Tucker Carlson on mainstream media lies and getting to the truth

Theo Von: One of the sad things is that we don't know where to get any information anymore.

Tucker Carlson: It's a fair question.  How do you make sense of the world if you don't believe what people are telling you about the world?  How can you make rational decisions if you can't be certain that the input is accurate?  I can't really answer that.  I know what I do which is I don't read any - The New York Times, The Washington Post - I don't want that in my head... or NBC News.  They're liars, I know they're liars.  I've written for all three of those; I know that they lie so I don't get anywhere near it.

TV: When you say they lie, do you write an article and you give it to your publisher or producer, and then they say "no" and change it?

TC: No, it means they don't assign stories on things they want to ignore.

TV: I see.  And where do they get those orders from?

TC: It's all by instinct.  So their job is to protect the people who are in charge.  It's to protect the people who have power currently.  The point of journalism is to challenge the people who have power on behalf of the rest of the country.  And they've inverted the formula.  And so if you work for The Washington Post, the idea is just protect Jeff Bezos and his friends at all costs, and that's what they do.

But I'll tell you a way that I think is a good start to figuring out what's true is watch what they become hysterical about.  You'll see somebody occasionally say something that people just land on him.  "Shut up!  Shut up!  Let's put him in jail!"  Whatever that guy is saying is true.  Or points in the direction of the truth.

When someone says something that's legit and say that noone's mad at this schitzophrenic on the bus who's talking about whatever, the earth is flat, lizard people (which, by the way, may be true, I don't know).  Nobody cares because he's not a threat to anyone because he's insane.  Insane people are not to the existing order because they're crazy, they're self-discrediting.  But when they become hysterical about somebody - "he's a conspiracy theorist!" - without even refuting what he told you, then you know he's on to something.

~ Tucker Carlson, interview with Theo Von, 54:45 mark, October 31, 2023