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That's w O N d r i um dot com slash seth. 25 00:02:29,879 --> 00:02:42,599 Get your free month right now. Wondreum dot com slash seth. Tucker Carlson 26 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:51,360 has been fired. Did I celebrate? Yes and no, and I'll tell 27 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,599 you why in just a few now. I hesitated to add my voice to 28 00:02:54,680 --> 00:03:00,759 the chorus of people who are going on and on and on about Tucker Carlson. 29 00:03:00,599 --> 00:03:05,800 But I felt like this was an important conversation now for those who might 30 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:12,319 have been in a coma or visiting a foreign planet for the past several weeks. 31 00:03:12,719 --> 00:03:20,439 Tucker Carlson, the most popular host on Fox News. He did his 32 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:24,199 finals show. He didn't know it was his finals show twenty second of April 33 00:03:24,759 --> 00:03:28,879 Friday. He says, hey, and we're done for today. Have a 34 00:03:28,879 --> 00:03:34,520 great weekend, and I'll see you Monday. And he did not see us 35 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:39,879 Monday. Fox News over the weekend fired Tucker Carlson. At first, it 36 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:44,759 was kind of lawyered language. Well, there was a parting of ways. 37 00:03:45,199 --> 00:03:49,199 The two parted, Tucker and Fox they parted ways. Yeah, right, 38 00:03:49,319 --> 00:03:53,639 we're all going uh huh. But what would cause Fox News to kick out 39 00:03:53,639 --> 00:03:59,599 at the gate its own golden goose. At the beginning of this month, 40 00:03:59,639 --> 00:04:04,719 there was the revelation of a text message that apparently set off a panic at 41 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:10,439 Fox News. He sent this to one of his producers right after the riots 42 00:04:10,439 --> 00:04:14,199 of January sixth, that he was talking about how he had recently watched a 43 00:04:14,199 --> 00:04:23,399 group of men Trump supporters violently attacking a quote Antifa kid. Then he expressed 44 00:04:23,439 --> 00:04:30,600 his chagrin and dismay that the attackers were white people. Quote it's not how 45 00:04:30,759 --> 00:04:36,199 white men fight. But he also found himself for a moment wanting the group 46 00:04:36,319 --> 00:04:44,120 to kill the person he had described as the Antifa kid from the text to 47 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:48,720 his producer January seven, twenty twenty one, Tucker Carlson. It's not how 48 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:55,360 white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the 49 00:04:55,399 --> 00:04:59,920 man, hoping they'd hit him harder kill him. I really wanted them to 50 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,120 hurt the kid. I could taste it. Then, somewhere deep in my 51 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:09,480 brain an alarm went off. This isn't good for me. I'm becoming something 52 00:05:09,519 --> 00:05:14,360 I don't want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much 53 00:05:14,399 --> 00:05:17,000 as I despise what he says and does, much as I'm sure i'd hate 54 00:05:17,079 --> 00:05:21,759 him personally if I knew him, I shouldn't gloat over his suffering. I 55 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:28,079 should be bothered by it. What I hear in this text is the superior 56 00:05:28,199 --> 00:05:32,079 white man should be above this. Of course the Antifa creep. This could 57 00:05:32,079 --> 00:05:39,920 have been anybody from anywhere, and even when he expresses a kind of remorse, 58 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:45,480 it just comes off nauseatingly superior and condescending. I'm a white man, 59 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:50,000 I should be better than this. That's how I read it. The New 60 00:05:50,079 --> 00:05:55,759 York Times has reported that just last month, these text messages came to the 61 00:05:55,800 --> 00:06:01,079 attention the Fox Board of directors in some senior executives, and they had an 62 00:06:01,079 --> 00:06:08,800 O shit moment, especially considering the dominion voting systems trial was looming. Right, 63 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,519 They're like, what in the world are we going to do? And 64 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:15,480 so the speculation is, and I don't think Fox News or anybody is confirmed, 65 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:21,279 but the behind the scenes reporting a few insiders in general speculation is is 66 00:06:21,319 --> 00:06:27,920 that that text is the straw that broke the camels back. Anyway, I 67 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:32,160 wanted to put together just some of the stuff that Tucker has been responsible for. 68 00:06:32,639 --> 00:06:40,720 Why we have been sounding the alarm about this tremendously toxic and destructive guy. 69 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:43,560 Now this is going to be, I think, an entertaining show, 70 00:06:43,639 --> 00:06:48,079 but yes, it will be frustrating, right because it was frustrating to prepare 71 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:54,759 so much of this stuff would have been a fireable offense pretty much anywhere else, 72 00:06:55,079 --> 00:06:58,920 I mean except for you know, o An or Newsmax, right, 73 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:01,480 some of the more Alex Jones's show, that kind of thing. But I 74 00:07:01,519 --> 00:07:08,040 mean in the mainstream culture, he'd have been gone career wise, it would 75 00:07:08,079 --> 00:07:14,199 have been unsurvivable. But Fox News said, we love the guy, our 76 00:07:14,319 --> 00:07:21,120 audience loves the guy, and he continues unfiltered and we're talking about a guy 77 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:27,319 that has been in that slot in primetime since twenty seventeen. Remember he took 78 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:32,480 over from Bill O'Reilly, and Bill O'Reilly and Fox parted ways, meaning that 79 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:36,959 Fox booted him out when it came to light that he had been charged and 80 00:07:38,199 --> 00:07:46,040 paid off five women over sexual harassment allegations. They settled I think for it's 81 00:07:46,079 --> 00:07:50,120 like ten fifteen millions something like that, and a bunch of advertisers bolted when 82 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:58,399 they found out that Bill O'Reilly was a sexist pick. Fifty advertisers just left 83 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:03,000 and Fox, I think for financial reasons, right. I don't think they 84 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:05,560 cared about sexism. I think they were a culture of sexism. But you 85 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:09,120 know, Fox News said, Okay, fine, I guess we better do 86 00:08:09,199 --> 00:08:13,160 something. And so Bill O'Reilly is gone. You're out of there twenty seventeen. 87 00:08:13,439 --> 00:08:18,360 Who's going to fill that slot in prime time? Here comes Tucker Carlson. 88 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:24,079 Now in a strong field of awfulness. I've rounded up just a few 89 00:08:24,199 --> 00:08:31,480 examples of Tucker being Tucker from various network speeches, monologues, call ins, 90 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:37,799 etc. From the past almost twenty years. So here we go, December 91 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:43,000 fourteenth, twenty eighteen. This is the monologue kicking off Tucker Carlson tonight, 92 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:50,200 and he was ranting about dirty immigrants, essentially bringing down American property values. 93 00:08:50,399 --> 00:08:54,919 Can be welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight. Here's a funny thing that we noticed 94 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:58,600 the other day. People debate all the time about mass immigration. What you 95 00:08:58,799 --> 00:09:05,240 know, ever hear anybody do is make the economic case for mass immigration. 