What Happened To Tucker?
“Something changed with him. I don’t know what changed with him, but what he’s doing now is trying to set Christians against Jews. It’s very clear…. All I know is he’s playing a very dangerous game. He’s doing it deliberately. He knows exactly what he’s doing.”
I recently recorded a lengthy (20) minute segment with Aubrey Shines on Real America’s Voice network.
The topics centered around Israel and the rise of certain influencers – most prominently Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens – who are obsessed with demonizing Israel in different ways. I haven’t talk much on the website about those topics, but I’ve been pretty vocal on X about the malign influence of Tucker (I don’t really comment much on Candace). I guess it’s because he’s turned out not to be the person I thought he was. After leaving Fox News, he has done more to normalize Jew-hatred and bring it into the MAGA movement through the “woke right” than any other major ‘conservative’ personality.
I didn’t expect this. As readers know, I was on Tucker’s show many times when he was on Fox, and I appreciated the attention he brought to our work. When he was fired, I wrote Thank You, Tucker: “You are not alone. We are with you.”
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….
Tucker will come back, bigger and better, I’m convinced of it.
I was wrong. Tucker did come back bigger in many ways, but not better. Something has gone very wrong. Maybe his true self finally was freed of the constraints of corporate news, or maybe something else influenced him. But now he is — in my estimation — a malign force and not just as to Jews and Israel, but also to the Trump agenda which he seems determined to undermine. Yet despite his attempts to destroy MAGA, he seems to retain influence – and his relationship to JD Vance will be become a 2028 campaign issue.
You can view my posts about what has gone wrong here. This is a sample:
You mocked us after 10/7 claiming we were overly emotional and didn't care about the U.S., and you've promoted claims of disloyalty ever since. You kicked us when we were down. You will never be forgiven. Signed, a former admirer and fan. https://t.co/i4F32pDRGD
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) June 13, 2025
Important point, @TuckerCarlson more than any other internet figure helped normalize anti-Jewish conspiracy theorists under the false banner of America First – and in the process sought to undermine @realDonaldTrump foreign policy and the domestic cohesion of the MAGA movement.… https://t.co/J2IM7Y1uaB
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) June 15, 2025
At this point people need to understand that @TuckerCarlson @TCNetwork are political operations not journalism (in any sense). Their entire goal is to pit Christians against Jews to undermine 'right wing' support for Israel and to protect the Muslim oppressors of Christians in… https://t.co/O9qV26TIoJ
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) August 12, 2025
You've been playing a dirty game, trying to leave yourself plausible deniability, it's not working anymore. https://t.co/gcdv1o3dz9
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) August 22, 2025
So when Aubrey invited me on to discuss these topics — which he chose not me — I jumped at the opportunity to get some things off my chest.
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Intro (00:00)
America shines when you are connected to Aubrey. S Shines. Here’s your host, Aubrey S. Shines.
Shines (00:12)
Well, hello and welcome to America Shines. I am your host Aubrey S. Shines.
Antisemitism against our Jewish friends seems to be on the rise from anti-Israel demonstrations on college campuses, that saw the harassment of the Jewish American students, even to just plain ignorance and neatly hostile comments from figures such as people like Candace Owens, and even Tucker Carlson. But why is this vitriol aimed against the nation of Israel?
Well, joining me is Cornell University law professor and Equal Protection Project founder William Jacobson. William, I want to kind of get to the heart of this here and I just want to say this to–not just to you–but to our audience as well. I’m only going to use Candace and Tucker [to] almost to personify what I believe is a broader picture as much as their platforms are large and have a large influence, this is not indicative because I hate either of them. I love everyone. But with that being said, their voices seem to resonate [in] my opinion, both historically, culturally–it’s pure ignorance.
Why, in your opinion, professor, what’s wrong with these guys are they feeding into a frenzy that does not exist? Are they polluted, professor, by something that’s so nefarious that maybe we should all really be paying attention to? Professor William, what’s your response?
WAJ (01:49)
Well, I can’t know what’s in their heads. I can only know what they do and what they say and what they do, and what they do and what they say is really vile.
Candace Owens promotes all sorts of bizarre conspiracy theories about Jews. Tucker Carlson has platformed and promoted and praised a fake historian who says Churchill was the bad person in World War II–not Hitler. [He] just had on a Cornell professor– somebody I know–suggesting that perhaps we should have sided with Hitler, not Stalin.
