Haaretz: TuCa and Elon promoting Holocaust revisionism
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@xenon said in Haaretz: TuCa and Elon promoting Holocaust revisionism:
I wonder what incentives and motivations drive someone like Tucker to leave Fox and go so, so deep into the toilet.
It might be interesting to know where all his money comes from.
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@Tom-K said in Haaretz: TuCa and Elon promoting Holocaust revisionism:
Geez, I like most of you have my writers put together most (if not all) of my posts here on TNCR, but at least I edit, and definitely appove all of them for content. How about you folks?
I get a lot of PMs asking for the contact information for my writing team. But I don't have writers. It's just a coincidence that I take long breaks from posting, during writers' strikes.
Education is extremely important.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Haaretz: TuCa and Elon promoting Holocaust revisionism:
Tucker, when you've lost Seth Dillon (Editor of the Babylon Bee) it's time for a recalibration.
Tucker has long since gone full heterodox. Thinking of him as a mainstream tribal conservative is very two years ago.
Education is extremely important.
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@Horace said in Haaretz: TuCa and Elon promoting Holocaust revisionism:
Tucker has long since gone full heterodox. Thinking of him as a mainstream tribal conservative is very two years ago.
Gotta wonder what happened.
Was he always so...unhinged? Is that the word? Is that one of the reasons Fox fired him - "Hey, you're really getting kind of weird here, and it's going to cost us viewers."
Or, is he just playing the court fool (I don't want to say jester) so that he can get TwitterClicks and make more $$$? I mean, remember the Moscow grocery store video? My God.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@xenon said in Haaretz: TuCa and Elon promoting Holocaust revisionism:
I wonder what incentives and motivations drive someone like Tucker to leave Fox and go so, so deep into the toilet.
Fox fired him for lying to the maggots who wanted to hear lies, which ended up costing Fox almost a billion dollars. Go maggot, go broke.
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@George-K said in Haaretz: TuCa and Elon promoting Holocaust revisionism:
@Horace said in Haaretz: TuCa and Elon promoting Holocaust revisionism:
Tucker has long since gone full heterodox. Thinking of him as a mainstream tribal conservative is very two years ago.
Gotta wonder what happened.
Was he always so...unhinged? Is that the word? Is that one of the reasons Fox fired him - "Hey, you're really getting kind of weird here, and it's going to cost us viewers."
Or, is he just playing the court fool (I don't want to say jester) so that he can get TwitterClicks and make more $$$? I mean, remember the Moscow grocery store video? My God.
I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt that they believe what they claim to believe. It's not much of a benefit, it just means that I go with stupid or crazy rather than malicious. I think it's completely normal for a person to devolve to sincere stupid and crazy beliefs if there is positive reinforcement in that direction, or at least no meaningful negative enforcement. If you listen to Tucker in interviews, one thing about which I have no doubt he is sincere, is that he could not care less what anybody thinks. I do believe he could have formulated a more financially beneficial and popular set of beliefs, if that was his motivation.
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@jon-nyc said in Haaretz: TuCa and Elon promoting Holocaust revisionism:
How do you square that with the evidence from the Dominion trial? He would privately loathe Trump and publicly fellate him. You don’t think that was for popularity?
It’s established that he had writers and less than full editorial control on Fox. Anyway, he didn't systematically say that privately. He said it in one situation where Trump was promising him evidence of election fraud and Tucker was running with the story on-air based on that. When no evidence was forthcoming, Tucker got pissed and vented over text.
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Bari Weiss interviews VDH about this on her latest podcast.
The show notes:
Tucker Carlson is perhaps the country’s most influential conservative commentator; his eponymous podcast is routinely among the most downloaded shows on the internet. >Despite his endless fulminations against the mainstream media, Carlson has an impeccable mainstream media pedigree. He’s hit for the cycle on cable news, having hosted shows on Fox, MSNBC, and CNN. After he was fired from Fox News in 2023, under circumstances that are still hotly disputed, Carlson quickly reconstituted his career on his own—free of corporate shackles, with no institutional guardrails, and with a professed willingness to explore topics that his former mainstream media colleagues wouldn’t touch.
Last week on his show, he did just that, airing an interview with a man most people in the mainstream won’t touch: a podcaster named Darryl Cooper, who Carlson called “the most important historian in the United States.”
In reality, Cooper is an amateur historian with no publishing record—no books, no academic articles. He produces a popular history podcast called Martyr Made, in which he does deep dives into subjects like the Israel-Palestine conflict, the cult of Reverend Jim Jones, and the trials of Jeffrey Epstein. He has previously described his personal politics as those of a “non-racist fascist.”
On Carlson’s show, Cooper demonstrated some of those fascist tendencies when he identified Winston Churchill—not Adolf Hitler—as the “chief villain” of World War II. He wasn’t a hero at all, Cooper argued, but a “psychopath” who forced Nazi Germany into a war that it didn’t want. And what of the Holocaust? Cooper doesn’t speak of Jewish victims, but vaguely and airily of “prisoners of war. . . local political prisoners and so forth” who the Nazis “just threw. . . into camps, and millions of people ended up dead.”
In September 1941, a mere week after Nazi troops occupied the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, that city’s Jews were ordered to congregate for “resettlement.” Under threat of severe punishment, they obliged. . . and were loaded into trucks to be transported a short distance to Babi Yar, a ravine just north of the city. In a two-day orgy of violence, 33,000 Jews ended up dead. Innocents, not prisoners of war; children forced to lie on top of those pushed into the pit before them, then executed with a bullet in the back of the head. This is how they ended up dead.
Tucker Carlson, who has the ear of millions of conservatives, including Donald Trump, and who secured a prime time speaking spot at the Republican National Convention, said nothing in response to Cooper’s revisionism. No pushback. Not an arched eyebrow. Just unalloyed praise for an extremist autodidact, America’s “best” historian.
Cooper defended himself on Twitter by assuring his critics that Hitler was indeed desperate to make peace and was also willing to “work with the other powers to reach an acceptable solution to the Jewish problem.” Jewish problem was not in quotes. When another user pointed this out, Cooper responded: “Was there not a problem involving the Jews in Europe at the time?”
Hitler apologia and antisemitism packaged as brave historical inquiry is not new. We’ve heard versions of these arguments from cranks, extremists, and anti-Americans on the left and right, for decades. But why is there a sudden resurgence of these odious ideas on the American right?
Today, we talk to Victor Davis Hanson to help us answer this question. Hanson is a classicist and historian, the author of two dozen books, including the critically acclaimed The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won. And for years, Hanson was a weekly guest on Tucker Carlson’s television show
