‘Total Bloody Moron’: Tucker Carlson’s Favorite ‘Historian’ Brutally Mocked Over Hitler Revisionism
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Darryl Cooper, the podcaster that Tucker Carlson has deemed “the best and most honest popular historian in the United States” is getting raked over the coals for his latest attempt at revising the public’s perceptions of Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill.
In a post celebrating Carlson’s announcement that he had interviewed the president of Iran, Cooper wrote:
Early in WW2, when Hitler was still refusing to retaliate in kind for British bombings of German civilian targets, he had the Luftwaffe drop leaflets calling for peace onto British cities. Churchill had teams of street sweepers on standby to clean them up before anyone saw them, and the public was warned about being found in possession of them. Even if you think the call for peace was pure deception, people have a right to hear the other side out when deliberating over peace or war. Why not trust yourself and the people to suss fact from fiction and make informed decisions? It’s very telling that every time the government wants us to kill and die for it, extreme measures are taken to ensure we never hear the other side’s perspective. Don’t be afraid, be an adult, and a responsible citizen, hear them out and then decide.
Cooper’s claims drew no shortage of mockery online.
National Review‘s Charles C.W. Cooke dissected his historical argument in a lengthy post noting that “To cast Hitler as Cooper does here—and, by extension, Churchill—you have to ignore that, when this leaflet was dropped, Nazi Germany had taken over pretty much all of Western Europe, and was in the process of attempting to destroy Britain’s air defenses so that, in Hitler’s own words of July 16, Germany could ‘eliminate the English homeland as a base for the prosecution of the war against Germany and, if necessary, to occupy it completely.'”
“If you are able to read those words and buy their implication that Germany was merely acting defensively, then you’re a total bloody moron,” he added.
“That’s rich of Hitler to launch WWII, conquer Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg & France, then bomb London in the Battle of Britain in preparation of invading, and then when it doesn’t go well ask Churchill for peace,” observed Michael Shermer.
“Tucker Carlson’s favorite Hitler apologist is trying to analogize the misunderstood Hitler to the current president of Iran. Aside from the bad historical revisionism, this is just… not a comparison I’d draw to anyone I’m hoping to defend!” submitted The Atlantic‘s Yair Rosenberg. “But then, I am not a Hitler apologist.”
“What if Cooper’s easily verifiable obfuscations and omissions are exactly what they look like, a laundering of Nazism in a bid to return to, well, Nazism? What if that’s all this is? It’s such terrible, idiotic and false history that I’m at a loss for any other explanation,” declared The Times of Israel‘s Haviv Rettig Gur.
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