It’s a very dangerous game they’re playing, and it’s something that their motivations– I don’t really care about, but what they do is they stoke Jew hatred when they do that. They know exactly what they’re doing.
I followed Tucker a lot more carefully than Candace Owens [and] really, the only thing I know about her is clips that get circulated on the internet.
But Tucker, I was on his show when he was at Fox many, many times. He interviewed me for an hour for his long podcast forum program. I spent an hour and a half with him at his studio in Florida. He was very praiseworthy of Israel at the time in our private conversations and on the show.
Something changed with him. I don’t know what changed with him, but what he’s doing now is trying to set Christians against Jews. It’s very clear: he brings in not just these crank theories, Nazi revisionist historical theories, but he also brings on people who blame Jews for the purge of Christians in the Muslim world. It’s completely insane. Israel is the only place in the Middle East where the Christian population is increasing. In all the countries around it they’ve been depopulated of Christians just like they’ve been depopulated of Jews.
So what’s motivating Tucker? I don’t know. All I know is he’s playing a very dangerous game. He’s doing it deliberately. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
Maybe he’s playing to the bigger audience. There are close to 2 billion Muslims in the world; there are 20 million Jews, and bashing Jews, blaming Jews for everything, [and] coming to the defense of the Mullahs in Iran like he did, interviewing the leader of Qatar. All those sort of things play to a much bigger audience.
So I don’t know what’s motivating him, but I don’t like what he’s doing. I’ve spoken out on X about it many times.
And I think it’s really a problem for the Republican Party because he, more than any other person, has normalized this Jew hatred, has normalized the attempt to turn Christians against Jews, [and] has normalized the attempt to bring this stuff into the MAGA movement.
I think it’s time for the Trump administration to disavow him and for JD Vance, who reportedly is friends with him, to disavow him as well, or at least to disavow what he’s doing.
And I think that would be important because he’s trying to destroy the Trump administration. Why he’s doing it? I don’t know, but it’s pretty clear what he’s doing.
Shines (05:01)
You know, professor, I always get a little push back, which I always welcome. Again, I interview individuals that I don’t agree with probably anything they say. I like having that type of dialogue because in my opinion, it allows me to kind of know where they’re coming from, their sources, et cetera. So let me just put just a marvelous fact out there. If you guys are new watching what I do here, you do the research and yeah, you’re gonna find that my mother– yep, my birthing mother–she’s an Ashkenazi Jew. [I’m] very proud of that. But with that being said, again, I’m looking at Tuckers and I’m looking at the Candaces, and again, you hit on a few of these here, this revisionist, historical dynamic that seemed to look through the prism, squinting. I don’t know what exactly they’re squinting at. I think the evidence is overwhelming for so many of these things.
I heard Candice say something, and I want you to at least speak to it. She said that she would never allow her children to fight in a war on behalf of Israel. But I thought about this professor, and I love your take on it: none of us want our kids to go to war. None of us wanna go to war. I get it, but sometimes war [is] a necessary thing. Why, in your opinion, and again, I’m not asking you to get into her head–I think it’s impossible. But I’m speaking of the facts–the things that she often says. Why wouldn’t she want her children to be very proud that they’re standing with the democracy? There’s no other democracies in the Middle East! Why is she taking this position? I don’t get it. I don’t get it, professor. We can’t get into her head–I understand that–but why not stand and fight with individuals that share the values that all of us here in this beautiful country, that we enjoy! [What’s] your opinion on that professor?
WAJ (06:55)
Well, you know, her whole position starts from a false premise, which is that Israel wants her children to fight for them. Israel has not asked an American soldier to fight for Israel. There are countries that do ask that.
There’s South Korea. We have 28,000 troops that serve essentially as human shields for South Korea with a very real threat of a North Korean invasion. I don’t hear Candace Owens or Tucker Carlson, or anybody else saying, “I don’t want to die for South Korea,” “I don’t want my children to fight for South Korea.”
Same as in Europe. We still have troops in Europe defending against a potential, it used to be Soviet, now, Russian threat. I don’t hear anybody saying, I don’t want my children to die for Western Europe. I don’t want to die for Western Europe.
They only do it when they single out Israel–the one country that is not asking Americans to die for it.
What Israel is asking for is for us to sell them weapons for us to us to assist them. But there are no American soldiers fighting in Israel. So why do they bring this up all the time? It’s because it’s an attempt to demonize Jews. It’s an attempt to separate Jews from the rest of the United States. It’s an attempt to blame Jews for something that Jews are not responsible for.
