PS: Greetings, Mr. Hail,

Metaphors We Live By:
https://tinyurl.com/5ycy87p7

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Dear Peak Stupidity Book Club:

- a request -

George Lakoff, "Metaphors We Live By" (1980?)

(For reference.)

PS: The Half-Blood Prince

https://tinyurl.com/2y9vasv9
https://i.ibb.co/1zP3hxN/Half-Blood-Prince.jpg

(The .jpg is another one of those hybrid files.)

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PS: Good evening, everyone,

Glad you all enjoyed the Helen Andrews article. I have a digital copy of The Half Blood Prince on one of my encrypted hard drives around here. I'll dig it out and post it.

When I search libgen for Steve Sailer only one book comes up...

A Politically Incorrect Reader, Vol. 1, July 2016:
https://tinyurl.com/yvz6bbzc

By F. Roger Devlin, Gregory Hood, Lawrence Murray, Peter Frost, Steve Sailer, Kevin MacDonald, Andrew Joyce, Clare Ellis, and others

Cheers!

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PS: Mr. Kief, regarding Christopher Caldwell, at least the one book of his I've read, "The Age of Entitlement". As much praise as I've read for his basic concept of Civil Rites law being a new Constitution (I agree.), I wonder how many people who praise it have read it. I write this as even on Steve Sailer's blog, I don't see people remark as I have that Mr. Caldwell cucks out completely on his Chapter 2 on Race and Chapter 3 on Sex.

But, lucky for you ;-}, Peak Stupidity has a review, written just under 2 years back:

https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=1921

"The Age of Entitlement - Christopher Caldwell"

PS: Finally, Mr. Hail, about Helen Andrews and her thinking that Mr, Sailer was reasonable on the "Lockdowns" etc:

I think what she means is that Mr. Sailer was all methodical and careful about death counts, cases, mask wearing, locking down businesses, etc., That doesn't make me think any more of him for that. This was a case of freedom vs. tyranny, plain and simple. I think Steve Sailer has integrity regarding truth-telling but not the real basic principles that this country was based on, emphasis on "was".

PS: I just read the very readable and fair Helen Andrews article on Steve Sailer. (Yes, that link was fine - thanks again, Adam.) I didn't write comments on The Unz Review till around Christmas of '16, initially purely to support my blog. (I was thrilled one didn't have to give any real info., and that I could put a link in. That was my first comment, something like "don't you all think we are approaching Peak Stupidity [linked]?"

BTW, Alarmist, I get Asymptotic but not Jacobin. Is that some French Revolutionary math? I kid - will have to look that up - hear the math term but not as a name of a function. I sure hope there will be a continuous rational function that resembles an inverted parabola, more like...

Anyway, Mr. Hail, i do remember Mr. Sailer touting his book a lot more when I started reading, for obvious reasons, as Obama was still in the spotlight. I don't know when it came out exactly either. If it had turned around the '12 election, I'm not so sure that'd have been better, unless McAmnesty bought the farm early on - Sarah Palin may be something of a ditzy broad, but she is a Conservative. I'd have been hoping AF-1 blew at least 3 engines over the middle of the Atlantic.

Regarding another Sailer book, you wrote:

"I wonder what would be the result if Steve Sailer arranged for his own kidnapping to be taken to a remote, no-Internet cabin for one month or more, with only non-connected word-processor and paper and pencil and paper books for reference, and told "Mr. Sailer: you may return to your normal blogging-and-tweeting-and-dogwalking life when you complete a full manuscript, book form; until then, you must here remain.""

He did indicate that he is getting a book together in a few posts that also solicited for best of (already written) material and great phrases of his. The commenters came through pretty well - I am bad at that type of memory recall. It won't be a book of tweets, thank God, but probably a compendium of his best posts. (I did take the time to suggest to him a way to categorize these.) So, for you and I, the book would be nothing new, something to buy only for support. However, if these posts got read widely, that'd be a very good thing.

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- re: Claremont's Money -

Where Claremont "gets its money" from is an interesting question and I don't know the answer. Maybe someone does.

But we do know that Claremont is a long-established right-wing institution, attached to a well-funded college. It is famous for being the nerve-center of the "West-Coast Straussian" right-wing political philosophy, and that goes back at least to the 1980s. They are too intellectual to ever get much attention, especially in the way "news" and "politics" works now.

This means, at least, Claremont are (of course) not new players, no shadow-money from George Soros, the CIA, the KGB, Chinese-intelligence, the UFO-aliens, interdimensional travelers, formless spiritual beings, a top-secret slush-fund being run out of Steve Sailer's basement, or any other theories of that kind.

Their funding probably looks like funding of the typical college, on the main.

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- cont., on Sailer's 2008 book and Sailer's writing style -

RE: October 25, 2008 publication date.

I am curious if my paper-copy of "America's Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama's Story of Race and Inheritance," if I could find it, has that "October 25, 2008" date on it or not.

What I notice is Helen Andrews probably simply typed the book title into Google Books and saw Google-Books auto-produced "2009." I know for sure I read it before the election.

I would say "Half-Blood Prince" was not really a "good book" to a Sailer reader, because it mostly had info that he had already blogged about. It might have been a good book to a non-reader. I was a strong Sailer fan at the time but don't remember thinking "Wow, this is a good book." Good books require more time than Sailer allowed himself on the project, and editorial advice from others, which I guess the project also didn't have. But it was under time-pressure because of the election.

On "Sailer as writer": one thing I can add, Sailer's power-blogging habit ends up dumping everything he has into daily material. This phenomenon may have its pluses, but it doesn't produce a good "book"--even with the same material that works in power-blogging form. (Even worse would be a book made up of tweets -- funny that I have never heard anyone even try that.) The "Book-as-Book" is something bigger than the sum of its contents. That is why, back in older days, careful attention was paid to book design.

Let me offer this Sailer-thought-experiment: I wonder what would be the result if Steve Sailer arranged for his own kidnapping to be taken to a remote, no-Internet cabin for one month or more, with only non-connected word-processor and paper and pencil and paper books for reference, and told "Mr. Sailer: you may return to your normal blogging-and-tweeting-and-dogwalking life when you complete a full manuscript, book form; until then, you must here remain."

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Mr. Hail 1) - thx. for th Claremont-Background of Compact Mag. Where do they get their money from?

Mr.Hail 2) the imprint of America's Half Blood Prince**** - in rather bold types, is October 2008 - directly under the author's name.
On the next page, it says October 25th, 2008

3) - - Christopher Caldwell a better writer than Steve Sailer - interesting hypothesis, but not that clear to my literary senses. I think Steve Sailer has improved his laconic style in the oh so desirable Occam direction and accomplished a lot in this regard. In articles of him from the 2010s or so there are more unnecessary words. He is a mixture now of Hemmingway and Mark Twain.
Interesting, that he shows no traces that I'd be aware of of his beloved Tom Wolfe?!

