Well now.
Who could have possibly predicted this?
A source familiar with the conversations told The Daily Beast that, in recent weeks, the Fox News host has privately advised Trump against taking military action against Iran. And a senior administration official said that during the president’s recent conversations with the Fox primetime host, Carlson has bashed the more “hawkish members” of his administration.
Okay, wait — what?
He is giving Trump “good advice” we totally agree with?
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Tucker Carlson is an irredeemable nativist who oozes highly simplified soundbites at Fox.
Yet, he is on the ball on just a couple issues.
He seemed genuinely fed-up with the moneyed folks running the country in their interest, we saw a diary on that here.
And now he’s advising Trump on an issue that we wholeheartedly agree with ?
Spooky action at a distance, as Professor Einstein might have said.
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It might well be a very good thing that Tucker is advising Trump from a distance, because the guys sitting right on the nucleus in Trump’s other advisers are quite to the contrary.
In the upper echelons of the Trump administration, hawkish voices on Iran predominate—most notably Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton. But as tensions between the U.S. and Iran have escalated over the last few weeks,
Right.
Not “right” as in they’re right, just “right” in that it is irrefutable.
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We simply must be the only decent nation with a “leader” who depends this much on TV hosts.
That’s a bad thing, because — even though we agree on this issue — the news hosts do not have the intelligence reports and experience in dealing with such matters. Nor are they responsible if they get it wrong.
The fact that the people holding the intelligence, Bolton and Pompeo, most certainly DO have the intelligence on issues are an impenetrable force for idiocy.
Or not.
Maybe they get run over plenty?
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That is the problem when a president relies on TV hosts. It is almost like having three governments (which we sorta already have). You have the official one, you have the foreign intelligence community, and you have Fox.
Trump ping-pongs in and out of all of them. My words fail. But, Mark Twain might have come up with something witting, cutting, and somewhat funny, not “ha ha” funny, but you get it.
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This sucks, because the Fox Hosts are far more aligned with the hawks and “experts” on other dangerous issues.
Agree?
Right.
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Thanks y’all.
Here is my fiction, not near as good as Mark Twain, but what do you expect, right?
Writers have daughters that do lots of stuff, you know?