Some thoughts on the media and the role of religion
(and about egomaniacs Tucker Carlson and Russell Brand)
It was already last spring that Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News, yet it’s been on my mind again. Shortly before his firing, Carlson said in an interview that he regretted promoting the Iraq war. Simultaneously to this ‘great’ confession, he also attacked all media as being evil. This is not only disingenuous but dangerous. He is rightfully guilty and should be feeling shame, regret, and remorse for his thoughtless and mendacious act supporting the war and many other bad things from the pulpit of his TV show—masquerading as news—but he cannot then just slink into obscurity (didn’t happen of course), or resign as a politician would in earlier days when they realize they were on the wrong side of history. No, now he wants to take the entire fifth column down with him, a sort of dog in the manger move, where he says if I was so wrong, it can’t just be that I made a bad or wrong choice, but the entire system must be wrong. This is a form of selfishness that is dangerous because he i…
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