An overseas appearance by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson featured advice on how to filter information by assuming “you’re being lied to at scale.”
During a trip to Budapest, the popular commentator spoke before a Hungarian crowd attending the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) Feszt. After a speech, Carlson sat down for a discussion with the chairman of the Board of Trustees of MCC, Balázs Orbán, wherein he addressed ways to obtain information and a sure sign for knowing when something is true.
After noting early on that he was unaware of the reason Fox News dropped his program in April, telling Orbán, “Trust me, I have no idea why I got fired,” the commentator was eventually asked how young people can “become and remain well informed.”
“Start with the knowledge that you’re being lied to at scale,” asserted Carlson. “Not just one person, but a collection of people, a network of people, acting in concert — knowingly or not — with one another in order to tell you things that are not true. And not just not true, the opposite of the truth.”
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He turned to his own “dark and cynical, but also true” lens and explained, “I assess people’s honesty by how the so-called ‘mainstream,’ which is not mainstream in any sense but the predominant voices, regard them. So if somebody in power says you’re not allowed to think that, my first question is, ‘Well, why?'”
“Probably ’cause it’s true, actually. Probably ’cause it’s true.”
“Very few people are punished for lying. I can’t remember the last time I saw a public figure in the United States punished for lying. They’re caught all the time! No one is ever punished,” contended Carlson. “Instead, people are punished for telling the truth; maybe not the whole truth; maybe a variation of the truth; maybe just something that points toward the truth, but it’s the truth that is illegal.”
“If The Atlantic magazine is screaming that you must go to jail or be silenced, I wanna know what you’re saying, because I bet it’s a little closer to the truth than what The Atlantic magazine is telling me,” he added. “In fact, I’d bet my house on it.”
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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