***a few weeks back he somehow agreed with me and another commenter, that the Half-Blood Prince allusion to J. K. Rowling's Potter-books was not wise, because he could not expect the public to let himget away with what they allowed J. K. Rowling.

Mod. - I think that this advertising libertarianism is a mistake and should be regulated - - -pronto: No TV ads for medicine - that's how that is done in Europe, and it works.
The simple fact of colliding interests: The public needs infos about meds, which are free from the financial pressure of Big Pharma on the news media.

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I may write more at HailToYou.wordpress.com on the Helen Andrews article (thanks to Adam Smith),

but one more observation for any die-hard Peak-Stupidity'ites still reading this:

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- When did Steve Sailer publish his Obama book? -

She mentions Steve Sailer published his "only book," on Obama's biography (which was a big Sailer-interest in 2007-2008; Sailer was the first commentator to talk about Barack Obama Jr.'s pastor-mentor Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the latter's "God Damn America!"-theology).

...But Helen Andrews says Sailer published it in:

"2009."

I was actively reading Sailer at the time. I bought the book when it came out. I remember distinctly that Sailer pushed-hard to get this book out DURING 2008 election season, hoping to have an impact on the election (though he was not a McCain supporter, he was clearly anti-Obama).

I careful sifting-through of the isteve.blogspot.com archives, or VDare (whose imprint the book appeared under) would reveal that he published the Half-Blood Prince book in/about September 2008.

The crucial timing difference is: Before or after election. I remember for sure that it was "before."

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Re: Helen Andrews' Steve Sailer profile

The word-count is actually +/- 3100 words.

(See "April 28th 2023 6:23AM MST," below.)

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Yes, a decade ago we might have said that the events and attitudes presented to us now would represent peak stupidity, but the way the wokesters are doubling down, I’d say we are headed for Jacobin asymptotic stupidity.

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- Steve Sailer and Lockdowns, per Helen Andrews -

I also wanted to add this on the Compact-Magazine Sailer profile:

Helen Andrews writes:

"Say you don’t care about race. You don’t want to talk about it, and you’re put off by people like Sailer who do. But you want to buy a house in a safe neighborhood. Or you want to evaluate the lab-leak theory. Or dissent from the lockdown regime (!!!). Or hire a recent graduate based on assumptions about their college resume. If you want to do any of those normal things and want for your children to be able to do the same, then the fanatical left-wing “anti-racists” have to lose and Sailer has to win."

She included "dissent from the lockdown regime"! (note- The "!!!" is mine, not Helen Andrews'). "Dissent from lockdowns" as something Steve Sailer is/was (implied to be) involved in. No, Helen Andrews. No. Sadly, it was the exact opposite in the critical period. After a while he drifted towards "armed neutrality." But he was never anti-Lockdown, never really anti-Panic, and never anti-Vaccine (afaik). He has given weak or indirect hints that he regrets his role in Lockdownism, nothing more.

Maybe "mea culpa" is not his Steve Sailer's style. But he could at least be more honest in appraisals of the early 2020s. His interest in tracking certain social-indicators and then saying it's all-100%-solely because of the George Floyd Riots with nothing else was involved, that is something close to being dishonest (in my opinion).

A relatively mature commentariat party-line exists at Sailer's Unz.com comment-section. Although Sailer is not generally a mass-censor (like russian-propagandist writer The Saker, who banned anyone who made any criticism of the Panic's tenets), the commentariat ends up with a party-line of its own. Only occasional people give pushback against Sailer's main themes or non-themes, such as the irascible and unpopular commenter Intelligent Dasein and such people (who I like in part for his "emperor's new clothes" attitude when applicable).

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- Q. What is Compact Magazine? -
--- My answer: signs point to Claremont ---

If "Compact Magazine" is really run by Sohrab Ahmari, count me as skeptical at least. I see Sohrab Ahmari as one of these people, like Vivek Ramaswamy, using anti-Wokeness to "cash in." It's like a business-angle. I could be wrong, but that's my honest opinion of Sohrab Ahmari from what I have seen.

If there are also ties to the Claremont Institute (via Sohrab Ahmari and co-founder Matthew Schmitz), it raises more questions than answers. The Claremont Institute is not a party-line place but is generally heavily pro-Jewish, but hosts people from tiring Israel-First neocons (like Mark Helprin, a classic dual-citizen war-promoter) all the way to people like the right-wing legal-theorist John Eastman, the Trump adviser who tried to fight the suspicious 2020 election results in the tainted states.

Giving Helen Andrews the "green light" to publish a long (?), pro-Sailer profile is interesting, because shortly before that, Helen Andrews was also published in Claremont Review of Books (Winter 2022-23), an essay about "South Africa's Racial Reckoning," which is critical of the Black regime and sympathetic to the Whites remaining in that unhappy country.

Other Claremont names we see appearing in this "Compact Magazine" include Michael Anton (the pro-Trump intellectual and professor in the Claremont orbit) and Christopher Caldwell (a higher-brow, better-writer version of a mixture of Charles Murray and Steve Sailer; "better writer" if you like the style; Caldwell is not and cannot be a social-media "zinger"-deliverer).

We also see Claremont republishing compact Magazine material.

In response to Mr Kief's question, "What is Compact Magazine?" -- I believe "available evidence suggests" it is a defacto part of the Claremont Institute world.

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- On the Helen Andres article -

You can get a direct link to the PDF via Adam 'Magic-Man' Smith's first link:

https://tinyurl.com/448sk54z

The full article (main-contents) comes in at 3,018 words.

There are people among us nowadays who claim that (almost) no one will ever read something of that length in the 2010s, 2020s. If so, my view is we are in more serious trouble than ever. Knowledge, insight, and ideas cannot come from wiki-skimming, google-suggested answers, social-media "feeds," memes, or the (generally highly inefficient) form of podcast-bantering.

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It's interesting how the supposed "freedom," "openness," and "access" (to good info) and things associated with the Internet has actually evolved into something more like a "National Inquirer"-ization of much of the Info-scape. Prolefeed Info-Tyranny. There were multiple causes. But the general phenomenon is (I'd say) BOTH cause and effect of the Stupidity problem.

Beginning a bit in the late-1980s and then throughout the 1990s, the idea of a revolution in info-access still had an analog world in mind except with giving access to full sets of professionally-made encyclopedias and reference-books on "CD-Roms." That faded in the 2000s, replaced by what we have now (the Big Tech-supervised Info-scape of wiki-thugs, social-media narcissists, loud-and-angry people, "the Algorithm"...).

In the older model of info-production and dissemination, I can almost guarantee that profiles (like this one) of Steve Sailer would have appeared in some newspaper or magazine with some regularity. Steve Sailer's popularity, though, only begins to emerge in the 2000s as such things were on the way out.

