161 Comments

Tucker Carlson is a force to be reckoned with. He answers to no one. He owns his company. He is free to take sides, offer opinions, delve into matters, has no editors, owners or distractors looking over his shoulders. Tucker never had it so good. And the general public, conservatives, especially, are the beneficiaries of his work. His aggressive approach to doing what other journalist are not doing, but should be doing, is refreshing.

Expand full comment
founding

You are right about Tucker and his influence but I find it necessary to also say he is only as good as his media channels are to reach his listeners. He is very lucky to have X and Elon Musk who provides that channel. Yes, he also posts his own interviews, but we know if messaging exceeds allowed boundaries, the "internet channel" can and will be shutdown and censored. Mike Lindell is my example for this.

If Tucker hadn't had the huge following he earned after being fired from Fox News, nobody would know him today, despite his warm personality and keen interviewing skills. I suspect there are others as good as Tucker. They only lack a communications channel.

Expand full comment

Take a look at Tucker's Putin teaser posted 19 hours ago on X. It has 74 million views.

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson

Expand full comment

It's going to break the internet. Or as the kids say, It's going to be lit!!

Expand full comment
founding

Saw it and loved it. Evidence the comm channel is the roadway to influence.

Expand full comment
founding

But remember the feds still run the infrastructure of X…

Expand full comment

He earned his huge following a lot before Fox let him go: his was the most-viewed program on cable. That's why it was surprising he was let go. Note I don't say 'fired'. he was held to his contract, which I believe is still in effect. he just had his show canceled.

Expand full comment

Okay I'm going to make another crazy comment maybe I'll make two. I think Tucker was let go very reluctantly and the only thing I can fault the Murdoch's for Yes how much this would benefit Tucker. I don't think they have any idea that God is in this and is manipulating well I have to use the word nudging events without violating our own personal sovereignty so that we now have a perfect object lesson a chance to compare two presidents. If I may continue, my pet peeve is laziness. I will elaborate more later.

Expand full comment

Being forced to leave Fox has done nothing but help Tucker.

Expand full comment
founding

You are right and my post should have been clearer than how I worded it. Tucker’s brand was built at Fox, which he has successfully leveraged since because he has a channel with which to reach his followers.

Expand full comment
founding

He no longer has bosses telling what he may or may not air.

Expand full comment

No, there aren't others or many as good as Tucker.

Expand full comment

tucker is somewhat naive on many subjects. he has too many epiphanies for me. one is all it should take. yes i know that's his style and that's my point. somethings not quite right there. i'm willing to expound but for now i'll leave it there.

Expand full comment

I totally see what you see. One should remember, he was marinated in the stink of the DC-media vat from a very young age, and encouraged to be a bright, young, opinionated upstart. It served him well for decades.

I believe we have been watching him, particularly over the last 8 years, gradually come to the multiple realisations of the true malicious intent that has always been baked into the media complex he was raised up in, and in many respects, even party to, for so many years. That has to have been both a humbling, difficult and probably embarrassing personal realisation for him.

But to his credit, we have been witnessing him use his newfound enlightenment to not just fight his way out from within it but to outright fight against it.

That is courageous.

It is, I believe, that process he is undergoing we are witnessing, as many others in various walks of life, are also experiencing in these treacherous times we find ourselves in.

I give him a heck of lot of credit and pray he continues to grow as a courageous seeker and purveyor of truth.

Expand full comment
founding

Speaking of epiphanies, I had a major one in 2016 which ended in undying support for Trump.

I hated Trump in the primaries when there were 16 others from which to choose. Most of those were RINOs but a few had potential. Trump's reputation was that he seemed to vacillate on issues to his own business advantage, he was a "Hollywood star" meaning he must have been liberal, and he hung out with and partied with New York Democrats. That's who I saw come down the escalator. There was no history (evidence) of his positions on any policy except the words of his mouth. He was the only one talking about the swamp because the rest were bathing in it. I suspect many people went through this transformation if they would admit it.

