(MENAFN- Asia Times) It's not often I have the occasion to quote myself while boasting about a spot-on prediction, but here is what yours truly posted on facebook this week, a day ahead of the report that Rupert Murdoch's Fox News had“parted company” with toxic talk-show host Tucker Carlson.
(I spelled his surname differently because I like to call him Cucker Tarlson, in recognition of what's happened to the verb“cuck” thanks to racists like him .)
Right so far. Now that one shoe has dropped , let's start getting used to thinking about the barely thinkable: A Tarlson presidential run – even a Tarlson presidency.
First, a brief note for readers outside the United States who haven't paid attention: Tarlson is a Trump pal, an America-first isolationist and white supremacist who has praised the British Raj in India as a golden age and who with constant repetition persuaded his millions of adoring viewers to change their term for Covid-19 to“the Chinese virus.”
Just so you don't think mistakenly that he hates foreigners uniformly, let's note that he's a big fan of Vladimir Putin and an apologist for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
But keep reading for more on that. Let's talk first about how – very quickly after the Fox firing news broke – political prognosticators more astute than I began claiming to hear the sound of that second shoe dropping.
Rick Wilson, a gadfly and political strategist who is one of the godfathers of the Never Trump movement and remains firmly in the former Republican camp, may have been first off the blocks. Wilson tweeted:
Never-Trumper Rick Wilson and a picture of his orange nemesis. Photo: Salon
Which, Wilson continued,
Others besides Wilson are more inclined to see the former Fox host as Trump's vice presidential running mate. For that he'd have to beat out Georgia's equally crazy but dumber Representative Marginal Trailer-Greede. (OK, that also is my idiosyncratic spelling. She claims that her real name is Marjorie Taylor Greene.)
Personally I doubt Cucker would go for the number two job. He's too arrogant, wants the band to play“Heil to the Chief” just for him. But regardless of the office, if he jumps to politics we're going to have to worry even more about his policies. There's still time to do that thoroughly and meticulously before US election day 2024, so let's just conclude this early warning missive by looking very briefly at his role as a Putin apologist.
Here's what he said in february 2022 about the overwhelming American revulsion at Putin's invasion of Ukraine:
Cartoon: Twitter / ACYN
Tarlson explained:
Well, no, they didn't want that. CNN's Erin Burnett spoke for many of us when she retorted:“Maybe they just wanted no war, right? Just respect the border.” Burnett was moved to comment thanks to another bizarre twist in this story: Sergey Lavrov, Russia's top foreign-policy official, spoke to the united nations and said , through an interpreter:
Just in case he wants to stay in the business of doing his big-time lying as a media personality rather than as a politician (and can get around any non-compete agreement with Fox), Cuck has what looks like a job offer from his Russian friends:
“Hey @TuckerCarlson, you can always question more with @RT,” Russia Today tweeted.
Japan-based journalist Bradley Martin – who grew up, fascinated by politics, in northwest Georgia – considered returning home to run against incumbent Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene in the 2022 election. Instead he has spent the winter in Louisiana. Follow him on Twitter @bradleykmartin.
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