Rushin’ To Destruction: 2019 In Review, Part 13- - Tucker Carlson: Russia’s Tokyo Rose

-by Noah

Tucker Carlson oozes the smarmy elitism of most spoiled wealthy prep school boys. He’s comfortable in it, so comfortable that he’s never grown out of it. He approaches life and his nightly FOX "News" propaganda show with smirk and a gleeful "Fuck you, I’m Tucker Carlson and you’re not" attitude. This is a guy who doesn’t give a damn as long as the money’s good, it’s coming from "the right kind of people," and it enables him to masturbate his ego on a nightly basis.

Tucker Carlson’s lack of patriotism has never been in question. It’s just that now, with the statements and actions of people like Donald Trump, Moscow Mictch, and Devin Nunes, he’s more emboldened to flaunt his treachery as an adversarial propagandist than ever before. To Carlson, Vladimir Putin is a friend, not a homicidal dictator bent on world domination including the Untied States.

Carlson has always positioned himself as a kind of modern day Tokyo Rose. During World War II, Tokyo Rose (Actually several women lumped under the same name.) broadcast Japanese propaganda from her base in Tokyo to allied troops and sailors in the Pacific theater. The idea was that her broadcasts would lower morale and maybe even get allied troops to lay down their guns and join the other side. In the European theater, the Germans had Lord Haw Haw, their Nazi equivalent to Tokyo Rose.

Going way back, Whiney Little Tucker has always thrown his support for whatever rightwing extremism came along. From his blatant support of the Republican Party’s white supremacy movement. (He even claims white supremacy is a hoax) to his full support for phony tax cuts designed to benefit the wealthiest while, maybe, throwing a few pennies down to the feet of the “peasants,” Carlson has used his microphone to push whatever would get him the most money from Rupert Murdoch and hurt the most Americans at the same time. Is it any wonder that he marches along in lockstep with Trump, Nunes, Jordan, Moscow Mitch and the rest of the Republican Party?

On Carlson’s 11/25 show, Tucker decided to come out of his closet fully and completely. He meant his traitorous confessional as a win-win. It was a way to help his idol Trump by playing down Ukraine, and, help his idol’s bossman in Moscow at the same time.

Why do I care... what is going on in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia? And I’m serious. Why do I care. Why shouldn’t I root for Russia, which I am?”

So, yes, Tucker Carlson is a Russian version of Tokyo Rose for the present day, and the clip at the end of this post proves what those who keep an eye on Tucker Carlson already know: The above quote is no aberration.

Carlson’s nightly viewers, unlike the allied troops of World War II, naively and eagerly buy into the Russian propaganda he and his like-minded cohorts at FOX "News" drill into their heads 24 hours a day They buy into it much to their own detriment in some cases, and, maybe in others, because they’re rather live in Russia. We’ve seen the t-shirts they wear at Trump rallies ("I’d rather be a Russian Than A Democrat,") etc. In the meantime, these brainwashed minions are happy to live here and cheer Putin’s Number 1 Puppet.

Interestingly, when Carlson made his open admission, the social media world blew up in his smug face, rightly so. Tucker has never wielded much brainpower (He relies on acute smugness and coming off like a nine-year-old smart aleck) but he was smart enough to realize that he’d hurt himself by his revelation, even if he didn’t completely understand the how or the why. So, Tucker tried backtracking. As he signed off for the night, he lamely claimed he was only joking. It could not have been any more unconvincing. The cat was now officially out of the bag. Little Whiney Tucker then enlisted the aid of Sean Hannity to speak up in his defense but the best Hannity could come up with was a lame joke about Tucker being "a communist." Jeez, Tucker, when you have to resort to having a goon like Hannity, a fellow traveler at that, well… Let’s just say, it makes you look even worse. I’m surprised you didn’t pull a Mulvaney and just shout “Get over it!”

Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by Noah

I've often said in my posts that FOX "News" is a modern day equivalent of Tokyo Rose. For those younger readers that may not know who Tokyo Rose was (due to cuts in education and censored textbooks no doubt), Tokyo Rose was a "radio personality" who broadcast out of Tokyo during World War II. Her role, was to essentially sweet talk American and Australian military personnel into believing that, not only were the allies losing the war but they would be rewarded if they laid down their weapons and surrendered. Even swearing allegiance to Emperor Hirohito was, at times, suggested. Tokyo Rose offered an extremely twisted reinterpretation of things occurring in both naval and land battles, even events leading up to the war. If you believed Tokyo Rose, you would wonder why you were fighting. You might have even thought that it was us who had attacked Japan's navy on December 7th 1941. The whole Tokyo Rose thing was aimed at lowering the morale of the troops and weakening the war effort against Japan. It was propaganda put out even in hopes of influencing our political leaders to stop fighting Japan.

Sound familiar? Substitute Russia for Japan and the likes of Sean Hannity for Tokyo Rose and you pretty much have it. Throw in Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh and fellow traveling accomplices like Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and the rest of their party for good measure, but FOX "News" is their epicenter. It is their oracle, their oracle of bullshit, treasonous bullshit. Whether it's crackpot Nunes memos, Seth Rich conspiracies, birtherism, Hillary's emails, or, more pertinent to this post, Robert A. Mueller's investigation of Russian influence in our elections, chances are damn close to 100% that the talking points of any Republican politician, Republican voter, or Putin apologist stem from there. If you factor any Russian internet bot "sources" into the conversation, it just becomes a "which came first, the chicken or the egg" scenario. Does it matter? No, because, no matter what the nonsense, FOX "News" is the bigger funnel through which all of this bullshit gets to the larger amount of our gullible, naive, and hate-run fellow citizens.

Notice that I didn't mention Donald J.Trump. I only omitted him because comparing him to Emperor Hirohito would be a grave insult to Emperor Hirohito.

So what set me off about FOX "News" this time? It was their coverage of Friday's announcement that Robert Mueller had issued 13 indictments of people involved in the engineering of swaying public opinion in favor of Comrade Trump in the 2016 election. Their spin was a thing to behold. Tokyo Rose would have been gleeful.

I watched FOX "News" on Friday and Saturday. I know you ask why, but I do it out of morbid curiosity, and so you don't have to. It's not a strictly a morbidity thing. It's just that deranged people and how they got there almost fascinates me. I watched because I wanted to see just how they would twist or ignore such a momentous story. The United States of America has been attacked by a foreign adversary and the evidence of the severity keeps mounting up. Meanwhile our so-called "president" says nothing. I knew how pro-American news outlets would react. The question in my mind was exactly how would FOX "News" react. I wasn't surprised. They sank even lower.

The only question left about FOX "News" now is can we really call them treasonous since they are owned by an Australian and a Saudi or does the visibility and weight of the Tokyo Rose-speak outweigh that? I vote for the later. It's obvious. The majority of those who work at FOX "News" and those who deliver the message are Americans. They are doing the work of Russia but they are Americans. They may think others are prime targets for arrest and deportation (or more) but maybe they should look in the mirror.

The goons on FOX twisted the indictment story so heinously it was breathtaking. What the Mueller indictments actually mean went basically unmentioned. To FOX "News," the indictments somehow showed, in true opposite world fashion, that our fake president is now vindicated. They enveloped the indictment story in their ongoing Nunes conspiracy and, most despicably, tied it to the horrific murders of 14 students and 3 staffers at Parkland Florida's Stoneman Douglas high school which had occurred just 2 days before. Keep in mind that this is the same channel that has been pushing their Nunes conspiracy and anti-law enforcement conspiracies for months. They tied the shootings into those conspiracies to create one all-encompassing super vomitous conspiracy by saying that the Parkland Florida high schoolers who are vocally protesting the shootings are only doing so because Democrats are paying them to do so; George Soros and Tom Steyer, no doubt. Think how deranged and downright evil you have to be to go there in the service of your twisted agenda. And, how dare they protest! All of this was done in order to assault the credibility of the Mueller investigation and protect our apparent Manchurian president.

To FOX and fellow travelers, the indictments were not a reason to discuss what to do and what Señor Trumpanzee should do in response to the attack on our country; they were just all part of a conspiracy to get at their boy Putin, er, Trump. It's obvious that FOX "News" and Comrade Trump don't want us to respond at all, certainly not by imposing the sanctions or investigating how we might defend this country from further attacks.