PS: Alarmist, Paige Turco was indeed a very pretty young lady. All the more reason to eat Special K. I try to avoid it all, but if I'm gonna eat a bowl of that American breakfast meal, I'll just go hard-core - Lucky Charms or Cocoa Puffs, FTW.

Thank you for that article, Adam. I see you, Mr. Hail, and Mr. Kief have read some, and it sounds very interesting. I'll get on the "mainframe" (the one that weighs 3-4 lb that I haven't moved around in 8 years) with Windows on it to do that quick filename extension change - I don't know how to do any of that on Apple stuff. Apple makes it hard to get to the details of anything - they seem to have a hands-off policy, as in "get your hands off! Just do the swiping with your fingers and don't worry about files and directories and that sort of thing."

Mr. Hail, re "I have yet to find Peak Stupidity making such a negative comment." Not the self-deprecating one, in that sense, but then as far as negative on the increasing stupidity of society, I am with iSteve on that. It doesn't help his cause that he is obligated to read the NY Times, NY Times magazine, Washington Post, The Atlantic, etc., for his blogging job,. It IS where he gets a lot of his material. He'd definitely get a better attitude about the still lack of stupidity in others if he hung out with the right, or ANY, people. His commenters don't seem stupid at all though. (Let's forget the Panickers for this thought.)

Mr. Kief, I've had this blog going for 6 1/2 years, though I'd reserved the URL "peakstupidity.com" a couple of years, maybe even 3, before that. When did Steve Sailer make that remark? I will enjoy reading the Helen Andrews article. Thanks, again, Adam!

PS: Mr. Kief from April 27th 2023 11:50AM:

"Clinton gave way to the big pharma advertising crusade in 89 Mod. Nobody much cared then. - It was all good old libertrianism - let it rock!" Being "allowed" (shouldn't have to be allowed - reason for my quotes) to advertise at will is indeed Libertarian. Let the drug users get some information without having to go through the medical establishment - doctors still have to prescribe medicines (as opposed to cases in China I noticed 15 years back), which just enriches the medical system and wastes time. (Sure, "people will die!", but I guess people can learn for themselves what drugs might now work together or for them. Or, a patient could ASK his doctor but not have to rely on the guy to be right himself and give the patient permission.)

Anyway, that was a long-winded digression, but I'd say the close relationship between the Feral Gov't FDA and the Big Pharma industry is nothing approaching Libertarianism. Then, this Kung Flu vaccine program was a much bigger push for both the involvement - downright boosterism and coercion - not Libertarian at all!

Anyway, that substack article has some good stuff, including Tucker video clips, some which were not really in Midwestern Doctor's wheelhouse - says he is a lifelong Democrat, as I recall.

Thank you for this link though. The general point of Big Pharma having a big say in the airing of Tucker Carlson is just one more possibility. There are many - I watched the one very recent (4/19, I think) video clip in which Mr. Carlson ranted against a dozen things - he was on the right track on all of them. That gets lots of people upset at these episodes of free speech.

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Mr. Hail about Helen Andrews tip-top Steve Sailer protrait in Compact Magazine.

1) Steve Sailer learned in high school that it is a good thing to be economical & precise with words - not least from a monk, who was into William of Occam - the man with the razor - = - razor-sharp reasoning - - - see.
2) And he studied the power of words in marketing - and, this is a meta-thing: In the marketing of he services they offered to well known brand's executives. - All depended a lot on catch phrases, brnad's names, memes = on language.
nd Steve Sailer did have a close look at lingusitics and socio-linguistics - - and later then also at social psychology - - and Freud' neuroticism-theoreme (which I brought forward 2015 ff. - in the beginning at times - - against Steve Sailer - and lots and lots of other commenters at iSteve and UR in general.- In the process, Sailer became more polite and self-ironic. He refers to a Dennis Prager lecture as the a-ha-moment for his personal change and once remarked, that to be more ironic and - psychologically-oriented/ freindly in his interactions heled him establish a better relationship with his sons too. So. this is central Sailer stuff.
And he sure did create this catch-phrase about the US getting stupider, Mod., heheh - and this sure should also ring a bell with you - he hints at ya, man, with this one! - - - by making this ironic remark about himself.
(Mr. Hail - this stuff is classical humor-writing, and it is not negative at all - it is realitic, if you htink about it.)

It is a good way, btw. to make IQ-talk look humble & next door neighbor like, this last phrase, with which Andrews, who as I've remarked before, is a great journalist - - -closes her article. This last sentence is great in & perfect in many hindsights.

3) Still nobody who knows anything about this Compact-Mag - - this seems to be a new magazine tryin' to get away from the dumbed-down anti-science zeitgeist - something like Quillette in and for - - - the US. A very good idea, it seems to me.

It is a statement, that they, as a fairly young magazine, run this article about Steve Sailer! - Does someone know more about them?

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Steve Sailer says:

“I recently turned 64, and I’m not getting any smarter,” he says. “On the other hand, the conventional wisdom is getting dumber even faster, so I suspect I’ll hang around until I drop dead.”

(quoted in Helen Andrews; via the man with the magic touch, Adam Smith).

This does sound exactly like Steve Sailer. Or at least like late-2010s and early-2020s Steve Sailer. I first read him in the 2000s; I think his "voice" was different then. He was more positive. That quote was meant to sound cutesy an self-deprecating, but is actually pretty heavily negative on all its points. I have yet to find Peak Stupidity making such a negative comment.

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Second thought: My first impression is does sound like Sailer's writing voice. But I realize I haven't heard Sailer's speaking voice enough to make a good guess if it could also be something he says (in a spoken interview) off the cuff.

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My bad ... it was a little black dress, and I guess the ceral branding (red) imprinted on me, but I wasn’t exactly focused on the dress at the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Al_WjeOoXo

I don’t know why I thoight it was the ‘80s.

I know she was the alkie on Party of Five, but I forgot about her being the lesbian cop on NYPD Blue, which would be a nothingburger today.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAotFmegEfQ

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I remember a cereal commercial from the ‘80s with a hot model type in a tight red dress. Flash foward three decades to the series, The 100, and there is a somewhat older but still hot Special-K red-dress model, Paige Turco, actually acting.

How many Ozempic smiling people will even be alive in three decades to do anything new?

If your doctor and the drugs he is incentivised to push on you don’t kill you prematurel, the HFCS and carbs will.

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Adam - thank you a lot - - - the Helen aAndrews Story you link belwo about Steve Sailer is a top-notch - - - gem! (I knew she is good. I had read a number of stories by her. And now I'd say she is great).

PS: Behind Steve Sailer's Rise

https://tinyurl.com/448sk54z
https://i.ibb.co/1Rq72G2/Steve-Sailer.jpg

(Steve-Sailer.jpg is a hybrid file. If you download and rename Steve-Sailer.jpg to Steve-Sailer.pdf you can read it as a .pdf.)