There are many places in the world where American soldiers are fighting for other people. Israel is not one of them. So why are they singling out Israel?
There’s a nefarious intent here, and it’s not an honest intent–it’s not an honest concern. They do it to drive traffic to themselves because there is a large percentage in this world that will buy into that, that feeds that, that will buy subscriptions to their podcasts and subscriptions to their services. That’s how they get funded. It’s not that Qatar is writing them a check. It’s that they get a lot of subscriptions, presumably, or at least potential from the Arab world, from the Muslim world. It’s always been an issue. Now there’s [similar] from the anti-Israel progressive movements as well. So why is she singling out Israel? Israel’s not asking her or her children to fight for them.
Shines (09:07)
No, you know, I’m really sickened over this professor. I have a few more questions for Professor William here in just a moment. I think you’re gonna really enjoy this, and I think this will make you a very informed individual as you stay tuned in. We’ll be right back.
[break]
Shines (09:34)
So besides the social media personalities spreading so much hate against the nation of Israel, it is also legacy media sources who have been, in my opinion, very overt in their bias towards the nation of Israel. Despite this, our Jewish friends remain strong even in the face of such hatred. So, back with me to discuss this as Cornell’s University law professor and Equal Protection Project founder, William Jacobson.
William, I want to ask you a different question here. I set that up, my friend, for a reason. I was watching an interview of Candace Owens. She was debating Rabbi Schmuley talking about Zionism and bringing in Theodore Herzl as its founder. But isn’t that a false premise? Because it assumes that the hopes for Israel started some kind of magical way back in the 19th century, forgetting about all of its historical data–whether you read for a Rabbi, the Tanakh and/or the Old Testament for Christian[s]; it’s same thing here with us. How is it then, that they’re taking a figure like Theodore Herzl put him into the 19th century? And again, Rabbi Schmuley can believe whatever he wants, you can like him [or] hate him. That’s not even my point. But to find a fault with the rabbi, you therefore, discount all of Jewish history. I think it’s a deductive way to express logic. William, am I missing something in my little small paradigm template that I’m sharing with you in the audience?
WAJ (11:21)
One of the biggest lies that has been spread–and it’s spread originally by the Soviets, and it’s spread by the progressive movement in the United States, is that Jews are somehow colonizers of that area. In fact, Jews are the indigenous people.
If you want know who’s the indigenous people and who’s not, look at who supports archeology and who doesn’t. Jews almost obsessively want to dig into the ground to get the actual proof of who lived there, when they lived there, and what the civilizations were. Because every time they do that, they find that Jews have a multi-thousand year history in what is now the land of Israel.
Who is against it? The people who identify as the Palestinians are against it. They will riot. They will do terrorist attacks. They will do anything to stop the archeology. So, you know, Jews are the indigenous people of that region.
The people who now identify as Palestinian, some of them are the descendants of the Arab Muslim conquest in the seventh century. They are the colonizers.
But most of them are migrants in the 18th and 19th and 20th centuries, who moved to that area. And you can see many contemporaneous accounts of people who traveled in that area in the 1800s, talking about how sparsely populated it was; it wasn’t empty, but it was sparsely populated and not developed. You can look at the photos from Jerusalem from that era, and you can see the Jewish presence. There has always been a Jewish majority in Jerusalem.
So Jews are the indigenous people, and that is one of the primary goals of the delegitimization [of] the anti-Israel movement; it is to try to portray the Jewish presence there as somehow created by Europeans in the 1800s.
And that’s simply not true; Jews have been there forever in terms of mankind–[and] have been there basically forever. And so that’s one of the main claims that is perpetrated, and that’s why you see them focusing on Herzl and focusing on other more modern things. But the Jewish presence there, I mean, Jews for, you know, 3000 years have said Next Year in Jerusalem? The Muslim world hasn’t said that. The Arabs haven’t said that–that’s a new phenomenon for them. But that is the land–the homeland of the Jewish people.
The creation of Israel is the single greatest decolonization success in the history of mankind. The indigenous people return to their land. And unfortunately, because of the way the world is, those indigenous people have been portrayed as the colonizers and the colonizers have been portrayed as the indigenous people.