96 00:09:05,399 --> 00:09:09,720 But as an economic matter, this is insane. It's indefensible, so nobody 97 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,720 even tries to defend it. Instead, our leaders demand that you shut up 98 00:09:13,759 --> 00:09:16,200 and accept this. We have a moral obligation to admit the world's poor, 99 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:20,000 they tell us, even if it makes our own country poorer and dirtier and 100 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:24,279 more divided. Na. Na, No, we don't want to let in 101 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:31,200 the riff raff. Besides, they're all kind of dirty. September twenty twenty 102 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:35,759 one, we're still talking about immigration. Tucker Carlson says with a straight face 103 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:45,360 that President Biden was using immigration policies to replace legacy Americans. Now, when 104 00:09:45,399 --> 00:09:50,720 you hear the words legacy Americans, who do you think he is talking about 105 00:09:50,919 --> 00:09:56,639 an unrelenting stream of immigration. But why well, Joe Biden just said it 106 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:00,039 to change the racial mix of the country. That's the reason to reduce the 107 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:05,320 political power of people whose ancestors lived here and dramatically increase the proportion of Americans 108 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:09,080 newly arrived from the Third World. And then Biden went further. He said 109 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:13,840 that non white DNA is the quote source of our strength. Imagine saying that 110 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:20,840 this is the language of eugenics. It's horrifying, but there's a reason Biden 111 00:10:20,919 --> 00:10:22,879 said it. In political terms, this policy is called the Great Replacement, 112 00:10:22,919 --> 00:10:28,279 the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from far away countries. They 113 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:30,960 brag about it all the time, but if you dare to say it's happening, 114 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,480 they will stream at you with maximum hysteria. And here do you have 115 00:10:33,639 --> 00:10:39,440 Joe Biden confirming his motive on tape with a smile on his face. Okay, 116 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:45,120 now, let me do some backstory on the Great Replacement conspiracy. This 117 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:50,240 is a totally manufactured, bogus, made up crisis. And you can just 118 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:54,799 replace the word great with white. Okay, white replacement theory, and it 119 00:10:54,799 --> 00:11:01,000 pretty much goes like this, There is a concentrated effort behind the scenes or 120 00:11:01,039 --> 00:11:07,120 maybe overt effort to get rid of white people or at least make them powerless, 121 00:11:07,159 --> 00:11:11,080 to erase their voices, right, to knock them out of the equation. 122 00:11:11,159 --> 00:11:18,200 It's an attack on white people called legacy Americans, which is weird considering 123 00:11:18,799 --> 00:11:26,159 Native Americans would be legacy Americans anyway. White people who have long enjoyed positions 124 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:30,320 of power, dominance, privilege, and authority are freaking out about the growing 125 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:35,360 diversity in the United States, and so to help protect themselves and preserve their 126 00:11:35,399 --> 00:11:41,840 powers, they're broadcasting that it's part of a conspiracy knock out the patriotic, 127 00:11:41,159 --> 00:11:46,279 free, legacy Americans and bring in these immigrants, who, by the way, 128 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:52,440 are more pliable and compliant, so that those who are pulling the puppet 129 00:11:52,519 --> 00:12:03,320 strings would better control the population. This is the Great Lament theory. Honestly, 130 00:12:03,399 --> 00:12:05,720 this reminds me a lot of Christianity in the United States. Right. 131 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:11,080 We're talking about a hugely privileged class, a spoiled, rotten bunch of cry 132 00:12:11,159 --> 00:12:16,279 babies who don't want to share the sandbox. So instead of saying, oh, 133 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:18,679 great, there's room at the table for all of us, they look 134 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:24,399 around and they see the changing demographic and they realize that they may soon be 135 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:30,399 minority status, just organically, right, it's just happening, and they don't 136 00:12:30,399 --> 00:12:35,039 see humanity. They cry conspiracy, and so they hit the panic button and 137 00:12:35,159 --> 00:12:41,519 cry victim. What's that line? When you are accustomed to a position of 138 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:48,720 privilege, equality feels like oppression. How many freaking clan rallies right? How 139 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:56,799 many white supremacist organizations have been wailing since forever about the delustion and toxification of 140 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:05,000 this country's precious whiteness. Oh but wait a minute. August of twenty seventeen, 141 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:11,240 Tucker Carlson said himself, white supremacy is not a problem. If you 142 00:13:11,279 --> 00:13:16,639 were to assemble a list, a hierarchy of concerns of problems this country faces, 143 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:18,639 where would white supremacy be on the list? Run up there with Russia? 144 00:13:18,799 --> 00:13:24,559 Probably, It's actually not a real problem in America. The combined membership 145 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:28,159 of every white supremacist organization in this country would be able to fit inside a 146 00:13:28,159 --> 00:13:33,399 college football stadium. This was just after a white gunman went in and massacred 147 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:37,480 twenty two people in El Paso. Remember that guy, He had written a 148 00:13:37,519 --> 00:13:46,600 big manifesto that condemned his Hispanics. A white guy who hated Hispanics and massacred 149 00:13:46,759 --> 00:13:52,840 twenty two people. Right after that happened, Tucker said that white supremacy isn't 150 00:13:52,919 --> 00:13:58,559 really a problem in this country. And while we're at it, here's another 151 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:05,480 attack, quote quote attack on America. Now here in exceptionalist America, where 152 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:07,720 we know we're better than everybody else, but we can't really tell you why 153 00:14:07,919 --> 00:14:13,720 except hashtag freedom. We like to take pride in the fact that we do 154 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:20,039 things differently than everybody else, even if it's less effective and less efficient, 155 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,840 which gets us into the metric system. And it's interesting. When I was 156 00:14:22,879 --> 00:14:26,679 in school growing up, they told us get ready because metric is coming. 157 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:31,600 The rest of the world uses metric because it's more efficient, and it's coming 158 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:37,840 here. Of course, that big switch never happened. I think some of 159 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:43,879 the only stuff we use metric for. Drug dealers use it. How many 160 00:14:43,879 --> 00:14:48,440 grams a coke did you smuggle in? We've got soft drinks, you know. 161 00:14:48,639 --> 00:14:50,320 Hey, go to the store, pick me up a two leader, 162 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:56,519 a diet coke. So we're using leaders there, but you buy a gallon 163 00:14:56,639 --> 00:15:01,120 of ice cream or a quart of milk. It's set. Somehow doing this 164 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:07,320 has become linked to national pride and true to form. A few years ago, 165 00:15:07,519 --> 00:15:20,080 Tucker Carlson actually did a rant about the quote tyranny of the metric system. 166 00:15:20,279 --> 00:15:24,559 Almost every nation on Earth has fallen under the yoke of tyranny the metric 167 00:15:24,639 --> 00:15:28,600 system. From Beijing to Buenos Aires, from Lusaka to London, the people 168 00:15:28,639 --> 00:15:33,240 the world have been forced to measure their environment in millimeters in kilo, grahams. 