Tucker Carlson

Lies for War

If news organizations are eagerly promoting lies about a war, then what can the rest of us believe? What can we know is true?

Published

1 year ago

April 8, 2022

Alan Rugger

Tucker looks at the lies the Biden administration has told to manipulate American public opinion about the war in Ukraine. Highlights include:

“Weeks before the Russian military invaded Ukraine, a chilling story began to appear in a number of American media outlets. Unnamed sources in the Biden administration warned that Vladimir Putin was preparing what they called a ‘false flag attack.’ The point of the ‘attack’ was to be a pretext for war with Ukraine.”

“The suggestion was that Putin would stage a mass killing and then accuse the Ukrainians of doing it. So, the Pentagon warned Americans to expect ‘very graphic propaganda, including footage of corpses and actors that would be depicting mourners, and images of destroyed locations as well as military equipment in the hands of Ukraine or the west.'”

“It was a pretty complex story, but the media accepted all of it at face value and then repeated it uncritically.”

“Officials said that Putin was about to use chemical weapons in Ukraine. Joe Biden himself repeated that story, and that’s why, Biden told us, we need to send another $14 billion in tax dollars to the Ukrainian government. Everyone in Washington accepted this at face value, and the US government sent the money.”

“But Biden was not telling the truth, and weeks later the administration admitted that. According to NBC news, multiple Biden administration officials have confirmed that there is ‘no evidence Russia has brought any chemical weapons near Ukraine’, so that wasn’t true, but it wasn’t the only lie. NBC described this fiction about chemical weapons as just one of a ‘string of examples of unverified information the Biden administration claimed was real.'”

“So they weren’t just lying to us about what was happening in Ukraine, they were lying to us at scale. But, amazingly, and this is the telling point, NBC was not bothered by that. In fact, they celebrated it.”

“If news organizations are eagerly promoting lies about a war, then what can the rest of us believe? What can we know is true?”

“And honestly, it’s hard to know what is true. We can be sure that Russian soldiers have committed atrocities in Ukraine, there are countless pictures of that, some number of them must be real. But we can also be dead certain the war is not, despite what they tell us, a childish tale of good vs evil. This is Eastern Europe, after all. Everything is a lot more complicated than it looks on American TV.”

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Tucker Carlson

Tucker: We’re Back.

At the most basic level, the news you consume is a lie, a lie of the stealthiest and most insidious kind. Facts have been withheld on purpose, along with proportion and perspective. You are being manipulated.

Published

2 weeks ago

May 10, 2023

Alan Rugger

Tucker again lays into the media propaganda machine as he announces he’s taking the show to Twitter. Highlights include:

“You often hear people say that news is full of lies, but most of the time, that’s not exactly right. Much of what you see on television or read in the New York Times is, in fact, true in the ‘literal’ sense, it could pass one of the media’s own ‘fact checks.’ Lawyers would be willing to sign off on it, in fact they may have. But that doesn’t make it true. It’s not true.”

“At the most basic level, the news you consume is a lie, a lie of the stealthiest and most insidious kind. Facts have been withheld on purpose, along with proportion and perspective. You are being manipulated.”

“The best you can hope for in the news business at this point is the freedom to tell the fullest truth that you can, but there are always limits, and you know that if you bump up against those limits often enough, you will be fired for it. That’s not a guess, it’s guaranteed. Every person who works in the English language media understands that. The rule of what you can’t say defines everything. It’s filthy, really, and it’s utterly corrupting.”

“For the most part, the news that you see analyzed on Twitter comes from media organizations that are themselves thinly disguised propaganda outlets. You see it on cable news, you talk about it on Twitter. The result may feel like a debate, but actually the gatekeepers are still in charge. We think that’s a bad system. We know exactly how it works, and we’re sick of it.”

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— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) May 9, 2023

Tucker Carlson

Tucker: See you soon

When honest people say what’s true calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful. At the same time, the liars who’ve been trying to silence them shrink.

Published

1 month ago

April 26, 2023

Alan Rugger

Oh gosh, I’m using Twitter. Tucker dropped a video today on his Twitter account, again commenting on the current state of US media and finishing with a hopeful “See you soon.” Highlights include:

“One of the first things you realize when you step outside the noise for a few days is how many genuinely nice people there are in this country, kind and decent people, people who really care about what’s true, and a bunch of hilarious people also, a lot of those, it’s gotta be the majority of the population, even now, so that’s heartening. The other thing you notice when you take a little time off is how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are…”

“Both political parties and their donors have reached consensus on what benefits them and they actively collude to shut down any conversation about it. Suddenly, the United States looks very much like a one party state. That’s a depressing realization, but it’s not permanent. Our current orthodoxies won’t last. They’re brain dead.”

“This moment is too inherently ridiculous to continue, and so it won’t. The people in charge know this, that’s why they’re hysterical and aggressive. They’re afraid. They’ve given up persuasion, they’re resorting to force. But it won’t work. When honest people say what’s true calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful. At the same time, the liars who’ve been trying to silence them shrink, and they become weaker. That’s the iron law of the universe, true things prevail.”

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