Biden Tried to Silence Tucker Carlson on Facebook
Why does the White House have a Director of Digital Strategy, anyway?
I really like Tucker Carlson. I worked for him a while back, and he was the best boss I’ve ever had because he almost never told me what to do. He trusted my judgment and didn’t second-guess me. And he went out of his way to help me after my accident. We don’t agree on everything, but we’re still friends. He might even be reading this right now, blushing at my praise.
Not everybody is so fond of Tucker, as you may have noticed. I wouldn’t have assumed he had any fans in the Biden White House, but I didn’t realize it was this bad:
Yep, it’s true. Tucker dared to express the opinion that vaccines don’t work, and White House Director of Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty tried to shut him down:
“Since we’ve been on the phone – the top post about vaccines today is tucker Carlson saying they don’t work. Yesterday it was Tomi Lehren saying she won’t take one…”
Whether or not you agree with Tucker, whether or not you believe history has proven him right, he has the right to say it. That’s how free speech works in the United States of America.
Why did the WH Director of Digital Strategy try to shut him up? And why did Facebook leap to attention, instead of telling him to go digit himself?
For that matter, why does the White House have a Director of Digital Strategy at all?
Remember, we wouldn’t know any of this stuff if Elon Musk hadn’t dropped $44 billion to buy Twitter. He opened the floodgates, and now all of this sewage is spilling out. How many other social media companies have been censoring conservatives like this? I assume the answer is: All of them.
The Republicans finally elected a speaker of the House over the weekend. Maybe it matters and maybe it doesn’t, but one thing’s for sure: The Dems are mad.
And dumb!
Election denier and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries forgot a few Democrat Party values: Dishonesty over dependability. Hypocrisy over honor. Lunacy over liberty. Stunts over solemnity. Etc.
Of course, the Republicans didn’t cover themselves in glory either:
I’d probably pay more attention to Congress if they had more drunken fracases.
Calm down, George. I haven’t seen a dwarf this angry since ‘90s Howard Stern.
Biden just went to the southern border of the United States for the first time in his presidency, if not his life. And his staffers are already lying about it:
Ah, “inherited.” Haven’t heard that one from the White House since Obama’s first term. It’s always the previous guy’s fault.
Hey everybody, the National Football League is racist because it has black people in it. Science has spoken:
That’s terrible. Maybe the NFL should start paying them to take that risk?
I wonder what these geniuses would say if there were no African-Americans in professional sports. That would be bad too, wouldn’t it?
Flip a coin and say, “Heads, you’re a racist; tails, you’re not not a racist.” Congratulations, you’re now a scientist.
Streaming pick: Echo 3 on Apple TV.
Finally, an Apple TV show you can watch with your dad.
But seriously, if you liked Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker, and Triple Frontier, this is from Mark Boal, who wrote all of those. Tense military action peppered with ethical dilemmas. I tried out the first episode over the weekend and ended up binging the whole series to date.
I was particularly impressed with Luke Evans, who I’d heard of but never watched before. He’s a Welsh actor, and his Georgia accent is sort of all over the place, but he nails the simmering rage of a man trying to save his family from terrorists. Plus, it’s funny to hear a Brit speak Spanish with an American accent.
This miniseries has the same problem as most streaming shows, though: It’s just too damn long. There isn’t enough plot for 10 episodes, so there’s some padding in the middle. It’s all well-acted, and competently written and staged, but I found myself wanting them to get on with it. The payoff, a bravura penultimate episode that’s one long rescue mission, is worth the wait.
Echo 3. I won’t say it again!
Earl Boen has died. He was 81.
Here’s Boen in his most famous role, Dr. Peter Silberman in The Terminator:
Boen came back for the first two sequels, the only actor other than Schwarzenegger to do so. No matter what he saw, Silberman never could quite accept the fact that time-travelling robots from the future were trying to destroy mankind:
The man of science just couldn’t believe the evidence of his own senses. Good thing that never happens with scientists in real life, right? Hello?
R.I.P., Earl Boen.
And that was my first Monday edition of 2023. It wasn’t so bad, right? If you tolerated it, please subscribe so I can write more of these things.
"When Biden goes to the border tomorrow, the mess he'll see is the one he created."
Actually... he will not. Because, being enthusiastic supporters of all immigrants, they arrested 100+ of them who were sleeping on sidewalks.
https://elpasomatters.org/2023/01/05/migrants-in-downtown-el-paso-texas-detained-before-biden-visit/
I mean, all those icky foreigners would ruin the Photo Op.
"The anti-Blackness of the system is inescapable."
SCIENCE!
"Flip a coin and say, “Heads, you’re a racist; tails, you’re not not a racist.”
No, Jim. You're an Old White Guy, ergo, Racist.