Victor Davis Hanson often has a unique big picture perspective on current events, linking and contrasting the disconnected high-brow outlook to the pragmatic perspectives of the modern populist movement.
Hanson takes an academic approach to the reality of current social constructs, yet in his own unique way he can describe the current status in a thoughtful and practical way. In this analysis VDH contrasts the goals of the ideological media, specifically the goals of those in the Republican wing of the media control apparatus, to the reality they have created by removing the voice of Tucker Carlson. WATCH:
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In their quest to control the mounting opposition to the corporate manipulation behind the DC Potemkin Village, the corporate media are creating a nimbler and more consequential army of opposition to their efforts. The need for control is a reaction to fear.
There is a particular type of spider that carries several hundreds of young on her body after birth. If you spot one of these in your shower, and your irrational fear instinct is to smash what seems to be a big scary spider, what you discover in the aftermath is the bathtub walls moving. Yes, you may have squished the spider, but hundreds of smaller spiders are now crawling all around you.
Fox-is planting seeds, each one has the potential to become much bigger and more truth spread. They fire a person and give them huge amounts of money to start somewhere else.
Problem is…FOX is trying to keep Tucker silent. He is STILL under contract and can’t go anywhere right now!
It will be challenged in court. And if Tucker goes to another channel, he could have it pay for any legal expenses he might incur by breaking that contract. After all, Stormy Daniels did it and she isn’t nearly as rich as Tucker is.
Found in the bin… 🙁
The truth is Fox was planting seeds.
What FOX did was take the most listened voice out there…truth in amongst all the lying that we see and hear….and they took that truth from us. They don’t want us to get the truth! And Tucker was bringing it, not FOX! We need to boycott the crap out of FOX and end their so called to big to fail bs.
Haven’t watched any Fox programs since Tuckers firing came without explanation from Murdochs. One thing to fire him for cause and release him from contract, totally another to keep him on payroll and off of TV.
If people can do it to Bud Light, why not Fox?
2 last thoughts/questions
Why hasn’t there been any major push to compete against Fox with another major conservative outlet in the last 20 years? (What does Fox pay/do to keep this non-competitive position?
Why aren’t there other curious journalists seeking the truth like Tucker in major media? It’s what made him soooo popular.
Over 1 million have left the 8 o’clock hour. That’s a pretty significant boycott right there.
That reporter should check Tucker’s Twitter video.
As of now it has received 79 million views.
That is a lot more eyeballs than 4 million views on Fox
“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”
79 million!
Sounds like all of us Trump voters!
“Truth Seekers!”,… in a world of Lies.
Tucker knows the 2020 and 22 elections were a smash n grab. He knows Kari lake won in a landslide. He knows that stolen elections are at the root of all he yaps about. But he just nibbles around the edges of it. We know he’s despises Trump and couldn’t wait until he nave has to say his name again. Let’s not all go goo goo over Tucker.
Nobody is going “goo goo” over Tucker – we are standing up for a truth teller who has paid the price for it. But maybe you are on the other side? No one else is going where he has gone the last year or so – even saying out loud that the CIA was responsible for the assassination of JFK. And I have read that might be the reason he was forced out.
Tucker at one time despised Trump. But Tucker came out and said he had changed his mind based on Trump’s policies. He said he was mistaken in his beliefs about Trump in the beginning. After witnessing the good Trump had done for this country, Tucker became a supporter. Tucker also became sympathetic towards Trump because of the way Trump has been treated. That’s one of the reasons Tucker has pursued to 2020 election results so vehemently. He knows the election was horribly fraudulent. I’ve watched Tucker for years, I know what he’s been reporting on. That’s why Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, AOC, and the DOJ all wanted Tucker gone. That’s why he is being silenced until AFTER the 2024 election.
I didn’t trust Trump when he was first a candidate. I thought he was going to be a slippery NY squish, willing to do anything to grease the skids of corrupt politicians. But his actions proved me wrong. I imagine the same is true of Tucker in his earlier estimation of Trump. However, he seemed pretty positive about him as things unfold. Why would that be so hard to understand?
I learned a long time ago that when the media and all the politicians say you can’t trust someone, that someone is the most trustworthy of the whole bunch.
