Tucker Carlson keeps showing that he doesn't understand the US military
Whenever I watch Fox News personality Tucker Carlson attempt to explain how the U.S. military works, I am reminded of retired Army Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf’s famous description of Saddam Hussein: “He is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier.”
Carlson is a professional demagogue. That does not mean he is dumb. He didn’t become the brightest star in the universe of misinformation by being dimwitted. He is an expert in trafficking falsehoods masquerading as facts. Even Fox News’ own attorneys have argued he should not be taken seriously.
U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil agreed with Fox News. When she dismissed a lawsuit against Carlson in 2020, Vyskocil ruled that the general tenor of Carlson’s show should make clear to viewers that what he says is “exaggeration” and “non-literal commentary” and that Carlson is “not ‘stating actual facts’ about the topics he discusses.”
“Fox persuasively argues, see [Citation], that given Mr. Carlson’s reputation, any reasonable viewer ‘arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism’ about the statements he makes,” Vyskocil wrote in her opinion.
Still, millions of Americans believe that Carlson is the Messiah of Candor, even though your average seventh grader knows more about civil-military relations than he does, as evidenced by what he passes off as insight on his nightly airing of grievances.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/tucker-carlson-keeps-showing-that-he-doesnt-understand-the-us-military/ar-AAMgseU
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