Did Tucker Carlson Tell A Wee Fib When He Said The FBI Stuck Tapps Up His Pasty Ass?

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Hey, remember that time when Trump's pal Mike Flynn got picked up promising sanctions relief to the Russian ambassador and then spent the next five years pretending that it was the FBI's fault that he lied about it? Well, if you liked Season One of "I'm Not A Spy, YOU'RE The Spy," you're going to love Season Two, featuring everyone's favorite slack-jawed Great Dane Tucker Carlson.

For the past week, Carlson has been yowling about the NSA intercepting his communications and leaking them to journalists as part of a dastardly campaign to get the Fox News host kicked off the air. As a threshold matter, this is highly unlikely, since it's illegal for the NSA to monitor American citizens. And while we're not here to carry water for America's overweening national security establishment, let's assume they have better things to do than watch Carlson play footsie with gross bigots. If Carlson says that he's being targeted by No Such Agency, we're going to need more than his inane blarping that some journalist told him so.

"Yesterday I learned, that — and this is going to come out soon — that NSA, leaked the contents of my e-mail to journalists in an effort to discredit me," Carlson ranted to Maria Bartiromo this week. "I know this because I got a call from one saying 'oh, this is what your e-mail was about.'"

"There was one other person who knew I sent that e-mail, and it was my executive producer Justine Wells, that's it, and I didn't mention it to anybody else, including my wife," he said later in the interview, transcribed by Media Matters. "There is no possibility that anyone else could have known. Then again yesterday I got a call before air like 7:15, from a journalist I know and like, not many left, but do I like this person, he repeated back to me he got it, because the NSA leaked it, so, yes, entirely real."

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1. PSA: If you are in communication with a foreign intelligence or terrorist target abroad

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PSA: If you are in communication with a foreign intelligence or terrorist target abroad who is under gov surveillance, your communications will be captured. If those comms include foreign intel or evidence of a crime, they will be retained and likely disseminated. Tx.

8:34 AM · Jun 30, 2021·

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3. Did TC tell a wee fib?

In the words of a certain RW VP candidate - you betcha!

How can you tell when a Fox "news" primetime host is lying? Easy, their lips are moving.