Mark Judge descried which way the ill wind was blowing many moons ago.<\/p>\n
\nHow My 1997 Conversation with Tucker Carlson Predicted the Future<\/strong><\/a>
In March 1997, I had a conversation with Tucker Carlson that would predict the future. Specifically it predicted liberalism\u2019s current empire of lies.<\/p>\nCarlson has recently expressed amazement at how bad the public lies have gotten. Last week on The Glenn Beck Show<\/em>, Carlson revealed footage from the Capitol January 6 that undercut our Principalities and Powers\u2019 official narrative. Especially its claims about Jacob Chansley (the wacky guy in the Viking helmet) who was visibly nonviolent, but nonetheless got four years in prison<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Carlson sounded amazed and a bit dejected. His father had worked in government. Carlson grew up in Washington. He was used to political battles, but not such outright lying. \u201cI know deception when I see it,\u201d he says, \u201cit\u2019s demonstrable and its proven. They\u2019re all<\/em> lying.\u201d It turns out, Tucker concluded. \u201cLiz Cheney is affirmatively a liar.\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought back to a conversation I had with Carlson in 1997 that foresaw this moment. That year I attended CPAC, the annual conservative conference held at the Sheraton in Washington, D.C. I was writing a story for the New York Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Ahh, the New York Press<\/em><\/a>\u2014a fine old NYC weekly I used to peruse each and every week, founded by Russ Smith as a conservative competitor for the Village Voice<\/em>, which had by then lapsed into complete batshit lunacy. Good times, good times. I don\u2019t really remember him, but it figures Judge woulda worked there. Onwards.<\/p>\n
\nAfter the conference I called Tucker Carlson, who was then a writer for the Weekly Standard. I was friendly with Carlson, wanted to get his take on conservatism, and where it was moving in the Clinton years.<\/p>\n
Our conversation had barely started when he steered it to CPAC. \u201dHey, were you at CPAC?\u201d he asked me. I said I had been. \u201cDid you see any drugs or heavy drinking and sexual assaults?\u201d<\/p>\n
I had no idea what he was talking about. I hadn\u2019t seen anything but conservatives giving speeches and hawking their books. Tucker pointed me to an article in The New Republic<\/em>. In it, a journalist described how a group of four young male conservatives conspired to sexually assault a woman. It deserves quoting at length, as twenty years later, similar lies would be resurrected to try and destroy me. It also foreshadows the contagion of lies that has infected our elites, from government to media.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u201cInfected\u201d\u2014now THAT\u2019S putting it mildly, in my estimation. Read on for deets of the infuriating and manifestly, laughably false TNR<\/em> smear job, indeed a grim harbinger of the shape of things to come, which triggered Tucker’s and Judge\u2019s foray into the mystic realm of pure precognition. Unsurprisingly, it was penned by one Stephen Glass, who would go on to humiliating, career-destroying ignominy as a chronic fabulist<\/a>\u2014which, again, is putting it mildly, and is far more kind than the miserable cur deserves.<\/p>\n