If you didn't already know professional
weasel Tucker Carlson had done something wrong, you got your
confirmation on Sunday when Convicted Felon Donald Chump showed up to defend him. If you missed it, Carlson had platformed his and Chump's mutual acquaintance Nick Fuentes Nazi Lover.
The
right-wing, if you missed it, leapt off the cliff and fell into the arms
of Alex Jones and other nut jobs. Cradled to Jones' heaving breasts,
the fright-wing now introduces such 'deep thoughts' as the Nazis have
been misunderstood, victims of the Holocaust -- if they do exist -- were
begging for it and so much more.
Yes,
it's the world we live in today. Overcrowding at the institutions led
to early and unneeded releases and the craziest of the crazies ended up
with their own podcasts.
They pretend they're honest, they pretend they're rationale, most of all they pretend they're fair. Take legal antinomian Jonathan
Turley who recently spent time raging against the names the media is
called. He's very bothered by that . . . if the journalist is from a
right-wing outlet and if the person verbally attacking is a Democrat.
That's how he avoids Donald Chump's attack on a BLOOMBERG NEWS reporter
over the weekend but removes the Ben Wa balls from his anus in
order to use them as Greek worry beads while he frets over what
non-politician Hunter Biden said about NY POST's Miranda Devane.
In
one case, you're dealing with a politician holding the most important
position in the United States trashing a reporter, in the other you're
dealing with someone whose father was once president. And Chump did it
to the woman's face. Time and again, raging queen Turley pretends to
be fair and impartial when, in fact, he's deranged and unbalanced.
That whole core group is: Turley, Mother Tucker, Glenn Greenwald and Megyn Kelley.
You
have to be deranged -- the way Frau Farbissina lookalike Glenneth
Greenwald is -- to think that video of you on your hands and knees
wearing a woman's skirt (when you actively trash and mock transgender
people) -- doesn't make you a joke nor the crack pipe in the video, nor
the big man you're kneeling before and licking the toes of nor the
insults he hurls at you -- to think your crackpot view of the world is
normal.
Glenneth hates
women and it's nothing but jealousy as he demonstrated when video of his
sexual desires to dress like a woman, pretend to be a woman and have a
man insult him with slurs against women. That's news to the likes of
Eoin Higgins because those lazy idiots never did the work required (see "Media: OWNED finds Eoin Higgins owned by bad journalism").
Glenneth
was motivated by his hatred of women in 2007. He took up with Fire Dog
Rash Vagina, the woman who hated women, and was her roll dog as they
barnstormed the country trying to destroy Hillary Clinton. Instead of
addressing that or any number of facts, Higgins wrote a fluff book that
imploded on him upon publication.
You really have to be stupid to trust the unstable to be stable long enough for you to write a book and have it published.
But
you have to be stupid to think you can be buddies with the people
you're critiquing. There's an actor who only recently began speaking to
us again. Around two decades ago, we trashed a series he had the lead
in. He was ticked. We didn't trash him but the series was garbage --
and we weren't the only ones eventually trashing it. We also told him
-- face to face -- that the role was a mistake and he didn't need to
play that type again. He got angry and stopped speaking to us. We
understood. We bumped into him recently. He hasn't worked in four
years. He should have listened to us. He had a great quality and
should have gone for roles that utilized that. Instead he played dull
leading man roles and when he couldn't bring in audiences with that?
His career was over. It wasn't about looks, he was and remains very
good looking. And he has talent is he's cast as a heel. Regardless, we
understood his being mad and no longer wanting to speak to us for all
those years.
Because being a critic means making the hard call, not the popular call. Enablers, they're the ones who make the popular calls.
We don't like Glynneth Greenwald. We've never liked him. But we can give him credit on the rare times he's earned it.
When
he broke the story around the Ed Snowden documents, we gave him
credit. We gave him applause. Too much, in fact. And we're the only
media critics who have noted that reality. Glynneth had the story!
Glynneth had the documents! The truth was coming out.
And then it didn't.
He took the documents to the soon-to-be-created INTERCEPT and that's where the documents remain and they remain unreported on.
That's not the deal he presented to the public.
What is it? Bait-and-switch. That's the hallmark of a con artist.
