Understanding Tucker Carlson

David Frum: “To Carlson, it’s all just sounds and images on a box, to be spoken, then forgotten. Say one thing today, the opposite tomorrow. Urge a war on national television, then disavow it afterward as if it had nothing to do with you. It’s cynical, but above all it’s cowardly.”

“Maybe that’s the fascination of the Carlson TV persona. We all sense that if a Murdoch ordered him, he would say the opposite of everything he says now. Last year, he flipped from ‘COVID is real’ to ‘COVID is fake.’ He could flip from anti-vax to pro-vax literally tomorrow.”

“Carlson’s like a one-man TV special effect, a creation of market analysis of race-baiting as a segment within an ever more fragmented infotainment industry.”