Posted on 09/06/2024 9:05:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Senator JD Vance, the running mate of former President Donald J. Trump, has declined to denounce the right-wing talk-show host Tucker Carlson for praising and airing the views of a Holocaust revisionist who falsely claimed that the Nazis’ destruction of European Jewry was not an intentional act of premeditated genocide.
Mr. Vance is scheduled to appear onstage Sept. 21 with Mr. Carlson in Hershey, Pa. Mr. Carlson no stranger to controversy, but his recent interview with Darryl Cooper, whom he described as “the best and most honest popular historian in the United States,” has faced particularly fierce blowback.
The Nazis’ “final solution” for the Jewish population of Europe was meticulously planned, documented and pursued even after the tide of World War II had turned and Germany’s defeat was assured. Yet Mr. Cooper, in an interview with Mr. Carlson shared on the social media site X earlier this week, falsely claimed the Holocaust was an accident of history, perpetrated by a German military overwhelmed with prisoners of war.
After the German army swept through Eastern Europe, he said, “they went in with no plan for that and they just threw these people into camps. And millions of people ended up dead there.”
Mr. Cooper went on to say that Winston Churchill, the British prime minister, “was the chief villain of the Second World War” for declaring war on Germany after the Nazis invaded Poland.
In a statement to The Jewish Insider, a Vance campaign spokesman wrote, “Senator Vance doesn’t believe in guilt-by-association cancel culture but he obviously does not share the views of the guest interviewed by Tucker Carlson. There are no stronger supporters of our allies in Israel or the Jewish community in America than Senator Vance and President Trump.”
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It is a SIN to interview anyone anymore. UNLESS you’re leftist MSM, then you can interview the devil if you want - no repercussions.
It is a SIN to interview anyone anymore. UNLESS you’re leftist MSM, then you can interview the devil if you want - no repercussions.
Tucker can interview whomever he wants. Shirer interviewed high Nazis throughout the 1930s. I wonder if the Times was against that?
Have YOU watched the interview? In its entirity?
Do you believe the NY Time’s characterization of it? Take it at face value?
If so, why?
The fact that you accept anything the corporate gaslight press says pegs you as the druggie.
Smart move.
The smart money is on the NY Times lying about the event.
Great summary.
+1
The NYT published garbage from its correspondent Walter Duranty, denying the Holodomor, Stalin’s terror-famine in Ukraine.
Free speech requires allowing loathesome scum to express their wrong-headed ideas. No one is obligated to give them a forum. Carlson should have known what his guest was about, and presented the facts and arguments that would help ignorant auditors figure out the truth. (I haven’t seen the program — maybe he did.)
The Nazis went into WWII with every intention of depopulating Eastern Europe so it could provide Lebensraum for Aryans to fill. They also made no secret of their rabid anti-Semitism and desire to “resolve” what they called the Jewish Question. The methods and goals of the slaughter were sometimes ad hoc, evolved, and were shaped by military situations caused by the Nazi regime’s own decisions. It is preposterous to pretend that means it was all some sort of accident.
“ If we detest those he interviews, we have the option to not watch.”
Carlson has the option not to give legitimacy and publicity to holocaust denier trash.
Those kind of people are dirtbags.
NO I DIDN’T
I’m sure that is part of the reason however I think there is a bigger picture that you are missing.
He produced a lengthy history podcast called “Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem” which details the history of Zionism from the 1890 to 1947 and the establishment of Israel.
Unfortunately for him, he presented a very even handed story depicting the horrors done to the Jews at the hands of the Europeans and Russians prompting their desire for Zionism and the horrors done to the Palestinians at the hands of the Jews.
Like his interpretation of Churchill, this broke a very strict taboo of how we are allowed to view the formation of Israel.
This fact along with the fact that he is friends with many anti-Zionists has upset a group of influential and powerful media people.
“Carlson’s just doing his job, interviewing. If we detest those he interviews, we have the option to not watch.”
No, was he NOT just interviewing. He welcomed his guest while praising him to the moon. And he sat in awe as his guest spouted absurd historical revisionism.
An interview doesn’t mean that the interviewer must sit like a mute lump while the interviewee delivers bold-faced lies.
Have you listened to the interview? I have. It was disgusting.
Cooper has the mentality of a 17 year old. But he’s our 17 year old. He needs to listen more and talk less
Notice how only Republicans are called on to “denounce” or “disavow” someone?
I think everybody should get to talk and we should get to decide who and what to believe.
Which part specifically did you find disgusting?
If you want to bring race into it, I think you have the wrong target.
Why would anyone believe the NYT's spin on it?
I’m talking about Zionists and the country of Israel. Not all Jews are Zionists.
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