Today’s huge news is that Tucker Carlson and Fox News have parted ways. Last Friday’s show turns out to have been Tucker’s last at Fox News.
Tucker was must-watch TV, easily the highest rated show on Rupert Murdoch’s American network, and really the only reason to watch Fox News. It was the only show I really missed when I finally cut the satellite television cord about 7 months ago. Dish Network was costing me $150 a month, or $1,800 a year, money I do not have.
Most Americans are paying between $100 and $220 a month for cable/satellite, with the average approaching $200 per month. Cable and satellite are controlled by the Hive; every cent of the billions that go to satellite and cable each year is devoted to undermining Christianity, truth, justice, and the American way, and to promoting Wokeness/Marxism, immorality, LGBTQ normalization, and general Leftist degeneracy. With Tucker gone from Fox News, we should all be “cord cutters.” There is no remaining reason to have cable or satellite.
Mainstream satellite, that is. There are a number of Adventist satellite channels that can be accessed through a separate satellite system, including 3ABN, Hope, LLBN, Amazing Facts (Doug Batchelor), Amazing Discoveries (Walter Veith), and Quo Vadis TV. It is likely that Steve Wohlberg’s “Whitehorse Media” and Stephen Bohr’s “Secrets Unsealed” will eventually also have satellite channels, although currently they only provide content to other satellite networks. The best vendor for Adventist satellite systems is Glorystar, 4021 Alvis Ct. Suite 5, Rocklin, CA 95677, toll free 866-597-0728. I just had them send me a new box for my system, and they are a real pleasure to deal with.
(Local channels are required by the FCC to broadcast a digital signal, and can be accessed for free with a digital antenna [which costs around $50.00], if you live within a reasonable distance of a large television market.)
Back to Tucker Carlson. Just last night, I watched a keynote address he gave to a Heritage Foundation audience at a banquet they threw for their donors, to celebrate their 50th anniversary. He makes some very good points, including that the struggles of today are not political, they are spiritual. The struggle is one of good versus evil. For example, no one can make a rational case for chemical castration of children, for cutting off the breasts of 15 year-old girls; that is just pure evil.
In making this point, he jokingly deprecates his own Episcopalian tradition:
“I should say at the outset, I’m an Episcopalian, so don’t take theological advice from me, because I don’t have any. I grew up in the shallowest faith tradition that has ever been invented. It’s not even a Christian religion at this point, I say with shame.”
Sadly true, even if said lightheartedly.
There is no way to assess say, the transgenderist movement, with [the mindset of normal politics]. Policy papers don’t account for it at all. If you have people saying, “I have an idea, let’s castrate the next generation, let’s sexually mutilate children.” I’m sorry that’s not a political debate. That has nothing to do with politics. What’s the outcome we’re desiring here? An androgynous population? Are we arguing for that? I don’t think anyone can defend that as a positive outcome, but the weight of the government and a lot of corporate interests are behind that. What is that?
The extreme abortion culture pushed by today’s Democratic Party is simply pagan child sacrifice reasserting itself in the post-Christian west, Tucker argues.
If you’re telling me that abortion is a positive good, you’re arguing for child sacrifice, obviously . . . when the treasury secretary stands up and says, “You know what you can do to help the economy? Get an abortion,” that’s an Aztec principle, actually. There’s not a society in history that didn’t practice human sacrifice . . . that’s what that is. What’s the point of child sacrifice? Well, there’s no policy goal attached to that. That’s a theological phenomenon. That’s the point I’m making: none of this makes sense in conventional political terms. When people, or crowds of people, or the largest crowd of people, which is the federal government, decide that the goal is to destroy things, destruction for its own sake, what you’re watching is not a political movement, it is evil.
After making clear that what we are witnessing in the rabid pro-abortion culture and militant transgenderism is really a question of evil, he says, we should do two things: 1) acknowledge that this is a spiritual issue and a spiritual war, and 2) pray about it for ten minutes every morning
Tucker Carlson at the Heritage Foundation banquet
After the speech, Tucker sat down with a Heritage official, Kevin Roberts, for a very brief Q&A. Roberts asked:
Q: “What do you think, over the last 10 or 20 years, whatever timeline you think is appropriate, has changed the most—socially and culturally, not politically—that has affected everyday American’s lives.”
