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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

He's also anti-children and anti-religion, but I don't hold that against him, even though I disagree with some of his key talking points. It's just how he wants to live his life, and he discusses topics from that perspective.

But he's also pro-intellect, and pro-intelligent debate. He also doesn't hide behind rhetoric and brings facts to back every point he makes.

It's not as if he's some anti-liberal monster, but he often gets painted that way because he challenges the status quo.

Give me 10 Bill Mahers for every Tucker Carlson out there and we have a better media discussion of ideas and topics. Will he get it right every time? No. He's human, and prone to bias and his own logical fallacies, but others hold him in check and that's why he invites the debate onto his show. I've yelled out loud about comment he's made on air, especially about vaccines, but on the whole, he has a good perspective on things.

It's a rare concept in modern media, to have an opinion from your own perspective, and debate/defend the merits of those positions. He's not saying he's the only one to listen to, he's just one voice of the many he has on his show. I agree with most people and positions, and I disagree with some. It doesn't meant I need to shut down the discussion full force because I disagree, but many people in our culture would love to do so just because of one position that they dislike.

Get over it. That's our society, for better or worse. Either live with someone saying something you don't love, but is backed by facts and reason, or get off the intellectual discussion bus.

Just being pissed off at people doesn't actually change anything. Try talking through stuff and empathize a little with where someone is coming from. It won't kill you, even if it feels uncomfortable.

Great, having more journalistic integrity than Tucker isn’t a very high bar. If he’s allowing for and supporting hateful speech against people like my nephew he can F off. There’s more good journalism out there than we think, we are just too lazy to find it and consume it, we don’t need guys like this if he can’t see the harm he causes and hides behind it.