Shines (14:15)
You know, professor, I did a video, I don’t know, eight or nine years ago, whenever it was pretty viral [and] pretty hot. And one of the things that I pointed out–is not because I hate anyone–I’m just looking at it through the lens of historical fact. And I pointed out individuals like the late Yasser Arafat and others who are on record for saying, we concoct it, this concept of “Palestinian,” because we hate Israel. We wanna push them over into the sea. We want to annihilate them. And again, I don’t think that people really understand, professor that the idea [the] of Palestinian period, it’s a myth! It goes back to a time when Jews were being persecuted again by some of the Roman emporers who were kind of mocking them, saying, “we’re going to kind of name you after the Philistines who you allegedly beat.”
And so when I hear this data from, again, I gotta go back to Candace, [and] I gotta go back to Tucker–even when Tucker was interviewing Senator Ted Cruz, it was almost like a “gotcha” moment, because, I don’t know, Cruz couldn’t identify the exact scripture of, the Tanakh where it says, A and B is for supporting of Israel. It was almost like, “aha!” – then therefore all of your message is inaccurate. Yet, professor, I never hear these guys or girls, again, Tucker, Candace—they never talk about the fact that there’s no such thing as Palestinian people. According to their own Tribalists, Yasser Arafat, Mahnoud Abbas. These guys said, “We’re Syrians. We’re Jordanians. And we are there for one purpose,” as didnEgypt. Just come out and say, professor, not even a week ago, we are not gonna bring in the Palestinians. Why? They say it is because their cause will not be able to go forward. Well, what is their cause? They tell you what their cause is: to destroy Israel.
Professor William, how is it? Well, you know that I know this, [and] you know this, any history book can show you this. Why is it then again– I know I’m sounding like I’m being redundant here–but you can’t convince me, professor, that Tucker and Candace don’t have access to what Aubrey Shines or William have access to. Prove me wrong here, my friend.
WAJ (16:33)
Whether they know it or not, I don’t know, but I don’t think they’re interested in that. You don’t have to go very far back in history to understand what’s happened.
The Palestinian National Covenant–the first one in 1964– go look it up, disavowed any claim to what is now referred to as the West Bank and Gaza. Why did it disavow any claim to that for the Palestinian people? Because those areas were occupied by Muslim countries. Jordan occupied what’s called the West Bank, and Egypt occupied Gaza. As long as those were occupied by Muslim nations, the Palestinians disavowed any territorial claim. Yet, once in 1967, just a few years later, Israel captured them in a defensive war – the West Bank was captured when Jordan attacked Israel – and all of a sudden those are the homelands of the Palestinian people.
It’s very well documented that the whole concept of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian National Movement was created by the Soviets. That this was an attempt– a successful attempt by the Soviets– to counter American influence in the region.
And so, you know, there are people who identify as Palestinians. I mean, in 2025, we have to address that reality. But it’s also true that historically it’s a fabrication. They always considered themselves part of the greater Arab world, and never identified the way they do now until those territories came under the control of Jews. They didn’t care about those territories when they were occupied by Jordan and by Egypt. So you don’t have to go very far back in time, but you do need to study a little bit of history. And the Palestinian National Covenant was then changed after 1967 to make it seem like the West Bank and Gaza were the homeland of the Palestinian people, when just a few years before they didn’t make that claim.
So there’s a lot of fabrication. It’s really accelerated with the growth of the internet, because you can have people like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens–each of whom reach many millions of people–and they can put somebody on there and claim that he’s, you know, the most honest living historian, I think was the term Tucker used, who says Churchill was the real culprit in World War II.
And that’s the problem we face, which is that what the war against Israel and the war against Jews in many ways is a war against truth. It’s a war against reality. It’s the ability of people who far outnumbered Jews to weaponize the internet and weaponize social media. And that’s why they do so well on Twitter (now X) and on TikTok and platforms like that, because it’s a numbers game.
There are only 20 million Jews in the whole world. And you cannot compete on a platform where numbers matter when you have that disparity.
And that’s why we greatly appreciatem Jews around the world greatly appreciate, the Christians who stand up for us.
There’s that saying, “first the Saturday people, then the Sunday people,” and all you need to do is listen to what they say at these protests. They want to get rid of Israel, and then they want to come after the United States because it’s a Christian-capitalist nation. And that is the problem here.
The internet has made it that the truth no longer matters–numbers matter. And unfortunately, the people advocating the truth don’t have the numbers.
Shines (20:00)
No, they don’t. Professor William Jacobson, thank you so much for your time. Thank you for your expertise, and more importantly, thank you for your soberness on a topic that really isn’t that difficult. If a person is interested in just the truth.
