also opined that we may be missing the point the president was trying to make about crime rates and Muslim integration into European society.
Carlson argued that nationalism is on the rise of Europe as an inverse reaction to years of social dislocation that countries have experienced due to open-door attempts to address the refugee crisis. Eventually, Steve Doocy brought up how the media went crazy while covering how Trump made up a terror attack (which was scrutinized by the Swedish government and many others).
They missed the point. Theres trouble in Sweden, Doocy surmised. Carlson responded by again saying that Trump should be more concise, but the analysis of POTUSs point on other news networks is so stupid that its hard to believe that it made it on television.
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still_one
(92,394 posts)They were also caught by the person who they interviewed:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8682187
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Seriously, a bogus TV report is the source of all this.
The so-called POTUS is basing his worldview off a TV report by Steve Doocy
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)I'm guessing that is an offense that deserves prison time in Trumps mind.
mainer
(12,029 posts)It's the same phenomenon found in the US. During periods of large-scale immigration, overall crime rates fall.
mainer
(12,029 posts)https://www.cato.org/blog/immigration-crime-what-research-says
leftstreet
(36,112 posts)That's what Trump said
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)Why is Trump expending political capital trying to interfere in another country's affairs? A country that isn't complaining about immigration, by the way, not to a great extent, anyways.
Sweden, for Christ's sake! A country that has virtually no political value to us! (No offense, Sweden, you're grand in my book!)
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)bring down society on every level....they take social services...they commit crimes....they don't assimilate...the bullshit list goes on.
Actually this Muslim migration is a good thing...because I believe future generations that are living in Europe and the US will be moderate and that's what we need more of...moderate Muslims.
randome
(34,845 posts)The more integration we 'suffer', the less likelihood there is for war and the better life becomes for the greater number. But it's a glacially slow process, which makes it easier for opportunistic bullshitters as you pointed out.
I don't know if we can ever get the point across, in a political sense, that it may take 50 years or more to unite the planet but that this is something every man, woman and child should be striving for! In fact, I think Dolt45 and his crew can't arrest the progress already made, they're just doing whatever they can to be dicks about it.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]
Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)Melania offered an explanation for the Sweden gaffe, and tells us he has been warning us for months about it, especially during one of the debates.
After her Donald saw the naughty Italian film 'Sweden Hell and Heaven"-1968, he had a dream that a bunch of women in a sauna in Sweden needed to be rescued. When he woke up he had a vague sense that something was amiss in Sweden, and concluded correctly, it was terrorism.
Melania would not comment on Donald's lawsuit against composer, Piero Umiliani, for plagiarizing his words.