169 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:37,399 The United States is the only major country there's resisted. But we have 170 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:43,159 no reason to be ashamed for using feet and pounds. Don't ever let conservatives 171 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:48,480 tell you that liberals are the snowflakes. Don't let them get away with that. 172 00:15:50,039 --> 00:15:54,000 Oh look it's Tucker carl syndrome. Last year, M and M's decided 173 00:15:54,039 --> 00:16:00,320 they were going to do a tiny, very slight, almost unnoticeable design change 174 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:07,200 to their eminem animated mascots. I mean, if you showed me one picture 175 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:10,320 and then showed me the other, I wouldn't have noticed a difference. But 176 00:16:10,399 --> 00:16:15,120 there were tiny differences, including the green eminem a female and she originally had 177 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:22,720 these thigh high boots, kind of Nancy Sinatra boots for those of my generation 178 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:27,159 or before, and the new design has her in tennis shoes. Oh, 179 00:16:27,279 --> 00:16:33,519 no, tennis shoes on a piece of green candy is just another example of 180 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:40,440 woke liberal intolerance. Eminem's were pushing intolerance, but they were. They've been 181 00:16:40,519 --> 00:16:42,639 changed. They're seeing the changes right now in your screen. The green Eminem, 182 00:16:42,679 --> 00:16:47,039 you will notice, is no longer wearing sexy boots. Now she's wearing 183 00:16:47,159 --> 00:16:51,799 sensible sneakers. Why the change, Well, according to Eminem's quote, we 184 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:56,039 all win when we see more women in leading roles because leading women do not 185 00:16:56,120 --> 00:17:00,279 wear sexy boots. Leading women wear frumpie shoes. The front beer, the 186 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:04,799 better, that's the rule. The other big change is that the brown Eminem 187 00:17:04,839 --> 00:17:11,240 has quote transition from high stilettos to lower block heels, also less sexy. 188 00:17:11,279 --> 00:17:17,839 That's progress. Eminem's will not be satisfied until every last cartoon character is deeply 189 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:22,400 unappealing and totally androgynous, until the moment you wouldn't want to have a drink 190 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:26,519 with any one of them. That's the goal, when you're totally turned off. 191 00:17:26,519 --> 00:17:42,359 We've achieved equity. They've won. Tucker Carlson is mad asexually frustrated because 192 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:49,839 apparently his favorite piece of green candy coated chocolate is not giving him an erection. 193 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:57,519 He needs the boots, not the tennis shoes to get his eminem Morning 194 00:17:57,599 --> 00:18:06,240 glory, and it's just not there anymore because of those woke libs. Poor, 195 00:18:06,279 --> 00:18:12,279 poor Tucker. Okay, we already know this guy and the entire Fox 196 00:18:12,319 --> 00:18:18,559 News network has been a total nightmare on COVID nineteen. This was his broadcast 197 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:22,559 May fifth, twenty twenty one, when he was telling people there was growing 198 00:18:22,759 --> 00:18:30,759 concern that the vaccine itself was killing people. Between late December of twenty twenty 199 00:18:30,759 --> 00:18:33,440 and last month, a total of three thousand, three hundred and sixty two 200 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:38,240 people apparently died after getting the COVID vaccine in the United States. Three thousand, 201 00:18:38,319 --> 00:18:41,920 three hundred and sixty two. That's an average of roughly thirty people every 202 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:48,079 day. The data we just cited come from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System 203 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:52,640 VEIRS. VERIRS is managed by the CDC and the FDA. Okay, notice 204 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:56,799 what he did. I think the number was just above thirty three hundred apparent 205 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:03,319 vaccine deaths in this or amount of time, And he cited his source the 206 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:14,880 US Vaccine Adversity Event Reporting Systems, but is not the CDC or the FDA. 207 00:19:15,079 --> 00:19:21,559 It's affiliated, but it's an open public access site. It's just a 208 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:26,640 place where people can go and report what they think is going on. So 209 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:33,400 talk about correlation, causation, conspiracy, whatever. Anybody anywhere could log on 210 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,799 and file a report. Uncle Bob got the vaccine ten weeks ago and he 211 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:41,920 had a heart attack last night. I think it was the vaccine. And 212 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:45,359 then they go to their keyboards and they type it into the website. Right. 213 00:19:45,759 --> 00:19:52,519 This is the source that Tucker Carlson was citing, and he went on 214 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:59,240 to pitch another conspiracy theory that vaccine requirements for the military were actually part of 215 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,799 a larger Borough plot to root out the Christians. They were going to go 216 00:20:02,839 --> 00:20:06,920 in saying we're going to protect people, and then they would find people with 217 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:14,279 high testosterone levels, which apparently Christians have higher testosterone, and they would ask 218 00:20:14,319 --> 00:20:18,440 you do you not like Joe Biden? Men with high testosterone levels and anyone 219 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:22,680 else who does not love Joe Biden and make them leave immediately. It's a 220 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:27,400 takeover of the US military. It just seems like a strange questionnaire. You 221 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,920 know, you set them down to give them the shot. Oh nice testosterone 222 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:36,839 levels, by the way, do you or do you not like Joe Biden? 223 00:20:37,799 --> 00:20:44,319 And then this person mysteriously disappears from the armed forces within twenty four hours. 224 00:20:45,039 --> 00:20:49,279 Oh them evil anti American traitorist, Joe Biden, loving secular libs. 225 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:56,599 Whatever, they're all coming. They're bringing their needles and they're coming. Not 226 00:20:56,799 --> 00:21:02,640 only was he an opponent of COVID masks for you know, protecting our fellow 227 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:08,680 human beings, he felt that mask mandates were so offensive that anti maskers should 228 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:14,319 reverse the streams. Angry Biden voters will snort at you in judgment. How 229 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:18,519 could you, They're saying from behind the gause, How could you? That's 230 00:21:18,519 --> 00:21:22,000 the question we should be asking of them. In return. The rest of 231 00:21:22,079 --> 00:21:25,839 us should be storming at them first. They're the aggressors. It's our job 232 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:30,000 to brush them back and restore the society we were born in. So next 233 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,720 time you see someone in a mask on the sidewalker on the bike path, 234 00:21:32,799 --> 00:21:36,680 do not hesitate. Ask politely, but firmly, would you please take off 235 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:40,240 your mask. Science shows there was no reason for you to be wearing it. 236 00:21:40,519 --> 00:21:47,119 Your mask is making me uncomfortable. Okay. This was a few years 237 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:55,359 ago. The website Media Matters uncovered some old audio tapes of Tucker Carlson and 238 00:21:55,559 --> 00:22:03,279 Oh they were revealing this is a series of interviews that Tucker Carlson did on 239 00:22:03,319 --> 00:22:12,599 a shock jock radio program with a guy named Baba the Love Sponge. Baba 240 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:18,000 the Love Sponge sounds like Tucker's kind of thing, and he used to call 241 00:22:18,079 --> 00:22:23,359 into the show all Locked between two thousand and six and two thousand eleven. 