I’m thankful for Tucker Carlson’s courage to make his short speech in Moscow on February 6, 2024, as shown in the 4-minute video above. His complete transcript is shown below my comments.
I really appreciate him calling attention to the fact that our mainstream news media has been indoctrinating us with a one-sided, distorted version of what’s happening. After being fed so many toxic lies, we would be wise to examine and challenge our own views, even ones we’ve believed our entire lives, because it’s almost impossible to drink so much of their poison without some of it sticking with us.
But challenging our own views does not come easy to us. Mark Twain summed it up perfectly when he wrote, “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled.”
It’s not easy to admit it because it requires a big dose of humility. So it’s much more common to dig in, holding fast, even to the point of being outraged by anyone sharing a different view. If we’re not careful, we can even go on the attack, seeking to silence dissenters while all the while thinking we’re acting in righteous indignation. But the painful truth is not so lofty. The reality is we’ve been duped and our refusal to deal with it puts us in a dangerous place because it makes it impossible for us to hear the truth, which is our only remedy.
As a Christian, I wish we were immune from all of this, but I’ve learned the hard way that we’re not. I believe this is why the scriptures instruct us to humble ourselves.
TUCKER’S TRANSCRIPT:
“We’re in Moscow tonight. We’re here to interview the President of Russia Vladimir Putin. We’ll be doing that soon. There are risks to conducting an interview like this obviously so we thought about it carefully over many months. Here’s why we’re doing it. First, because it’s our job. We’re in journalism. Our duty is to inform people. Two years into a war that’s reshaping the entire world, most Americans are not informed, they have no real idea what’s happening in this region, here in Russia or 600 miles away in Ukraine. But they should know because they’re paying for much of it in ways they might not fully yet perceive.
The war in Ukraine is a human disaster. It’s left hundreds of thousands of people dead, an entire generation of young Ukrainians, and has depopulated the largest country in Europe. But the long-term effects are even more profound. This war has utterly reshaped the global military and trade alliances. And the sanctions that followed have as well. And in total, they have upended the world economy, the post-world War 2 economic order. The system that guaranteed prosperity in the West for more than 80 years is coming apart very fast. And along with it the dominance of the US dollar.
These are not small changes, they are history altering developments. They will define the lives of our grandchildren. Most of the world understands this perfectly well. They can see it. Ask anyone in Asia or the Middle East what the future looks like, and yet the populations of the English-speaking countries seem mostly unaware. They think that nothing has really changed. And they think that because no one has told them the truth.
Their media outlets are corrupt. They lie to their readers and viewers, and they do that mostly by omission. For example, since the day the war in Ukraine began, American media outlets have spoken to scores of people from Ukraine and they’ve done scores of interviews with Ukrainian President Zelinsky. We ourselves have put in a request for an interview with Zelinsky and we hope he accepts. But the interviews he’s already done in the United States are not traditional interviews. They are fawning pep sessions specifically designed to amplify Zelinsky’s demand that the US enter more deeply into a war in Eastern Europe and pay for it. That is not journalism, it is government propaganda. Propaganda of the ugliest kind, the kind that kills people. At the same time, our politicians and media outlets have been doing this promoting a foreign leader like he’s a new consumer brand.
Not a single Western journalist has bothered to interview the President of the other country involved in this conflict, Vladimir Putin. Most Americans have no idea why Putin invaded Ukraine or what his goals are. No, they’ve never heard his voice. That’s wrong. Americans have a right to know all they can about a war they’re implicated in and we have the right to tell them about it because we are Americans too. Freedom of Speech is our birthright. We were born with the right to say what. We believe that right cannot be taken away no matter who is in the White House. But they’re trying anyway.
Almost three years ago, the Biden Administration illegally spied on our text messages and then leaked the contents to their servants in the news media. They did this in order to stop a Putin interview that we were planning. Last month, we’re pretty certain they did exactly the same thing once again, but this time we came to Moscow anyway.
We are not here because we love Vladimir Putin. We are here because we love the United States and we want it to remain prosperous and free. We paid for this trip ourselves. We took no money from any government or group, nor are we charging people to see the interview. It is not behind the paywall. Anyone can watch the entire thing shot live to tape and unedited on our website Tuckercarlson.com.
Elon Musk, to his great credit, has promised not to suppress or block this interview once we post it on his platform X and we’re grateful for that. Western governments by contrast will certainly do their best to censor this video on other less principal platforms because that’s what they do. They are afraid of information they can’t control but you have no reason to be afraid of it.
We are not encouraging you to agree with what Putin may say in this interview, but we are urging you to watch it. You should know as much as you can and then like a free citizen and not a slave, you can decide for yourself. Thanks.”
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By the way I subscribed to Tuckers new network and have been listening to his podcasts since last night. I don’t normally sign-up for subscriptions, but his is totally worth the fee.
I was aware, at least in theory, that the majority of the media in the mainstream was propaganda, but I was unaware of precisely how prolific the lies there were in daily news. It is no exaggeration to say the news media has been indoctrinating us with a one-sided, distorted version of what’s happening. every moment of every day of our lives. That’s sad, and that’s one hell of a well-oiled propaganda machine we’re up against.
The really sad part is many Americans will continue to listen and abide by their untruths.
I appreciate Tucker and all the other truth-tellers out there. They stand unmoved before an evil government that can hurt them. They are brave, and they need our prayers.