A Predictable Canadian Response To Carlson: Tucker Springer

I'm backed up so I'll try to be brief, lucid and concise. 

I generally avoid commenting on everything I hear during the day because, well, it's impossible to respond to everything. The effort needed to think and write on a daily basis when you have a day job is a challenge. I sometimes get into - in the past anyway - a zone and type away. But lately, the issues at hand are so complex and demand so much thought, it's next to impossible to keep up.

So I have to pick and choose my battles. Here's one. A discussion on Matt Gurney's radio on Tucker Carlson caught my ears.

I don't watch or listen to Fox (or any network) except for clips and whatnot. I don't mind Carlson. He's just another voice among many.

No worse or better.

But he did two things that drew the ire of the establishment. He went against Ukraine and vaccines. Already treading water there, his comment about the Tennessee shooter - which was heavily misrepresented if you ask me. 

His positions are hardly extremist but in today's charged-up hyper-partisan loony bin, he is. 

You dare question any of these and you're a deranged far-right extremist. Whatever that means.

Few Canadians actually watch Fox. They barely know the personalities or that the network offers a large roster of personalities with broad perspectives. Canadians rely on second-hand information on this point. Canadians mostly watch left-wing 'news' networks like CNN and MSNBC. So, it's no surprise they'd react as they did with Tucker. 

It's all par for the course and nothing was offered differently by Gurney and his guest. They essentially put Tucker on par with Springer and took a passive-aggressive jab at Rogan expecting Tucker to go on his show to tell his side. And what's wrong with that? It sounded like they weren't fans of Rogan. I don't know why. Rogan has one of the best long-interview shows out there. He interviews everyone from all walks of life. As opposed to radio shows with the same roster of 'voices' giving the impression of broad social consensus. Rogan obliterates this lie and they don't seem to grasp it.

Gurney knows better which is why I was disappointed. But then again, he'll bring on Bogoch but not someone with a countering view. He'll interview Timothy Frye on Ukraine but not other Russian history experts like Mearsheimer. Always one side of the coin. I don't know if this is done by design but it's tedious. 

You'll hear a whole lot about how divisive we've become (without any mention of vaccine mandates of course). But it's always one way. Fox is the sole villain in this act.  Not MSMBC, CNN or WaPo who all perpetuated bigger lies Fox could ever pull off from the Russia collusion lie to Covington to Hamilton 68. And the list is long. One just has to listen to Shellenberger and Taibbi's work on the Twitter Files - another seismic event in media mostly ignored by the mainstream media complex. 

Canadian shows go strong on the 'lies' bit about people like Carlson and Trump. But less on Maddow and Lemmon. If at all. The double standard is plain and obvious to see. 

And then there's Justin Trudeau and his endless stream of vile divisive bile and disinformation.

It does feel Tucker was simply lashing out at all the bullshit. And we're just not ready to hear it. 

It appears to me, Tucker's crime was to counter the narrative. That's it.

I invite you all to see for yourself. Go watch Tucker including his comment about the Tennessee shooter. Then match it to what they told you.

It should be fairly obvious at that point they only tell you what they think you should know. They do it because they know you won't go seek the information firsthand yourself. It's important because they're banking on you not doing so. It forms the basis of their 'disinformation is threatening us all' lie. Just like how 'pandemics threaten us all' and 'climate change threatens us all'. See the pattern?

The best way to avoid this is to be informed. They're doing their best to keep you from doing that. One way is to dehumanize, downplay, attack - whatever - certain ideas and personalities. 'Don't go there lest you be a domestic terrorist. Stay in this lane we created for you. Why would you go in that lane and threaten the rest of us?'

It's all so, well, a dark age.

Here's Tucker giving a speech. What a monster.