The Rise and Fall of the Tucker Carlson Clown Show
June of 2024:
Carlson’s interview with Putin was widely quoted but also widely fact-checked. So, I would like to fact-check the Sachs interview as well.
Sachs is well-known in the field of economics, considered one of the authors of the so-called “shock therapy” used on the economies of post-communist Poland and Russia. It is a shame to see this once-respected Columbia University professor stoop to the level of freelance Kremlin propagandist, promoting multiple pieces of Russian disinformation.
Sachs’ propaganda speech justifying Russia’s aggression in Ukraine is disguised among supposed “historical facts,” many of which don’t hold up under scrutiny.
Jeffrey Sachs: “It all started 170 years ago, when Britain wanted to surround the Russian Empire* and deprive it of its status as a great power in the Black Sea region and prevent it from having access to the Black Sea, and this policy was continued by Brzezinski.”
Fact-check: The Crimean War was started by the Russian Empire because of its adventurous dream of capturing the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. To this end, Russia even at one point sought to enter into an alliance with Great Britain. But when the Russian Empire invaded Moldova, it started a war against the Ottoman Empire and, by extension, its allies France and Britain.
Side Anecdote for fun:
Retired Russian FSO General Boris Ratnikov, for example, once claimed in an interview (and I am not making this up) to have used special technology in 1999 to “connect to the subconscious of Secretary of State Madeline Albright” remotely from Siberia. Albright, through her subconscious, is supposed to have said “that neither the Far East nor Siberia belongs to Russia.”
ROFLMAO.
December of 2024:
US media personality Tucker Carlson is currently providing the “leading platform” for Jew-hatred, according to Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs and combating antisemitism, Amichai Chikli.
“Congratulations to Tucker Carlson for becoming the leading platform for fringe Holocaust deniers, conspiracy theorists, and blood libel enthusiasts who oppose the State of Israel,” Chikli posted on social media on Tuesday.
Chikli’s comment came one day after Carlson, a right-wing commentator and former Fox News host, hosted economist Jeffrey Sachs for a lengthy interview in which both men gave credence to the antisemitic idea that Israel “controls” US foreign policy, among other controversial comments.
plus,
On Monday, the head of a US-based Syrian advocacy organization said that a mass grave outside of Damascus contained the bodies of at least 100,000 people killed by Assad’s former government.
Assad fled the capital of Damascus earlier this month as a coalition of rebel groups stormed the capital, ending his family’s five-decade rule.
During Monday’s interview on Carlson’s eponymous show on social media, Sachs claimed that Israel provokes wars against any neighboring government that supports the Palestinian people, suggesting that Jerusalem has attempted to thwart pro-Palestinian governments because they hinder the Jewish state’s alleged goal of territorial expansion.
*Any student of world history with mild knowledge of the era would know this is utterly false.
I envision a government shutdown would look something like this.
they don’t have anything to offer anyway.
Traces of Texas reader Lois Gentry graciously shared this wonderful photo of a lovely young Texas woman sweeping up outside a Gulf station in Mineral Wells, 1981. Seems like I remember there were 10 billion crickets around the gas station lights during the summer of that year, so maybe she’s sweeping up dead ones. I think one time, in my sweeping ignorance, I called the style of blouse that she’s wearing a halter top, only to be corrected by about 128 of y’all that this is NOT a halter top, but I can’t remember what it is that y’all said… Read more »
OK this is just too cool! I sent daughter and DIL Melania’s book. Daughter got hers yesterday and DIL was to get hers today so I sat down at my computer 20 minutes ago to see if she had received it yet. When I went to Amazon tracking it showed a map of their neighborhood with a little sleigh about two streets over from their house and it said they were 6 stops from delivery. I checked in every few minutes and watched the little sleigh go up and down the street until it was delivered. Pretty neat huh?
Watching old Dragnet. Sgt. Friday is confronting a possible burglar:
Friday: “Where were you all last night and this morning?”
Perp: “I was with friends. All night.”
Friday: “No you weren’t. A lady identified you.”
Perp: “I got lots of friends.”
Friday: “I know your friends. I’ll take the lady.”
One of the best lines that deadpan Friday ever delivered.
I hear there’s some discussion about making Elon the Speaker of the House.
Now, THAT would be amusing! Very popcorn worthy.
So, I’m supposed to be mad at Chip Roy because he doesn’t want to raise the Debt Ceiling and Trump does?
I’ve been saying that Chip Roy is all hat and no cattle.
Watched the final Yellowstone just now.