242 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:27,279 I'm gonna play, I'm gonna rapid fire some of these clips. The first 243 00:22:27,519 --> 00:22:33,759 is of him defending a guy named Warren Jeffs. Now. Warren Jeffs was 244 00:22:33,799 --> 00:22:40,480 on the FBI's ten most Wanted Fugitives list, and the reason he was on 245 00:22:40,519 --> 00:22:48,720 that list is because he had been arranging illegal marriages between adults and underage girls. 246 00:22:49,279 --> 00:22:55,759 With this, Tucker Carlson did not see the problem, but I'm really 247 00:22:55,839 --> 00:22:59,319 he's on a prison for that. He didn't Warren jeff didn't marry underage Carlson. 248 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:03,279 Really, he's in prison for facilitation of child rate whatever the hell that 249 00:23:03,279 --> 00:23:07,640 means. That means in prison. He's in prison because he's weird and unpopular 250 00:23:07,759 --> 00:23:11,039 and he is a different lifestyle that other people find cream. Oh, he's 251 00:23:11,079 --> 00:23:14,400 an accessory to the rape of children. That is a felony, and a 252 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:18,000 serious one at that. What do you mean an accessory. He's like got 253 00:23:18,039 --> 00:23:22,400 some weird religious called where he thinks it's okay to, you know, marry 254 00:23:22,559 --> 00:23:26,440 underage girls. But he didn't do it. Why wouldn't the guy who actually 255 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:27,880 did it, who ad sects with an underage bro he should be the one 256 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:33,480 who's doing life right. The rapist in this case has made a lifelong commitment 257 00:23:33,799 --> 00:23:37,599 to live and take care of the person. So he is a little different. 258 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,279 I mean, let's just be honest about it. He's not accused of 259 00:23:40,319 --> 00:23:45,200 touching anybody. He is accused of facilitating a marriage between a sixteen year old 260 00:23:45,279 --> 00:23:48,200 girl and the twenty seven year old man. That's the accusation. So that's 261 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:53,359 what they're calling felony mat bullshit. I'm sorry now that this guy. Maybe 262 00:23:56,279 --> 00:23:59,400 I'm just telling you arranging a marriage between a sixteen year old and a twenty 263 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,359 seven year old it's not the same as telling a stream drop the street LaPier 264 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:07,240 that bullshit. Now, many of us thought and find it all that surprising 265 00:24:07,799 --> 00:24:15,480 that this man would essentially dismiss underage girls in this way because of his larger 266 00:24:15,519 --> 00:24:22,440 attitude about women. For example, you want to know what gets women going, 267 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:26,559 Oh, Tucker has got an opinion on that. You know what in 268 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,839 my brief experience, you know, gets women going is arguing with them. 269 00:24:30,839 --> 00:24:34,039 Really yeah, brand I never use it. It's true you debate politics with 270 00:24:34,079 --> 00:24:37,400 a woman and just go, you know, just full blown out there, 271 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:41,480 especially feminism. If you're talking to a feminist and she's given you a well, 272 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,279 you know, men really need to be more sensitive. And now, 273 00:24:44,279 --> 00:24:47,359 actually men don't need to be more sensitive. You just need to be quiet 274 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:48,640 and kind of do what you're told and lighten up a little bit. They 275 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:52,000 love it. Well, I love women, but they're extremely primitive. They're 276 00:24:52,039 --> 00:24:56,519 basics. They're not that hard to understand. Do you want to fuck Sarah 277 00:24:56,599 --> 00:25:00,640 palin Will, I'll agree with that. Sorry for unattractive women, I mean 278 00:25:00,839 --> 00:25:06,200 something they did. You know what's better than hockey weed and whores? I 279 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:10,240 mean, but you know, first of all, there's no Canadian woman that 280 00:25:10,279 --> 00:25:15,640 you want to pay to sleep. Well. Here's Tucker Carlson from the Bubba 281 00:25:15,839 --> 00:25:22,599 the Love Sponge radio program. He was talking about Martha's Stewart's daughter, Alexis 282 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,759 Stewarts, and here's what he said. Alexas Stewart, we run into her 283 00:25:26,759 --> 00:25:30,559 all the time. She seems like she seems. Yeah, she is very 284 00:25:30,599 --> 00:25:33,240 they're very county. She seems extremely I like to hear that word out. 285 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:36,559 Oh yeah, I just I step over me. She seems right, now, 286 00:25:36,599 --> 00:25:40,119 go ahead, she just does seem a little county. You said it. 287 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:41,519 I'm just agreeing with you. I don't use that word, right. 288 00:25:41,559 --> 00:25:45,640 I love for Tucker Carlson. Tonight, I'm MSNBC A girl that's comes across 289 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,680 kind of contact she does. I mean, I heard her. I mean, 290 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:52,160 I know I'm a Brent fan, so okay, I'm to state my 291 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,240 bias right out front here, but I heard her on with him, and 292 00:25:55,319 --> 00:25:57,440 I just wanted to give her the spanking she said, I actually want. 293 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:03,880 Now, remember this is the same guy who interviewed Lauren Duca of teen Vogue 294 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:11,119 magazine back in twenty sixteen, and the context is this Lauren Duca, who 295 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:17,160 normally writes about the stuff that young teenagers want to read about. Fourteen Vogue 296 00:26:17,279 --> 00:26:22,680 was also commenting about Ivanka Trump, criticizing Ivanka Trump on her Twitter page, 297 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:26,279 and she felt, you know, why are you empowering your father toward the 298 00:26:26,319 --> 00:26:33,119 presidency when your father is just a nightmare when it comes to respecting and protecting 299 00:26:33,279 --> 00:26:37,519 women. So He was peering down his nose at her, saying, wait 300 00:26:37,559 --> 00:26:41,559 a minute, you're Lauren Duca of teen Vogue magazine, right, you just 301 00:26:41,559 --> 00:26:48,279 write about the empty calorie stuff in this world. You should stick to skirts 302 00:26:48,319 --> 00:26:55,039 and shoes and hairstyles and food and celebrity sightings and movies and music and pop 303 00:26:55,079 --> 00:26:57,960 culture. Well, why in the world. He tried to discredit her by 304 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,160 saying, you know you're over here trying to talk politics, But you're the 305 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:08,559 same person who once tweeted about Ariana Grande rocking her thigh high boots. You 306 00:27:08,599 --> 00:27:11,720 know what I did write about Ariana Grande, and I did write about the 307 00:27:11,799 --> 00:27:18,519 abusive, biggest sovereignty of a whole religion. All Right, I gotta go. 308 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:23,200 You should stick to the thigh high boots. You should stick to the 309 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:30,839 thigh high boots. And I think we all have the same looks on our 310 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:38,279 faces right now. Okay, back to these recently uncovered Bubba the Love Sponge 311 00:27:38,319 --> 00:27:48,400 tapes, Tucker Carlson credited white men for creating civilization, and he was sounding 312 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:56,680 off on the Iraq War because Iraqis are I'll just let him say it. 313 00:27:56,839 --> 00:28:03,240 I'm just gonna let Tucker Carlson words speak for themselves. These Arabs and Iraq 314 00:28:03,279 --> 00:28:07,920 aren't playing. We're the only ones that are playing. Don't like we are 315 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,759 the only ones that are playing over there, They're not playing. So just 316 00:28:11,079 --> 00:28:15,240 there animals, Dude, awful they are. I'm talking about the war. 317 00:28:15,279 --> 00:28:18,680 I have not you know, I'm not defending the war in anyway, but 318 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:22,920 I just have zero sympathy for them or their culture, a culture where people 319 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,799 just don't use toilet paper or forks, and the way they treat women. 