‘Brain Rot. All of It’: Tucker Carlson Roundly Condemned for Guest’s Hitler Revisionsim
Tucker Carlson kicked up a firestorm of anger this week after a clip of his conversation with Cornell Prof. Dave Collum, who teaches organic chemistry, went viral online.
In the clip, Collum explained his revisionist take on World War II and compared himself to Darryl Cooper – another Carlson guest who has called Winston Churchill the “chief villain” of World War II. Critics took particular issue with Collum saying, “And therefore, we should have been, one can make the argument, we should have sided with Hitler and fought Stalin.” Collum then claims famed World War II General George S. Patton had made that argument, although he appeared to be reinterpreting Patton saying that the U.S. “fought the wrong enemy” — Patton’s post-war warning about the dangers of Stalin and Russia.
Carlson, whose off-the-rails interviews have long been a source of controversy, was roundly condemned by both the left and right over his apparent embrace of Collum’s commentary, with GOP Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) calling it “the dumbest comment I’ve seen on ‘X’ today.”
“Well, now, first of all, what is the truth, right? The truth is now becoming very ambiguous. Last year, I wrote about the history of World War II,” Collum said, “I did a mini Darryl Cooper.”
“Yes,” Carlson agreed.
“And it started when I read a book by Diana West, who would be good if you interviewed her. And it was, it’s this revisionist history of World War II. And you go, well, why would you want to read that?” Collum said, adding “Well, it turns out, I think the story we got about World War II was all wrong.”
“I think that’s right,” agreed Carlson.
“And then I read about FDR and FDR’s right-hand man was a Soviet spy,” continued Collum.
“Certainly was,” Carlson agreed.
“Right. And therefore, we should have been, one can make the argument, we should have sided with Hitler and fought Stalin. Patton said that,” Collum claimed, adding:
And maybe there wouldn’t have been a Holocaust, right? You know, but Stalin was awful by any metric and we weren’t his ally. The story is that there were a few missing American soldiers at the end of World War II in Russian territory.
15 to 20,000 were missing. And we left them there. And then you read about Pearl Harbor.
We all sort of know the Pearl Harbor story is not what we were told, but I dug into that and you find out the Pearl Harbor. We knew to the morning that Pearl Harbor was going to get attacked. Stalin was going to be attacked.”
He wanted us to take the Japanese off his flank, and FDR’s right-hand man was okay with that because he was a Soviet spy, right? Then I read about FDR and the Great Depression. You find out that every single penny he spent trying to help the forgot, Amity Shlaes, the forgotten man, was spent to buy votes every last penny.
He was a sociopath. And the only thing he could do was lie. He was a compulsive liar.
His inner circle had to constantly cover for his lying. And the only thing he’s used for now is every time you want to grow government, you cite FDR. And so I read half a dozen books that sort of went at these different angles and wrote about it.
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