Sorry I didn't do this sooner, Dieter. Been busy at work.

Cheers!

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PS: Welcome back, Mr Moderator,

“Do we have it worse off than in the days of Walter, Eric, Mr. Brinkley, etc?”

Yes and no. Not better, not worse. Just different.

We have much better access to information. But this is a mixed bag as you have to separate the wheat from the chaff.

There was more freedom in some ways back then because America was a nice, less populated, high trust, mostly White society. More people were hopeful about the future.

Today we are a more overcrowded, less trustworthy society. Most everyone (and everything) is getting dumber, Idiocracy style. But the cannabis is of higher quality, and cheaper than ever. So there's that.

Anyway... Happy Thursday!

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Clinton gave way to the big pharma advertising crusade in 89 Mod. Nobody much cared then. - It was all good old libertrianism - let it rock! - And it did - - - Here's a doctor looking at the details - - -without sying the least little syllable of what he had thought, when Bill Clinton made this destructive law - - - as long as no kid has fallen into the well - - -let's not be too cautious - - let's Rock! etc. pp.

https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/big-pharmas-destruction-of-american

PS: Bronson Zhivago, thanks for writing in. I'm always glad to see new commenters. No argument from me on this.

I forgot to address my recollection of the Regime Media. I would say, Adam, that the whole country was more Conservative going back 40 - 50 years - before CNN, much less the internet. Though the 3 big networks (and Public TV, if you didn't get just "snow" on the screen, too) leaned left. They did have their agenda, but it was not so hard-left and not nearly so blatant.

However, there wasn't a good way to argue against that old mellower Regime Media without the internet, or at least some other new cable channels. This looked great for us for a good while - through 2015 maybe? At some point the (VDare term) TECH Totalitarians took charge and figured out how to squash this new free speech venue.

Do we have it worse off than in the days of Walter, Eric, Mr. Brinkley, etc?

PS: Adam, you play the ghetto lottery, you takes your chances ... on a .32 vs .40. It does help to have a thick skull.

Yep, NATIONAL BIG NEWS vs. local story of the man being purposely run down and killed by some Black! Moslem-named (import?) or local story of that man who spent time in the hospital and his little daughter being lucky to just have been grazed... for going to retrieve a basketball that trespassed into Black! territory.

Back to that Yari, he indeed won by surviving AND getting to be the weekly RACISM! story.

PS: Mr. Hail, re your April 25th 2023 7:29PM MST comment, yes, that's exactly as in the software business.

Mr. Smith, I'm glad you found/remembered that David Rockefeller spoken paragraph. That is pretty damning. Attending the meetings? Hell, I don't even like the idea of these media people going along on Air Force 1, just as a taxpayer if for no other reasons. (It should be a Gulfstream - American made - that can carry 10-12 people.) Let's not forget the carbon 4-engine footprint of that 747-400. ;-}

Dieter and Mr. Hail, re Big Pharma on TV: Yes, I have a decent memory on this - I don't remember prescription drugs being advertised on TV back in the 1980s and earlier. I'm pretty sure it was some law - that's not that I agree even, but that influence is big. Big money goes into developing and testing the drugs, with lots of government involvement in the latter, meaning all kinds of collusion is possible. Then, once it's developed, they've go to do all they can to keep these (at that point) easy to make highly profitable pills selling for years without competition.

Yes, the left was against anything BigBiz until maybe 25 years ago, as a default. Now that the Establishment, including BigBiz has been infiltrated almost completely, this is not a thing anymore.

Jeff Foxworthy got the humor right on this. I have watched snippets of TV here and there - at hotel rooms back when Seinfeld was still on - they reel out about 10 very nasty side effects, and in a surprisingly not-so-discreet fashion - then go on with the mellow music and old people enjoying life due to their new pills. Just don't be one of those side-effects people!

PS: Slightly O/T. For those interested, the commenter "Countenance" has a blog that'd I'd read a bit a few years back. He has his opinion on Peter Thiel in a short post on his site too:

https://countenance.wordpress.com/

You can see the St. Louis arch on the banner. I remember that this guy lived there until he got fed up with, from what I gather from the old posts - the Black! crime in that city. He moved to Germany and has hinted or written somewhere on iSteve that he is still there.

In general I agree with Mr. Countenance, but I know nothing about this Peter Thiel thing or Peter Thiel, period. That's some speculation, but I admit to being guilty on this too.

Only the word from Tucker, who I do believe is an honest man, would clear this all up. However, if he really is still under contract with Fox and can't somehow break it, is some kind of non-disclosure clause part of it? I hope he can get into a good media position soon, before his audience goes its own way.

PS: Ahh, finally got done with work stuff for lunch time at least, and then it'll mellow out by this evening. I've read the great thread here, but I may have forgotten some of the points I wanted to reply to.

Mr. Hail, I thank you for your 7 point run-down/summary of the Tucker on TV story. Regarding point 7, that is very much how I remember Tucker from 5 years ago or so - he'd put up a lefty (or other-oriented) idiot up there, let him make a fool of himself, and try to get words in edgewise to correct the BS. I put up more than a couple of video clips on this sort of thing, probably on that 6-4 year ago timeline. That's where I got "I! GET! THAT! [/Tucker]" from, as he'd keep saying that to get the interviewee to stop for a second so Tucker could get some words in. n I remember him interviewing one nutty guy whose neck was long like a giraffe. (I don't know why that one sticks out, OK, get it?, in my mind.)

You have written before about how scripted you think his interviews, including the more recent ones, were, when he was interviewing someone who's not a nut and is very coherent, that is.

I wish he'd had Steve Sailer on. Contrary to one comment I read by an iSteve commenter, Tucker did not avoid talking about VDare at least, a group with whom Steve Sailer is closely related. He mentioned VDare an AmRen both when talking about the Regime's work to silence these people via more than just big "TECH" censorship. There have been and are efforts to stop them from taking Paypal payments and things like that.

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Mr. Hail - a new radio-station with more or less the old Social Democratic ideas behind it (=functining social state, strong trade unions, controlled (=limited) immigration, modest taxation of workers, no basic income, nuclear power as energy source...) called Kontrafunk has emerged, with quite some good old journalists from the Deutschlandfunk etc. - ok, and they are well-establsihed in the German parliamentary structures because they have lived their working life within them - - -and these (mostly old foxes -- now) say: The resistance within the CDU against the immigraiotn-critical AfD ist weakening.
Mind you: It took thirty+ years in Sweden to form a ringt wing government - and it was still necessary, to make a construct, that kept the Sweden Democrats fomally out of the government even though they are in it!! - - to make this right wing government work.
The NPD-decision is proof, that the ultimate doom-sayers with regard to the established judicial system are a bit on the - heheh pessimist side. - - -Btw. Its springtime in Germany, which is great - - - the coldest April in human memory, some say, but - that is not what my memory says: We had sowy eastertimes in the sixties - and that meant, that we boys had what was known as 'blue knees' then, because my mother's*** rule was: Lederhosen from April on - - - . . .
She grew up in a tiny tiny village in the tschechoslowakian Sudenten mountain range, Tschenkowitz, 1000 m high - - no woolen socks after April for her - - - she gave us socks - so - That she changed - - - She died long ago.... I love her - the longer the more - - -

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Thanks for the Jeff Foxworthy & George Carlin Youtube clips, Mr. Smith

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Thanks for the Jeff Foxworthy & George Carlin Youtube clips, Mr. Smith

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...in other news...