All good.
It was time.
Way to go, Beth and Kayce.
Every “expert” for decades has repeated the line about the evil European colonizers bringing death and pandemic diseases to North American Indian tribes. This story rebuts that myth scientific evidence and says it was the other way around, at least concerning syphylis. When a mysterious flesh-rotting disease broke out in Europe in 1495, two years after Christopher Columbus returned from the Americas, suspicion fell on his crew.Syphilis was soon rampant across the Continent and beyond, but its origins continued to be fiercely debated, with some historians claiming it was actually home-grown.Now, scientists have carried out genetic testing on the bones of infected people… Read more »
With the death of the CR, lefties began ordering more underwear to replace the wadded and brown-streaked current panties and briefs being used: As the WaPo reported, Democrats are outraged. They were so close. On CNN last night, mole-like former Representative Adam Kinzinger sneeringly called Elon “President Musk” and called DJT “Vice-President Trump.” Nobody laughed:CLIP: CNN interviews primaried Representative about Elon’s free speech (1:10).…It wasn’t supposed to end this way. The Bureaucracy obviously thought it could pass this bill. A lot of work went into drafting and backroom-negotiating that 1,600-page monster. Don’t conclude this was anything new, Congress has been playing budgetary brinksmanship games for years now. … But Twitter… Read more »
And Mr. C. takes on the crapulous circus: CLIP: Fox News reports that Elon Musk shut down Franken-Resolution (2:26). “Democrats,” the Post began, “were outraged at the collapse of their deal.” (Well. Outrage is their defining characteristic, besides arrogance.) Outraged House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) darkly warned, “an agreement is an agreement.” He vowed that “House Republicans will now own any harm that is visited upon the American people.”Their deal? You can probably already sense, if Democrats are this flummoxed, the outcome was something really good, and it was.I wasn’t exaggerating when I described yesterday’s climactic battle as perhaps the most politically… Read more »
And some excellent WLR news: Second, on Tuesday the UK Daily Mail reported a great story headlined, “Australian Doctor who was banned from practising after warning against Covid vaccines gets his licence back.” I can’t believe any doctor lost privileges or licenses by giving their patients what they considered legitimate care. There are plenty of doctors who do crap care on a daily basis, and nothing happens to the them. Self-represented (!) Queensland Doctor William Bay took on his governing medical board’s legal team in a multi-year battle that just ended. On Monday, the province’s Supreme Court reinstated Dr. Bay’s… Read more »
This or a MLM program: No, the new method for getting rich is: form an NGO aimed at a progressive policy goal and get yourself a generous government contract. Indeed, New York’s local The City ran an explosive story a couple months back headlined, “Homeless Shelter Execs Make Huge Salaries and Hire Family Members, DOI Report Finds.” Think in the half-mil to one mil salary range. And family, too. Taxpayer millions. And the government also pays outside vendors to do the real work. Those subcontractors do the dirty work while the NGO owners just get their hands dirty because money is possibly… Read more »
From the C&C: Good morning, C&C, it’s NOT Friday! It’s Thursday! And NOW we are officially under a week from Christmas. So get crackin’. In today’s roundup: here we go again – one of the nation’s biggest states declares bird flu emergency and corporate fearmongering begins; latest get-rich-quick plan appears in New York Department of Investigations homeless services report; good news updates in the culture wars; and dramatic six-hour battle over horrible federal funding bill ends in triumph, changing the game forever. I have to remind myself daily which day it is. With all the recent changes to my schedule,… Read more »
Back from the horizontal positioning on the sofa: Re Musk, X, and the crapulous bill: It was mentioned on the radio that Musk has an AI program that can read a bill, analyze it, and tell you what’s in it in English instead of legalese. In minutes. Then it can be put on X for everyone to see. I watched Carl Higbie last night – love that alpha male! – and he said he read the first 350 pages before he got so disgusted that he had to stop. He found one interesting item before he quit: the Congress had… Read more »
If you are using two-step verification online for banking or financial business, you should stop using texting now. With the tech world still reeling from the impact of the FBI and CISA revelations around Salt Typhoon’s infiltration of U.S. networks and the warning to stop sending texts, CISA, the U.S. federal cyber defense agency, has now followed up with deeper guidance for U.S. officials that—as ever with CISA—should be adopted more widely.Unsurprisingly, the advice leads with a mandate to “use only end-to-end encrypted communications… such as Signal or similar apps.” Users are urged to use apps that are “compatible with both iPhone and… Read more »
Read this if you are a TP-Link customer.
