{"id":26422,"date":"2025-11-20T20:31:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/?p=26422"},"modified":"2025-11-20T21:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:35:17","slug":"tucker-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/tucker-what-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker: what happened?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the biggest disappointments for me over the past 3-4 years or so has been Tucker Carlson\u2019s slow, sad slide from being one of the most effective, entertaining, and influential commentators on Our Side down to being just another gibbering, flakey-fringey weirdo who just doesn\u2019t know when to shut up, but badly needs to learn. His baffling decision to sign on with the stupid, self-negating Kike-O-Phobic legions and start in. on peddling that rancid swill pains me no end. It would seem that PJM\u2019s Scott Pinsker, whom I have excerpted\/linked here many times before, shares my dismay (NOTE: No link; I didn\u2019t include it when I began working on this post weeks ago and can\u2019t find the original article now).<\/p>\n

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Two plotlines that keep popping up nowadays are centered on two specific themes: \u201cWatch out for the Jews!\u201d and \u201cEverybody\u2019s a Nazi but my guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the former, the Democratic Party had a near-total monopoly of the Hamas-loving, Jew-hating antisemites. Not every Democrat was an antisemite, but if you were marching against Israel, cosplaying in a keffiyeh, and harassing Jewish students, I\u2019ll bet your bottom shekel that you didn\u2019t vote Republican in the last election.<\/p>\n

Until Oct. 7, 2023, hating Israel and linking \u201cthose Jews\u201d to kooky conspiracies was strictly a leftwing phenomenon. Conservatives didn\u2019t traffic in that trope.<\/p>\n

Not so anymore.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m not just talking about fringe voices \u2014 like Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, and Marjorie Taylor Greene. I\u2019m talking about one of the biggest, most influential, most widely-followed conservatives in the country: Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s done more to mainstream antisemitism in the Republican Party than anyone alive.<\/em><\/p>\n

Carlson operates under the fa\u00e7ade of \u201cjust asking questions,\u201d which sounds innocuous enough: How could you possibly fault a guy for being so gosh-darn intellectually curious, hmm? Unless\u2026 (gasp) you\u2019re HIDING something dastardly!<\/em><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s NOT intellectual curiosity. He\u2019s NOT an investigative reporter, doggedly following the facts wherever they lead him, damning the consequences along the way.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s a professional propagandist who profits from peddling lies, conspiracies, and bigotry<\/em>. He\u2019s not \u201cjust asking questions\u201d because he\u2019s curious; he\u2019s doing it because it\u2019s profitable.<\/p>\n

This is how he makes money.<\/em><\/p>\n

I also don\u2019t think it\u2019s coincidental that Carlson\u2019s antisemitic, anti-Israel \u201cpolitical conversion\u201d came at the same time Qatar and Saudi Arabia launched a multibillion-dollar PR campaign to influence American opinion. Seems a bit too on-the-nose for that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Don’t know if I can honestly say I’m with our boy Scott one hundred percent on this one. Specifically, I cant imagine that Tucker started spewing this bilious twaddle exclusively, nor even mainly, for the money. I very much doubt that; even with Qatar, the UAE, and the House of Saud kicking in, I simply do not believe that there’s very much money in hawking up Crackpot Right calumnies against the Tribe\u00a9 and all its nefarious machinations.<\/p>\n

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The above is the first part of a MUCH longer post I\u2019ve had sitting in the \u201cLocal Drafts\u201d hopper waiting for me to find a place for it out front here\u2026which I just did, on account of another solid \u201cWhither Tucker?<\/a>\u201d piece over at PJM, this one exploring the similarities and (especially) the glaring differences between Tucker and Mark Levin. To wit:<\/p>\n

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For years, Mark Levin and Tucker Carlson have been two of the most prominent conservative voices in the public arena. Currently, they are in a feud with each other. Levin has accused Carlson of being an antisemite and \u201cfake Maga,\u201d and Carlson has called Levin \u201cevil.\u201d Both men have been trusted for so many years, and it is important for the conservative movement in America that we take an honest look at each man, their feud, and the truth.<\/p>\n

The styles of these two men are diametrically opposed, and this undoubtedly affects the feelings of people towards each man. Mark Levin is passionate and blunt; like a targeted bunker-busting bomb, he honestly and clearly makes his points and arguments. Carlson, on the other hand, is the exact opposite. More like a stealth fighter, Tucker Carlson is smooth and polished, saying more through implications and inferences than actually making clear statements. He often phrases his opinions as \u201cWhy can\u2019t we just ask\u2026,\u201d as opposed to Levin, who clearly and cogently expresses his opinions not as questions but as facts.<\/p>\n

The men are very different both as human beings and as commentators. Levin was heavily involved in actual politics prior to becoming a commentator, having worked in President Ronald Reagan’s administration as well as serving as chief of staff for Attorney General Edwin Meese. He is the former president of the Landmark Legal Foundation, an author of seven bestselling books, and, since 2015, editor-in-chief of the Conservative Review. From the time that Donald Trump got the presidential nomination in 2016, Levin has been an ardent and consistent Trump supporter. In April 2025, President Trump appointed Levin to become a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. Throughout his career, his opinions have been consistent. He’s condemned \u201cRepublicans in Name Only,\u201d supported Israel as the first line of defense in the Islamic war against Western Civilization, and exposed the deep state coalition between Democrats and the media.<\/p>\n

Tucker Carlson is almost the exact opposite type of human being in every way, having spent his entire career in media, first as a writer before moving into other media. His shows on X and the Tucker Carlson Network have made him one of the largest media personalities in the world, with almost four times as many followers on X as Levin. He has changed his public opinions on many issues multiple times. Formerly an economic libertarian, he now supports protectionism. Although originally supportive of the Iraq war, in 2004 he renounced his initial support for the war and now opposes U.S. foreign interventions. From 2000-2005 he was the \u201cconservative\u201d voice on CNN, NPR, and MSNBC. He was on Fox New until he was fired in 2023; he then started his own media company. Whereas Levin has always been a Republican since his graduation from college at the age of 19, Carlson was registered as a Democrat from 2006 to 2020, and even claimed to have voted for Kanye West over Trump in the 2020 election. Tucker was a supporter of John McCain; claims to be against abortion (more on that in a moment); and, at different times, has supported authoritarian regimes like Putin in Russia and Assad in Syria. Carlson has waffled over the years between supporting Trump and castigating him (in a 2023 court filing, Carlson\u2019s text messages were exposed, in which he wrote that he hated Trump \u201cpassionately\u201d); and most recently has come into conflict with the president regarding Israel, foreign policy, and a number of other issues.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Worth reading in full, I’d say, unless you care even less about Tucker Carlson’s bizarre collapse into the Jew-fetishism of the Crackpot Right than I do, which quite frankly would be very<\/em> hard to do without spraining something. That said, i somehow managed to read the whole thing nevertheless and enjoyed it, so perhaps you might also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the biggest disappointments for me over the past 3-4 years or so has been Tucker Carlson\u2019s slow, sad slide from being one of the most effective, entertaining, and influential commentators on Our Side down to being just another gibbering, flakey-fringey weirdo who just…<\/p>\n

Would you like to know more? Tucker: what happened?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,17,213,61,99,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-american","category-believe-it-or-else","category-big-tsimmis","category-dem-pesky-joooooooz","category-hmmm","category-straight-from-the-bin","category-wtf","wpcat-5-id","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-17-id","wpcat-213-id","wpcat-61-id","wpcat-99-id","wpcat-126-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26422"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26435,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26422\/revisions\/26435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}