I will not recount the number of times Tucker Carlson spoke in favor of Putin whether by choice or unrevealed force, but it appears now that things went the way they were going in spite of Tucker’s choice to ignore that, rather than make the simple admission that he had been in error, he employed two dodges that would allow him to say he had been contrite while in reality he was not.
He did this first by pointing out that the unrelated failures of others were greater than his own minor peccadillos, something, something Kamala Harris somehow, and he used the Imperial We instead of the more definite I.
He admitted that he had been wrong during those weeks leading up to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, especially as no one could have seen it coming if you ignore those people who did and said so, saying,
“This situation appears to become more chaotic by the day, possibly even spinning out of control and that, we must be honest, is shocking to us. We’ve been taken by surprise by the whole thing. We’re not the only ones who were, but we’re willing to admit it. The only thing more embarrassing than being wrong in your estimates is pretending that you weren’t.”
Seems a noble deed unless he spreads any responsibility on everyone, the “we”, so his sin is the sin of all.
His answer to that question was,
“Why didn’t we see this coming, this total loss of control? Well, because we assumed that if things were dire, serious people would be involved in fixing them, but we looked up and we saw Kamala Harris involved, and that reassured us.”
Regardless any support he gave on his show to Putin and downplaying what was actually happening, it was all such a big surprise because Biden sent the vice-president to meet with European allies about the impending conflict, so they, the undefined “they” who could be just him, didn’t take Russia’s military build-up on Ukraine’s border seriously.
“If the future of Europe and the world hung in the balance, as now so obviously it does, of course, the Biden administration would not have sent Kamala Harris to fix it. That is absolutely not Kamala Harris’s job. That was our assumption. But, as noted, we were wrong.”
He probably would have preferred someone more skilled, perhaps a Jarod Kushner, when it came to diplomacy.
But we, not I alone, were wrong for the things I alone, not we, had said, but it was only because of Kamala Harris somehow, but not my getting ratings by riling people up.
There is bravery.
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