Venezuelans arrive at the Vineyard!

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Tucker Carlson reacts: When Venezuelans arrived at the Vineyard, it set Tucker Carlson off. 

By 8:03 on Thursday night, the disordered star was offering this as part of his opening monologue:

CARLSON (9/15/22): Barack Obama is a part-time resident of Martha's Vineyard. Obama is also, of course, as you know, the country's greatest proponent of diversity. 

For years, Obama earnestly told us that immigrants were better than Americans. They were holy. They make our country strong.  

OBAMA (videotape): America is—and always has been—a nation of immigrants. Throughout our history, immigrants have come to our shores in wave after wave from every corner of the globe. Every one of us, unless we're Native American, has an ancestor who was born somewhere else. That's what makes America special. That's what makes a strong. The basic idea of welcoming immigrants to our shores is central to our way of life. It is in our DNA.

CARLSON: So that was basically the whole presidency right there for eight years. Obama hectoring us about diversity, but he didn't just talk about it. He spent his two years in office making certain that places like Des Moines, Iowa and Portland, Maine became much less white than they previously had been because, as he so often told us, whiteness is bad. It's a disease. 

For transcript and tape, click here.

Almost surely, Carlson is the most disordered of all current "cable news" hosts. 

That doesn't mean that he's always wrong, because he actually isn't. But consider the level of disrespect this avatar of the misleader class has for the misled.

Question:

Has Barack Obama ever "told us that whiteness is a disease?"

According to Carlson, Obama has often told us that. But he offered no examples of any such statement on this Vineyard-themed night.

He did pretend to give an example in support of this earlier claim: 

For years, Obama earnestly told us that immigrants were better than Americans. They were holy. 

So the disordered boy-child said. Our question would be this:

Did Obama ever tell us that? Did he say that even once?

According to Carlson, President Obama told us that "for years." In support of that remarkable claim, he offered a bit of boilerplate from a speech by Obama—boilerplate about the United States being "a nation of immigrants."

In fairness, the boilerplate by Obama that day was extremely hackneyed. In some ways, we would regard it as basically wrong. 

That said, has any modern American pol ever failed to offer such thoughts? 

That boilerplate is often criticized, from the left, for allegedly conflating the experience of enslaved Africans with the experience of true "immigrant" groups. That said, this was completely conventional political speech—but Carlson was now telling his viewers that Obama had told us, in that statement, that immigrants are better than we Americans are. 

Indeed, Carlson claimed that Obama had told us that "for years." So it goes when this badly damaged, abandoned child lectures his viewers at Fox.

Carlson isn't always wrong, though we'd have to say he tries. Even when he starts from a reasonable premise, he instantly toys with basic logic and facts, creating a type of "no-go zone" for people who want to stay sane.

His viewers don't seem to notice the fact that he's manufacturing a culture of analytical depravity. That constitutes a basic anthropological fact—a fact about the powers of discernment native to our persistently war-inclined, tribal species.

Carlson went on at length Thursday night. We often wonder what he thinks about what it is that he's doing.

How does a person end up like this? We can't tell you that. That said, we tend to think that Carlson's true essence only comes to the fore when he discusses the "filth" created by immigrant groups, as he did on Thursday night as part of this disordered passage:

CARLSON: Earlier today, CNN anchor John Berman interviewed noted filmmaker Ken Burns. Burns is famous but sad, exactly the kind of middle-aged prestige hound who spends an awful lot of time looming around Martha's Vineyard looking for other famous people. 

Burns has a new film out that blames the United States, of all countries on Earth, for the Holocaust. Now that the World War II generation has passed, Ken Burns can do that. There's no chance angry veterans will show up at his house and beat him with their canes for besmirching the memory of their closest friends who died in their early twenties fighting the Nazis. So Ken Burns can say whatever he wants, and we will believe him. 

So this morning, Burns played the role of Holocaust expert on CNN, and you know what Ken Burns has discovered? Ken Burns has discovered that Ron DeSantis sending illegal aliens to Martha's Vineyard is pretty much exactly what Hitler did, pretty much exactly. Watch this.  

[VIDEOTAPE EXCHANGE]

Do you hear that, ladies and gentlemen? It's literally—literally—just like the Holocaust. Edgartown is Dachau. Oak Bluffs is Treblinka. The horrors! 

This is genocide and it may be, but of course everything is relative. Martha's Vineyard may be a modern-day death camp, but compared to where illegal aliens usually go, it doesn't look that bad. 

Let's compare, just for fun. On your screen, you will see images recently shot in America's border towns, which are now completely overrun under Joe Biden's immigration policy. You'll notice, if you look carefully, chaos, violence and filth.  

For the record, Ken Burns actually didn't say that "Ron DeSantis sending illegal aliens to Martha's Vineyard is pretty much exactly what Hitler did." 

Also, Burns didn't say that this action by DeSantis was "literally—literally—just like the Holocaust." If you want to assess what Burns did say, you can check the transcript or watch the videotape. 

Imaginably, a person could disagree with what Burns actually said. For ourselves, it's only when Carlson makes his standard reference to "filth" that we feel we've heard him speak with full authenticity, giving voice to his personal Rosebud.

Carlson is a disordered being, but he's also influential. His vast disorder helps explain the fact that our country, such as it was, has basically ceased to exist.

Barack Obama has never said that whiteness is a disease. Beyond that, we're going to guess that Ken Burns' new film doesn't "blame the United States, of all countries on Earth, for the Holocaust." 

(We'll also guess that Carlson hasn't seen the new film, which starts airing tomorrow night.)

Carlson could have offered some valid points about current immigration policy and procedure. He could have offered a fair account of what Obama and Burns have said, some sort of sane reaction.

He chose a different route. That said, when our own blue tribe discussed these same Vineyard events, we did what we seem fated to do:

Instantly, our tribunes began comparing DeSantis' conduct to Deep South racism of the mid-1960s. It's what our tribunes always do. We seem to have reached the point where our tribe knows no other move.

Carlson's as lost as it gets. As a general matter, the mainstream press corps ignores this basic fact.

In the end, we end up with the Others and Us. Again and again, the Others exhibit a wide array of crazy beliefs. They then get called racist by Us.

Along the way, the American nation has basically ceased to exist. The misleaders aggressively mislead the misled. Elsewhere, the name-calling starts.

We'll close this morning with a point we've been making for roughly twenty years. When major journalists behave the way Carlson did Thursday night, it should be front-page news in our major newspapers.

In our view, our own tribe's "cable news" hosts are bad enough. Carlson seems to be grossly disordered. 

He seems to be a damaged child. We recommend pity for damaged people, though such people should first be stopped from doing additional harm.

Such as it ever was, our nation has basically ceased to exist. We see this when we watch their stars, but also when we watch ours.  

Now for the rest of the story: Later in the monologue, Carlson offered this:

CARLSON: Barack and Michelle Obama are every bit as bigoted as any board member in any restricted country club in the Deep South, assuming those still exist. 

"Those people? They're not dating my daughter. I can tell you that!" 

So in other words, we learned this week that Barack Obama really is a racist and not in the way you've always assumed. Obama may hate white people—he certainly seems to. But he also demands to live around them and only them.

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He is a racist, as we've established, and so apparently are his fellow liberals. They are outraged by the idea of illegal aliens near their island vacation homes.

"I pity the poor immigrant," Bob Dylan once said of this pitiful star. In the meantime, Putin may be losing his world, but we the people are also losing ours.