I didn’t get a chance to fill in any details for my post, Thank You, Tucker, that Kemberlee posted for me yesterday while I was traveling.
The post was one tweet:
I’ll add some detail to that.
Put aside the many times Tucker had me on his show to highlight the work we were doing at Legal Insurrection (including here, here, here, here, here, here. here, here, and here).
He did something few other hosts do – he gave voice to the voiceless, to people suffering under the weight of local left-wing pressure, including several parents and teachers we brought forward on the Legal Insurrection website. While appearing on any of the major Fox News shows was good exposure, appearing on Tucker was a launching pad to national stardom.
Nicole Solas
Ramona Bessinger
Laurie Barrett
There was another person we have covered who was scheduled to be on last night. But of course that’s not happening.
Our pipeline to Tucker’s show raised the suspicions of one particular radio show host in Rhode Island, but there was no magic and nothing nefarious about it. We brought good people with good stories to his show’s attention, and they recognized a good story when they saw it.
While Tucker was not alone in giving voices to people under siege, he was unique in his consistent willingness to do so, and the enthusiasm with which he did so.
We don’t know the details yet as to what led up to his departure, or the terms, and there’s a lot of sleazey and planted speculation. I think Tucker was getting too close to some hard and uncomfortable truths that shall not be spoken, about cultural issues and the creeping totalitarianism in this country. I think we one day will know what went down, but today is not that day.
The situation Tucker finds himself in reminds me of a part of my conversation with him in my hour-long Tucker Carlson Today interview regarding the attacks on me at Cornell Law School in June 2020. Some of Tucker’s questions and comments are eerie in hindsight (underscoring added):
Tucker: Why do you, it’s just meta question, super quick. I would say, my guess is maybe one in a thousand people can handle that. It’s one thing to have people criticize you, but to have people on your hall, your friends, your boss, all denounce you in public. Only a tiny percentage of people can continue working under those circumstances. Why you, what is it about [you], like what was your childhood like? … What is it about your makeup that allowed you to keep going in the face of that?WAJ: I don’t know. To tell you the truth, I think that part of it was, oddly enough, my upbringing studying in the Soviet Union where we were surveilled, where we were in a repressive environment. And I think you have to be able to create some sort of mental shield around yourself. So I don’t know what it was….So, I don’t know what got me through it. I can tell you that when you’re going through it, it’s an out-of-body experience. And obviously the support of my wife and friends was extremely important. And the fact that I had a website where I was getting an outpouring of support from readers. I got hundreds and hundreds of emails from around the country supporting me. So that kind of gave me strength, and emails from students assuring me that people don’t, not everybody agrees with what’s being done to me.Tucker: Did you ever think it’s one thing to have your political views or your journalism, because it is journalism whether you admit it or not, but maybe it’s just not worth it? Did you ever think that?WAJ: Uh, no, actually, I didn’t <laugh>. I mean it’s just, I don’t know what it is. I guess it was just my personality not to give in and give up. But it was tough.Tucker: Everybody gives in, everybody. Even people I know who I thought so much of and still like, but don’t think much of anymore, they all bend the knee. Have you noticed this?WAJ: Yes. I, I have. And it’s tough. I did stand strong. I did beat the boycott [of my course by 15 student groups]. My class signup was over-subscribed, like it always is. So the boycott of my course failed. And I think I emerged from this whole thing stronger with my head high. Had I apologized. Yes, I agree….I am an anomaly at Cornell. I am an anomaly at Cornell Law School and I wear that badge proudly because I’m ready to defend my viewpoints.Tucker: Wow. Really a pretty extraordinary story.
I didn’t leave anything on the table at that interview, almost everything I would have wanted to discuss I discussed.
The one regret is that I didn’t mention to Tucker the email I received in June 2020 from a combat pilot instructor, “The spines of thousands are being strengthened by hearing of your fight” – A Supporter’s Message:
Combat Theology – a Combat Pilot’s perspective during trying times
Don’t cave to them.You are not alone.You can make a profound difference.Sir,When you are in Combat; far from the target; there is rarely a shot fired against you.When you are (Air Force term ) “on the Run In, to the OA” (Objective Area) that is when you know you are in the right area… SAM shots, AAA gunfire…everything the Adversary has, comes at you. Not solely to destroy, but often, simply attempt to distract you off target.Distraction can lead to mission failure, as much as Destruction.But, you are a warrior, you have trained your whole life for this moment, and you are on the Run In.You are on the Run In, and you have Top Cover. People, Prayers, Angels, the Earth itself is a witness to your Courage. You will not die 1000 deaths; you will taste of death but once. The Top Cover overhead are like F15 Strike Eagles. You can’t see them, can’t hear them at 45,000ft; but the Eagles are there, and they will “Cry ‘Havok’ and loose the Dogs of War;” not now, but at the right time. To defeat the adversary when their tools, at their disposal, are the most effective. Not on your desires, not on your timing; but on moment when they know their weapons are the most effective; to protect you. ‘For the weapons of our warfare are divinely powered, for the destruction of fortresses.’The spines of thousands are being strengthened, by hearing of your fight.You are NOT ALONE.Before tonight, I never heard of you. If you had equivocated prior to this point, you would have still been destroyed by the people who want you to pander to them; and you would have dissolved into obscurity.But, you fought for righteousness. The rule of law, the Constitution and Bill of Rights. For the Ethos of Dr Martin L King, … you fight for Content of Character.You stood, seemingly alone, in the breach.But you are not alone. We are with you.I am with you – Fangs Out and Full Speed, I am coming; and with you even now.Bow, kneel, grovel… you will dissolve into obscurity.Make them seemingly kill you; and the eggs and smears and brutality they throw at you, will be a mantle of Honor you wear into eternity.Use their leaders and their words to defeat them. Fight like Sun Tzu, fight with asymmetric warfare; expose the rot they expound, with Frédéric Bastiat – the Law…. show their decayed ideas and words are NOT NEW: decaying and failing for the last 200 years; and being renamed, rehashed and repacked: Orwellian; Gestapo; Tribal and Animal Farm-brutal.You stand, seemingly alone, in the breach. But you are not alone.I am with you – Fangs Out and Full Speed. Dropping my external tanks; so I can gain extra speed, extra maneuverability; unguarding the Weapons Release switches. I am coming, a Warrior Poet, with an army of angels and prayers. Reaching Mach1, and the turbine blades in my engines glow cherry red, while the Tach gauge red-lines at 103%I am coming. I am the prayers of strangers. I am the Almighty; who sees all and judges the Heart.I put Daniel’s heart in the scales, to see if he would kneel to images of gold; but he chose lions; and therefore I was with him. I put David’s heart in the scales; to see if he would kneel to a giant. Three small stones. Smooth and round. Symmetric, and elegant in their simplicity. The sword was too heavy, the armor too clumsy. David fought his fight, he won because he fought on his terms and didn’t fight the way the others wanted him to: friends and foe alike. I was with him. Three smooth stones. He didn’t kneel; so I was with him. I Am with you.…and I’m with you as well.Fangs Out and Full Speed,LtCol X.Combat Tactics Instructor Pilot; and your friend.
Tucker will come back, bigger and better, I’m convinced of it.
“I will exalt You, O Lord, for You have raised me up, and You have not allowed my enemies to rejoice over me.” (Psalm 30)
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