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Comments
Initially I was favorably impressed with Tucker and Owens,
that ended some time ago, I no longer pay attention to either of them. Jews are a gift to all of humanity. It is a shame that so many people do not understand this.
I, too, was favorably impressed. Then Tucker, Owens, and The Red Headed Libertarian started in with their antisemitism and I dropped them like a bad habit.
Antisemitism is a bright line that you do not cross if you wish to stay in my life.
And I’m Catholic.
What happened to the “big tent”? Remember, all opinions are welcome. Free speech and all of that. Tucker brings up things that aren’t typically brought up – it’s all good. Seems like most here, including Billy want you to only think like he does.
Of course I support Israel and the Jewish people, and no one loves a good argument more than them. I don’t get the hostility.
Reminds me of a joke I cooked up years ago about plurals:
A murder of crows*
A sloth of bears
An exaltation of larks
An argument of Jews
* two crows is attempted murder
Yes, you probably remember the old joke about when there are three Jews having a discussion, there’s four opinions.
“Arguments” are often expressed as complaints or rebellions against God and Moses in the Tora and there are many.
Does free speech include criticism of Carlson and/or his guests? Seems to me you miss the point of the article and the comments. I find it disappointing that Carlson provides a platform for someone who believes Churchill was the bad guy. Not the guy who sent the Roma, the homosexuals, the communists, Catholic priests, and the Jews to the gas chamber. What’s your opinion of Churchill.
Sure criticize all you want but with what’s going on the world LI has attacked Tucker a few times and it seems to be in particular about Israel.
Churchill grew up in a terrible home, his parents wanted nothing to do with him, and his Mother was beyond just cold. He wanted to be famous to show Mommy and Daddy – pretty sad. I’m no Scholar, but thank God he was at the helm during WW2, legendary stuff.
Whoever told you all opinions are welcome? The GOP tent may be big, but it’s not that big. There is no room in it for antisemitism, or for racism of any kind.
Next you’ll be saying there should be room in it for socialism!
Hey, wise up – it’s actually time to wise up. There is no room at the entrance of the bid tent for hate speech or inciting antisemitism.
However, we are aware of what Tucker is doing with his provocative rhetoric and pseudo-cool demeanor both in Maine and on Captiva Island. His social media channels are there to gather clicks. More clicks, more views, more revenue for TC.
Do you think he cares about how his former admirers perceive him? No, he doesn’t believe that for a second, as he has the advantage of a comfortable severance cushion from his $20 million-per-year Fox contract to rely on and utilize.
I was very close to putting him in my list to follow, but hadn’t.
Too bad, he had the ultimate springboard, but has totally nuked his audience.
He’s in Alex Jones territory of lunes IMO.
My late father made a FORTUNE facilitating Jewish special interests over those of the American people. The stories he told about the crooked tax dodges and law-circumventing still haunt me. I won’t help you wring out your crying towel, professor.
Did you seriously just shit where you eat?
Yup, I think you did…..
Because your father made his money doing despicable things, you despise all Jewish people?
You might want to examine your Jew hatred; you cannot claim American Jews are not American because your dad was an immoral person.
He worked for the entire Jew establishment, Do you just pretend to be stupid? He had to buy dinner jackets to attend the events at the highest levels.
There is no such thing as a “Jew establishment”. You have to buy dinner jackets to attend many formal events, but if there were such a thing as a “Jew establishment” it’s unlikely that it would hold black tie events. More like caftans.
What Jewish establishment? Is there a Union of Jewish Tailors (like my paternal grandfather) or a Union of Jewish Merchants (like my maternal grandfather)? Is it the League of First Granddaughters of Immigrants (like me)?
We have no international bankers in our lineage. We have no grifters…just lots of hardworking people who didn’t give up on believing that they could have it better by doing what’s right.
You’re such an unbelievable imbecile, bigot and cad. It’s embarrassing.
You’ve demonstrated it, numerous times on this site, with your glaringly stupid posts.
You need to get psychiatric help; you’re a very stupid and disturbed person, writing the idiocy that you do.
I too would like to know the details behind this comment.
When large amounts of cash aggregate, and sometimes thru ill and unethical processes, integrity will go by the wayside. I don’t think the kosher variety are immune to this, rather it’s a measure of the souls in charge.
I didn’t have a single ounce of emotion other than “hmm that effers have certainly earned that prize” when I heard the execs at my day job made “Luigi’s list.” None of them are Jewish, just white collar scumbags.
