I had the good fortune to be educated at a private boys' school. And in my school, we had a boy like Tucker Carlson. Whenever in later years I heard someone describe their own experiences there was always at least one in their school too. They looked a little too good of a type; they knew how to behave towards mothers and schoolmasters. But they were at the same time sanctimonious, hypocritical, and rather nasty, particularly with less advantaged, and younger boys. Tucker Carlson is so extreme he is self-parody of the type.
He is a puppet for the most successful disinformation and propaganda operation in the world. That's really the point here. Whatever the megaphone looks like I do not see deliberate disinformation as any different than crying fire in a crowded theater to use the cliché. This is an issue we need to talk about because this trend has changed American society. It is an explicit manifestation of willful ignorance. It takes a certain kind of person to do this.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson took aim at Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday night, unleashing a furious tirade against the top infectious disease expert, whom he called the “chief buffoon.”
Piggybacking on Sen. Rand Paul’s criticism of Fauci at Tuesday’s Senate hearing on the coronavirus pandemic, Carlson said the Republican lawmaker was right to complain about experts’ predictions about the virus.
“A lot of wrong predictions have come out of Washington on the question of the coronavirus, and quite a few of them came directly from Dr. Fauci himself. We are not singling him out or attacking him,” the Fox News star declared before devoting the next few minutes to directly attacking the White House coronavirus task force member.
Carlson proceeded to point out some of the positions Fauci has shifted on throughout the crisis, such as on face masks. After playing a clip of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease director saying in March that “there’s no reason for people to be walking around in a mask” at that time, Carlson appeared to liken Fauci to a false messiah.
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