Eric Boehlert: Tucker Carlson's NSA spying story gets dumber and dumber
Tucker Carlson's NSA spying story gets dumber and dumber
No there there
Eric Boehlert
1 hr ago
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Nothing about this caper makes sense, which is fitting since Carlson is congenital liar. He refuses to provide any evidence that the emails were leaked, or name the so-called “journalists” who received the communications directly from the NSA. He claims to know which journalists have his emails (one of them called him to discuss it!), but he won’t come forward with that information. And neither will the journalists themselves. Carlson suggests reporters across the Beltway were given his emails directly from the NSA, yet as this controversy spreads, every single one of those reporters is remaining silent for no apparent reason.
What are the odds?
Meanwhile, Carlson plays the martyrdom card to the hilt, portraying himself as a crusading journalist: “I think more ominously they are using information they gather to put leverage, to threaten opposition journalists, people who criticize the Biden administration. It’s happening to me right now, and I think it’s shocking. I don’t think we should put up with it in a free country.”
People who criticize the Biden administration are being threatened. Except none of them are. Carlson works for a network that frantically condemns every sentence President Joe Biden utters, which means the administration must be monitoring hundreds of Fox employees, right? But for some reason, the only person on the Fox News payroll being spied on is Tucker?
And if Biden had declared war on conservative journalists, why isn’t Fox News championing Carlson’s claims? To date, the network has been extraordinarily quiet regarding the dopey saga, choosing largely to ignore it. “Fox is right to tread carefully because its biggest star is a huge liar and has historically proven particularly dishonest in describing his own supposed persecution,” noted Media Matters.
Here’s the Keystone Kops chronology of events. In the spring, the Fox host turned to intermediaries to open lines of communication with the Kremlin regarding an interview request, which is a very strange thing to do. I guarantee you when Wallace and Kelly scored their Putin Q&A’s they didn’t do it by emailing shady figures in Putin’s orbit. We can assume they did it by following traditional channels of communication via the State Department. Not surprisingly, Carlson likely ended up communicating with foreign agents close to Putin whom the NSA was monitoring. They probably knew they were being monitored, but never told Carlson his communications were being incidentally collected.
As for the dastardly leak? There’s still no proof it happened, other than Carlson’s untrustworthy word. He could easily provide evidence but he won’t. And specifically, he won’t provide proof that the emails were leaked to journalists directly by the NSA. That’s key because it’s possible Carlson’s email pals — Putin’s cronies — decided to share the contents of the emails with others inside the Beltway.
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