The Truth About Tucker’s Lies

By: Larry Gordon

One thing is abundantly clear about Tucker Carlson, and that is he is an unmitigated, uncompromising liar.

I’m an avid consumer of podcasts and until about a year ago, Tucker Carlson’s was one of them. But now that he has become completely transparent about his goals and agenda, I have excised him from that list and no longer care to hear what he has to say. In his two-and-a-half-hour verbal sparring match with our good friend, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, another thing became clear.

And that is that Carlson despises Israel, hates Jews, and has a special focus in his cold, fake Christian mind for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amongst others.

As Purim arrives and Carlson spews even more Haman-like venom, one has to wonder about what Trump’s plans are for Persia and its modern-day equivalent, the backward Islamic Republic of Iran.

One way that all this became glaringly obvious is when you count the number of times Tucker Carlson says how much he cares about Israel and Jews, and how he believes Israel has a right to defend itself, etc. Yet, if any of that were true, he would not have to repeat it so many times.

Tucker’s repeated claims to be a supporter of Israel and Jews, while at the same time spreading malicious lies about them, is just a declaration of the fact that he feels quite the opposite.

If you have any interest in this subject, you owe it to yourself to listen to his debate with Ambassador Huckabee.

It’s not enough to just parrot what so many others are saying about him on an increasing basis, which is that Tucker Carlson has turned into a rabid antisemite. The fact is that he may have been that way and thought that way all along. It’s doubtful he turned into a Jew-hater overnight. But as long as Carlson was employed by CNN and Fox News, he wasn’t able to parade his enthusiastic anti-Jewish, anti-Israel agenda so blatantly.

Now that he’s self-employed and alleged to be funded by the blatantly antisemitic countries of Qatar and Pakistan, Carlson is free to express the opinions he most likely believed all along.

On the surface, Carlson professes that his apparent antagonism toward Israel is motivated by their “lack of respect and recognition” of his Christianity. But by his own admission, he’s not much of a Christian either. That is, except for the historical Jew-hating part. That’s where his Christianity kicks in in a big way.

In the lengthy debate between Ambassador Huckabee, who is far too diplomatic with the openly hostile Carlson, the former newsman and current Muslim Brotherhood defender goes out on a limb trying to compare how Christians are treated in Israel versus how they are in Qatar. All along, Carlson lies his way through the issue and comes across as fairly stupid as he exposes his true self in the process.

Huckabee acknowledges that today there are 184,000 Christians who are citizens of Israel. To that, Carlson states that there are more Christians in Qatar, whose leaders control Carlson’s rhetoric. Of course, Carlson knows the truth but obscures it. While Qatar is a country of only 2.5 million people, the Christian community is confined to one corner of the country and is comprised almost exclusively of foreign workers. Their ability to pray in their churches is also extremely confined and limited, but that doesn’t trouble the grossly dishonest Carlson. He is concerned about how Christians are treated in Israel, and Huckabee repeats several times that Christians, like Jews, have full rights in the Jewish State.

To this, Carlson repeats his mantra that he resorts to when caught lying or when he feels trapped. On occasions like this, he indignantly asks Huckabee if he can prove that. The ambassador is too nice of a person to ask Carlson whether he can prove his supposition. Those few instances are just lost opportunities.

Tucker Carlson believes that on the issue of Israel, he’s the smartest man in the room. Apparently, Carlson learned well from his possible Muslim handlers in Qatar to just lie and keep on lying. If he starts to feel trapped, or the debate gets too tough, just say you don’t know or haven’t seen the evidence or something along those dishonest lines.

Even though the ambassador was being diplomatic with him, Carlson still got caught in several bald-faced lies. On the matter of Tony Aguilar, the U.S. military man who was hired to oversee food distribution in Gaza but was later fired for not doing his job, it seems that Aguilar vowed to get back at Israel in return by launching a series of antisemitic broadsides against Israel in the media. Naturally, Aguilar was a featured guest speaker on the Tucker Carlson podcast.

