Tucker Carlson's NSA allegation fell apart, so he's lying about it

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Justin Baragona
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.@MattGertz: "Notably, the list of those who fell for Carlson’s latest lie largely does not include his colleagues at Fox, who seemed to recognize that the face of their network is a dishonest bullshitter and largely stayed away from the [NSA] story."

Tucker Carlson’s NSA allegation fell apart, so he’s lying about it
mediamatters.org
9:47 AM · Jul 29, 2021

https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlsons-nsa-allegation-fell-apart-so-hes-lying-about-it

Fox News host Tucker Carlson's bombshell allegation that the National Security Agency is illegally spying on him as part of a plot by the federal government to destroy his show has withered away since he first offered it in late June. But rather than acknowledge that he was wrong, Carlson is still lying to his audience and now pretending that he’s been vindicated.

“A media outlet called The Record, which is owned by a cybersecurity company, recently published a story about the NSA’s monitoring of this show, effectively admitting that it happened,” Carlson said on Wednesday’s broadcast. “Our identity, The Record said, was included in an intel intercept and then, quote, ‘unmasked.’”

Carlson added, “Intercepted -- The Record rather did not explain how that would be legal, but it happened as we said it did.”

It did not happen as Carlson said it did, according to The Record story he is now citing as accurate. Carlson is lying.

Carlson’s initial June 28 claim was unequivocal: “Yesterday, we heard from a whistleblower within the U.S. government who reached out to warn us that the NSA, the National Security Agency, is monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air.”

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[Chainfire]

1. Well, I would certainly hope that the NSA would be watching all of the Fascist propaganda

On TV and on the web. It is the same as the police watching the crack house, or the game warden watching the lake. Law enforcement goes to the criminals...

[SheltieLover]

2. +1

Why he is not yet in jail awIting trial is beyond me.

[SheltieLover]

3. He's a qpuke

So, if his lips are moving, he is lying.

[Boxerfan]

4. I watched it "unfold"-He outed himself live on TV

Because he's a genius-more so than any of us mortals can comprehend.

Play stupid games-like contacting Russian assets on the sly-win stupid prizes.

But outing himself by complaining about it on TV-Genius!