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If Holden Caulfield did battle with the phonies, Howie Carr does it with hacks. Howie is a Boston journalist whose mischievous face is a combination of Jimmy Cagney and Mephistopheles, offering Irish bravado and tempting the reader, listener, or viewer — he’s done his act for all three — to see the facts and get angry. In Paper Boy, Howie’s memoir, there’s a lot to get angry about, but almost every page bristles with laugh-out-loud moments. (more…)
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Greg Johnson was joined by Jim Goad and Thomas Steuben to talk about Tucker Carlson’s firing, the recent wave of censorship on Twitter, Ali Alexander, America First, and other issues on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio. It is now available for download and online listening.
Topics discussed include:
04:07 The Anti-Defamation League’s power at Twitter
05:01 Jim’s theories about Tucker’s firing
09:30 The theory about Rupert Murdoch’s ex-fiancée (more…)
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In the summer of 2019, I ran into Tucker Carlson in the Delta terminal at Kennedy Airport in New York. I was waiting for a flight to DC and had just finished lunch at one of those places where you order at the table from an electronic menu. Just as I was about to leave, Tucker walked in and sat down quite near me. There was no mistaking who he was — he looked exactly like he does on TV, only he was wearing a red flannel lumberjack shirt. And he was alone. (more…)
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Jim Goad has produced a short video to accompany his latest essay, “Keep On Tuckerin’,” on what we know about the circumstances surrounding Tucker Carlson’s unceremonious firing from FOX News and his future prospects. See below. (more…)
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He Tucked around and found out.
Tucker Carlson, the biggest star in cable news history, found out he no longer had a job at FOX News on Monday, reportedly only ten minutes before the rest of the world got the news. His show Tucker Carlson Tonight ran from 2016 to 2023 and was the highest-rated cable news show ever, at times averaging over five million viewers. (more…)