How the puke gets into the funnel
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Huh, turns out that mindlessly parroting Tucker Carlson’s talking points can get you an additional two minutes hate of fame from Tucker Carlson, with Tucker’s lickspittles always on the lookout for new “talent”:
“I don’t know what’s going on to be honest, brother, I really don’t,” he said. “There’s so much stuff — and I don’t think nobody knows what’s going on fully. There’s been so much political corruption in that area. You got Biden and his son making a … ton of money off of and using our tax dollars to bribe their people. That’s treasonous, in my opinion. … He shouldn’t be giving our tax dollars to that country anyway! We got veterans out here sleeping on the street, and you’re going to give our … tax dollars to these Ukrainians?”
Here it starts to coalesce. Mitchell’s view of Ukraine has obviously been colored by right-wing commentary about President Biden and his son Hunter. You’ll recall from a few years ago that Hunter Biden’s legitimately questionable role on the board of a Ukrainian energy company was spun into a broad narrative of alleged wrongdoing on the part of his father, centered on a willful misinterpretation of a U.S. government effort to fight corruption in Ukraine. Biden, as vice president, threatened to withhold loan guarantees if Ukraine didn’t fire a prosecutor understood to be corrupt; the prosecutor was fired — and then exacted his revenge by helping to cobble together a story about Biden trying to protect his son. But this is the rub: Years of rhetoric attacking Biden and Ukraine in defense of Donald Trump bubbles upin the form of an overstated anti-interventionism.
Soon after Mitchell was done speaking, his no war/no Biden riff started to spread on social media. Right-wing pundit Glenn Greenwald shared it with his millions of followers on Twitter, writing how it was “amazing what you hear when you listen to people who don’t pay constant attention to politics for a living and therefore don’t have their basic values corrupted and perceptions warped by constant propaganda.”
There’s certainly evidence that Mitchell doesn’t pay constant attention to politics, but also certainly evidence that his perceptions have been warped by propaganda — from the political right.
Mitchell is not a particularly well-known celebrity, but he is a celebrity. He’s not a regular American; he’s a guy who regularly sits down at a microphone and is asked to opine on things. And he’s someone whom the political right has celebrated in the past for espousing sympathetic opinions. As when he disparaged wearing masks to combat the coronavirus in November 2020 or when, in December 2019, he offered to parlay his fighting skills into attacks on D.C. politicians, should Trump make such a request.
Then the other shoe dropped.
On Tuesday night, Mitchell appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program. And, under Carlson’s skilled direction, Mitchell became a symbol not of the right’s skepticism of Biden but a near martyr for an invented oppression by American elites.
Rod Dreher is also impressed.
Elsewhere, Tucker’s favorite pundit wants you to know that Putin pretty much had to invade, lest the smoking gun be a mushroom cloud:
Glenn Greenwald supported the Iraq War so this rhetoric is just slipping right back into form for him. https://t.co/Sj2UQd7Pqz— Syndicalist Weedle Collective (@Weedledouble) March 9, 2022
He’s consistent in supporting particularly indefensible unprovoked imperialist wars of aggression, give him that!