Tucker Carlson: the elite pedigree of a brilliant cosplaying populist.

Who let you out of the Twink asylum?

This also plays a large part of his silence regarding the 2020 election

You should have actually watched his show a time or two before totally missing the mark with your cut-and-paste exercise.

I’m old enough to remember when Tucker was on Crossfire and The Capitol Gang on CNN. He was a bowtie wearing, blue blazer wearing, khaki wearing young Republican. He thought the United States government and the GOP were the good guys. He was idealistic, intelligent, charismatic, and ambitious. He was also wet behind the ears and devoid of any real, substantive cynicism.

While I don’t buy the populist, anti abuse of US government hegemony power trend that Tucker has veered into the last few years as wholly sincere, I do believe there are bits and pieces of legitimate evolvement in his political views. The tactics and actions of the IC towards Trump and specifically the election of 2020 were quite eye opening and difficult to ignore for a lot of people. It’s not like the IC hasn’t done these types of things before, it’s just that for some it may have been the first time in their lives that their side (or the side they opposed) was the target (or beneficiary) of such acts.

I can’t really be unforgiving of people who were neocons that are no longer neocons. Now people who are still unabashed neocons...they are another story.

Why are Y'all so scare of exposing corruption. How do you go through life believing the state controlled local and national news media?

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Tucker Carlson: the elite pedigree of a brilliant cosplaying populist.
The LARPing around with neocons over Iraq doesn't bother me, but the time in Nicaragua is sus, and his role in taking down Gary Webb reeks of CIA. I don't feel too bad now after reading this.
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Hundreds of people have written about the Fox News star, but none have unearthed this connection. Carlson has rarely talked publicly about his time in Nicaragua, and never at any length. However, in a 2017 podcast interview with The Jamie Weinstein Show, he was asked about it directly. “I don’t think many people know that you were actually a freedom-fighter who traveled to Central America to fight with the Contras. Could you fill [our listeners] in on that story?” Weinstein asks. “No,” he replied, laughing, before coyly stating that his supposedly “liberal” father “let” him go because he and Patel “wanted to go see the war in Nicaragua.” “All kinds of hilarity ensued,” he added, laughing nervously before changing the subject.

Both Carlson and Patel would return in 1990 at the time of the presidential election, which pitted Sandinista Daniel Ortega against U.S.-backed, Contra-supporting candidate Violeta Chamorro. Thanks to years of U.S.-sponsored terror and a huge political war chest, Chamorro was able to win, becoming the sixth person in her family to hold the office. According to a 1990 edition of his college’s newsletter, The Trinity Tripod, Carlson and Patel attended “many [Chamorro] rallies.” Indeed, in the National Review podcast, Carlson said that he was literally “standing next to her when she won.”

The younger Carlson presents his time in Nicaragua as purely innocent. “We did not have a place to stay or any set plans. It was very spontaneous. We are both extremely political and we felt that getting to know the country and some of its citizens would give us a better perspective on the situation,” the Tripod quotes him as saying. Speaking to sources who were in Nicaragua at the time, MintPress understands that it was not uncommon for Americans of both socialist and conservative political dispositions to travel there as a kind of political gap year.

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Defending the CIA – firing back at Gary Webb

The CIA funded its dirty war against Nicaragua by helping the Contras to flood America’s Black urban centers with crack cocaine. That is the argument put forward by investigative journalist Gary Webb in his “dark alliance” series for The San Jose Mercury News and later in his book of the same name. The articles were widely republished and caused a storm of indignation across the country, with massive public anger being directed towards the agency.

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Fortunately, the CIA could count on the loyalty of many friendly journalists, among them Tucker Carlson, who by 1996 was working for neocon publication The Weekly Standard. In an article titled “A Disgraceful Newspaper Exposé and Its Fans,” Carlson launched a wall-to-wall defense of the organization he had recently applied to join.

Framing it all as a ludicrous accusation, he claimed that there was “no evidence” for Webb’s claims, and presented the CIA as a noble institution under unfair scrutiny and constant attack from forces inside the U.S. that wanted to bring it down. Far from engaging in the drug trade, he claimed that there is “ample evidence” that CIA officials had “moved to remove drug traffickers” from the “Nicaraguan resistance” – an interesting choice of words to describe the Contras.

He also wrote off the Black journalists showing interest in Webb’s findings as conspiracy theorists, stating that “few major media outlets have validated the series by reporting on its charges in any detail,” as if to say that this proved its erroneousness. In his book, “Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News,” he would later describe the idea as “ridiculous.”

The CIA was very thankful to Carlson for helping muddy the waters and shooting the messenger. A declassified CIA document cites his Weekly Standard article, among others, as aiding them in “managing a nightmare.”


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Thus, the Fox News host also attempts to channel popular frustrations away from the real causes of economic grief and into a pointless and endless red vs. blue culture war. Carlson has attempted to get his viewers angry about how liberals are supposedly claiming that the number “8” and trees are racist, or trying to get you to eat bugs. As media critic Carlos Maza noted:

The goal of Tucker’s show isn’t to challenge the elite; it is to make sure that you never realize who they are. To get you so mad at atheists, feminists, immigrants, millennials, trans people, pot smokers, college students, vegans, the NFL, Brooklyn witches and Lena fricking Dunham, that you don’t get mad at the people who are actually in charge.”

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