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I always knew he was one of us, closeted though he was by Fox News HR, like a world-class racing horse kept in the stable, like Picasso with his fingers taped together.
“If you say, like, ‘What actually happened with building 7? Like that is weird, right? It doesn’t—like, what is that?’… If you were to say something like that on television, they’d flip out. They would flip out. So you’d, like, lose your job over that.
It’s an attack on my country. Can I ask? I don’t really understand. Do buildings actually collapse? No, they—maybe they do. I don’t know. But, like, why can’t I ask questions about that?”
What this proves is not that Carlson is particularly insightful – it doesn’t take an engineering genius to figure out that buildings don’t typically collapse at freefall speed neatly into their own footprints – but it does show that he’s brave, and now he doesn’t give a flying f**k about respectability politics.
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Ben Bartee is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
Featured image: Tucker Carlson speaking with attendees at the 2022 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. (Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0)
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