Finally in front of the pooter. I realized that even though I’m hurting and standing is dang near impossible for more than a few minutes, I need to get my cheese chips into Elsa if I’m going to have them ready as Christmas gifts before Santa makes his rounds. Fortunately, I purchased a chair for Hubby for use in the kitchen some time ago, so after some hang time I managed to get 8 pounds of cheese sliced into chips, seasoned, and onto my FD trays. Those attachments for my Kitchen Aid mixer sure come in handy! White sharp cheddar… Read more »
Neil Cavuto is retiring from Fox after today. He declined to renew his contract. I won’t miss him, but I didn’t know Cavuto has been fighting MS for years.
Years ago we had T-Mobile, in its early days, and coverage sucked, out here anyway. I’m sure it’s much better now, but is it? Anyone have any insights?
I had to laugh. I heard on the radio that Jerry Jones was awarded this year’s Bum Steer Award from Texas Monthly.
The Columbus High School Cardinals football team has reached the 3A-Div1 championship game for the first time in school history.
The 14-1 Cardinals are facing defending champion Malakoff Tigers (15-0) at 7pm tonight at Jerry’s place in Arlington.
How about a nice 62 Ford Falcon, 4 door, 2 tone.... Clean lines.
I’m fairly certain everyone has at least heard of this WSJ report but I’m posting this anyway. The White House tried to hide from the public Joe Biden‘s rapidly diminishing mental condition for his entire presidency, according to a bombshell report. Biden’s team hired a vocal coach, put other officials into roles usually occupied by the president, scrapped meetings on his ‘bad days,’ and avoided calls with other politicians, according to an explosive report in The Wall Street Journal.It exposed an extensive, deliberate and years-long cover-up that also saw the administration gaslighting those who dared to claim Biden’s abilities had deteriorated since he was Barack Obama‘s… Read more »
I’m not tired of winning yet.
It is highly doubtful that any attorney in Georgia will pick up the case, so it looks like Trump is done with the phony ‘election interference’ case in Georgia for good.
I hope you were taking notes son.
If y’all were wondering Minot ND is having a heat wave, +10 degrees up there this morning up from -2 yesterday.
I like my fellow Americans of Irish descent, but their ancestors’ nation can go to hell, for all I care. The histrionic drama queen performances of Irish politicians and usual elitists loudmouths is patently ridiculous. Seth Mandel at Commentary: Do you know when Israel’s embassy in Ireland was established? 1996.So please, Irish President Michael Higgins and Prime Minister Simon Harris, spare us the feigned offense and the community-theater histrionics and the supposed shock in reaction to Israel’s announcement that it would close its embassy in Dublin. Ireland’s history with Israel is uniquely shameful among supposed Western democracies. Whether that justifies the closing of… Read more »
This was Glenn Reynolds comment in response this morning to another lawprof regarding the new Trump regime. Two things: First, I’m so old I can remember when we were told that “Deep State” was a term used only by crazed conspiracy theorists. Now it’s used casually by members of the establishment. Second, everything we’ve learned since 2016 indicates that the “ordinary” was deeply corrupt and anti-democratic. And then it got worse in response to Trump. Personally, I think they’ve been deathly afraid that the American people would learn what’s been done to them. Well, let them live out their fears… Read more »
Well we’re in for cooler weather starting tonight. It’ll be right at freezing Sunday morning but I can’t complain with several days in the high 70’s, we even made 80 yesterday and warming back up to the 60’s by Christmas day.
Naturally we got exactly ZERO rain out of the front that passed through but that was expected. There was a pretty good light show way to the south last night.
Mornin’ Gang
More Crenshaw
Would love to be a fly on the wall.
I still prefer “Eyepatch McCain”.
https://x.com/sagelistener/status/1869705307812966586?s=46&t=nx7YtcQe9k8qGDx31L8lMQ
Regardless of your opinion of Elon Musk, one has to give him huge props for buying Twitter. I don’t believe this would have happened without millions of people raising hell about this Mike Johnson surrender. I also have to say there were some loud angry members of Congress who stirred up public outrage by sounding like they wanted to start their own insurrection.
Richard Fernandez, one of the smartest guys around…
It is confirmed that the crapulous spending package got kilt last night. We need to be vigilant that the slippery slimeballs don’t try to sneak an equally bad bill in at the last minute.
Sachs is a lying, butt-faced, anti-Semitic, slimeball who will not have a good time in the afterlife when he faces The Reckoning.