-- Germany decides you ARE allowed to say "Migration Kills!" after all --

The small ethnonationalist political party NPD of Germany has won the right to use the slogan "MIGRATION KILLS. Stop the invasion!" in its political material.

In the 2019 election season, Anti-Racism commissars sued the NPD for its use of this political slogan, and temporarily banned the material it had produced with that slogan. The commissars alleged that saying "Migration Kills!" was a crime of so-called "Volksverhetzung," or incitement to race-hate, a non-existent crime in traditional pre-Wokeness U.S. law.

The case was finally decided in the highest court this week, and the NPD wins; the court has ruled that saying "MIGRATION KILLS!" is not a crime after all.

For more than twenty years now, there have been attempts to ban this NPD party. The natural place of this or a similar party in the German political spectrum was the subject of much effort over the years to suppress it, including explicit attempts to ban the party going back at least to 2003, the most serious of which failed after investigation showed virtually all the alleged crimes traced to actions of government agents (infiltrators, agents saboteur).

After the 2015-16 rise of the AfD, most of their marginal supporters left to join the AfD's own ethnonationalist wing. By about 2017 the efforts to ban the NPD were moving towards trying to ban the AfD. The AfD is a much-more successful party, with substantial voter-shares and potential influence in the eastern states. I don't know if Mr. Kief will agree, but I foresee the AfD as part of the government of some of these states in the 2020s. It will be hard to continue keeping them out.

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CNN says:

"Tucker Carlson broke his silence on Wednesday evening, posting a short video online...

The right-wing media extremist didn’t say much in the rambling two-minute message, but he offered critical commentary on the state of television news, bashing the debates that occur on air as “unbelievably stupid” and “completely irrelevant”..."

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Oliver Darcy, one of CNN's experts on right-wing media-extremists like Tucker Carlson, says therein that the firing was decided upon "Friday evening," was fallout from the election-tampering lawsuit (in which Fox News took a dive to the Regime and agreed not to fight to the Supreme Court), and a contributing factor was "a lawsuit filed in March by his now-fired top booker, Abby Grossberg, (which) included a number of allegations of sexism."

PS: Good evening, everyone,

I agree, Dieter. It is reprehensible that 70% of the TV news ad revenue comes from Big Pharma here in the states. (and) I agree with Professor Hail that this has important, oftentimes dangerous, social and political effects; the genesis of the Corona-Panic being an unfortunate example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSdNMRtvq5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X29lF43mUlo

Mr. Hail, mainstream media has clearly emerged as regime media. When exactly did this happen? I'd hypothesize that it happened long before you or I were born. It's just more obvious and odious today. (I'd speculate that it was less noticeable in say the 50's and 60's as there was no internet, and therefore no easily accessible alternative to the regime media of the day.)

While less obvious, there were signs...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uTuWuDVTAI

So... I remembered the quote. It was not spoken by a CIA director, but rather by someone more powerful. David Rockefeller addressed a Trilateral Commission meeting in 1991 with these words...

“We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications, whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years.”

And on that cheerful note, I wish you all a great evening!

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Adam Smith says:

"some CIA director...thanks the major media companies for working with them all these years to advance their agenda. ...Perhaps someone here already knows it?"

Whatever the roles of this-or-that group, there is clearly the existence of a "Regime Media." The Internet-optimists of yesteryear would have said it impossible. Somehow it's almost stronger than ever now.

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Re: U.S. TV ads for drugs

I don't think the "70% pharmaceutical advertisement" figure was at all true in the 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s. Not even close. Maybe they weren't even allowed to advertise then. Nor were there many ads for drugs in any other venue, magazines, newspapers, radio, that I remember. Maybe the older commenters here can corroborate or "dis-corroborate."

I don't have such a good memory before around the late 1990s, but I don't recall the 70% number being true then, definitely far closer to 0% than 70%.

By around the late 2000s, this drug-ad thing DID seem to start being true. In the 2010s, it became a joke, a cliche, that regular-TV is full of ads.

(Tucker Carlson's own show had as its most-regular sponsor the right-wing MyPillow company, led by Mike Lindell, a right-wing Trump supporter of Minnesota. The MyPillow/Lindell ads resemble those once known as "local TV ads," with low production-value. But the Tucker ad-rates were so low, and Lindell such a loyal ad-buyer he probably got bulk-discounts, that Lindell believed Tucker-loyalists would buy his pillows and related products. And they did; MyPillow is probably the Western world's most successful right-wing pillow company.)

Already by the mid 2000s, some social-critic White comedians were using the TV-drug-ad phenomenon in their material:

The "redneck" comedian Jeff Foxworthy had a famous comedy routine in the mid-2000s that involved making fun of how prescription-medicine ads on TV had a mandatory list of side-effects, and that the side-effects were usually WORSE than what the medicine is supposed to cure.

Probably George Carlin also had jokes like this by that time. We recall that during the Corona-Panic, George Carlin's anti-panic comedy routine from 2007 or 2008 making fun of virus-panickers became widely shared, I think shared here by Adam Smith.

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I agree with Mr. Kief('s implied point) that the role of Big Pharma in the USA by the 2000s and 2010s is a key to the Corona-Panic and also that it has wider political effects.

What I remember of the 2000s is that criticism of Big Pharma was a position of the Left; I don't know when that changed, but it is now practically a dissident-Right position, except that Steve Sailer and others like him have failed to turn their attention to it, instead highly interested in the exact number of traffic-accident deaths.

PS He spoke of religion.
Silver lining always, he is now free of FAUX and the Karen squad of Rupert's wives.
Getting rid of Tucker was the last move before selling off FAUX and a fundamental transformation of this phony opposition.
A new speak freely door just opened for Tucker.
Only a handful of corporations control all media and any deviation from the sodomite narrative or mention of religion will result in termination.

