The 25-minute Tucker Carlson monologue before his confrontation with Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee led viewers to look through the prism of endless lies and factual mistakes, which are too many to address in one article. See here to read Part 1.
Another example is when Tucker pontificates that he is concerned that “Christians in areas controlled by Israel (be) treated with dignity.” He conveniently overlooks that Christians in Israel are the only Christian population that’s growing in the entire Middle East, that Christians and Christianity are protected, and that the singular threat to persecuted Christians in the Middle East and around the world is Islam. But that’s too awkward for his Qatari handlers and funders. So, he does what every antisemite in history has done: make up lies and blame the Jews.
And then, of course, his cherry on top is that he claims that as a US taxpayer, he pays for all of that. Thank you for your business.
While not part of the monologue or the confrontation with Huckabee itself, a glaring omission in Tucker’s faux concern for the well-being of persecuted Christians is not a mention of persecuted Christians anywhere outside of “areas controlled by Israel.” By setting it up the way he does, he allows the viewer to think that Christians persecuted in the Palestinian Authority are under “areas controlled by Israel.” But the fact is that they are not, and the fact is that they are persecuted by their Islamist neighbors, fellow Palestinian Arabs. And of course Tucker does not mention or care about the persecution of Christians in Nigeria, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Syria, or anywhere else. Of course not in Qatar either. But it’s too inconvenient and uncomfortable, and undermines his narrative that the Jews are to blame for Christian persecution.
Considering the fact that for centuries, Jews were persecuted by Christians, Tucker's contorting and twisting this is laughable.
Of course, all the loyal Tucker followers lapped up his description of the filth of the diplomatic terminal at Ben Gurion airport, and that he’s “never seen a rattier one.” But of course, that was a necessary slander in setting up the confrontation with Huckabee.
Inconveniently, Tucker noted that his two producers spent the night in Tel Aviv, unlike him, who never left the airport complex. So, when it came time to leave, they were questioned by “thugs in t-shirts” giving the producers “the third degree.” Tucker took offense to the questions asked by Israeli security (to whom he referred as interrogators), all as part of the Israeli “police state, surveillance state” where they “put software on your phone” and are “constantly spying on you” more than in any other country. Right.
Offended by the questions asked to Tucker’s Qatari-paid staff, he claimed that these were “intel” questions, not security questions. Yet when he repeated the questions for which he was not present, it became clear that they were indeed (many of the) questions that would routinely be used to find people with nefarious agendas before boarding a plane, or people being used by those with nefarious agendas. But to Tucker, the “intel” questions were over the top. Regarding the questions, it’s out of the question that Tucker’s Qatari-paid staff would have any nefarious or espionage agenda, because Tucker is telling the truth, as he always does.
Of course, in trying to de-escalate the situation with Tucker personally slandering Huckabee, which led to their meeting, in the lead-up to the conversation itself, in which he wanted others to decide, he stacked the deck by asking who Huckabee actually worked for, implying that he worked for Israel rather than as a loyal American.“You can be certain that your government (he preached to Americans) will always take the Israeli side over yours.”
Tucker, the Wizard of Good Character, was clear to note that his driver – who had just met moments before being driven from the plane to the terminal – was a “very nice, good guy.” If Tucker is such a good judge of character of someone whom he met 10 minutes earlier, how can he be so wrong, other than his deliberate malice?
When one protests accusations of being an antisemite and a liar as much as he does, there’s an element of psychological DNA that’s quite revealing in his denials. Of course, he is both. On multiple occasions when he’s referred to Jews, he’s added, “whatever that means.” But in Tucker’s twisted mind, he actually thinks he’s telling the truth because he has redefined (or undermined) what it means to be a Jew, so he can “truthfully” say that antisemitism is immoral because he is “only” condemning fake Jews, people who claim a Biblical deed to the Land of Israel because they are not real Jews. Not once does Tucker ever recognize Israel as the legitimate nation-state of the Jewish people.
Repeatedly telling you that he’s telling you the truth should not be necessary if he were not lying and trying to convince you. Me thinks he protesth too much. The same way he repeatedly denies being a closet Moslem for which his Qatari handlers and funders cheer his role as a loyal dhimmi. An infidel by any other name would smell as sweet.
When his opening 25-minute barrage, even before the repeated lies and slander of the confrontation with Huckabee himself, is replete with all these and other lies, it calls into question Tucker’s character and malicious intentions, which are now on full display for the world to see. His agenda is clear. There’s little doubt that he’s nothing more than an antisemitic Islamic agent, and cannot in any way be confused for a credible journalist except by Pravda and Al-Jazeera standards.
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