Hubris carried talented Tucker Carlson to Ludicrous Land, last night

© 2020 Peter Free

 

29 October 2020

 

 

Apropos of not much . . .

 

. . . except maybe the contrast between successful and unsuccessful influencing.

 

Last night, Fox News anchor, Tucker Carlson — who has undeniable genius for the art of persuasive manipulation and outrage generation — managed to temporarily deflate his influencer balloon by being Severely Stupid in Public:

 

 

Fox News, Tucker: Hunter Biden documents suddenly vanish, YouTube (28 October 2020)

 

 

The gist of what Carlson said . . .

 

. . . is that:

 

 

"confidential" documents

 

concerning some "damning" Biden information

 

were stolen (!!!)

 

from an "envelope"

 

while

 

said "package" was en route to him and his producer

 

via a "a large national carrier".

 

 

An above-and-beyond-determined investigation ensued. Including of the truck, aircraft and warehouse involved.Yet (horrors!), no culprit or theft details were discovered, except for the now empty envelope.

 

 

Oh my, lawdy-lawdy

 

Watch the Fox clip.

 

Marvel at Carlson's typically earnest delivery of this "news".

 

 

Then, ask yourself . . .

 

. . .  how Tucker manages to remain so conman-steadfast in his assertion that this mysterious — but self-induced (no copies anywhere) — horribleness actually happened in exactly the way that he reports.

 

 

The moral? — At some point, successful influencers need to reach beyond . . .

 

. . . their already collected range of Kool-Aid drinkers.

 

Tucker Carlson will not be able to influence people outside the Fox News Crowd with this (and similar) displays of apparently transparent (Big Lie in Progress) bullshit.

 

Perhaps the loot that Tucker already hauls in, rather than expanding his breadth of influence, is his personal measure for success.

 

A waste of respect-worthy talent, in my estimation.