Tucker Carlson: Not Being More Skeptical About The Iraq War Is My Greatest Regret
Posted By Tim Hains
On Date March 16, 2023
FNC’s Tucker Carlson talked about what he learned during his career in media during an appearance on the “Full Send” podcast.
TUCKER CARLSON: I’ve spent my whole life in the media. My dad was in the media. That is a big part of the revelation that has changed my life is the media are part of the control apparatus.
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I know, you’re younger and smarter and you’re like, “Yeah?” What if you’re me and you spent your whole life in that world? And to look around and all of a sudden you’re like, “Oh wow, not only are they part of the problem, but I spent most of my life being part of the problem.” Like defending the Iraq War. I actually did that. Can you imagine if you did that?
PODCAST HOST: What is one of your biggest regrets in your career?
TUCKER CARLSON. Defending the Iraq War.
PODCAST HOST: That is it?
TUCKER CARLSON: Well, I’ve had a million regrets. Not being more skeptical. Calling people names when I should have listened to what they were saying. When someone makes a claim, there is only one question that is important at the very beginning, which is: “Is the claim true or not?”
So I say you committed murder, or you rigged the last election. Before you attack me as a crazy person for saying that, maybe you should explain whether you did it or not. You know what I mean?
And for too long, I participated in the culture where anyone who thinks outside these pre-prescribed lanes is crazy, is a “conspiracy theorist.” And I just really regret that. I’m ashamed that I did that. And partly, it was age and the world I grew up in.
So when you, look at me and say, “Yeah, of course [the media] is part of the means of control.” That’s obvious to you because you’re 28, but I just didn’t see it at all — at all. And I’m ashamed of that.
PODCAST HOST: Isn’t that what the media tries to do though?
TUCKER CARLSON: It’s their only purpose. They’re not here to inform you! Really? Even on the big things that really matter like the economy and the war and Covid, things that really matter and will effect you, no. Their job is not to inform you, they’re working for the small group of people who actually run the world. They’re their servants, they’re the Praetorian Guard. And we should treat them with maximum contempt because they have earned it.
Watch the rest of the interview below:
From Real Clear Politics, here.