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Tucker Carlson has launched his much-anticipated Twitter show, publishing a 10-minute clip in which he attacked Ukraine and questioned why the UFO whistleblower was not dominating US headlines.
Fired by Fox News in April, Carlson accused media organizations like his previous employer of keeping people in the dark in a deliberate attempt to hold them in submission - claiming they ignored a hearing on possible UFOs, and arguing that the media was naive about events in Ukraine.
He said he decided to broadcast his show on Twitter as a means of freely discussing issues of the day, without needing the support of legacy media. Carlson likened it to Cold War-era broadcasting, saying he hoped his show 'will be the shortwave radio under the blankets.'
'By this point, it's possible American citizens are the least informed people in the world,' he said.
'Diversity is our strength; trans women are women; Zelensky is Churchill: it's all self evidently true. Doesn't need an explanation. And don't ask questions.'
Tucker Carlson on Tuesday debuted his eagerly-anticipated Twitter show
Carlson began 'Episode 1', as he titled it, by discussing Ukraine, and the attack on Tuesday morning on the dam.
'This morning it looks like someone blew up the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine,' he said.
Ukraine said Russia had committed a deliberate war crime in blowing up the Soviet-era dam, which powered a hydroelectric station. The Kremlin blamed Ukraine, saying it was trying to distract from the launch of a major counteroffensive Moscow says is faltering.
Carlson took the side of Russia, as he frequently does - arguing that it was not in their interests to destroy the dam.
He said many people assumed it was President Vladimir Putin who ordered the dam be blown up, then added: 'Oh, but that is where you are wrong, Mr and Mrs Cable News Consumer.'
This screen grab from a video posted on Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky's Twitter account today shows an aerial view of the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station after it was partially destroyed
A drone camera showed the extent of the flooding. Water is seen flowing over the top of the damaged dam
Flooding continues in the occupied Kherson region after the destruction of the dam
A local resident walks on a flooded street today after the Nova Kakhovka dam breached
Carlson pointed out that the dam was in Russian territory, captured in the early days of the war in the spring of 2022, and therefore it would be as if 'Putin attacked himself'.
The damage, however, is to Ukrainian lands, and 1,300 people have been evacuated: 80 settlements are at risk of flooding.
Carlson continued, deep with sarcasm: 'We can say for a dead certain fact that Zelensky was not involved. He couldn't have been. Zelensky is too decent for terrorism.'
Carlson said that Zelensky was 'sweaty and rat-like; a comedian turned oligarch'.
He then mockingly noted that George W. Bush likened Zelensky to Winston Churchill.
'Of all the people in the world, our shifty, dead-eyed Ukrainian friend in the tracksuit is uniquely incapable of blowing up the dam,' Carlson said.
'He is literally a living saint: a man in who there is no sin.'
Carlson savaged Lindsey Graham for supporting Ukraine and visiting Zelensky: he said Graham relished the prospect of dead Russians, comparing it to a starving man smelling food.
He also attacked Nikki Haley for her support of Zelensky's war, saying she could not explain why the U.S. should back Ukraine.
Carlson said Americans were being served 'pap day after day, in steaming, lumpy portions'.
He added: 'Your average Yak herder in Tajikistan knows who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline. It's obvious.
'Does he think some skinny dude in a dress is actually a girl?
'Come on. That idea would never occur to him. You've got to be lied to, at full volume, over a number of years to reach conclusions like that.'
Tucker Carlson was the most-watched man on cable news until his shock firing in April
Carlson and his wife Susan Andrews are seen soon after his dismissal from Fox in late April
He said the media lie, and ignore the stories that matter - claiming that the money sent to Ukraine was unaccounted for, and asking who organized the BLM protests after George Floyd's murder.
'What exactly happened on 9/11? Well, it's all classified. What happened to Jeffrey Epstein? What about JFK?
'Not only are the media not interested in this: they are actively hostile to anyone who is. In journalism, curiosity is the greatest crime.'
Carlson said that a whistleblower on Monday testified that 'UFOs are real, and so is extra-terrestrial life'.
He continued: 'In a normal country, this news would qualify as a bombshell: the news of the millennium. But in this country, it doesn't count.'
Carlson said he was using Twitter for his show because there were 'no gatekeepers'
Carlson accused The Washington Post and New York Times of ignoring the story.
'There was nothing at all about how an alien species is flying hypersonic aircraft above our cities. Not one word.'
He said: 'So if you are wondering why our country seems so dysfunctional, this is a big part of the reason. Nobody knows what's happening.
'A small group of people control access to all relevant information, and the rest of us don't know.'
The man who, until April, was paid $20 million a year by Fox News said 'we are being kept in the dark'.
'We are the ones who live in ignorance now,' he said.
'Secrecy is a powerful tool of control.'
He concluded: 'As of today we have come to Twitter - which we hope will be the shortwave radio under the blankets.
'We're told there are no gatekeepers here. If that changes, we will leave.
'But in the meantime, we are grateful to be here. We'll be back with much more very soon.'
Source: Daily Mail
