Sherdog warroom tucker carlson1/14/2024 ![]() ![]() this happened long BEFORE the search warrant was signed. There was obstruction by donald trump refusing to give NARA back their property and then lying about it. totally different then the type of obstruction charges that they are investigating donald trump for If anybody would have obstructed the search and trying to hinder them from conducting their lawful search, then they would have been hauled off to jail on obstruction charges. nobody is even trying to argue that! the FBI executed their search warrant, found what they were looking for, removed it from the premesis and then got out of there. there was no obstruction made during the search. probably the most low iq member on the forum. But once the establishment went all-in on Covid restrictions, he swung all the way the other way, elevating not just criticism of shutdowns and vaccine mandates but the full anti-vaccine case. His Covid coverage was a notable example: At a time when the public health and political establishments weren’t taking the coronavirus as seriously as internet alarmists, Carlson was willing to issue dire warnings, to break with the partisan optimism of the other Fox hosts, even to make a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago to force Donald Trump out of his denial. The Kennedy assassination and the C.I.A.? He had questions. ![]() It didn’t have to be political or contemporary, either. They were all part of the same hermeneutic: For any idea with an establishment imprimatur, absolute suspicion for any outsider or skeptic, sympathy and trust. These forays were not in tension with his willingness to entertain the far right’s “Great Replacement” paranoia about immigration or fixate on a possible F.B.I. You could assemble a similar array in which he sounded left-wing notes on economics. Bush-era antiwar activist given a prime-time show on Fox by some mischievous genie. conflict with Iran in 20 - that made him seem like a George W. You could assemble a set of Carlson clips - encompassing everything from his frequent interviews with Glenn Greenwald to his successful opposition to a U.S. Which is why his show was the farthest right on cable news but also sometimes the farthest left. This is a transformation of mentality as much as substance: The newer (and especially, younger) right is defined by a politics of suspicion - a deep distrust of all institutions a comfort with outsider forms of knowledge and conspiratorial theories a hostility toward official mouthpieces and corporate-governmental alliances a skepticism about American empire and a pessimism about the American future - that used to be much more the province of the left. But if you look at cultural and intellectual life rather than policy and political coalitions, you can see a realignment that’s more coherent and complete. ![]()
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