{"id":8854,"date":"2019-01-07T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8854"},"modified":"2019-01-07T11:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T10:02:22","slug":"tucker-carlson-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/8854\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/4983\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2017<\/a> I posted a video of a speech by Fox News host Tucker Carlson given to the\u00a0International Association of Fire Fighters. A few days ago he delivered a 15 minute monologue which is well worth your time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mSuQ-AyiicA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You might not agree with all his points, but he raises topics which very much need discussing and which America&#8217;s ruling classes are happy to ignore. It speaks volumes that the biggest reaction to his speech comes not from liberals but so-called conservatives such as Ben Shapiro and outfits like <em>National Review Online<\/em>, who have done exceptionally well from the status quo and treat working-class Americans with as much contempt as any Democrat. Tucker Carlson is not working class and was born into considerable privilege, but the point is that he <em>realises<\/em> it, and understands that what works for him and his ilk is failing millions of others. It used to be that old-school right wingers came from privilege but understood the plight of the common man, hence the term <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Noblesse_oblige\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>noblesse oblige<\/em><\/a>. Nowadays, most prominent conservatives are spoiled-brat grifters who went to Ivy League universities and have far more in common with their political opponents than those they claim to represent.<\/p>\n<p>The problems in America are what Carlson describes, and then some. But possibly the biggest problem of all is that he&#8217;s the only one in Washington who wants to talk about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2017 I posted a video of a speech by Fox News host Tucker Carlson given to the\u00a0International Association of Fire Fighters. A few days ago he delivered a 15 minute monologue which is well worth your time. You &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/8854\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8854"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8863,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854\/revisions\/8863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}