Israel is not Ukraine

I remember the week Tucker Carlson was chosen to replace disgraced pundit Bill O’Reilly on Fox News. I was hoping for someone intelligent, like Laura Ingraham. I marveled that Fox chose Carlson, who had a long string of failures behind him, no big successes, an unwinning personality, no evidence of wit, and a clear record of work indicating a less-than-stellar intellect. They had so many other choices. It’s still a mystery to me. It’s the kind of hire that makes you wonder if blackmail is in play.

Carlson went on to be a big success in O’Reilly’s time slot, just as a test pattern would have. There was no way to fail. First time anyone could say that about Carlson, who had failed so splendidly in the past.

As a result of his tee-ball positioning, Carlson became popular, and undiscerning conservatives decided he was the next O’Reilly, which was not true. O’Reilly has his faults, but he is a major media talent, and he built the 8 p.m. time slot for Fox, as well as his own Internet and bestseller empire. Carlson was more like the Kevin Federline or Chet Hanks of Fox, but for his bulletproof time slot.

After being booted for Fox for hypocrisy, saying bizarre things in private communications, and generally being a coarse, nasty person behind the scenes, Carlson was adopted by sugar daddy Elon Musk, and conservatives lacking in critical skills made him an X success. I guess QAnon nuts who only read headlines have to have a hero.

Now Carlson is confirming my expectations by criticizing America’s support for Israel’s attack on Iran’s tyrannical minority regime leaders as well as the nuclear program Clinton and Obama gave it. And he is proving his lack of brains by saying he can’t figure out how the attack benefits America.

He’s talking about a regime that has tried to assassinate our president twice, mind you. Can’t figure it out. The regime that funds Hezbollah. A regime that leads huge crowds of idiots in chanting “Death to America!”

Iran is very open about its hopes of exterminating every Jew in Israel and putting an end to our single most important ally in the Middle East. For a long time, Iran has been trying to put together nuclear weapons to use on Israel. Here’s some obvious information for Carlson and his fans: a nuclear bomb that can kill Jews in Israel can also kill Americans in America and Europeans in Europe.

If the Iranian government were a person, we wouldn’t trust it with matches or pointed scissors. It’s the political equivalent of Charles Manson. How can the United States, one of Iran’s two dream targets, not have a clear interest in keeping Iran from getting weapons that can kill 200,000 people at once?

Here’s something smart, i.e. unlike things Carlson says, which Trump posted on the web today: “AMERICA FIRST means many GREAT things, including the fact that, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON.” Whatever support he is giving Israel is necessary in order to protect our future. It may help Israel, too, but he is doing it for us.

Carlson has a beef with Jewish political donors, so maybe he thinks they’re the reason Trump backs Israel. Here is the truth: even if Jewish donors influenced Trump, which may or may not be true, he is still doing the right thing.

Iran has already killed hundreds of Americans through terrorist attacks, and it would gladly bomb London or Paris, but Tucker Carlson is just too stupid to see why we would want Israel to prevent it from getting nuclear weapons.

Or is the problem something else? Carlson has never shown any evidence of exceptional intelligence, but can he really be so stupid he can’t understand that Iran is a threat to the US and other Western nations? I don’t like to accuse people of racism or antisemitism lightly. I would like to think Carlson is not antisemitic. But I have learned that while it’s fine to criticize Israel objectively when you have a colorable argument, a person who goes after Israel with patently idiotic, disprovable remarks is either dumb, uninformed, misinformed, or antisemitic.

On a side note, it’s sad that we have so few truly bright pundits. Thomas Sowell is the only really bright light I can think of offhand.

Sometimes I hate being right about people. I really hate it when I’m proven right and other people I’m trying to wake up refuse to admit it.

Dumping your undeserving heroes is a necessary part of growing up.

Anyway, No, Mr. Carlson, Trump is not hypocritically leading us into a war while posing as the peace president. It is unlikely the Iran mess will turn into a large-scale war, because nearly every nation hates the government of Iran. Even if the war did turn into a major armed conflict, our president never said he would not get us into just wars, because that would be stupid, and it’s much better to bomb weak, ineptly-led Iran now with conventional bombs than to get into a nuclear exchange with immature, inbred psychopaths stuck in the 7th century.

If I ran Fox, I wouldn’t have hired this guy to run a coffee machine. It’s astonishing how fools can fail upward in this fallen world.