The Speaker gave Tucker/Fox 40,000 hours of J6 video. Where is it?
This is not true. The Speaker’s office gave them bits and pieces of footage that they generally requested. They had to ask for parts and hope they got what they were looking for. At no time do Tucker or his crew have full access to 40K hours of J6 footage.
I had that experience as a young girl who was terrified of spiders. The mama spider was in a bathtub and my mom took a fly swatter to it. I will never forget the streams of baby spiders that quickly filled the tub. [shudders]
I’ll always remember as a kid when my dad stomped on one outside. The sounds of panic he made got worse and worse over 10 seconds, and the only thing he could think to do was jump into the pool fully clothed.
It’s costing a lot of money to silence Tucker. Who pays?
And the people dumb enough to invest with them.
Nobody leaves the theatre humming the scenery.
The producers, the impresarios always resent their dependence on the creative people.
The movie production companies of a century ago were mostly created by the theatre owners.
MGM was Loew’s.
The great theatre palaces of the silent age (Graumann’s Chinese) were created by theatre owners convinced people came for the architecture.
When TV was eclipsing movies in the 1950’s, the solution of the theatre owners was Cinerama and Vistavision.
The stubborn refusal of the producers to recognize that creativity is what matters will not stop.
Fox will descend, after Tucker, into a news headline service. Because that is all they can imagine.
Meagain Kelly? Laura Ingraham? Brian Kilemeade and Newsmax? Nah Vic, that don’t compute. This guy seems to have a screw, check that – a bolt loose from over analyzing.
I think that Tucker is thinking much bigger than he is given credit for. When Murdoch bought Fox News he knew there would be a market for conservative expression that was s obviously missing from main stream news, and he was proven right.
Today the news is less liberal vs conservative and an awful lot more selective reporting and misrepresentation vs truth, and Tucker is knows well the opportunity for truth.
He will have his own, or a good deal of control of his own, network, staffed with the talented reporters who have been cancelled or otherwise ignored…like Glenn Greenwald, James O’Keefe and many, many more.
Could be NewsMax, but that is probably not a fit. He and Elon have similar concerns about this subject and are like minded in many ways, so there is an opportunity for some real synergy there, especially if there is a move on Fox, which, of many Murdoch rumors, is being considered for sale.
No one knows, but I’m guessing that control of a network is top of the list for Carlson right now. Alternatives are not going to give him the reach he should have.
Could be a tough battle for sure, but money talks and wokies are phonies anyway, so the one big club aspect will eventually work in his favor.
Two other things recently at Fox that haven’t gotten much press, at least that I had seen:
The SIZE of the Dominion settlement. $800M for damages to a company with a value of what? $50-70M. I have sat on a few boards, reported to boards and presented to boards. Does anyone out there know why this is even remotely understandable? What’s going on?
Dagen whomever and Sean what’s his name as 6 o’clock news hosts? Are you kidding me. He still acts like a teenager on a job interview and she is about as feminine as an alligator. Neither one can enunciate, articulate or remember anything and do not seem to prepare at all. If this is what Fox thinks they can go with in the future they are done. Finito. Are you kidding me?
Dagen & Sean are on Fox Business Channel. A whole different animal than FNC.
On the dominion question, me thinks the payout was funneled through fox from Biden. Hey, we need Dominion around in 2024, and we can get Carlson silenced and it’ll cost Fox nothing but ratings. Now if fox is for sale, ratings don’t matter. It’s a win-win-win. Fox, Dominion and Biden.
( Biden can easily equated/swapped to Soros cabal or blackrock).
The silly reporter for the Telegraph doesn’t get it. He still thinks you live or die being on broadcast or subscription based TV. These people don’t get the MAGA voter and the disdain and distrust we have for established media.
That spider is called the Wolf Spider. Native in Arizona we stepped on one ugly bumpy looking spider and watched as the young spread around so fast it was shocking.
I agree Victor. If you take all of them, add them all up and consider the population of the United States, it’s not even a scratch in the paint. Even Tuckers farewell on Twitter to 71 million views. That’s a scratch in the paint, but only a scratch. Fox needs to go the way of Bud Light.