From 1999:
A debate between Young Carlson and Old Carlson would be amusing if not perhaps edifying.
Back When Tucker Carlson Was Sane
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Am I mistaken, but are podcasts becoming less important by the day? I wonder what the next big influencer trend will be, but in a time where everyone and their dog have a podcast, why bother with them? I miss the days when there were a lot less voices out there telling me what to think. There was an advantage, back in the day, of having to use a card catalog to go deeper into areas of interest, then today, just stuffing Air Pods in your ears. Find it had to believe that Carlson averages over one million per You Tube episode.
Yeah, I know this is off topic, but Lent is a time of forgiveness!
I find Carlson’s reversals inexplicable unless he’s just following a paymaster’s orders. Maybe that’s oversimplification, but it’s the best I can do.
These days, the conspiracy theories Carlson peddles for profit put Buchanan’s old ramblings to shame. Today, he’s ranting about the CIA reading his text messages (to Iran) to charge him as an unregistered foreign agent. Yup, playing the victim and blaming the jooz. It’s all so formulaic… It seems like he’s in a competition with Candice Owens to see who can out-conspiracy the other.
I’ve said this before: most sin comes from understandable human desires. Wealth and security, procreation, whatever. I can follow along the pattern of them. There is a small number – with homosexuality, cannibalism, anti-Semitism among them – that don’t make sense to me, without the idea of a non-human dimension and a personal being that hates the things God loves.
That aside, I’ve always had the feeling that Tucker merchandises himself, and if he noticed Buchanan sold a product that no one’s selling anymore, and he thought there was still a market for it, I wouldn’t be surprised if he saw that as a business opportunity.