My epiphany came very soon and very quickly. Tucker has a history that may have been steeped in political grime, but epiphanies do happen and they are legitimate when they do.

Expand full comment

I think you speak for many of us - if not all - who’ve likewise had our eyes opened over the last 8 years.

Expand full comment

Trump ripped off a lot of masks for us to see ugly truths.

Expand full comment

So true. There have been major epiphanies and many, many, lesser epiphanies, continually, over even 15+ years. It's because the Marxist left operated for years by stealth, and by deceptively painting itself in "noble sounding intentions". Now that they have taken power, we are SEEING by their ACTIONS what their REAL intentions are--the destruction of America and its amazing structure of freedom.

We have been on this awakening journey. We need to reach out with kindness to our liberal brothers and sisters-- the decent liberals, who have been unaware of what's been going on. Right now, they are feeling an uncertain uneasiness. They are not stupid, and an inevitable realization is going to be coming to them.

Expand full comment
founding

Rush Limbaugh said he lovingly called Tucker "Chatsworth Osborne, Jr." because he was so preppy.

Expand full comment

Tucker freely admits his past and his wealth. We're all on a journey, right?

Expand full comment

Yes to that, Suzie.

Expand full comment
founding
Feb 7Liked by Don Surber

It would be a great day if the average American in this country had a bunch of epiphanies. They need to wake up!

Expand full comment

He also seems to drive people to anger; it is almost like he is part of the cabal that wants a revolution in order to assume even more power.

Expand full comment

Tucker is definitely not part of the "cabal."

Expand full comment
founding
Feb 7Liked by Don Surber

Nobel Prize!! Oh, nevermind…..Preezy got one before starting his job deconstructing the US w help of 43’s Patriot Act…..Trump didn’t get one…..the Dynamite Prize , finally,…is now being properly Conferred , as opposed going to Peaceniks for 100 years….

Expand full comment

Nobel prize became a joke long ago

Expand full comment
founding

Here Here!

Expand full comment
founding

Did not Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, Ed Sullivan and Ann Louise Bardach (Vanity Fair) -- just to name a few -- have interviews with Fidel Castro? Besides the level of hypocrisy how is this different?

Expand full comment

Let's not forget Walter Duranty and his famous Stalin interviews pre WW2 for the NYT.

Expand full comment

The value of Tucker going to Russia for this interview may not be in what Putin says or what Carlson asks but in what Carlson sees in Russia as he travels around.

My guess is that what he sees will be quite different than what we are being told by our minders.

I don’t trust our minders one bit after Covid.

Expand full comment

Too bad it took COVID to open people’s eyes

Expand full comment
founding

And so we shouldn't

Expand full comment
founding
Feb 7Liked by Don Surber

Putin is evil, as was Hitler.

Is he anymore evil than Biden? Obama? Bush 1 and 2? Johnson? Our CIA? The FBI

We literally have thousands of political prisoners in DC. Trump is being railroaded in show trials that would make Stalin proud.

I see the enemy and it is us

Expand full comment

Pogo we have met the enemy and he is us. Walt Kelly

Expand full comment
Feb 7·edited Feb 7Liked by Don Surber

Don, your reference to Dorothy Fuldheim brings back so many memories. She was old and wrinkled, scowling and hard to look at. She was vicious when she didi a hard-hitting story, and wore a ring with a large purple stone that she waved for further emphasis as she made a point. I was asked by Tim Treadway, the incoming president of Union Commerce Bank, to introduce him to her. I arranged it at a book and author luncheon where WEWS had a table for eight. Tim was late arriving, fifteen minutes late. Not a good first impression. I said, "Dorthy, this is Tim Treadway the president of Union Commerce Bank. He said, "Glad to meet you, Dorothy." She snapped, "Call me Mrs. Fuldheim." I wouldn't be surprised if she gave Adolph Hitler the same treatment. What a scoop that turned out to be. She dined out on the Hitler interview for the rest of her life.