320 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,880 You know, I agree with you their culture is, but you're in their 321 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:33,279 homeland and you're over there as an American who they hate, and they want 322 00:28:33,319 --> 00:28:37,160 nothing more than the Americans off of their soil. So they're not going to 323 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:38,160 play the second week. I mean, they can just shut the fuck up 324 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,640 at obey, is my view. And you know, the second we leave, 325 00:28:42,079 --> 00:28:45,039 they're going to be calling for us to return. I just they can't 326 00:28:45,079 --> 00:28:48,720 govern themselve. I mean, if a rock turns out to be a great 327 00:28:48,799 --> 00:28:52,200 thing, how can it turn out to be great? How could you salvage 328 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:53,519 your rock? At this point, I don't, you know, it's beyond 329 00:28:53,559 --> 00:28:57,640 our control. I mean, if somehow the iraqis decided to behave like human 330 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:02,960 beings or something. I mean's just beyond the weekend. I think we can 331 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,920 control. I think that's that's the whole lesson of Rock if it is very 332 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:11,680 difficult to control other people's countries and people of Canada. Please don't please understand 333 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,279 that Tucker is a very good friend of mine, but I in no way, 334 00:29:15,279 --> 00:29:18,440 shape or form share his views of how he feels about people from Canada. 335 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,839 I love Canada. They're great people up there. Tucker feels if you 336 00:29:21,839 --> 00:29:25,119 guys are a bunch of assholes an he said, I totally disagree. I 337 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:29,480 didn't like Canada. I wouldn't consider it worth invading now. I mean, 338 00:29:29,519 --> 00:29:33,279 Iraq is a crappy place filled with a bunch of you know, semiliterate monkey 339 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:37,119 work. In Canada is a solid place with you looking women and go fishing. 340 00:29:37,319 --> 00:29:44,759 You will be no compassion for the good Iraqi people, oppressed by their 341 00:29:44,799 --> 00:29:51,319 own government long under the boot of Saddam Hussein or whoever. No empathy for 342 00:29:51,839 --> 00:29:56,640 the people who simply wanted to live their lives and raise their families and be 343 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,079 liberated and free. That's all they really wanted known. Oh No, the 344 00:30:00,119 --> 00:30:07,400 iraqis They're all a bunch of freaking animals. All right, how you holding 345 00:30:07,519 --> 00:30:11,279 up your teeth clenched, got a big vein popping out of your forehead. 346 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,759 Oh We're not done. I have plenty more of the tuck coming up next, 347 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:26,680 continuing our consolidation of some of the low lights of Tucker Carlson from the 348 00:30:26,799 --> 00:30:32,400 past. I don't know how for many years those of us who have been 349 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:37,720 waiting for Fox News to speak honestly about the insurrection of January sixth, if 350 00:30:37,759 --> 00:30:40,920 we've been holding our breath, we'd have been dead a long time ago. 351 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:45,279 Right, there's no way this network is going to cover the reality of the 352 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:52,559 insurrection of January sixth. And Tucker Carlson took some footage from January sixth, 353 00:30:52,839 --> 00:30:56,880 and he just sliced out a couple of these really really really small sections where 354 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:02,079 people weren't being violent, and they weren't throwing tear gas. They weren't dragging 355 00:31:02,119 --> 00:31:06,400 Confederate flags and screaming and blowing their horns and carrying on. They were just 356 00:31:06,599 --> 00:31:11,759 walking and standing in the halls of the Capitol after they had broken in. 357 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:19,480 And he attempted to sell the lie that these were at domestic terrorists. These 358 00:31:19,559 --> 00:31:26,920 were just peaceful patriots. The crowd was enormous. A small percentage of them 359 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,400 were hooligans. They committed vandalism. You've seen their pictures again and again, 360 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:37,079 but the overwhelming majority weren't. They were peaceful, they were orderly and meek. 361 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:41,640 These were not insurrectionists. They were sightseers. Footage from inside the Capitol 362 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:48,079 overturns the story you've heard about January sixth. Protesters queue up in neat little 363 00:31:48,119 --> 00:31:52,599 lines. They give each other tours outside the Speaker's office. They take cheerful 364 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,559 selfies, and they smile. They're not destroying the capital. They obviously revere 365 00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:00,799 the capital. They're there because they believe the election was stolen from them. 366 00:32:01,039 --> 00:32:06,480 They believe in the system. By the way, I find it interesting how 367 00:32:06,559 --> 00:32:13,759 few Fox News viewers have actually watched footage from January six They certainly didn't watch 368 00:32:13,839 --> 00:32:16,559 the hearings, right, but if you ask them about it, they go 369 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:22,960 blank. They obviously don't really know what happened that day. I have tried 370 00:32:23,039 --> 00:32:29,880 showing some of that footage to a few Fox News Trump supporting people, and 371 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:31,680 you know what they say. They don't want to watch, first of all, 372 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:36,039 and the second thing they say is, well, that footage has been 373 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:42,200 edited, and I don't trust edited footage. I mean even the congressional footage 374 00:32:42,279 --> 00:32:45,799 that followed a timeline where you would go from the big rally and then everybody 375 00:32:45,839 --> 00:32:51,240 walking to the Capitol, and then you see different camera angles of what was 376 00:32:51,319 --> 00:32:54,559 going on. Of course you're going to edit that because you are showing different 377 00:32:54,680 --> 00:33:00,119 vantages minute by minute. But they are totally not interested. Is it's edited 378 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:09,920 footage? The implication as it's manufactured footage and these people are just patriots or 379 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:17,640 they are fringe, or better yet, it's Antifa or crisis actors hired by 380 00:33:17,759 --> 00:33:27,880 the government to promote liberal stuff. Okay, Tucker Carlson giving his perspective an 381 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:36,000 opinion on trans people. Tucker has called trans people a quote cancer on the 382 00:33:36,119 --> 00:33:44,839 country and suggested on his own broadcast that fathers of students should walk into classrooms 383 00:33:44,839 --> 00:33:51,920 and beat the shit out of teachers who discuss gender orientation. I don't understand 384 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,480 where the men are, like where the dads? You know, some teachers 385 00:33:54,519 --> 00:33:59,160 pushing sex values on your third grader. Why are you going to thrash the 386 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,880 teacher like this isn't agent of the government pushing someone else's values on your kid 387 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,119 about sex like, where's the pushback. Oh, yeah, that's all we 388 00:34:07,199 --> 00:34:13,599 need, isn't it. People already stoked up with fear and terror and bigotry 389 00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:19,280 and conspiracy and satanic panic and whatever. And they decide the solution to whatever 390 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:24,519 danger quote unquote danger they see is to just go into a classroom, close 391 00:34:24,599 --> 00:34:29,960 your fists, and weigh along a teacher. Yeah that's what Tucker wants. 