That
Mother Tucker Carlson is the supreme con artist, of course. He brings
on and platforms Nazis and then tries to retreat insisting he was just
asking questions. Robert Draper (NEW YORK TIMES) reports:
Last
month, Tucker Carlson’s genial interview with the white nationalist
Nick Fuentes detonated a bomb that further fractured the Trump-era
conservative movement he once helped galvanize. This month, Mr. Carlson
decided to escape the wreckage for weeks of bird hunting in Maine, South
Dakota, Nebraska and Southwest Florida.
During
three hours of interviews driving to and from a quail hunting site
outside Fort Myers, Mr. Carlson was by turns indignant, reflective and
seething — and thoroughly unrepentant for having roiled the conservative
movement with the interview, or for his own escalating attacks on those
who support Israel.
“Israel does not matter,”
he said from behind the steering wheel, casually contradicting the view
of Mr. Trump and every president before him, while his two spaniels sat
in the back seat. “It’s a country the size of what, Maryland? It has a
population of nine million. It has no resources. It’s not strategically
important. In fact, it’s a strategic liability.”
Mr.
Carlson expressed bafflement over the reaction to his session with Mr.
Fuentes. He said he did not understand what was so problematic about his
guest, beyond the fact that the conservative commentator Ben Shapiro,
an Orthodox Jew, had depicted Mr. Fuentes as antisemitic just as he had
done to Mr. Carlson.
Chris Cameron (NYT) describes what immediately followed:
Republican
lawmakers and Jewish organizations denounced Tucker Carlson, an ally of
President Trump, for hosting the outspoken white supremacist Nick
Fuentes on his podcast this week, and criticized other conservative
figures who defended the interview.
Senators Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell criticized Mr. Carlson, the far-right commentator who served as a top surrogate for Mr. Trump’s re-election campaign and spoke at the party’s national convention last year, for hosting Mr. Fuentes, who is openly antisemitic and had previously dined with Mr. Trump in 2022.
Days later, Annie Karni revisited the topic for the paper, noting:
Republican
lawmakers and influencers continued on Monday to distance themselves
from Tucker Carlson after his sympathetic interview with the prominent
white supremacist Nick Fuentes, putting on display a widening split on
the right about how to address antisemitism within their party.
The
fallout included at least one resignation, as a key aide to the head of
a prominent right-wing think tank stepped down after backing his boss’s
vigorous defense of Mr. Carlson.
Kevin
Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation think tank, had
announced late last week that the aide, Ryan Neuhaus, was simply leaving
his chief of staff position for another role. But on Monday, a
spokesman for the Heritage Foundation, said Mr. Neuhaus had resigned.
The resignation was reported earlier by The Hill.
Ben
Shapiro, the conservative podcast host, also condemned Mr. Carlson on
Monday as “the most virulent superspreader of vile ideas in America,”
criticizing him for failing to push back on Mr. Fuentes during the
interview and for allowing him instead to spread his ideas unchallenged
on a huge platform.
On Capitol Hill,
Republicans were quick to disavow antisemitism and declare unbending
support for Israel, even as some refrained from singling out Mr. Carlson
by name.
The fall out continues. Today, Cheyanne M. Daniels (POLITICO) reports:
Another
member of the conservative Heritage Foundation has resigned following a
video posted by the organization’s president defending Tucker Carlson’s
interview with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes.
In
a post to Facebook, board member Robert P. George said he can no longer
remain part of the foundation without a “full retraction” of the video released last month by the organization’s president, Kevin Roberts.
“Although
Kevin publicly apologized for some of what he said in the video, he
could not offer a full retraction of its content. So, we reached an
impasse,” George said.
Carlson’s interview with Fuentes -- who has previously expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler -- received widespread condemnation for antisemitism, and the aftermath has exposed fault lines among conservatives.
And then there's Megyn.
Pretty-for-FOX-'NEWS'
Megyn Kelly has always looked as though the right side of her face was
smashed in with a shovel. If that actually did happen, brain damage
would explain her career. The career problem is a common thread for all
four, by the way. Has anyone been fired more than Tucker? Similarly,
Glennyth and Megyn and Jonathan have a long list of former media
employers. Former.