Expand full comment
founding
Feb 7Liked by Don Surber

Your “hard to look at” description reminded me of Heinleins talking about the Rodin “She Who Used to Be the Beautiful Heaulmière’….

Expand full comment

I'm adding that to a collection of women whose faces could scare a dog off a meat wagon.

Expand full comment

I hope that the late Helen Thomas is already on that list.

Expand full comment
founding

Don’t forget the smartest US Secretary of State (up until Its-My-Birthday-Hillary) Madeleine Albright. Put the accomplishments of the short old white slaveholder Thomas Jefferson to shame.

Expand full comment

Defiance Jester, I roared with laughter. Well done. Specifically scare a dog off of meat wagon.

Expand full comment
founding

She wasn't a hottie like Helen Thomas?

Expand full comment

Oh crap. I responded before I saw your post. Sorry about that.

Expand full comment
founding

Great minds...

Expand full comment

Haha. you're killing me.

Expand full comment
author

Mrs. Fuldheim's nightly show was called Highlights of the News

When they changed it to Eyewitness News, her spot was Highlights of the News

Expand full comment
founding

It's like Florence King. Who cared? She was so damned good she could vhave had horns and a tail.

Expand full comment

I loved Florence King! I have read all of her books and all of her columns in National Review when it was still worth reading.

Expand full comment

She is only writer who made me LOL reading her stories. Told it like it was.

Expand full comment

LOL!

Expand full comment
Feb 7Liked by Don Surber

Great piece today, Don.

“If that doesn’t make you smile, you have my sympathies on the loss of your sense of humor.

As a nation, we are losing that sense and much, much more.”

The poor saps (and I use that as a term of affection) in DC prison will make it out with their minds & souls intact to the extent they keep their sense of humor.

I did a 1 1/2 in a Federal Prison Camp. A day didn’t go by that something didn’t crack us up.

I don’t compare my experience to the Jan 6ers, in much the same way I don’t think my Vietnam-era service (USAF) makes me one of the boys when I’m around true war veterans. (Keep mouth shut, pick up the tab.). And I don’t pretend to know what life is like for the poor saps in that DC hellhole (which sounds an awful lot like the Hanoi Hilton).

But nonetheless, I know the power of a sense of humor in those circumstances.

But we too need to laugh in the face of the Devil. As SNL has gone downhill, the Libs & Dems & most Repubs & all of DC, are filling the void.

So laugh and keep your powder dry.

Expand full comment

Sevenfold Amen. Queue the choir.

Expand full comment

Ironic is too mild a word to describe the reaction of the "approved media" to Carlson's interview with Putin. At the same time they are all losing their shit over Tucker's scoop, they raise no objections to the failure of anyone in their peer group to interview Biden. When they do sit with him, they lob pre-approved softballs at him, so he can respond with his pre-approved and scripted answers. "Mr. President, how did you become so truly awesome?" "Mr. President, what do you think of that traitor, Donald Trump? Should he be imprisoned, hanged or exiled?" When Biden and his surrogates lie through their teeth about the economy, the situation at the southern border, the crime in our cities or anything else, the "approved media" smiles and nod their heads in agreement. It's the opposite of how they treated Nixon, whom they vilified, hounded and pursued out of office. And I am no fan of Nixon, believe me, but the stark contrast in the behavior of the approved media between the two presidents is remarkable, and even more so the contrast between their handling of Biden and Trump. The approved media is simply the propaganda service for the regime, and the regime is simply the American division of the global elitist cabal that seeks to grasp the entire world in its iron fist and crush out any and all dissent. The prophecies about the rise of anti-Christ are being fulfilled before our eyes.

Expand full comment
founding
Feb 7·edited Feb 7

It is maddening. I can't stand it. Watch an interview with Trump and before that GWB and the interview is more like an interrogation with nothing but scowls on their face. A complete 180 when interviewing Obama Clinton Biden etc.

