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While we fully appreciate the value of having Tucker Carlson as just about the only voice in the mainstream media—and on the conservative side no less—clearly opposing the Russiagate hoax and its dangerous escalations, not to mention its toxic ramifications as a tool to criminalise dissent from the imperial script, we are also quite aware that Carlson is not always admirable in the way he frames a number of other important issues, even if, more often than not, when discussing ideological questions that go against his own predilections (i.e., socialism) he has the decency to present the introductory summation for his audience with an unsual great degree of precision and fairness. That said, his abominable treatment of Venezuela, for example, springs from the strictly pro-imperial playbook, so te man’s far from perfect. Debating a socialist arguing that the mess in Venezuela is largely the upshot of US meddling and capitalism, Tucker opined, “Every country that tries this economic system ends up in poverty,” calling what has happened this past decade in Caracas “fairly predictable.” Certainly not good, and certainly not fair, but, then again, Tucker is NOT a leftist, he’s by temperament and formation a rightwinger, and that’s why he’s still perched on Fox News. We must finally note that the entire mainstream media system of the United States, including the so-called “left”, which in the US includes ludicrously The New York Times, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN, is uniformly and viciously hostile to Venezuela’s Maduro administration. In that sense, Tucker hardly stands out at all.
About the Author
Paul Craig Roberts is a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. Roberts’ How the Economy Was Lost is now available from CounterPunch in electronic format. His latest book is The Neoconservative Threat to World Order.
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