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It sure bugged me - as a german... - that 70% of the TV news ads revenue in the US comes from Big Pharma****. - And it did bug Tucker Carlson - - -the only TV news anchor ever (!) to talk abut that toxic stuff - and Jimmy Dore chimed right in here:

https://rumble.com/v2kbilm-the-real-reason-tucker-carlson-was-fired-by-fox-news.html

Ahhh - one of the few people to come back repeatedly (!) at this TV news dependency on: Big Pharma! - of all things possible was/ is - - - Whitney Webb - - -she is one sharp cookie - - - -
****the US-TV-news dependency is important for germans because - - - lots of German agenda setters a deeply influenced by US media - - so: That is one hard reason for my concerns about US TV news - - -

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One more detail I omitted, apropos of the discussion in the previous Peak Stupidity entry on the Tucker Carlson firing:

The CEO's Monday-AM phone call to Tucker Carlson also informed him that he was cut out of company's intranet and email. That is, the CEO told him that Fox News IT-technicians had, at that very moment, terminated Carlson's access to the company email system. He lost access to anything he didn't otherwise have on hand. He had no time to go in to check anything, save anything, or contact anyone. It was done at the same time as the phone call.

The concern about what a fired person could do "in person" is not relevant here, given that Carlson has lived for some years now in a rural compound in an all-White area of Maine. That turn in his life follows the cases of violent intimidation of his wife and daughters in Washington (while he was in the studio on the air). He has had no access to anything "on-site" unless he happened to be passing through.

(opinion: In the shows broadcast from the home-studio on the Maine compound, there became something of a feel of "phoning it in," but that could also be because he had run out energy to an extent, having done his show five years, six years, now in its seventh year.)

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- Monday-morning phone call -

Several who-knew-what-and-when claims have been reported today by sources who claim to have inside info:

one.) The decision to end Tucker Carlson Tonight was made on or by Friday.

two.) The Fox News senior leaders kept this a secret from Tucker himself over the weekend. Tucker and team were at work Monday morning as usual, and interviews were being lined up, scripts written and cleared, and their usual operation.

three.) Fox News CEO, Suzanne Scott, personally called Tucker Carlson Monday morning and delivered the news that he was moved to the "reserve list" and that he would indefinitely be barred from Fox News in any form.

four.) While Tucker Carlson himself is still contract-bound, several of his show's own senior staff have been terminated. Justin Wells, said to be Tucker's most-senior "producer" and the influential show-runner (White, Gay), has been removed.

Oh,

and

Suzanne Scott: White-Christian; born 1965; has been with Fox News since its launch in 1996! -- Inherited the CEO'ship of Fox News in May 2018 following a 2016--2018 interregnum after sex-scandals and uncertain leadership.

Suzanne Scott inherited Tucker Carlson, who had been slated for the 8pm slot to replace Bill O'Reilly, who was one of those axed during the sex-scandal / shaky-leadership purge period.

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- Tucker not fired -

Word came in today that Tucker Carlson has NOT been "fired."

It is said that Tucker is still legally an employee of Fox News. He has been forbidden from appearing on the former Tucker Carlson Tonight show or any other program but not terminated as an employee under contract.

If under contract, Tucker cannot legally go somewhere else. They could also sue him for breach of contract if he badmouths Fox. You don't get a huge salary like that without it being lawyered-over for situations like this.

They may be planning to let him dangle for a while.

PS: Thanks for the great reading, commenters. I had a long and busy day - I'll get back to the blog tomorrow evening or Thursday.

PS: Thanks for all the info, Mr. Hail, Dieter,

Peter Thiel, much like Dick Carlson is heavily involved with the CIA...

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/7/16/21323458/palantir-ipo-hhs-protect-peter-thiel-cia-intelligence

"Indeed, the CIA was one of Palantir’s earliest investors through its venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel (yes, the CIA has a venture capital arm). It was Palantir’s only customer for years as the company refined and improved its technology, according to Forbes. By 2010, Palantir’s customers were mostly government agencies, though there were some private companies in the mix. Having managed to quietly work its way toward a $1 billion valuation, it was then one of the most valuable startups in Silicon Valley. By 2015, Palantir was valued at $20 billion."

A little more info...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/13/how-palantirs-tech-patriotism-became-a-multi-billion-dollar-idea.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Carlson

https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-went-cia-reject-184029759.html

https://sfstandard.com/politics/how-tucker-carlsons-sf-mother-became-a-stand-in-for-everything-he-despises/

Mr. Hail,

"I have found myself on the skeptical side of Tucker Carlson, and his place within the Regime Media apparatus."

"The firing of Tucker Carlson, in the way it apparently happened, deflates the harder-line criticism of the kind I allude to, but the basic criticism that Tucker has (had) at least a semi-Gatekeeper role within the system is still sound. The January Sixth theory could be a case of them seeing Tucker as stepping outside his Gatekeeper role."

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The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” – William Colby, former CIA director

There is also a quote somewhere (which at the moment eludes my memory) from some CIA director where he thanks the major media companies for working with them all these years to advance their agenda. Perhaps it will come to me while I'm doing my chores this afternoon.(?) Perhaps someone here already knows it?

Cheers!

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RE: Peter Thiel and alleged Carlson subsidy

I don't believe the explanation about the role of Peter Thiel. Fox knew that firing Tucker Carlson would be reputation damage among its own audience.

Anyone Fox'er basic-math skills would be able to see that the reputation damage from firing Carlson could be a larger net cost than any supposed small-time, unrealized potential revenue in the 8:00-8:59pm time-slot.

The revenue lost from the advertiser boycott because of Tucker's anti-Wokeness reputation (plus the insinuations of Racism and anti-Semitism and more) is small and could be adjusted with reducing Tucker's salary and operating fund for his team, not with a dramatic firing.

The Peter Thiel Subsidy explanation doesn't work (for me).

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commenter countenance wrote, Peter Thiel would have subsidizedthe Tucker Carlson show on FOX and became tired of it and - - - that was it...

res chimed in on that

From what I have heard, credibly, what made up the difference for a long time was Peter Thiel writing checks.

Therefore, I surmise that TC’s exit is almost entirely due to Thiel getting tired of subsidizing.

Thanks. Could you elaborate? Ideally with some references?

One Tucker Carlson departure article I see mentioning Peter Thiel is this.
https://fortune.com/2023/04/24/fox-loses-690-million-value-tucker-carlson-leaving/

As speculation over Carlson’s next landing spot spread, investors snapped up shares of Rumble Inc., the Peter Thiel-backed conservative video network, and Digital World Acquisition Corp., the special-purpose acquisition company merging with Trump Media. Both stocks erased declines, with Rumble stock rallying as much as 7.4%, while Digital World gained 4.8%.

Another had this assertion. Anything to it?
https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2023/04/24/tucker-carlson-can-no-longer-confuse-and-deceive-via-fox-television-america-spared-from-interview-with-rich-hindu-biz-partner-to-data-analytics-tracking-ceo-german-born-gay-billionaire-peter-thiel/

Tucker Carlson will no longer be beamed into American Homes by television. This is helpful. And, it spared American television viewers an interview with Peter Thiel connected Vivek Ramaswamy, who seems to be one of many trojan horses vying to be US President.