Enemies of the people and they should be treated as such

Expand full comment
founding

If you would allow me, "enemies of the people."

Expand full comment
founding
Feb 7Liked by Don Surber

Interview Old Joe. Pump the room with oxygen, or whatever helps the drugs wear off, bring in a couple young girls, and wait for it to happen.

Expand full comment
founding

That's exactly why I suspect the CCP has a lot of videotaped dirt on the Hunter Crime Family collected on Joe and Hunter and now being used as blackmail. How else do you explain the knee bending to them..

Expand full comment

They're collecting millions of dolllars

Expand full comment
Feb 7·edited Feb 7Liked by Don Surber

Don: Not QUITE true that FDR didn't give away anything. Yes, he made the Brits pay through the nose. (Helped his goal of ultimately extinguishing the British Empire.) But the USSR was a horse of a different color. We didn't charge Stalin (and he certainly didn't offer) a single kopeck for the massive amounts of aid we sent him during the war. It was all "on the house." Read the infuriating story in Sean McMeekin's superb revisionist history of WWII, "Stalin's War": https://a.co/d/f3otSy8

Expand full comment
founding

Just a different approach, Allies signed the IOUs, then 50 years later, after never paying back, US canceled their ‘debts’. Probably applied the forgiveness to their NATO 2-4% of GDP funding requirement to boot….

Expand full comment
founding

FDR was a socialist and proud of it. Weren't many of his subsequent appointments also left leaning? That cadre gave rise to the McCarthy hearings in order to root them out of government, I believe.

Expand full comment
founding

McCarthy was right. Hindsight is 20-20. Wish he had prevailed. Hollywood wouldn't be what it is today.

Expand full comment

If only he’d gone after the State Dept. the world would be a different place!

Expand full comment
founding

PDJT is now times Sen Mc Carthy.

Expand full comment
founding

Amen Shrugged.

Expand full comment

Straight out communists

Expand full comment

Sony Piper, I have to chuckle at my secretary suggested spellings, excellent clarification.

Expand full comment
founding
Feb 7·edited Feb 7Liked by Don Surber

With his independent fighting spirit and backbone of steel, perhaps Tucker WOULD be a good choice for Trump's VP position. I wrote it off because he didn't have the experience in government business practices, but as we have read on this site, a non-government outsider may be just what we need. I would take Tucker over Noem.

Expand full comment
founding

I don't see the reason for Tucker as VP. These positions don't require congeniality contestant winners. Perhaps it's President Trump that has shown us, and quite well, that these positions of leadership REQUIRE people with a solid background to carry out those functions of government we need. What we've had so far has been disappointing. Hell, Biden and Kamala are prime examples of that.

Expand full comment
founding

It was just a thought, but a serious thought nonetheless. I am warming up to the notion we need outsiders - not seasoned politicians - making policy decisions. Trump is perhaps the best example of this since he went to DC without an ounce of experience in politics.. It isn't Tucker's congeniality that makes him stand out as a short-listed VP candidate. It is his refusal to back down from being totally honest. That would be a refreshing attribute in our future leaders.

Expand full comment

And that is why I think to her Carlson should remain just as he is a top commentator for the up and coming news source X. I support x which charges me $8 a month whereas my favorite blogger and Don, you need to be worried whenever I say favorite because I am going to have another one kind of like my favorite wife only I didn't do that, charges $5 a month stream of consciousness I am thinking about gifting that to my son-in-law who's going through some serious mental health and marital issues, which I didn't realize at the time I approved him is more important than I thought for approving a man as a marital prospect for my darling daughter.

Expand full comment
founding
Feb 7Liked by Don Surber

The only traitors in this country are the Democrats and Republicans that have both forgotten the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights And refuse to defend it.

They are afraid that Mr Putin will come across as Sane and reasonable to the American Public. He will expose the traitors for who they are.

