Posted: Jun 22, 2019 1:07 pm
Tucker Carlson is not much liked at Ratskep...
He's right-wing.
His approach to 'debating' is simplistic and disingenuous (he alternates between ridiculing his opponents and interrupting them so that they can't get a word in edgewise).
And he makes some truly daft comments, this being but one example. (I watched the full video and, no, he wasn't joking about the metric system "conspiracy").
But here he hits the nail on the head, taking on the warmonger neocons of Washington...
* 2:45: War with Iran would cost America dearly.
* 4:25: Clip of Carlson vs John Bolton in an earlier interview. The arrogance of Bolton is astonishing. Says Carlson retrospectively: "Normal people don't talk like that. There's nothing normal about John Bolton".
* 6:00: Clip showing John Bolton promising a cheering crowd that the US will overthrow the Iranian government.
* 6:37: Carlson says, "John Bolton is a kind of bureaucratic tapeworm. Try as you might, you can't expel him. He seems to live forever in the bowels of the federal agencies, periodically reemerging to cause pain and suffering... but, critically, somehow never suffering himself. His life really is Washington in a nutshell. Blunder into obvious catastrophes again and again, refuse to admit blame, and then demand more of the same. That's the John Bolton life cycle. War may be a disaster for America, but for John Bolton and his fellow neocons it's always good business".
Edit: fixed one of the links
He's right-wing.
His approach to 'debating' is simplistic and disingenuous (he alternates between ridiculing his opponents and interrupting them so that they can't get a word in edgewise).
And he makes some truly daft comments, this being but one example. (I watched the full video and, no, he wasn't joking about the metric system "conspiracy").
But here he hits the nail on the head, taking on the warmonger neocons of Washington...
* 2:45: War with Iran would cost America dearly.
* 4:25: Clip of Carlson vs John Bolton in an earlier interview. The arrogance of Bolton is astonishing. Says Carlson retrospectively: "Normal people don't talk like that. There's nothing normal about John Bolton".
* 6:00: Clip showing John Bolton promising a cheering crowd that the US will overthrow the Iranian government.
* 6:37: Carlson says, "John Bolton is a kind of bureaucratic tapeworm. Try as you might, you can't expel him. He seems to live forever in the bowels of the federal agencies, periodically reemerging to cause pain and suffering... but, critically, somehow never suffering himself. His life really is Washington in a nutshell. Blunder into obvious catastrophes again and again, refuse to admit blame, and then demand more of the same. That's the John Bolton life cycle. War may be a disaster for America, but for John Bolton and his fellow neocons it's always good business".
Edit: fixed one of the links