Tucker Unleashed
Scott S Powell 5-2-23
Most
discussion about Tucker Carlson leaving Fox News has focused on drama and
speculation of his celebrity status and his
next career move. But there are profound lessons that have come to the fore via
his departure from FOX, which reveal more nuance and depth about what is wrong
with America’s mainstream media—how it is influenced by America haters who
manipulate advertisers to defund truth tellers, and how weak leadership of our
media is utterly failing our country and helping our enemies.
Recent
polling conducted within days of the separation shows that Tucker’s popularity
has gone up, while that of Fox News has gone down sharply. Tucker, as a one-man
act appears to be more popular than the entire chorus of Fox News.
What
is also noteworthy is that Tucker is emerging as a considerably bigger and
better man than any of his critics, including those in the Murdoch family who
are the primary owner/managers of Fox News. Tucker is admired for being a courageous
pursuer and teller of truth, while the Murdochs now preside over a
declining FOX News empire of their own
obsequious making. And increasingly the viewers get it—that FOX is following
the ways of its other mainstream media competitors, which have ceased real news
reporting, and become purveyors of narratives that suck oxygen out of the atmosphere
and prevent viewers from getting informed and thinking about the most critical
issues that affect their well-being. And it turns out that most if not all the
narratives promoted by the media and peddled to the masses are largely created
by the wealthy elite. And they often succeed at this by censorship and
cancellation. Something is very wrong with this picture.
Tucker
had the largest viewership of any talk show in the genre, and he was waking
people up more effectively than any other talking head. But he was relentlessly
attacked by left-wing critics who succeeded in intimidating advertisers from
continuing their support of his show. This may have been a factor in FOX
management’s decision to cancel him.
Many
have noted that Fox’s dependence on advertising revenue from Pfizer affected the
station’s news coverage and censorship of information on the most important and
lasting story of our time—that the Covid vaccines resemble a type of bioweapon—being
generally ineffective against the virus, but unique in causing more injuries than
all the other prior vaccines combined. And
this is particularly troubling for our national defense, where all serving in
the military were mandated to take the jab. In fact, five days before he was
let go by Fox, Tucker Carlson broke ranks in his “Tonight” monologue pointing
out that the TV networks pushed a deadly and ineffective vaccine to please
their Pharma advertisers. Tucker told the truth about how greedy Pharma advertisers
controlled TV news content and even specifically charged newscasters with promoting
Covid vaccines they knew to be ineffective and lethal.
It
was also about the same time that Fox management caved to Dominion Voting
Systems lawsuit claims of being defamed by Tucker Carlson and other Fox
reporters, who had simply reported and provided coverage of stories,
information and news tips from a range of authorities that found credible evidence
of electronic vote fraud in the 2020 election that implicated Dominion. In so doing FOX joined its mainstream media competitors’
position that the media no longer have a role to play in keeping U.S elections
honest. No longer purveyors of news, the media aren’t watchdogs either—reduced
as they are to being conduits and facilitators of special interest elite narratives.
Two
days after Fox announced the reorganization of their evening lineup, Tucker
took to Twitter to broadcast a monologue at his same usual time slot of his now
former 8 p.m. “Tonight” show. He praised the large number of kind and decent
American people who “really care about what’s true,” and then added that “most
of the debates you see on television are… completely irrelevant.” He then went on to say that big topics that
will define our future get “virtually no discussion at all—topics like war,
civil liberties, emerging science, demographic change, corporate power, and
natural resources.” What Tucker was
saying was the news media is utterly failing the American people. Wow. That implies
that because Americans are ill-informed, the nation must now be in peril.
Wise
man that he is, Tucker Carlson framed many of the most vexing problems that he
covered in nonpolitical terms as he did before a large group in Washington, D.C.
after his last Fox show was recorded. There he simply said that if we want to
know what’s evil and what’s good, we only must look at what these two
conditions produce:
[G]ood is characterized by order, calmness,
tranquility, peace, whatever you want to call it, lack of conflict, cleanliness.
Cleanliness is next to godliness. It’s true. It is.
And evil is characterized by their
opposites. Violence, hate, disorder, division, disorganization, and filth. So,
if you are all in on the things that produce the latter basket of outcomes,
what you are really advocating for is evil. That’s just true.
Bam. In one
simple two-part fell swoop Tucker describes without political reference what
the Democrat Party has become, as can be seen in every Democrat-controlled city
across America.
The
good news is that, ever-the-optimist Tucker Carlson believes this depressing
condition can’t last because it simply won’t work: “When honest people say
what’s true—calmly and without embarrassment—they become powerful. At the same
time, the liars who have been trying to silence them shrink, and they become
weaker. That’s the iron law of the universe—true things prevail.”
One
can’t help but recognize that what makes Tucker Carlson so powerful is his God-given
combination of compelling and disarming qualities of being an extraordinarily
likeable truth teller. So, if that iron law is true, the best for Tucker
Carlson must be yet to come. And like an encore from an exceptional performance,
let’s bring him back—unleashed.
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