Reading Time: 13 minutes Tucker Carlson has spent many an episode of his shows shouting about the importance of freedom of speech and decrying the left for cancel culture—yet he is happy to fawn over an autocrat who has shut down free press and free speech in a one-man cancel campaign. It is a hypocrisy best explained by greed and lust for power.
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Remember Tara Reade? Biden sexual abuse accuser defects to Russia
Reading Time: 7 minutes Back in 2020, news was rife with a sexual misconduct allegation involving Joe Biden and a former employee named Tara Reade. Even then, the timing of the allegation was seen to be politically motivated given that Joe Biden was running for President later that year, and he appeared to have a much cleaner record of […]
Posted inCulture
Is our well-meaning obsession with purifying terminology getting out of hand?
Reading Time: 5 minutes I hate to admit it—really, really hate to—but I think Florida’s migrant-abusing Gov. Ron DeSantis and hard-right Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson may have a point: the ever-shifting obsession with purifying terminology is getting out of hand in America. Which, condoning Ron’s and Tuck’s political incorrectness in this one respect, I must insist is not […]
Posted inWar and Peace
Identity politics and the real enemy of the state?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The use of the term “enemy of the state” is powerful and its rhetorical use can have consequences. One is left wondering whether the likes of Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene and extreme Fox mouthpiece Tucker Carlson are in the Kremlin’s pocket. Roll up, roll up, for the latest act of the Pro-Putin Propaganda Circus […]