392 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:37,360 Okay. So now we come to the big dominion voting systems settlement, and 393 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:43,880 man, I wanted this thing to go to court so bad. Donald Trump 394 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:52,920 loses the twenty twenty presidential election and immediately soils himself, and so does Fox 395 00:34:53,119 --> 00:35:01,360 News and Fox News and their major player hosts like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity 396 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:07,960 and Laura Ingram, Janine Pierro, Fox and Friends, etc. They are 397 00:35:07,119 --> 00:35:15,159 fueling rigged election, voter fraud, dead people voting, destroyed ballots, duplicated 398 00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:21,440 ballots, whatever conspiracy theories. They're stoking this false notion that the whole thing 399 00:35:21,519 --> 00:35:25,519 was rigged. And we've all seen the hashtag Stop the Steal their posters made. 400 00:35:25,519 --> 00:35:30,000 There's Donald Trump's face looking serious, draped in the colors of the American 401 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:36,079 flag, stopped the steal. The election was stolen. Fox News was a 402 00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:42,920 big parts of fueling this conspiracy. But what was happening behind the scenes, 403 00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:49,480 Fox hosts, including Tucker Carlson, We're emailing and texting each other and saying, 404 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,639 ah, this is a bunch of crap. And there's no evidence that 405 00:35:53,719 --> 00:36:00,599 there was any voter fraud whatsoever. But the damage to Dominion voting systems and 406 00:36:00,679 --> 00:36:06,719 Smartmatic voting systems, I mean, essentially they had been libeled and slandered as 407 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:12,440 being companies unreliable and perhaps even in on the fix. Will Dominion and Smartmadic 408 00:36:12,599 --> 00:36:16,920 said, okay, fine, here's a defamation lawsuit. On the day the 409 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:22,480 trial was supposed to start for Dominion, they settled with Fox and Fox News 410 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:31,119 in an amazing display of obvious innocence, agreed to pay Dominion three quarters of 411 00:36:31,159 --> 00:36:38,599 a billion dollars. But they didn't have to correct the record. They didn't 412 00:36:38,599 --> 00:36:45,039 have to apologize publicly to Dominion, and they didn't have to apologize or explain 413 00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:52,800 to the audience they deceived and people like you and me, we were rightfully 414 00:36:52,039 --> 00:37:00,360 pissed. But the other lawsuit by Smartmatic looms, and they have sued for 415 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:05,519 even more money Dominion one on one point six billion, Smart Maddox said, 416 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:09,440 Nana, we want more than that. Let's call it two point seven billion. 417 00:37:09,559 --> 00:37:15,599 And they have said they won't settle, which means that Fox hosts like 418 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:23,760 Tucker Carlson might end up on the stand in a court of law, on 419 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:30,360 the records, squirming under the questions of the prosecution, and faced with their 420 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:39,679 own behind the scenes private texts and emails. Please please let this happen. 421 00:37:40,039 --> 00:37:46,639 It would be Christmas. Every day of the trial would be Christmas, was 422 00:37:46,679 --> 00:37:51,679 the whole dominion thing. Part of the reason that Fox News decided to cut 423 00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:57,000 ties with Tucker Carlson. I mean, part of me wonders if distancing themselves 424 00:37:57,039 --> 00:38:00,280 from him, and maybe even some others who are worried about their jobs. 425 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,719 It's come to light that Janine Piero and some of the other hosts are thinking, 426 00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:07,199 oh hell, if they can fire Tucker Carlson, all of us are 427 00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:12,440 on the bubble. Another interesting piece of this puzzle is the lawsuit by a 428 00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:17,679 former booker for Tucker Carlson. She was hired to book guests. Her name 429 00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:24,079 is Abby Grosberg, a Jewish woman who said that when she worked in Tucker's 430 00:38:24,159 --> 00:38:30,119 office as the booker for his show. She was the victim of sexism and 431 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:37,119 harassment. She said misogyny was everywhere and she was harassed because she was Jewish. 432 00:38:37,159 --> 00:38:44,280 She also said that attorneys from Fox News pressured her to lie about the 433 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,679 stuff that was going on at the network. So it's going to be interesting 434 00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:53,639 to watch that lawsuit. Okay, So with all this stuff blowing up all 435 00:38:53,679 --> 00:39:00,760 around Fox News, people have been saying yes, and many been cheering. 436 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:07,519 I have found myself saying yes and occasionally cheering up to a point, but 437 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:12,400 only to a point. And here's why. First, for the moment, 438 00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:17,440 Tucker does not have that particular bullhorn for all of his toxic nonsense. That's 439 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:23,159 good, right. Secondly, I just love watching Fox News viewers losing their 440 00:39:23,199 --> 00:39:30,559 minds right now. They are turning on the network and they're screaming about conspiracy 441 00:39:30,039 --> 00:39:32,599 and they're all scattering, well, where is he going to go? And 442 00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:36,920 where are they gonna go? And will they support Fox? And who will 443 00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:40,039 be the replacement? We don't really know when it's just pandemonium, and I 444 00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:46,960 rather enjoy that the rattlesnakes are turning on each other. And then finally, 445 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:52,800 I just have to laugh out loud at the satanic panic that is going on 446 00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,920 in the wake of Tuckers firing. There was an article in Rolling Stone April 447 00:39:55,960 --> 00:40:04,079 twenty sixth that said this, right wing Christians who claim to have prophetic insight 448 00:40:04,519 --> 00:40:13,639 into America's spiritual warfare are declaring Fox News's decision to sack Tucker Carlson a victory 449 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:23,400 for Lucifer. It's awesome. Preachers and prophets across this great country they're calling 450 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:29,119 this an End Times level events. And of course we don't have to guess 451 00:40:29,159 --> 00:40:35,639 their religion or whether or not they are white people. Okay, here's where 452 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:43,199 I stop cheering. Tucker Carlson is just awful beyond description. He's just awful, 453 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:49,039 poisonous and says theopathic and cruel and horrible. Yes, so he's gone, 454 00:40:50,119 --> 00:40:57,239 But the millions of viewers who joined him every single weeknight on Fox News, 455 00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:02,079 they are still around. And they loved the guy for a reason. 456 00:41:02,119 --> 00:41:07,639 They made him the most popular host of the network for a reason. They'll 457 00:41:07,679 --> 00:41:12,760 probably follow him wherever he goes, like he's a great shepherd or whatever. 458 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:17,519 They're going to follow him for a reason. So all of their revelations and 459 00:41:17,559 --> 00:41:23,119 the investigative reporting and the video archives and the audio clips and whatever. Right, 460 00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:28,639 all of this about Tucker. This is just a black light at a 461 00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:36,280 crime scene. We are talking about an entire culture of people, including an 462 00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:43,719 alarming number of evangelical Christians, who somehow believe Tucker Carlson is both the hero 463 00:41:44,159 --> 00:41:49,719 and the victim in this story. You know, he was telling the truth. 