On that show, Aguilar testified that he saw an IDF soldier shoot and kill a five-year-old boy at one of the food distribution centers. Carlson had him on to feature his narrative that Israel’s agenda is to murder Gazan children. In other words, this is where the fictional Israeli “genocide” in Gaza comes into play.

Huckabee brought up the Aguilar story that Carlson swore was true as there was an alleged U.S. military eyewitness. The ambassador told the former journalist-turned-propagandist that the U.S. had video evidence that the boy who was allegedly killed at the food distribution center was very much alive and seen leaving the site with his mother.

Since Carlson helped circulate the “Israel killing Gazan children” narrative, Huckabee related that the U.S. had to get the boy and his mother quickly out of Gaza because, had Hamas discovered that he was really alive, they would have killed him to validate Aguilar’s story.

When Carlson heard that he suddenly flashed an odd look on his face as he did several times throughout the conversation, going straight ahead to ask Huckabee where the evidence is. Carlson seemed not to understand that Huckabee was the honorable person here and that it was he, Carlson, who was making up stories and casting aspersions from multiple directions.

While he didn’t express it outright, it seemed that what Carlson was trying to say was that the Jews who are living in Israel today are not the same Jews referenced in the Bible or the Torah as he mentioned several times. He apparently likes the idea expressed by other Jew-haters, especially Arab leaders, that since many of the Jews who helped create the modern State of Israel in 1948 arrived in Israel from Europe, that they should go back to Europe.

It looks like whoever fed that idea to Tucker overlooked the fact that as many as one million Jews were expelled from countries like Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria, Yemen, Iran, and Iraq. Maybe that’s something you can work on Tucker. Your potential supporters in Qatar would become popular overnight with that idea.

Out of nowhere, in the middle of his debate with the ambassador, Tucker brought up Netanyahu’s reference to Israel’s enemies, who showed their true nature on October 7, as “Amalek.” It seemed as if Carlson discovered a secret Jewish codeword that is something known just to us.

Of course, he has no idea about the concept of Amalek, where it originated from, and what it means to the Jewish people. His use of the word illustrates just how ignorant and stupid he is at the end of the day.

Several times, Carlson made it clear that he really likes Israel, but it is Bibi Netanyahu whom he passionately dislikes. While speaking about how Israel became specifically attached to this parcel of land in the Middle East, Huckabee says that this is the land that Hashem awarded to the Jewish people through their forefather, Abraham, the first Jew, as recorded in the Bible. That’s where Carlson chimes in to say that our forefather Abraham was a great biblical figure who communicated directly with G-d. Netanyahu is not an “Abraham,” Carlson adds, and then again states that as far as he knows, Bibi isn’t even religious, so how could this land be considered his today when it was given to Abraham more than 3,000 years ago?

Studying Tucker Carlson’s two-and-a-half-hour discussion with Ambassador Huckabee is a study in Tucker’s intellectual dishonesty. Tucker’s oft-repeated claim of how much he cares about Israel but not its leaders is just one sign of his fundamental deceit.

Over time, it has become clear that he is doing Qatar and Hamas’s bidding when he asks time and time again why Israel has a right to this land over anyone else.

Don’t forget that it has been Qatar’s role all along to provide safe harbor to Hamas’ leaders as they sit in luxury apartments and hotel suites directing their men in Gaza on how and when to kill Jews.

Ismail Haniyeh died in a Tehran bathroom. Haman eventually hung from the gallows that he designed specifically for Mordechai. Unlike those two, Tucker now thinks he finally has the Jews where he wants them.

And finally, at the outset, before he sat down to talk with the ambassador, Carlson claimed that he was mistreated by Israeli authorities at Ben Gurion airport. I think they asked him things like the purpose of his visit, whether he packed his own bags, or if anyone had given him anything to deliver. You know, the routine security questions that everyone is asked by Israeli security personnel. Amusingly Carlson thought they were harassing him personally and objected to the questioning because he wanted to be the one who does the interrogating, shouting, and harassing. n

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