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Jilly_in_VA

(9,971 posts)
Fri Aug 6, 2021, 03:34 PM Aug 2021

What is Fox host Tucker Carlson doing in Hungary?

US guest of honour and Fox News host Tucker Carlson was granted a lightning visit by military helicopter to Hungary's 175km (109-mile) high-tech, high-cost razor-wire border fence with Serbia this week.

He liked what he saw. After praising the fence for being so "clean and orderly", in contrast to the "chaos" on the US-Mexican border, he told his viewers: "It doesn't require a GDP the size of the US, it doesn't require high-tech walls, guns, or surveillance equipment. All it requires is the will to do it."

And he praised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for not allowing "this nation of 10 million people to be changed forever by people we didn't invite in and who are coming here illegally".

To make sure his US viewers understood his message, he contrasted Mr Orban's policies with those of US President Joe Biden.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58104200
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Do we really have to let him back into the US? Since he likes it so well there he can jolly well stay there!

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What is Fox host Tucker Carlson doing in Hungary? (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 OP
I think he needs to register as a foreign agent. grumpyduck Aug 2021 #1
He's Kissing Fascist Ass WHITT Aug 2021 #2
Promoting fascism malaise Aug 2021 #3
Preparing Fox viewers... SergeStorms Aug 2021 #4
robe and hood show and tell Thomas Hurt Aug 2021 #5
Normalizing and mainstreaming fascism is what he's doing. On purpose Bristlecone Aug 2021 #6
Selling Corgigal Aug 2021 #7
No doubt Fascist Tucker will soon begin fulminating about "making the trains run on time." sop Aug 2021 #8
"Mr Orban also stands accused of using Pegasus spyware purchased from the Israeli company NSO to tap riversedge Aug 2021 #9
The same thing he does in the US, kissing white supremacist ass. 11 Bravo Aug 2021 #10
We need to tell Orban Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 #11
Put him on the no fly list now!!!! LakeArenal Aug 2021 #12
A fortified border creates the impression of hostility. maxsolomon Aug 2021 #13
Getting a reach around from an authoritarian government Johonny Aug 2021 #14
Putin snubbed him? spanone Aug 2021 #15

SergeStorms

(19,201 posts)
4. Preparing Fox viewers...
Fri Aug 6, 2021, 04:00 PM
Aug 2021

for the exciting, new form of government republicans plan on bringing to the U.S.

He's trying to convince them that what we see in Hungary is still democracy. It's not fascism, oh no, it's the new "hard line" democracy.

Orban is Europe's Trump, and see how wonderful everything is here?

Whatever bow-tie-boy is doing, rest assured he doesn't have the United State's best interest in mind. Fox is an anti-American propaganda machine and should be torn into bits and burned.

riversedge

(70,218 posts)
9. "Mr Orban also stands accused of using Pegasus spyware purchased from the Israeli company NSO to tap
Fri Aug 6, 2021, 04:15 PM
Aug 2021

We have been hearing bad things out of Hungary for a long while now. Seems very unpatriotic for Carlson to go there and broadcasting his show-praising a dictator!!


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Carlson's visit comes at a useful time for Mr Orban.


After 11 years in almost unchallenged power, he faces a fierce battle for re-election in eight months time, against an unusually united opposition, from left to right, which accuses him of hijacking Hungarian democracy and financially favouring his own coterie of oligarchs and loyalists.

Mr Orban also stands accused of using Pegasus spyware purchased from the Israeli company NSO to tap the phones and mine the personal data of up to 300 independent journalists, lawyers and businessmen not aligned with his Fidesz party.


The European Commission has suspended the disbursement of post-Covid EU recovery funds, citing insufficient safeguards against corruption. Nordic governments have also suspended payment of funds to NGOs, after failing to reach agreement with the government over who should disburse them.
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The pro-government Central European Press and Media Foundation (KESMA), comprising 457 TV and radio stations, online news portals, daily and regional newspapers, have been lavishing praise on Carlson, described as "the most influential conservative thinker in the United States", star-status previously allotted only to ex-Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon or Donald Trump himself.
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maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
13. A fortified border creates the impression of hostility.
Fri Aug 6, 2021, 07:01 PM
Aug 2021

I bet you Serbia doesn't appreciate how "clean and orderly" it is.

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