Shouldn’t you be haunted by your dad instead?
No, it makes me think that a certain Austrian was correct.
Oh, so you’re a socialist. Or are you talking about Mises?
It was partly a flippant question but partly not. Why so much vitriol against a group of people you didn’t even deal with? Your father did. Why do you care as much as Hitler? JFC dude…
That’s something I’d be ashamed to even think privately and here you are, posting it for the world to see.
What we have here is a corollary to Godwin’s Law. One has clearly lost an online argument when they actually embrace Hitler. And I would add both the argument and one’s integrity.
And just like that your entire credibility is gone.
And there it is. That didn’t take long. Howie is a big fan of murdering police states and dictators, at least if they hate Jews.
Professor Jacobson, you are way too kind to Tucker Qatarlson. I always suspected that at heart he was a Pat Buchanan paleocon antisemite but he was smart enough to realize that Fox had a very pro Israel audience so he kept his mouth conspicuously shut on that topic. Once he got fired (and justifiably so) from Fox he was able to embrace his inner Jew hatred
“Dodging” and “circumventing” are just fancy words for “complying with”. No one has any duty to pay a penny more tax than he actually owes, and everyone has the absolute right so to arrange his affairs as to attract a minimum of tax. If the law says don’t use the letter L, and you carefully compose a piece using every letter except L, you have successfully circumvented the law; that is a good thing.
If your father was a crook, that’s on him.
Christians and atheists would never engage in crooked tax dodges and law-circumventing. What should haunt, but won’t, is the too easy bigotry.
Never? Really?
I’m fairly sure that was sarcasm he was using. Poe’s Law strikes again.
You late father specialized in fraud involving an exclusive Jewish clientele and you use this as a basis for condemnation of an entire religion? Have you always been this narrow minded? Even for you, displaying such naked hatred of Jews in this forum is quite something.
Point of accuracy: Jews aren’t a religion. We’re a nation that has a religion, but (IMO unfortunately) most of us don’t subscribe to that religion.
Membership in the Jewish nation works the same way as membership in most nations; it depends on who you are, not on what you believe.
Atheist, Catholic, and Buddhist Jews are just as much Jews as those of us who believe in Judaism, just as US citizens who believe in communism or radical Islamism are still US citizens. They may not be “Jewish Jews”, but Jews they are.
Meanwhile gentiles who believe in Judaism are still gentiles, just as Frenchmen who believe passionately in the US constitution are still not US citizens.
Not true. Freemasons rule the world of high finance. It’s a benign form of anti semitism that we let people think the Jews do.
its a fair assessment for you to make since thats what you saw/learned
but as you get older and hope/try to gain wisdom….THATS THE REAL “FORTUNE”
so now that you are older….have you not made any efforts to say
yeah,,there are some people who are bad and jewish but the culture is an above board educated group and what the professor says is for the betterment of freedoms for all…not just a particular group
How’s your trust fund doing?
I think it is this. I am realistic and cynical enough to believe that there are any number of commentators who – if moved to the podcast format or whatever one calls it – would let their masks slip and show that they are nothing but latter-day Patrick Buchanans.
It’s passing strange. One group refuses to assimilate and underperforms, another even more utterly refuses to assimilate and over- preforms. You vocally detest the former and reflexively defend the latter equally.
I don’t see a problem with this. People who under-perform and latch themselves onto the welfare teat add no value to society. People who over-perform contribute positively to society whether they assimilate or not. (If for no other reason than setting a good example.)
Hit the downvote by accident.
Sorry
And, in your case someone saw your avatar and down-ticked you thinking you were Milhouse.
Are you from the under performing group?
Did I just read you correctly in that you are now adding your Jew hatred to another group presumably blacks? Is there any race you are not biased against except your own? Wow.
Tucker is no Patrick Buchanan
You’re right, Tucker does not have that worn-bearing sound to his voice.
He does have that maniacal giggle though…
They both suck!
Tucker is such a disappointment
Or they really have no moral compass, and will do whatever it takes to make money.
Grizzly, I am willing to be educated but I have known Pat Buchanan for decades and have read a lot of what he has written. I have never seen or read anything like what you imply. Please be specific.
His default position has often been blame the Jews.
That is not specific.
“Amen corner” is what got Bill Buckley to ban him from National Review.
Rush exposed Tucker many years ago. I never liked him. I never watched him.