Just imagine if FOX "News" and wacko social media had existed during World War II. FOX "News" viewers might not even know what actually happened at Pearl Harbor. A Trump version of FDR (sorry Franklin) would have not given his stirring "Day of Infamy" speech. There would have been no Jimmy Doolittle raid on Japan. No Rosie the riveter. No battle for Guadalcanal or the Philippines. Half the country would be speaking Japanese and half would be speaking German. If that's what we really want, we should all probably sign up for Russian language lessons right now. If it isn't, then we need to start having a lot of trials and convictions. Oh, and by the way, Tokyo Rose was an American.

Donald Trump as Tokyo Rose

-by Noah

For those who don’t know, because history just isn’t really taught in schools anymore, Tokyo Rose was the name of one or more female broadcasters operating out of Tokyo during WW2. Tokyo Rose broadcast pro-Japanese propaganda to U.S. troops in the Pacific war, bent on demoralizing them, paralyzing them with fear, or, worse, trying to get them to either desert or come over to the other side if they could. Every war has had variations of such things.

Unlike Tokyo Rose, Herr Trumpf is much more successful. It seems that the majority of Republican voters and media are buying every bit of the un-American load he is selling.

With that in mind, imagine for a moment, if Herr Trumpf was somehow, however unlikely, a Democratic candidate for his party’s nomination whose putrid words and thoughts were used in the recruitment videos of terrorist organizations as those of Trumpf have been used by al Qaeda affiliate group al Shabaab has, according to several major news outlets. Imagine the conspiracy tales coming from FOX “News.”

Imagine the hyperbolic clown show congressional hearings being held at taxpayer expense by lunatic Republican politicians like Trey Gowdy and Darrell Issa if Hillary Clinton’s or Bernie Sanders’ words were used like Trumpf’s have! It would be the Benghazi orgasm that republicans dream about, with great, great shame, of course.

If it had been a Democrat’s words, this news would not be reported by the networks as just one of many news items of the day. No, the clip of the al Shabaaab recruiter would be running as an endless loop 24 hours per day, much like the clip of President Bill Clinton giving a quick embrace to Monica Lewinsky as he greeted his White House staffers in the Rose Garden ran so many years ago.

The al Shabaab video that we are now seeing dwells on our country’s racial strife. It is in English and is aimed at recruiting U.S. Muslims and African-Americans.

While it’s true that Donald Trump is not the only Republican extremist to say things like he has (“Jeb” Bush had previously called for the banning of all non-Christian immigrants and Marco Rubio had called for the closing of mosques, with virtually no media mention of any kind); when the charge that Trumpf’s words were being used to recruit terrorists was made by Hillary Clinton and others a copule of weeks ago, Hate Radio and the other usual suspect corporate news outlets erupted in insincere protestations that it simply was not true that Herr Trumpf’s words were now recruitment tools. Even apologies were demanded of Ms. Clinton.

Now that we can all see an actual clip, all we hear from republicans seems to be the ocean, or is just the proverbial crickets? Sometimes, the healthiest way to respond to Republicans and the damage that they do is to respond with derision and laughter. What else can we do but that and vote them into the oblivion that they deserve.

Here’s Andy Borowitz on what the most likely reaction to the al Shabaab recruitment video will be from the megalomaniacal Herr Trumpf.

Trump Calls His Al Qaeda Recruitment Video Highest-Rated Terror Video Ever
by ANDY BOROWITZ

Just minutes after the Somali-based Al Qaeda affiliate Shabaab group released a propaganda video featuring a clip of Donald Trump, the Republican Presidential front-runner boasted that the video would be the highest-rated terror video of all time.

Within an hour of the video’s appearance, Trump took to Twitter to crow about his role in the jihadist promo, and tweaked his G.O.P. rivals for failing to be chosen by Shabaab.

“Shabaab would never put Jeb in video,” Trump tweeted. “Knows he is loser!”

But even as the billionaire boasted about his inclusion in the terror video, the prospect for future collaborations between Trump and Shabaab seemed to dim, due to a series of escalating demands issued by the real-estate magnate.

In a cascade of tweets directed at the terror group, Trump insisted that he be paid two million dollars for every subsequent video and that he retain editorial control over the final cut.

In a terse official statement, a Shabaab spokesman said that the terror group was “discontinuing our relationship with Donald J. Trump.”

“He’s just too hard to work with,” the spokesman said.