Analysis: In a two-minute video released Wednesday night on Twitter, Tucker Carlson doesn’t directly address the circumstances behind his exit on Monday.
Of course, youdebate these topics, and the media regularly does. But Carlson at least seems to point to the reasons for his departure as being connected to how he covered these things, which fits with reporting from The Washington Post, the New York Times and others.
That’s a depressing realization, but it’s not permanent. Our current orthodoxies won’t last. They’re brain-dead. Nobody actually believes them. Hardly anyone’s life is improved by them. This moment is too inherently ridiculous to continue. And so it won’t. The people in charge know this; that’s why they’re hysterical and aggressive. They’re afraid. They’ve given up persuasion. They’re resorting to force.
If we’re reading between the lines, Carlson suggests that Fox is part of the uniparty, and that his firing amounts to “resorting to force.” And to the extent it’s a statement of purpose moving forward, it would seem to be a warning shot for a network that the Dominion documents showed wasBut it won’t work. When honest people say what’s true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful. At the same time, the liars who’ve been trying to silence them shrink, and they become weaker.
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