Professor, why don’t you challenge Tucker to host Prof. Eugene Kontorovich (G. Mason University Law School) to discuss the very matters you brought up with Mr. Shines. As you may be aware, Prof. Kontorovich is extremely knowledgeable, highly articulate, and capable to transmitting clear information about complex subjects.
For anyone not familiar with Prof. Kontorovich, look up any one of a number of YouTube videos in which he is featured/lecturing.
Tucker was always as he is now, he just hid it when he was on network tv. Almost hid it. Toward the end it was there, but very low key Jew bashing.
It’s unfortunate that he kind of lured you in, but he is a snake. Maybe the Jewish lasers will make him lose his mind and he’ll implode.
There were always disturbing signs about Carlson, but we ignored them because we didn’t want them to be true, so we made excuses. Once he was free to let his mask slip we can look back and see what was always there.
Think of Patrick Buchanan, who while he was still with the GOP took care to hide his antisemitism and maintain plausible deniability. Once he left the GOP he stopped bothering to hide it.
Owens, I think, is a different story. I think she’s undergone a major personality change, in all sorts of ways. She’s become a lunatic, not just about Jews. Something is very wrong with her.
I don’t think Owens, whom I have never liked, has had any personality change. She is and always has been a crass opportunist. She says what makes her money and her audience has grown since she climbed on the bash Israel train. It has made her a good living so that is what she says. I doubt she believes any of it.
Milhouse, see my reply to Grizzly above. As I said, I am willing to be educated.
Look up “Amen corner”.
Concerning Owens, Robt. Barnes believes she just realized that it could be lucrative to take certain positions, so she did so for the money. He believes she’s just grifting. diver64 makes a similar comment here, calling her a “crass opportunist.”
I am glad the question about if Tucker is good for the Republican Party is finally over.
Tackle him and his influence now or he is the Republican Al Sharpton who will be flipping the party.
I agree with the general sentiment here, but Tucker is an utterly fascinating case.
When he first popped up long ago, I thought he was a rising star. I wasn’t a big follower, I just heard him here and there. As the years went by, he never gained the traction to move to that next level. I could never figure that out. I always thought – is something going on with this guy that isn’t public?
Then he got his Fox show and absolutely blew up, which is what I thought he’d do long before Fox.
He has a really dark side, did people know this all along?
Vance would be wise to step away before Carlson goes further down the dark side. There should be place for bigots in the tent.
I think you mean there should be no place.
An edit button would be nice…
We’ll sooner get razzleberry dressing.
They are cut from the CIA cloth, not to mention that Tucker’s kid works for Vance (not his real name, either, just part of the Appalachian facade), so don’t hold your breath.
Vance is already assured the election, an seemingly amazing feat when an untrained eye examines his political journey, having just won his first election fewer than three years ago and already positioned as the heir apparent.
That’s what I love about the comment section here—littered with a bunch of myopic people who don’t fully understand how the game is played.
The number one problem for Jews, Israel AND the USA is the liberal Jews who led the way academically and elsewhere with the Leftist agenda, and still do. Some are self hating Jews, most just refuse to see their ingrained liberal bent is against their and their country’s interest, and many whose faith is not truly Judaism, but Marxism. They led, professors & students, the silencing of conservative voices on campus up to 10/7 and in some cases, lead or join the antisemitic riots now.
The ones in Israel get a dose of reality every day from the fact they are at war with the Palestinians, but the ones in the USA are somewhat insulated from that reality, so they can be more liberal.
Read the Times of Israel. A left-leaning publication that shows that having rockets rain down on Leftists does nothing to convince them that there must be something wrong with their worldview, so they continue to support actions that will surely result in a new round of fighting in/with Gaza in the future.
It’s not the pedophiles? Asking for Ms. Bondi.
I didn’t watch Tucker’s podcasts, but I watched YouTube clips now and then. I stopped watching a few weeks ago when he and Charlie Kirk were on a tirade about how much they absolutely hate boomers. I’m guessing they both alienated a large part of their audience after that.
Speaking AS a boomer, I’ve noticed that much for which we are blamed was brought to us by politicians elected by The Greatest Generation.
You spelled Barack Obama wrong.
We were huge supporters of Tucker, who when at Fox did much including the calling out of Congressional Republicans who would say one thing and do something else. But things began to change after he went independent. Before the Israeli fixation began to crop up, he gave stage to some very peculiar persons, who he typically praised as courageous and correct. They seemed to be fringe. The more that happened, the less I tuned into his podcasts-interviews, which were also overly long.