Does not play well with others was, no doubt, the common comment on all four losers' report cards.
Over the weekend, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE mocked Megyn and her 'insights' -- James Austin Johnson, playing Donald Chump, "I
thought Megyn Kelly made a terrific point this week, she said Epstein's
not a pedophile. Terrific thing to just say out of nowhere. Great Job
Megyn, we love Megyn, they should put her back on TV. Legalize Megyn!" That was Saturday night. She was also 'honored' Sunday night on John Oliver's HBO program:
John
Oliver tore into Megyn Kelly for making “perhaps the boldest attempt”
at damage control for President Donald Trump in the wake of Wednesday’s
release of thousands of emails from the late Jeffrey Epstein.
Oliver
replayed the moment from Kelly’s SiriusXM show when she tried to parse
the definition of pedophilia, and in the process disclosed that she knew
“somebody very, very close to this case who is in a position to know
virtually everything” related to the Epstein scandal.
“Yeah,
that clip starts with I know someone who’s super in the middle of all
the Epstein s--t, and it somehow gets sketchier from there,” Oliver said
on Sunday’s season finale of HBO’s Last Week Tonight.
The
clip continued with Kelly explaining that, according to her source
Epstein was not a “pedophile” because he “was into the barely legal
type. Like, he liked 15-year-old girls.”
Except
that 15-year-old girls cannot consent, it’s not legal for adults to
have sex with them, and many of Epstein’s victims claimed they were
raped by either him or his clientele in Florida, where the legal age of
consent is 18.
There are times when
the smartest thing to do is just shut your mouth. Megyn should remember
that, in fact, she should make it her mantra. She has a dangerously
under-nourished brain. It leads her to such mistaken efforts as
insisting that there's nothing wrong with Blackface. In fact, let's pull Juliann McShane (MOTHER JONES) in:
There was her insistence that Santa Claus is white, for example, and her claim that wearing blackface used to not be so bad (that one got her fired from NBC News). Wednesday, on her eponymous SiriusXM show, Kelly picked another hill to die on: She implied, in conversation with NewsNation host Batya Ungar-Sargon, that it wasn’t quite fair to call Jeffrey Epstein a pedophile because he was “into the barely legal type” of minors—which Kelly appallingly defines as “like, 15-year-olds”—who look like they could be legal adults. Epstein was charged with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors, and the Department of Justice said he abused and exploited dozens of underage girls, some as young as 14.
But Kelly said she nonetheless questioned how to characterize Epstein because, she claims, she knows “somebody very, very close to this case who is in a position to know virtually everything,” and “this person has told me from the start, years and years ago, that Jeffrey Epstein, in this person’s view, was not a pedophile.”
She's a crackpot, a lunatic. And we were glad to see her called out across the web and to see Melissa Gilbert weigh in and to see the #iwas15 hashtag pushing back against Megyn's crazy and dangerous nonsense.
But
what shocked us the most? She tried to go on a rant against so-called
p.c. No one seems to have noted that or commented on it. At one point
in the segment, she babbles on and rages about it used to be called
"kiddie porn." Damn you and your political correctness, she seemed to
insist, now she can't even call it kiddie porn anymore!
We
don't know which voice issues heredicts on what words and phrases are
acceptable but, then again, we don't live in Megyn's head.
They're nuts, all four of them.
Back
in the 70s, veteran DC journalist Walter Pincus was with THE WASHINGTON
STAR and dreamed of establishing a sort of quasi-national newspaper.
His proposal was often greeted with laughter and cries of how the
inmates would be running the asylum. However, decades later POLITICO
emerged and bore a resemblance to what Pincus had often spoken of. It
was not a case of the inmates running the asylum but instead strong and
sometimes brilliant journalism.
The
best example of the inmates running the asylum would be the explosion
of the multi-fired on YOUTUBE and satellite radio. One scandal too many
(or twelve or twenty too many) and they have been forever shut out of
mainstream media -- and respectable society -- so they go the huckster
route and run a con on the rubes. If you're trying to understand the
success of Glynneth, Megyn, Turley and that Mother Tucker, Whoomp There It Is.
