Carlson's is a classic deception campaign, in my opinion, posing as an opponent of our wars, while bolstering the false claims of far-right American politicians (not naming any names) whom Koch-funded media platforms tout as a "Restrainer" (Give me Greenland, Panama, Gaza, Canada, . . .). I don't mean Hitler whom Carlson also touted as a "Right-wing Peacenik," as he did here:
Darryl Cooper may be the best and most honest popular historian in the United States. His latest project is the most forbidden of all: trying to understand World War Two.
(1:20) History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
(12:39) The Jonestown Cult
(32:10) World War Two
(45:04) How Would You Assess Winston Churchill?
(1:17:17) How History Is Rewritten and Propagandized
(1:24:39) Mass Immigration in Europe
(1:42:25) The Civil Rights Movement and BLM
(1:48:17) Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump
(1:58:30) Christianity
(2:10:58) Hate Blinds You
Includes paid partnerships.
One of those "paid partnerships," it seems, was Erik Prince, late of Blackwater infamy (but no infamy to partner Carlson).
But here's a more accurate depiction of what Carlson stands for and promotes:
"Carlson's moonlighting as an extremist at The Daily Calleris heavily bankrolled by -- you guessed it -- the Koch brothers. An investigation by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) finds that the Charles Koch Foundation has poured more than $2.7 million into the Daily Caller's non-profit "charity" since 2012, which generates the lion's share of the "news" that theCallerpublishes."
With my guess being that Koch cut Tucker off in 2019, to avoid the blowback on Koch, so we get this talk by Carlson, starting off as a panegyric to Koch, and then criticism, which is helpful as Carlson makes for a valid condemnation of Koch, and libertarianism, though he moved on to Heritage Foundation National Conservativism, to become something equally as noxious:
with me not disagreeing with much, except for this:
"Ultimately, the most pro-fascist and antisemitic sentiments were relegated to the conservative fringe, especially after Buckley purged the John Birch Society from the ranks of polite conservative society, though he did periodically have to squash renegades such as Joseph Sobran who wroteabout the “diabolization” of Hitler. Defending Hitler or denying the Holocaust became beyond the pale among mainstream conservatives."
But defending fascism by Conservative ideologues was never beyond the pale, as Willmoore Kendall stands as proof of. While Buckley ostensibly "purged" the John Birch Society from the then non-existent "ranks of polite conservative society" (which Charles Koch's father was a founder of) of the founding Traditional Conservatives of the unrepentant segregationists to include Buckley, Burnham, and especially Willmoore Kendall, McCarthy's "wingman," and chief ideologue, but they weren't outliers, they were the core of the Conservative Movement. Under Buckley, Burnham, Kendall, with Frank Meyer making it "Fusionism," as the same old ultra-militaristic Segregationists/Confederacy Lovers, as the original Confederates were. And also lovers of Israeli fascism as Israel evolved out of its Labor founding, into Menachem Begin's and the Netanyahu's, fascism.
With Roy Cohn just one go-between among many associated with National Review.
BLUF: "Roy Cohn was not a conventionally handsome man, but it was hard to peel your eyes from him. He had a reptilian glamour. His tongue, like William F. Buckley Jr.’s, darted from his mouth."
. . .
"One gets a sickening sense, watching Where’s My Roy Cohn?, that we’re living in a world Cohn created and that it extends far beyond politics. (The title is something Trump reportedly said during the early days of Robert Mueller’s investigation into his alleged corruption)."
Tucker Carlson Promotes the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 in Elon Musk Interview
While he doesn’t refer to it by name, Carlson is clearly promoting Project 2025 in a paid ad read—despite the unpopular policy plan supposedly having been wound down after Donald Trump distanced himself from it.
On Monday, former Fox News host and right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson released an interview with billionaire and X owner Elon Musk. At the 19-minute mark of the 108-minute-long interview, Carlson takes a break to talk about one of the show’s paid partners, the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation. Carlson then goes on to describe something that sounds suspiciously like Project 2025, the Foundation’s highly controversial road map for a second Donald Trump presidency.
The Heritage Foundation, Carlson says, “pulled together a coalition of over 100 right-leaning groups to develop a comprehensive plan for day one that would include detailed policy proposals on the most pressing issues,” and “has also developed a plan to dismantle the deep state that keeps this nonsense going and reclaim this nation from a small group of technocrats that's broken everything.”
Though Carlson does not refer to Project 2025 by name, this language he used in the ad mirrors the text on the Project 2025 website, which says the plan “brought together by over 100 respected organizations from across the conservative movement, to take down the Deep State and return the government to the people.”
Carlson also referenced Project 2025’s personnel program, laid out by former Trump aide John McEntee, meant to ensure that a second administration is staffed with loyalists.
The Tucker Carlson Network did not respond to a request for comment about whether the ad was specifically for Project 2025. The Heritage Foundation did not respond to questions about whether the ad describes Project 2025 or another initiative.
At the time, Trump campaign spokespeople Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said, “Reports of Project 2025’s demise would be greatly welcomed and should serve as notice to anyone or any group trying to misrepresent their influence with President Trump and his campaign—it will not end well for you.”
After leaving Fox News, Carlson founded the Tucker Carlson Network, which hosts his show online. Carlson has partnered with X to host his show, though X did not respond to questions about whether the interview with Musk was hosted on X or if the company was a part of putting it together.
In the interview, Musk said that he believes that a Kamala Harris administration would seek to shut down X and said he was “all in” on Trump. On October 5, Musk joined Trump on the campaign trail in Butler, Pennsylvania, where three months ago the former president was the target of an assassination attempt. Musk used his time on stage at the rally to encourage Trump supporters to “vote, vote, vote,” claiming that, should Trump lose, 2024 would be the last election in the United States. Musk repeated this claim during his interview with Carlson.