A: “The lack of information.”
The core promise of the internet, Tucker notes, was that we would have all the information in the world at our fingerprints, but the result has been a centralization of information that results in information being more controlled. A lot of information just is not available because it is digital and controlled by a small number of companies. The polling suggests that hundreds of millions of people have no idea what’s going on, they don’t know the facts of what is going on. The net effect has been to make people completely ignorant of the basic facts on many different issues.
“That challenges the basic idea of a democracy which rests on the notion of an informed voting citizenry, and we don’t have that.”
“The last thing I’ll say is don’t throw away your hard copy books.”
It is clear that, in the new Marxist America, we will not be allowed to have the critical information we need in order to be intelligent self-governing citizens. Real journalists are not going to be allowed to work in this country. They never are, once a country falls under the control of the Left.
That is why Tucker Carlson, the highest rated host in the history of cable television, is off the air. Tucker can continue to work on some podcast or alternative media, but he will not have the large research staff, nor the 1.5 million viewers per night he could reach on Fox News.
Want more evidence? Matt Taibbi was one of the journalists given access to the Twitter files, and who discovered that the federal government was working with the tech companies to censor speech that was contrary to the Hive’s Covid narrative. The day he was testifying to the Republican-controlled Congress, an IRS agent showed up at his house.
The agent ultimately left a note instructing Taibbi to call the IRS. Taibbi did and was told both his 2018 and 2021 tax returns had been rejected, but the IRS did not explain why they visited the home in-person rather than send a letter:
"The bigger question is when did the IRS start to dispatch agents for surprise house calls? Typically, when the IRS challenges some part of a tax return, it sends a dunning letter. Or it might seek more information from the taxpayer or tax preparer. If the IRS wants to audit a return, it schedules a meeting at the agent’s office. It doesn’t drop by unannounced,"
the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board wrote.
But the intimidation of Matt Taibbi was just getting started. Stacey Plaskett (D), a non-voting representative from the U.S. Virgin Islands, sent a letter to Taibbi threatening him with a perjury prosecution and five years in prison for his testimony in Congress. She accused him of contradicting his congressional testimony in a subsequent interview with MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, according to a copy of the letter obtained by independent reporter Lee Fang.
In his testimony, Taibbi said executives at Twitter took orders from nonprofits such as the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) and government agencies such as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) about which tweets should be censored. As Taibbi stated in his opening statement:
“Effectively, news media became an arm of a state-sponsored thought-policing system. We learned Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation ‘requests’ from every corner of government: the FBI, DHS, HHS, DOD, the Global Engagement Center at the] State [Department], even the CIA.”
Rep. Plaskett accused Taibbi of wrongfully confusing the CISA, a government agency, with the CIS, a private entity, but Taibbi was correct on the substance:
“The record shows that CISA, the government agency, was involved in the very formation of EIP, and was one of the most important government partners to the group in its bid to influence content moderation decisions at firms such as Facebook and Twitter.”
In an interview with Greta Van Susteren, Taibbi makes the same point Tucker made in his Heritage speech, namely that the mainstream media outlets resolutely refuse to report the news:
“There [are] a couple of things about that that are remarkable: Number one, scan the pages of mainstream news coverage today, and you will not see anybody covering that story. That’s the story about Michael Morell admitting his role in that [orchestrating a false statement from former IC operatives that the Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian misinformation”], the former acting CIA Director. That’s a massive story of national consequence, and it’s just simply not in the news, much like the Twitter files reports were completely ignored.
So, what kind of country are we living in now? It’s — I went to school — I’m old enough to have gone to college in the Soviet Union and nobody read the newspapers because it was all lies and there was no real news in [them]. Well, we’re starting to come to that same situation in America.”
UPDATE:
The ever-hilarious Babylon Bee says:
“Fox News Fires The Only Reason People Watch Fox News”
NEW YORK, NY — After months of controversy, Fox News has decided to part ways with the only reason anyone watches Fox News.
"Yes, we realize he delivered the most successful cable news program of all time, but we felt embarrassed by him at our Manhattan cocktail parties," said Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott. "When we tried to get invited to fancy, sophisticated gatherings, people said: 'Ewwww, aren't you the Tucker Carlson people?' and that made us feel sad. Curse you, Tucker, for making us feel sad!"