Even Tucker Carlson is having trouble believing in the tooth fairy
Even Tucker Carlson gets it.
Maybe.
On alternate days, if the price isn't too high.
Yesterday the gung-ho Trumper and Fox News commentator stunned everyone by saying that Trump lawyer Sidney Powell has refused to document her lurid claims of massive vote fraud using voting machines all over the country rigged to record votes for President Trump and all manner of other shenanigans, had refused to appear on his show, asked him to stop contacting her- and had yet to provide any actual evidence that opponents of the President had been guilty of shenanigans which had changed "a single vote."
He was right, of course. Despite all the conspiracy theories, the wild claims, and the court cases that judges have been throwing out right and left, aside from anecdotal tales of isolated incidents such as occur in every election, literally no evidence of hanky panky about the election earlier this month has been produced. There have been all sorts of wild stories about how an election which Mr. Trump lost by between five and ten million votes (President-elect Biden's margin continues to increase as the count continues), was somehow. But we have yet to be given a single reason to believe any of them. All we have is wild charges and the not very reassuring spectacle of President Trump firing Christopher Krebs, the man in charge of the Federal government's efforts to ensure the integrity of our elections, who had flatly said that the election was the most secure in our history and that the President's complaints had no basis in fact.
Even senators of the President's own party cringed. Good. They have a great deal to cringe about.
Today, Carlson- facing a backlash from those who believe that there is evidence that the election was rigged and presumably also in the tooth fairy- backed off his sensible and accurate observation, saying that because no evidence has been produced that something happened doesn't mean that it didn't happen. He also gave vague support to the idea that Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and the rest of the legal team that has been beclowning itself in its slapstick defense of what in fact is President Trump's predictable effort to undermine and steal an election he lost fair, and square would produce the missing evidence soon.
Hey. Many have suggested over the past four years that if Mr. Trump lost, he would try to stage some kind of coup to stay in power. It seemed to fit his narcissism, his contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law, his belief that the rules don't apply to him, and his horror of being a "loser." Those who expressed such a fear were told that they were suffering from "Trump Derangement Syndrome," a tired reprise of the term used to describe fanatical and often unreasoning hostility to the second President Bush and President Obama. Personally, I thought he was too much of a coward and a weakling to attempt a coup and would alternately sulk and throw tantrums before slinking off, whining into the night.
As it happens, he found a way to be a coward and a weakling and still try, however ham-handedly, to steal the election. And as hard as he's trying to resist that conclusion, it seems that even Tucker Carlson is beginning to understand that, at least to a point.
Maybe.
On alternate days, if the price isn't too high.
Yesterday the gung-ho Trumper and Fox News commentator stunned everyone by saying that Trump lawyer Sidney Powell has refused to document her lurid claims of massive vote fraud using voting machines all over the country rigged to record votes for President Trump and all manner of other shenanigans, had refused to appear on his show, asked him to stop contacting her- and had yet to provide any actual evidence that opponents of the President had been guilty of shenanigans which had changed "a single vote."
He was right, of course. Despite all the conspiracy theories, the wild claims, and the court cases that judges have been throwing out right and left, aside from anecdotal tales of isolated incidents such as occur in every election, literally no evidence of hanky panky about the election earlier this month has been produced. There have been all sorts of wild stories about how an election which Mr. Trump lost by between five and ten million votes (President-elect Biden's margin continues to increase as the count continues), was somehow. But we have yet to be given a single reason to believe any of them. All we have is wild charges and the not very reassuring spectacle of President Trump firing Christopher Krebs, the man in charge of the Federal government's efforts to ensure the integrity of our elections, who had flatly said that the election was the most secure in our history and that the President's complaints had no basis in fact.
Even senators of the President's own party cringed. Good. They have a great deal to cringe about.
Today, Carlson- facing a backlash from those who believe that there is evidence that the election was rigged and presumably also in the tooth fairy- backed off his sensible and accurate observation, saying that because no evidence has been produced that something happened doesn't mean that it didn't happen. He also gave vague support to the idea that Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and the rest of the legal team that has been beclowning itself in its slapstick defense of what in fact is President Trump's predictable effort to undermine and steal an election he lost fair, and square would produce the missing evidence soon.
Hey. Many have suggested over the past four years that if Mr. Trump lost, he would try to stage some kind of coup to stay in power. It seemed to fit his narcissism, his contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law, his belief that the rules don't apply to him, and his horror of being a "loser." Those who expressed such a fear were told that they were suffering from "Trump Derangement Syndrome," a tired reprise of the term used to describe fanatical and often unreasoning hostility to the second President Bush and President Obama. Personally, I thought he was too much of a coward and a weakling to attempt a coup and would alternately sulk and throw tantrums before slinking off, whining into the night.
As it happens, he found a way to be a coward and a weakling and still try, however ham-handedly, to steal the election. And as hard as he's trying to resist that conclusion, it seems that even Tucker Carlson is beginning to understand that, at least to a point.
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