Searching for “peter thiel” “tucker carlson” over the past week shows more articles, but most seem to be variations on the Fortune link above.

P.S. If Thiel wanted to stop subsidizing things like Tucker’s show then why did he start Rumble? Perhaps a redirection of funds?

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I just realized an alternative theory for the Tucker Carlson firing, which I haven't otherwise heard:

-- (Known): On Tuesday, April 18th, it was announced that Fox Corp. settled a lawsuit with the vote-machine people on for a payment of cash, but the specifics were secret.

-- (Known): On or about April 17th, 18th, and 19th, Tucker Carlson's show featured prerecorded interviews with Elon Musk. At least some other material that week may also have been prerecorded.

-- (Basically Known): When prerecorded content comes on these Big Media agenda-setting venues, it's a sign the host and his team have been given vacation by prearrangement, most often associated with either a traditional late-summer lull, Christmas--New Year's lull, or tacked-on days to existing real holidays like Memorial Day or Labor Day. (The principle is similar to how in the old days of TV, some shows would produce "clip shows" to meet network contracts for material but give their cast and crew the week off, as TV workloads could be pretty grueling.)

-- (Speculative): If prerecorded content appears but there is reason to believe the team is NOT on a preplanned vacation, we can use some Kremlinology to guess that "something may be afoot."

-- (Known): After the week largely filled by prerecorded material (the long Elon Musk interview and possibly more), Tucker Carlson signed off the air for the last time, Friday, April 21st, 8:59pm Eastern Time, without indication he would never be back.

-- (Theory): As a secret clause of the legal settlement, Fox Corp. agreed to fire the racist, anti-semitic, conspiracy-theorist Tucker Carlson and make certain other changes. The wheels would have been in motion already in mid-April, as the settlement talks were ongoing (in secret); the world only learned of it about midday Eastern Time, Monday, April 24th, but when it was proposed and agreed to may be a secret known only to the negotiators involved.

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Here are some things I can add on the Tucker Carlson Cancellation imbroglio:

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1 -- Cable listings continue(d) to say "Tucker Carlson Tonight" up through end of week.

(For the host's knowledge of things-TV ends many years back, or for posterity if Peak Stupidity survives the meteor-strike, UFO, or Wokeness apocalypse(s), let me explain that "cable "TV providers list programs and time-slots well in advance, similar to what you'd see in the old days with the so-called "TV guide" printed for newspapers. You can scroll through the lists on the screen.)

This may indicate the cable providers were not informed of the decision as of late in day April 24th.

It's not like this is 1990s print technology in which stacks of TV guides are printed and sitting in a warehouse. Rained-out rescheduled baseball games are easily adjusted in real-time (as far as I know, or recall).

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2 -- Preceding time-slot guy Jesse Waters absent without explanation.

The preceding show is by a bozo called Jesse Waters, who styles himself a comedian. Jesse Waters' show-close segments seem to always be "Text Me" where he reads and makes sarcastic jokes about texts viewers send "him" (read: his staff, who select a few for him to read).

However, on this day, Monday April 24th 2023, Jesse Waters was entirely absent, replaced by a bench-player whose name I don't know but I think normally appears as a commentator on the Fox News morning show.

A sub in this slot is unusual for a day like April 24, being not near any normal holidays.

Jesse Waters always ends his show with a line something like: "That's all for tonight. Tucker's up next," followed by a silly slogan he created for himself ("I'm Waters, and this is my world"). The substitute host this day said none of these things, read the lines straight, and did not mention one word about the following show. The show ended abruptly.

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3 -- Sub host, "Fox News Tonight":

On the normal Tucker slot, a sub is also on. The logo "Fox News Tonight" comes on.

The substitute is called Brian Kilmeade. I think he is originally a radio-host.

Sub Brian Kilmeade opens the show with strange words, approximately this: "As you have probably already heard, Fox and Tucker Carlson have decided to part ways. I am a friend of Tucker's and always will be. Now, on to important news we have to discuss..." which seems to a large stack of steaming boilerplate, Fox-style prolefeed related to new discoveries about Hunter Biden's laptop, or something very similar.

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4 -- Hannity and Ingraham

I am not sure if Sean Hannity or Laura Ingraham mentioned the surprise Tucker firing at all.

Hannity is a company man and propagandist; Laura Ingraham leans more Tucker-like and on the Corona-Panic was righter, sooner than Tucker, who either bought the story or claimed to, during all the critical lockdown weeks.

Let me remind here on a true test-case of Regime-line loyalty came three years ago in spring 2020 when, as Brownstone Institute has now been saying, we need to adjust our understanding the Corona-Panic as more of an actual military coup than previously thought. Anti-Panickers were therefore in a difficult position and everyone knew it, which is why so many stayed quiet.

The first major media appearance by Knut Wittkowski, the early anti-Lockdown hardliner, was actually on the Laura Ingraham show. He is an intellectual, not a good tv personality, has no interest in being a tv talking head, and I don't know if he was effective or not in convincing passive Lockdown-believers, let alone the committed Panickers. (The early Wittkowski-like critics didn't sway Steve Sailer, for one, who I think mocked Wittkowski and/or other PhDs and world-leading epidemiologist anti-Lockdowners and Anti-Panickers, as dangerous-crazies.)

I am guessing that both Hannity and Ingraham were informed NOT to talk about the Tucker controversy.

It seems that on this day that Laura Ingraham's team fashioned its own opening segment (influential in political agenda-setting of its own, though less than Tucker's; and airing live at 10pm Eastern Time) well AFTER the Tucker-firing announcement came out in about early afternoon. Maybe insiders knew of it far earlier than the public. Still she gave no hint of the matter, and it seems she, too, went into the same anodyne, gatekeeping-style Hunter Biden Laptop-type story.

(As I have commented before, these opening segments are today's U.S. equivalents of the most influential opinion-columns or editorials of an earlier era. Formerly they were in the more easily consumed written form, now they are delivered by millionaire teleprompter-reader writing-supervisors. The segments reach larger audiences many times more people through online clips than the live-viewers; and there are secondary effects when quoted by others later.)

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5 -- CNN, MSNBC, others crowing and doing group-counseling

While the Fox sub hosts, Hannity, and Ingraham are all doing hostage-video-like material, each host on CNN and MSNBC, in succession, gloats and crows about the defeat of Racism, Anti-Semitism, Misogyny, and anti-Wokeness represented by the firing of Tucker Carlson. Panels are brought on to celebrate the news and share their lived-experiences of Tucker Carlson's bullying, racism, and anti-semitism.

One case I briefly saw was a political hack named Frank Luntz, originally a pollster I think, who was brought on for a CNN panel. There he was, Frank Luntz, somehow looking disheveled despite CNN's stylists giving a work-over before appearing on the live in-person panel. He looked and sounded like he was at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Frank Luntz explained to the other panelists (it was unclear who the host was) that Tucker Carlson had ruined his life.

