Miscellany

Let’s see-- it was Tucker Carlson week. The famed Fox News host was fired, unceremoniously, from his slot on the network. To that the Babylon Bee, being slightly less satirical than usual, offered this headline:

Fox News Fires The Only Reason People Watch Fox News

No one knows right now why Fox fired Carlson. Rumors have it that he used some bad words, especially one that applied to members of the distaff gender. 

And yet, the Red Guards of our cancel culture, led by that pathetic twit named AOC, had been gunning for his scalp. He was slimed and defamed for being a racist and a sexist and a thoroughly unnice person. That means-- he had people on his show who had been canceled from other networks.

Naturally, we abhor any tendency to shut down debate and discussion. Today’s disinformation often turns out to have more than a few kernels of truth. 

As it happened, Carlson was one of the smartest people in television journalism. Admittedly, it is not too high a bar, but the fact remains, most of those who were calling for Carlson to be silenced were certifiable imbeciles. 

In truth, they were so stupid that they could not deal with any opposing point of view. They want to replace the marketplace of ideas with an indoctrination machine. If you think differently, and if you are intelligent about it, you will become a target for the Red Guards.

Carlson was right to offer up a short Twitter video, to the effect that most of what passes for discussion on cable news is profoundly ignorant swill. This does not mean that he was always right, but it certainly does not mean that he was always wrong. And it definitely does not mean that he ought to be silenced because he used bad language.

As for his two minute Twitter selfie, the Babylon Bee wrote this: 

Unemployed Guy's Basement Selfie Video Crushes Fox News In Primetime Ratings

Anyway, Harald Uhlig, an economics professor from the University of Chicago, offered this coda on the affair:

Many celebrate Carlson’s departure, but they shouldn’t. His show was important because it aired a perspective hard to find elsewhere. The expression of diverse viewpoints is crucial to free debate. Journalists who are unafraid and, yes, who occasionally cross lines that shouldn’t be crossed are an important part of a functioning free press. Hate them or love them, they are foundational to the freedom we enjoy. Debate and disagreement are essential for resolving differences through democratic means. Tucker Carlson Tonight was an important part of that. Now it’s gone, and that’s a loss for the country.

Anyway, the second important story this week was the impending presidency of Kamala Harris. Most savvy observers understand that old Joe Biden is not going to make it through the fourth year of his second term. They know that he is just clearing the path for President Kamala Harris. He and we know that Kamala could never be elected on her merits or in a fair election. Ergo, Biden will win an election and then will become incapacitated or will resign.

Of course, this assumes that the Republican Party focuses on the task at hand and finds a candidate who can beat Biden. It is not self-evident.

For now, someone ought to put together a book of the wit and wisdom of Kamala Harris. Never in the course of American history have we had such an incompetent fool rise as high as she has in our government.

Here, for your edification, are a few of her mindless meanderings.

So I think it's very important, as you have heard from so many incredible leaders for us at every moment in time and certainly this one, to see the moment in time in which we exist and are present, and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past but the future.

And another:

I think it's very important...for us, at every moment in time and certainly this one, to see the moment in time in which we exist and are present.

And,

During Women's History Month, we celebrate and we honor the women who made history throughout history — who saw what could be, unburdened by what had been...

Finally,

The significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time...there is such great significance to the passage of time.

If you retain your natural optimism about America's future, repeat after me: President Kamala Harris.

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