464 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:54,800 He dared to tell the truth about vaccines and women and foreigners and immigrants 465 00:41:54,840 --> 00:42:00,880 and trans people. He was brave and now he has paid a price for 466 00:42:00,039 --> 00:42:07,119 telling it like it is. Millions of people who made him famous are still 467 00:42:07,159 --> 00:42:13,440 there. And let's just say Tucker Carlson falls in a man hole tomorrow, 468 00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:15,639 right, you know, he's hit by a truck. You know, he's 469 00:42:15,679 --> 00:42:20,920 no longer with us for whatever reason. He was just the visible part of 470 00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:24,840 the cancer. He's just the part that rose up above the surface. There 471 00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:37,599 is root rot far beyond Tucker Carlson, and that cancer runs deep. Okay, 472 00:42:37,639 --> 00:42:39,480 I've got to take one more real fast break, but I've got a 473 00:42:39,519 --> 00:42:45,800 great clip queued up for you. John Stewart of The Daily Show joined Tucker 474 00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:55,440 Carlson on the classic CNN debate show cross Fire and John Stewart pulled no punches. 475 00:42:55,559 --> 00:43:01,000 I love this clip. I'm gonna play you this clip after this. 476 00:43:07,079 --> 00:43:10,199 If you would like to support me on Patreon, you would be so very 477 00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:15,760 welcome and appreciated. You get the show early, and you get it totally 478 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:22,719 commercial free Patreon dot com slash Seth andrews. Okay, here's what I want 479 00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:29,000 to leave you with. This was back from two thousand and four. There 480 00:43:29,199 --> 00:43:32,760 was a show that Tucker Carlson was co host of on CNN. It's called 481 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:37,840 Crossfire, and he was on with Paul Begala, And I think Paul Begala 482 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:43,960 was the representative, the Democrat or the liberal, and Tucker Carlson was the 483 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,159 conservative and the whole freaking show was every weeknight, these guys would sit at 484 00:43:47,199 --> 00:43:53,320 the table and just shouted each other about political stuff. John Stewart of The 485 00:43:53,440 --> 00:44:00,079 Daily Show from Comedy Central is a special guest on Crossfire in two thousand and 486 00:44:00,119 --> 00:44:07,559 four. And this was around the time that John Carey was challenging George W. 487 00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,119 Bush for the presidency, around the election was going on, and so 488 00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:14,599 you're going to hear Carrey invoked. It's hard to listen to in a few 489 00:44:14,599 --> 00:44:21,679 ways because Tucker Carlson doesn't want to let John Stewart make his point. But 490 00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:25,760 I think it's a revelation because Tucker was awful and he was being called out 491 00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:34,760 by John Stewart even nineteen years ago. Check it out today. Crossfire is 492 00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,840 very different. We have just one guest at your bookstores. Everything about President 493 00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:43,519 Bush. He'll be unemployed soon, A very good person. We enjoy it. 494 00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:45,239 Let me ask you a question, Well, let me ask you a 495 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,840 question for it. Is John Carey John Terry really the best? I mean, 496 00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:51,559 I think you know John Carrey, donerable best. You know, thought 497 00:44:51,559 --> 00:44:53,519 Lincoln was good? Is he the best the Democrats can do? Is he 498 00:44:53,559 --> 00:44:58,159 the best the Democrat has this year? I'd always thought of in a democracy. 499 00:44:58,199 --> 00:45:01,199 And again I don't know. I've only lived in this country. That 500 00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:06,880 there's a process is what they call them primaries, And they don't always go 501 00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:09,320 with the best, but they go with whoever want is it? So? 502 00:45:09,519 --> 00:45:14,480 Is he the best according to the process? Right? But of the nine 503 00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:15,559 guys running, the music was best, the key was the best, the 504 00:45:15,639 --> 00:45:21,880 most impressive, the most impressive. Yeah, I thought Al Sharpton was very 505 00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:27,760 impressive. I enjoyed his way of speaking. I think oftentimes the person that 506 00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:32,679 knows they can't win is allowed to speak the most freely. And because otherwise 507 00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:39,199 shows with titles such as Crossfire, Crossfire, or Hardball or I'm Gonna kick 508 00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:45,639 your ass or Will will jump on it. In many ways, it's funny, 509 00:45:45,639 --> 00:45:49,119 you know. And I made a special effort to come on the show 510 00:45:49,119 --> 00:45:53,320 today because I have privately, amongst my friends and also in occasional newspapers and 511 00:45:53,440 --> 00:46:04,159 television shows mentioned this show as being bad and and I wanted to I felt 512 00:46:04,159 --> 00:46:06,559 that that wasn't fair, and I should come here and tell you that I 513 00:46:06,599 --> 00:46:12,360 don't. It's not so much that it's bad as it's hurting America. So 514 00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:15,159 I wanted to come here today, let me and say wait, wait, 515 00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:16,920 just let me. Hair's just wanted what I wanted to tell you, guys, 516 00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:24,840 stop stop stop, stop stop hurting America. Okay now, and and 517 00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:30,199 come work for us, because we as the people pay the people not not 518 00:46:30,199 --> 00:46:35,920 well. But you can sleep at night to see the thing is we need 519 00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:40,320 your your help. You're right now, you're helping the politicians and the corporations 520 00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:45,079 and we're left out there too. The when you make mistakes. No, 521 00:46:45,079 --> 00:46:46,480 no, no, you're not too rough on them. You're part of their 522 00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:52,280 strategies. You're partisan. What do you call it? Hacks? Wait? 523 00:46:52,519 --> 00:46:55,159 Wait, let me tell you something valuable that I think we do that. 524 00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:59,920 I'd like to see something valuable. Yeah, well it's it's like, wait, 525 00:47:00,079 --> 00:47:02,599 I would like when I'll tell you when politicians come on, Yeah, 526 00:47:02,639 --> 00:47:06,840 it's nice to get them to try and answer the question. And in order 527 00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:08,039 to do that, we try and ask them pointed questions. I want to 528 00:47:08,079 --> 00:47:12,519 contrast our questions with some questions you asked John Carry. If you want to, 529 00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:14,920 if you want to compare your show to a comedy show, you're more 530 00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:17,960 than here's here's the point. If it doesn't hit, that's your goal. 531 00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:21,639 It's not. I wouldn't name for this. I think for here's the problem. 532 00:47:21,639 --> 00:47:24,000 That's Carry will come on this show. He will come on your show. 533 00:47:24,039 --> 00:47:27,320 Let me suggest why he wants. Well, we have civilized discord. 