Expand full comment
Feb 7Liked by Don Surber

You've put your finger on it, Mark. Putin likely will be articulate and have some insightful things to say. The contrast between him and dementia patient Biden and entitled whiner Zelensky will be damning. Good.

Expand full comment
founding

TPG. Expect 3 revelations we all know from Putin:1.He was forced into invading Ukraine because of the actions of Biden Nuland and NATO ( violating agreement not to allow Ukraine in NATO). 2. Trump won in 20 but votes were switched by Deep State and Democrats 3. Shadow government being managed by Obama and run by nameless faceless individuals running Biden. American media will dismiss without looking at evidence

Expand full comment
founding

You nailed it. Without becoming a Putin lap dog, we can still gain valuable knowledge that we aren't getting from our intelligence community -- because that knowledge will IMPLICATE our intelligence community.

Expand full comment

Yes. For all his faults, Putin will likely be more of a straight-shooter with us than our own so-called "leaders".

Expand full comment
founding

Remember all the Russia Russia Russia chatter began when Trump discussed in 16/17 that maybe US and Russia could be friends/partners etc. The military industrial complex saw world peace and detente as cutting into their pocketbooks. Now we have an illegitimate angry dunce as our “leader.” We have wars in Eastern Europe The Middle East and soon in China.

Expand full comment
founding

Was thinking about the Bizarro world of Superman. Remember truth, justice and the American way? Now it is lies, injustice and the Globalist way!

Expand full comment
founding

If the "American way" was used in a sentence, most Gen Z'ers wouldn't have a clue what you were talking about. That concept was buried with Obama 2008 and thereafter.

Expand full comment

And remember how smoke would literally come out his outsized ears whenever he heard the phrase, “American exceptionalism”?

It viscerally enraged him. Funny - and infuriating at the same time.

Expand full comment
Feb 7Liked by Don Surber

I love it when you use big words: “All evidence points to their desire to lose so they can set up a totalitarian government.” Keep saying that while pointing to old and new evidence. Thank you.

Expand full comment
founding

Sundance is also doing similar now at Conservative Treehouse, meeting with EU dont-wanna-be-serf farmers in Germany, Poland, etc

Expand full comment
founding

Actually EODMom, it scares the hell out of me cuz I too believe he's right. And I love big words too, if only I could spell them correctly. lol

Expand full comment
Feb 7·edited Feb 7Liked by Don Surber

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king. Tucker is simply doing his job, a job which a lot of American journalists and opinion writers used to do before they drank the Commie-Democrat koolaid, took the laundered CCP and unlaundered Billionariat money, and start telling harmful fairy tales. The fact that it makes him remarkable in 2024 tells you how far our society has deteriorated. Tucker isn't a genius. He's brave, and intelligent, and he has resources that most independent media types would love to have, but mostly he's just a guy trying to report the news. Like Surber, he's a professional. The Left and the Never Trump cuckolds made him into an icon of the Right. I don't think he's even a registered Republican. He's just following the stories that matter.

Trump 2024

Vote Big Orange

Expand full comment

I had wondered what that Peach icon meant that you usually put next to Trump 2024-- now I think I get it-- the Peach is orange, which means our favorite "Orange Man Bad". Or maybe the icon was actually an Orange and not a Peach.

Expand full comment

Correct. Vote Bigly 🍊🫡

Expand full comment
Feb 7Liked by Don Surber

Tucker should interview someone who puts his faith in God next. None of them seem to be in positions of power, so there might be little popular interest. But hearing what the faithful understand is happening in the world and out of it is certainly more newsworthy.

Expand full comment
founding

True. I'm trying to figure out if this is Ezekiel's list or Daniel's.

Expand full comment
founding
Feb 7Liked by Don Surber

“If that doesn’t make you smile, you have my sympathies on the loss of your sense of humor” My Sense of Humor passed doctor Surber’s test.

Expand full comment