There is no need to cry over spilled Tucker Carlson. His sell by date has expired. Since his days as a Fox show host, he has taken a bizarre turn. As Douglas Murray noted of Carlson’s apparent motivation, “It seems sadly is just propelled by this desire to try to claim that America is basically run by Israel, Jews, and simply does the bidding of Israel…I’m afraid there’s a number of formerly serious and prominent figures who just see everything through this lens these days.”

Tucker sees conspiratorial Jewish machinations driving U.S. foreign policy. In reality, U.S. foreign policy has been guided by widespread sympathy for Israel, which has been felt by Americans since its inception. The near extinction of European Jewry under Hitler’s final solution, its desperate flight to Palestine, and its fight to secure statehood against overwhelming odds forms a historical saga that is truly moving. I suppose that you could remain unmoved by it, but then I would question your motive.

The Left’s motive is an unwavering devotion to seeing the world through the prism of third world liberation struggles. Tucker Carlson and other America First purists have a different motive. They wish to rigidly curtail U.S. involvement with foreign powers, Israel being no exception. To me, it seems soulless, especially in the aftermath of the Oct. 7th massacre. With it, Tucker has created a chasm, isolating himself from many of his former fans, me included.

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However, it is not on the issue of Israel and Iran alone that I have parted ways with Tucker. It was also a shameless interview that he conducted with con man, Trevor Milton (I wrote about it here). In it, Tucker glossed over Trevor’s distortions of the truth with the sole aim of portraying him as an innocent from the heartland challenging corrupt coastal interests.

In summation, I do give credit to Tucker for the many years in which he provided insight and entertainment to me, but for now he is not my cup of tea.