534 00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,800 Well here here, here's here's an example of the civilized discordse here are three 535 00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:30,800 of the questions you asked John. Yeah, you have a chance to interview 536 00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:34,440 the Democratic nominee. You ask them questions such as a quote, how are 537 00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:37,039 you holding up? Is it hard not to take the attacks personally. Have 538 00:47:37,159 --> 00:47:39,679 you ever flip flopped, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, didn't you 539 00:47:39,679 --> 00:47:42,559 feel like you got the chance to interview the guy? I want to ask 540 00:47:42,599 --> 00:47:45,440 him a real question instead of just suck up to him. Yeah, how 541 00:47:45,519 --> 00:47:49,800 you're holding up is a real suck up. And h I actually was giving 542 00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:53,599 him a hot stone massage. That's where you're doing. You know. It's 543 00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:59,400 it's interesting to hear you talk about I felt the more responsibility to the you 544 00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:01,519 know, I didn't realize that. And maybe this explains quite a bit of 545 00:48:01,519 --> 00:48:07,519 the opportunities that the news organizations look to Comedy Central for their cues on integrity. 546 00:48:07,679 --> 00:48:13,440 So what I would suggest is, when you talk about you're holding politicians 547 00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,960 feet to the fire, I think that's disingenuous. I think, how are 548 00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:19,159 you holding up? I mean, come on, no, no, no, 549 00:48:19,159 --> 00:48:22,280 no, no, I don't But my my role isn't I don't ask 550 00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:24,960 him a real question, don't you think instead of saying, you know, 551 00:48:25,079 --> 00:48:28,840 I don't think I happened, by the way, I also asked him, 552 00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:34,519 you know where you am Cambodia, But I didn't really care because I don't 553 00:48:34,599 --> 00:48:38,880 care because I can so stupid. Well, but my point is this if 554 00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:45,400 your idea of confronting me is that I don't ask hard hitting enough news questions 555 00:48:46,519 --> 00:48:50,360 weren't bad shape, fellas. We're here to love you, not confront you. 556 00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:52,400 No, no, no. But but what we're saying is this, 557 00:48:52,159 --> 00:49:00,199 I'm not I'm here to confront you because we need help from the media and 558 00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:05,480 they're hurting us. And it's the idea is if they've got it. Let 559 00:49:05,519 --> 00:49:08,960 me get this straight. If they're indict if the indictments and I've seen you 560 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:13,679 say this that crossfirouses everything, as I said the intro to left Right Black. 561 00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:15,760 Yes, well, it's because we're a debate show. It's like single 562 00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:22,840 one debate, twenty four hour day where we have each side on as best. 563 00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:23,159 No no, no, no, no, that would be great. 564 00:49:23,199 --> 00:49:27,880 Have them fight it out to do a debate would be great. But that's 565 00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:32,440 like saying pro wrestling is a show about athletic contrompetition. I think you're a 566 00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:36,079 good comedian. I think your lectures are boring. Let me ask you, 567 00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:38,000 let me ask you a question on the news. Now this is theater. 568 00:49:38,079 --> 00:49:42,280 I mean, it's it's how old are you? Thirty five? And you 569 00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:45,519 wear a bow tie? So I so this is I know, I know 570 00:49:45,599 --> 00:49:50,800 you're on a bright let me just go listen. I'm not I'm not suggesting 571 00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:52,480 that you're not you're not a smart guy, because those are not easy to 572 00:49:52,559 --> 00:49:59,400 time, but they're different. Is that this you're doing theater when you should 573 00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:04,360 be doing debate, which would be great. It's not honest. I'm honest. 574 00:50:04,519 --> 00:50:07,639 What you do is perfect partisan hackery. And I'll tell you why. 575 00:50:07,639 --> 00:50:10,440 I carry on your show and you sniff his throne and you're accusing us of 576 00:50:10,519 --> 00:50:15,920 partisan hackery. Absolutely, you're got to be kidding day. The show that 577 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:22,239 leads into me is puppets making crank phone call. What is wrong with you? 578 00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:24,119 Well, I'm just saying there's no reason for you, when you have 579 00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:27,920 this marvelous opportunity not to be the guy's butt boy, to go ahead and 580 00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:30,599 be as mud boy. Yes, it's embarrassing. I was absolutely as butt 581 00:50:30,599 --> 00:50:32,079 boy. I was so far you would not believe what he ate two weeks 582 00:50:32,079 --> 00:50:37,960 ago. You know the interesting thing that I have You have a responsibility to 583 00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:43,079 the public discourse, and you failed miserably. I think you need to go 584 00:50:43,159 --> 00:50:45,800 to one. The thing that I want to say is when you have people 585 00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:50,440 on for just knee jerk reactionary talk. Well I thought you were gonna be 586 00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:52,599 funny. Come on, No, I'm not going to be your monkey. 587 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:58,360 Um what go ahead. I watch your show every day and it kills me. 588 00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:00,800 I can tell you what. It's so oh, it's so painful to 589 00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:05,199 watch. Um. You know, because we need what you do. This 590 00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:09,079 is such a great opportunity you have here to actually get politicians really try of 591 00:51:09,199 --> 00:51:14,360 their marketing and strategy. It's someone who watches your show and cannot take it 592 00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:16,559 anymore. I just can't like to have dinner with you. It must be 593 00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:20,199 excruciating. Do you like lecture people like this? Or do you come over 594 00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:22,440 their house and said lecture? You know they're not doing the right thing, 595 00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:25,199 that they're missing their opportunities of eating their responsibilities. If I think they are, 596 00:51:25,679 --> 00:51:29,519 look, I would want to eat with you. Man. That's horrible, 597 00:51:29,599 --> 00:51:30,760 I know, and you won't. But the thing I want to get 598 00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:34,360 promise naked pictures of s. Yeah we did, let's get to those. 599 00:51:36,519 --> 00:51:38,639 Please. I beg of you guys. I think you want Crosby. We're 600 00:51:38,639 --> 00:51:42,239 gonna take a quick no, no, no, no, We've got we've 601 00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:46,679 got commercials. Please next trying to stop in the rapid Fire. Please now 602 00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:52,000 you missed the part in the next segment where Tucker was shouting over John Stewart 603 00:51:52,000 --> 00:52:00,320 and John Stewart just called him a dick, just a dick. And six 604 00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:08,880 months after this interview, CNN canceled Crossfire, And I have to think maybe 605 00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:14,079 John Stewart had something to do with it, right, because he exposed them 606 00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:20,599 for what they were, and he exposed Tucker Carlson for who he is. 607 00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:23,960 More of this please. In fact, hey, Fox News, if you're 608 00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:30,519 looking for someone to fill the chair, I will bet John Stewart would at 609 00:52:30,599 --> 00:52:37,119 least guest host if he was given the opportunity to speak his mind without filters, 610 00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:44,760 and I might even watch. Thank you for listening. I will see 611 00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:49,199 you back here next time. Take care. 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