Tucker Carlson At Turning Point Action Conference Speech

Tucker Carlson was pretty much pro-Trump, or at least in favor of the Constitution, prior to the last election, when he suddenly turned on Trump just before the election. Quite likely, he was pressured by Fox to do so and was trying to hang onto his Fox gig, but this doesn't excuse it as far as I am concerned.

Because of this, while I might enjoy his show and agree with much of what he says, I'll never trust his word again. That's how Fox has become successful. They spend a lot of time on issues that appeal to constitutionalists, certainly more so than any of the other mainstream media, so they gather an audience of constitutionalists, conservatives, and even libertarians. Yet, they are not a threat to the globalist agenda because, at critical moments, like just before an election, they change direction, and are able to lead just enough of their conservative audience in the wrong direction or reduce enthusiasm for an important goal, not enough to lose their audience (particularly since there are no other noteworthy alternatives) but just enough to ensure a win for the globalist agenda that they are in favor of. If you're opposed to an organization or a cause, you're going to be far more effective in working against it from the inside rather than from the outside, and if you can because a leader in that cause, you can carry the day.

 

What matters is whose words they are reading. If I was going to speak to a class, a conference, or a meeting, I would probably rely on notes, at least to some extent, but these notes were prepared by myself, so they represented my thoughts or the things I wanted to say. At larger conferences, a teleprompter might have come in handy, although they weren't available to me at the time. However, on the couple of occasions that I had to get up and speak during a statewide EMS conference, in front of a crapload of people, I would have gladly used a teleprompter. A teleprompter would allow me to appear to be looking at the audience when, in fact, I was reading from a prepared speech.

On television news shows, the news anchor has no part in preparing the script that he reads on the air, and, in many cases, it has been clear that they were reading it for the first time, as they stumble over a word or phrase. News anchors are talking heads, representing, not themselves, but whoever prepares the stuff they read on the air.

Political talk shows, such as Tucker Carlson's, are generally different. While most of them employ researchers to come up with the information and writers to prepare the things they are going to say, the host probably has varying degrees of control over the content. At the beginning of Tucker Carlson's Fox gig, I think he had a good degree of control over the content. As he became more popular, he probably gained more control over the content. However, when he began threatening the larger agenda (which Fox, the Democrats, and neoconservative Republicans were on board with), Fox began asserting more control over his content. This is probably why we never saw the promised additional video from the January 6 events in Washington, D.C., and, before that, this might be why he turned on Trump before the 2020 election.

We tend to view political media figures, like Tucker Carlson, as being on one side or another. As human beings, they may well favor one side or the other, and I think it's reasonable to assume that people don't assume a role as a conservative talk show host unless they hold some conservative views, and they probably begin their career believing that they are going to be allowed to say the things that are important to them. However, once their show starts bringing in a huge salary, the salary can become more important than the issue, or they might run into contractual issues that they hadn't clearly thought out when they were signing on to a gig with a news station.

When faced with a conflict between their own beliefs and convictions and that of their employer, some people will quit or allow themselves to be fired, particularly when the alternative is to aid the election of someone like Joe Biden. Tucker Carlson didn't do that. Instead, he yielded, and attacked Trump, presumably doing Fox's bidding. As for the January 6 video, he may not have had the power to live up to the promises he made to show the additional videos, but neither did he report that. I don't know for sure what went on between him and Fox, but it seems that, at some point, they had reached a line that Tucker wouldn't cross. I don't know what that line was, but aiding in the election of Joe Biden was a line that I can't forgive.

So, when I say that I don't trust Tucker Carlson, I'm not talking about what political side he is on. Probably, he is what he portrays himself to be, but he has shown that his career means more to him than his word, so I can no longer trust his words. Since his words are all that I know him by, I don't trust him.