[Thread] New from me. Did Tucker Carlson really fight for the Contras in Nicaragua in the 1980s? Newly uncovered recordings suggest that he might have.
Read my new @MintPressNews article on Tucker’s background here.
mintpressnews.com/tucker-carlson…
In an unaired interview from 2005, Carlson reveals that he went to Nicaragua in the 1980s to, in his own words, “get involved in the war and support the side that was right, which was not the Sandinista side.” A 2017 interview confirms as much.
An old newsletter from his college reveals that he went to Nicaragua on at least two occasions.
This was all at a time when Tucker’s dad was head of CIA cutout media group Voice of America, who were waging a relentless propaganda war against Nicaragua in an effort to bring about regime change. Here is Mr Carlson speaking about his role in bringing down communist countries.
Tucker grew up “extraordinarily loaded just from money I inherited from a number of trust funds” and was a bowtie-wearing “out-of-the-closet-elitist” in his own words; “I don’t run around pretending to be a man of the people; I’m absolutely not a man of the people, at all.”
He used to rail against Bill O’Reilly and his fake everyman schtick. Check out this incredible clip from 2003 where he talks about how fake O’Reilly’s conservative populist persona is. Yet years later, he would adopt this exact same character.
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