{"id":698,"date":"2023-05-03T04:34:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T11:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=698"},"modified":"2023-05-10T09:46:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T16:46:29","slug":"tucker-carlsons-cujo-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/03\/tucker-carlsons-cujo-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson\u2019s Cujo Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As described earlier, Tucker Carlson was fired<\/a>, and we all knew that was Fox\u2019s retaliation for having to pay out the largest publicly released settlement. And why would Fox do this? To avoid the more damaging consequence of the greater public seeing all the back end text and emails that would have been released had it gone to trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We all also knew something else as well. Those back end text and emails would eventually come out. They have, and don\u2019t disappoint<\/a>. This one in particular reveals Carlson\u2019s Cujo Complex. If you ever read the book, Cujo, by Stephen King, you get into the mind of this rabid dog and his thought process. How he is stark raving mad but has moments of clarity as he descends into madness. Carlson writes, \u201cThen somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn\u2019t good for me. I\u2019m becoming something I don\u2019t want to be.\u201d Like they all say \u2013 it\u2019s not who I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full text follows from the NYT\u2019s article, labeled EXHIBIT 276, Tucker Carlson January 7, 2021 \u2014 04:18:04\u202fPM UTC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living shit out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It\u2019s not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they\u2019d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it. Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn\u2019t good for me. I\u2019m becoming something I don\u2019t want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I\u2019m sure I\u2019d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn\u2019t gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. If I don\u2019t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?<\/p>\nTucker Carlson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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