Posted on 07/17/2021 9:47:38 AM PDT by lasereye
On Monday, June 28th, Fox host Tucker Carlson dropped a bomb mid-show, announcing he’d been approached by a “whistleblower” who told him he was being spied on by the NSA.
“The National Security Agency is monitoring our electronic communications,” he said, “and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air.”
The reaction was swift, mocking, and ferocious. “Carlson is sounding more and more like InfoWars host and notorious conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones,” chirped CNN media analyst Brian Stelter. Vox ripped Carlson as a “serial fabulist” whose claims were “evidence-free.” The Washington Post quipped that “in a testament to just how far the credibility of Tucker Carlson Tonight has cratered,” even groups like Pen America and the Reporters Committee on the Freedom of the Press were no-commenting the story, while CNN learned from its always-reliable “people familiar with the matter” that even Carlson’s bosses at Fox didn’t believe him.
None of this was surprising. A lot of media people despise Carlson. He may be Exhibit A in the n+2 epithet phenomenon that became standard math in the Trump era, i.e. if you thought he was an “asshole” in 2015 you jumped after Charlottesville straight past racist to white supremacist, and stayed there. He’s spoken of in newsrooms in hushed tones, like a mythical monster. The paranoid rumor that he’s running for president (he’s not) comes almost entirely from a handful of editors and producers who’ve convinced themselves it’s true, half out of anxiety and half subconscious desperation to find a click-generating replacement for Donald Trump.
The NSA story took a turn on the morning of July 7th, when Carlson went on Maria Bartiromo’s program. He said that it would shortly come out that the NSA “leaked the contents of my email to journalists”
(Excerpt) Read more at taibbi.substack.com ...
Tucker is an American hero. OF COURSE the Communists are spying on him.
Just think, if Trump gets back in, how in the hell is he going to clean up the NSA. And what department or government agency isn’t political? What do you do if you were Trump?
Tucker Crushes It!
They are spying on all of us, just waiting for the time when they deem someone a ‘threat’ and ready to destroy them.
Taibbi is no right-winger. I miss Nat Hentoff, though.
Spying and smearing is un-American? That should go without saying.
Spying and smearing is indeed un-American. So is telling people to call CPS on parents making health care decisions for their own children.
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He definitely needs to do something because they’re just going to conspire against him like they have done. If JFK got elected the president of Russia, he’s not going to be there long. Same with Trump, regardless if the people voted him in. So yeah, fire the lot and people already to go when he’s in.... and even that is an incredible task.
Absolutely PERFECT !!
What do you do if you were Trump?“
He’s gotta get his people into the top spots at DOJ, DNI, FBI, NSA, etc… and those bureaucrats gotta be as ruthless as the rats!
<>What do you do if you were Trump?<>
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