Frank Luntz went on, in this characteristic Tucker-is-gone gloating segment, to say that Tucker Carlson had forced him (Luntz) to flee America because of attacks and mockery that had libeled him, caused him psychological damage as Tucker fan's began harassing him. Tucker Carlson had ruined Luntz' life, but Luntz says with a weak smile that he recovered his will to live while in exile in London. He says he was glad to learn London is a great city. Frank Luntz' pathos on the Tucker firing was received sympathetically in feminine-listening style by the panelists (some of whom were male).

The "Tucker Out at Fox" segments dominate each of all the primetime CNN and MSNBC shows, as far as I can tell. Not all of them as ridiculous as the Luntz one I've just sketched. They are usually being more angry, in the usual style of "Cable news." The capture of Saddam Hussein or the news of the gangland hit on Bin Laden evoked comparable scenes from earlier versions of these people.

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6 -- An interest of mine in the past few years is seeing the Regime as it is, and looking at how it works without polemics or distractions. That's capitalized, Regime, to refer to the U.S. power-system, opinion-guiders, gatekeepers, enforcers, the ruling coalition and cultural-heights possessors, both within formal-official government and not, elected and not. Wokeness seems to be, in great part, a project of the Regime. (Which side the tail and which side the dog is an academic discussion.)

In November 2020, I used the term "Regime Media" for the first time, to refer explicitly to people like the big-players in Big Media who are part of the Regime in any meaningful sense, agenda-setters and purveyors of info from other parts of the Regime, like CNN, MSNBC, and ("even") Fox News. (CNN especially for some reason ended up with lots and lots of regular guests with national-security-state and CIA ties.) Anyway, I don't remember seeing the term "Regime Media" before then; though I'm sure it has been used, it never had any momentum.

In coming weeks and months I noticed that some others began using the term "Regime Media." It probably proliferated independently from multiple paths, as people got the same idea and decided to name the thing directly. This was in the year of lockstep Lockdownism, the maoist-red-guard-like Wokeness explosion, and all the strange goings-on related to the "mail-in ballot firehose election," all things promoted (and "fortified," as they put it so charmingly) by Big Media.

VDare first used the term "Regime Media" in March 2021, that after its author James Kirkpatrick took up the term in January 2021. Tucker Carlson later used the term I think in 2021; Laura Ingraham took up the term by December 2021, and I think consistently used it in 2022 and 202 (whereas Tucker rarely used it after a few times).

I have found myself on the skeptical side of Tucker Carlson, and his place within the Regime Media apparatus.

Tucker's supporters say he has to do certain things stay on the air, and because he says certain good things they don't want to hear the criticisms, much like Trump's own role among his supporters, they don't want to hear criticism "from the Right" of Trump.

Tucker's critics say he is -knowingly- playing a gatekeeper role within the "Regime Media" system. It's hard to say. Tucker Carlson himself may not know what his true position is, and ascribing a master-plan to anyone may often be the wrong approach. What we do know is that Tucker grew up around power and knows how to play its game. His show had a certain pattern that kept things within certain bounds.

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The firing of Tucker Carlson, in the way it apparently happened, deflates the harder-line criticism of the kind I allude to, but the basic criticism that Tucker has (had) at least a semi-Gatekeeper role within the system is still sound. The January Sixth theory could be a case of them seeing Tucker as stepping outside his Gatekeeper role.

7 -- Steve Sailer and Tucker Carlson

It's interesting that Tucker Carlson never once invited on Steve Sailer.

It's not like he never had time. Many of his segments were basically unserious, the early-years' "Arguing with Idiots" segments (happily dropped in the later years) and something fishing out odd or no-name characters for human-interest stories, as if it's local news.

In about 2019, Sailer explained that he had been contacted in about the previous year or so (2017 or 2018) for a Tucker Carlson appearance, this by a producer, but then a few days later he (Sailer) was informed the deal was off and had, it was suggested, been nix'ed from above somewhere.

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Maybe it is because Larry Fink and the DIE fanbois at BlackRock own 15% of Fox Corp.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1754301/000130655023005977/us35137l1052_020123.txt

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O/T daily dose of Zen

https://media.gab.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1136,quality=100,fit=scale-down/system/media_attachments/files/136/091/448/original/65b7838f4156f0c6.png

PS: Thanks for the twitter link about Fox and 1/6, Adam. I just don't think he'd have resigned (per one of the tweets) without going a little rogue first, or a lot ...

Thanks, Dieter. Really, on Jan 3-5th of that year, part of the reason I didn't make a more serious effort to go to Washington, FS, was that I though "I've been to one Trump rally - they're fun, but this is probably a waste of my time." Then, the travel plans didn't work out that well. Yes, it was for the best.

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Mod. - I'm glad you didn't go there. You really seemed to not have understood what was at stake - - - which is no bad thing - - as long as one behaves accordingly.
That said I'll add: We could speculate for days - if not weeks, what is behind the curtain of the Tucker Carlson theatre - - but I'd rather not to.***
Before the curtin is a 770+ million Dollar court-settlement in a case, that is a political case, mind you. - See, these are regions, that make live uneasy - even for Rupert Murdoch.

***Bartleby and Oblomov are quasi saints in my literay calender.

PS: Completely off topic...

Ralph Yarl Wins The Ghetto Lottery!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/nf36y-cover-medical-expenses

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/kansas-city-homeowner-accused-of-shooting-ralph-yarl-pleads-not-guilty

"Yarl was shot at point-blank range in the head but miraculously survived the bullet, his family’s attorney said Tuesday."

"Lester could face up to life in prison on the assault charge if convicted."

"The shooting happened about 10 p.m. Thursday. Police Chief Stacey Graves said that Yarl’s mother asked him to pick up his twin brothers at a home on 115th Terrace.

Yarl, an honors student and all-state band member, mistakenly went to 115th Street — a block away from where he meant to be. When he rang the bell, Lester came to the door and used a .32 caliber Smith and Wesson 1888 revolver to shoot Yarl in the forehead, then in the right forearm.

Lester told police he lives alone and was “scared to death” when he saw Yarl on the porch because he thought someone was trying to break in, according to the probable cause statement.

No words were exchanged before the shooting, but afterward, as Yarl got up to run, he heard Lester yell, “Don’t come around here,” the statement said."

"Yarl ran to multiple homes asking for help before finding someone who would call the police, according to court documents."

Proving, yet again, that a .32 does not always penetrate a 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸! skull.

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PS: I have no way of knowing if this is true...

https://twitter.com/realsnoopbailey/status/1650553445697433639

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PS: Makes the most sense to me too, Achmed. ☮

PS: I hope we'll get the story from Tucker on whatever new network he ends up on. His enemies play hardball though, and they could have scared him "straight".

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Just keep throwing shite against the wall until it sticks.