I almost never watched his show, so my preconceptions could flourish uncorrected.
He had assumed that I was the caricature of a shrieking, irrational left-wing feminist -a view for which he has had the good grace publicly to apologize - and I, for my part, was ready to accept that he must be the boorish, sexist, racist, homophobic frat boy that the progressive news outlets I read, relentlessly insisted that he was.
Mr Carlson and I spent most of our careers not in alignment on anything for decades, our places were adversarial on the public chess board. What I want to do now is note, for the record, almost elegiacally, how important Mr Carlson’s voice has been, in the evaluation of at least this dyed-in-the-wool old-school capital “L” Liberal. I recognize a political threat of retribution when I hear one): Charles Schumer and others to the Murdochs, that they were making a mistake in tolerating Carlson’s airing of the first set of previously unseen January 6 videos, and that those who passed on the footage were playing a “treacherous game”, was a factor in at least some upheaval on the part of Fox’s leadership. (Though I suspect that the stern, mafioso-like public warnings of Sen. Mr Carlson is wisely being deliberative regarding his physical presence and his messaging, and by next week the news cycle will have no doubt shifted in relation to this sudden exile, or self-exile so there is little point in adding my own theories to the events of the present. I have no idea what the “inside story” is on the events related to Fox’s or Carlson’s decisions. The whole world is commenting on and speculating about the abrupt departure of former Fox commentator Tucker Carlson from that network.Īddressing the current moment is not my intent. Honest self-awareness seems to be in short supply these days credit to Ms. And Naomi Wolf calls this out, rightly and powerfully. But it is refreshing to read Naomi Wolf’s astute take on having been one of those in a hypnotic trance in support of hating Carlson…but through her awakening to the scope of covid/vaccine lies, has also awakened to the utter baselessness of the demonization of Tucker Carlson.Ĭarlson, like just about everyone in media, has plusses and minuses to his public persona, but the hysterical hate generated against him is simply ridiculous, unfounded and wrong. Tucker Carlson has been high on the list of targets for demonization, and Chuck Schumer and AOC are just fine with that. Younger generations, in particular, seem vulnerable to being swept along, without any capacity to engage in critical thinking. The ability and willingness of the MSM to demonize whoever they feel threatens their worldview is truly astonishing it’s almost hypnotic in its effect on vast numbers of readers/viewers.
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