There was a time when I thought he was going to be the US’s top news commentator and an emerging political leader. I no longer believe that to be the case.
This just shows what happens when someone no longer has an editor. You see their true self.
And yes, it does come down to which side you are on – the Palestinians or the Jews. They are in a long tribal war, as both claim the same piece of land in its entirety. Neither is pure or righteous, and both sides do horrible things. But there are only 3 choices here – you must support one or the other, or despise them both. Those are the only options. I happen to think supporting the Jews is much better for the USA (and Western Civilization generally) than the alternatives, mainly because the Jews are high achievers who contribute a lot to science and technology, and their culture is far more compatible with ours than their rivals, but lots of other people disagree.
An argument can be made that we still owe Israel bigly for preventing Soviet hegemony over the entire Middle East.
We owe Israel bigly for destroying the nuclear weapons of terrorist arab nations.
Iraq, Syria, Iran.
Can you cite some horrible things Israel has done? Other than forcibly expelling 10,000 Jewish residents of the Gaza strip on no other basis than that they were Jewish, and would therefore be massacred if they remained after the IDF left?
Tucker used to be a neocon. He’s since repented, but has over-corrected. I don’t mind his interview style of letting people speak their viewpoints, but now he seems to seek out weird ones. I unsubscribed from his network.
Mr. Carlson has become enamored of the idolatry lavished upon him by a cadre of ideological misfits, coupled with the contrarian thrills of bashing a conservative establishment that failed to properly revere him. Such puffed up personalities do tend to degenerate into madness sooner or later. Adolf lasted longer than most, but was propped up by pharmaceuticals. That might well be the case here soon, and that could also explain the increasing irrationality of someone who used to make some sense.
It is very likely that he started to think too much of himself and then took it out on those who did not think highly enough of him. I recall a short clip of Bill Murray talking about the early days and how Chevy Chase just let his ego take over and run wild. Bill said that if you don’t reign it in quickly, it can really destroy a person. Tucker’s ego doesn’t seem to be his amigo.
When Elon Musk granted Tucker Carlson his own personal channel on X following Tucker’s sudden dismissal from Fox News, I initially believed it was a win-win-win situation for conservatives, Tucker, and X. However, the carriage and opportunity that brought Tucker to his free speech platform on X have quickly turned the carriage into a pumpkin and the opportunity into a disappointment.
Tucker has fallen in love with the patronage showered on him by Qatar, or so it would seem.
It’s sad because ever since he was there earlier this spring, he’s taken a definite anti-Israel tack.
I believe there’s a level of defensiveness on the part of some who are always searching for antisemitism. Given the long history of Jews being cast as scapegoats, the pogroms, the abuses, the exile and the holocaust it seems to me entirely fair that a sense of hyper vigilance to antisemitism is employed.
I do believe there’s a difference between criticism of the Israeli govt, US foreign policy towards Israel, lobbying groups such as AIPAC and antisemitism. The former involve a Nation while the latter is about individuals and would still exist in the absence of Israel.
I like TC long form interview process but his refusal to push back on certain points and unsubstantiated claims/allegations is becoming more and more troubling to me. Letting a guest speak and address the question fully is one thing but when a guest starts spouting off as ‘facts’ things that are either disputed at best or known to be false without interruption for clarification ….I just don’t see the value in doing that unless the goal is to give a platform to loons and let the public audience do the heavy lift of refutation at second hand. Giving access to his large platform to oddballs, loons and weirdos to spout nonsense doesn’t seem like a strategy for success. Especially when many recent guests veer off into antisemitism and/or antisemitic troupes which indicates the ship is being deliberately steered in that direction.
Agree. It is one thing to disagree with Israel. It is another to take the side of global terrorism, global jihad, radical islam.
Will antisemitism result in Europe importing millions of muslims on welfare to overthrow the Western government? Will England, Germany, and France become muslim nations with nuclear weapons?
What force wants this invasion? Why do the globalists oppose the nationalist parties in Europe?
Tucker a bit brighter than c o but both are ultimately paid lefty establishment clickbait whores. And should be ignored with extreme prejudice.
When TC turned into crap I ended my siubscription.
Have you read Tucker Carlson’s Wikipedia page? Adult behavioral patterns are usually established in early childhood and continue to develop during adolescence. He serves as a prime example of privilege and elitism. Take a look at the “Early Life and Education” section in the provided link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson