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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Scott Powell is senior fellow at Discovery Institute. His recent book, Rediscovering America, was #1 new release in history for eight straight weeks at Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1637581599). Reach him at scottp@discovery.org

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