Tucker Carlson's third episode on Fox News is a blast from the past. Trump is in jail. Biden is a wannabe dictator. And a chyron on Fox accidentally mocks CNN and MSNBC while Biden is in the White House.
00:02:49.440But the chyron on Fox, while Biden was speaking, said, wannabe dictator, speaking of Biden, wannabe dictator speaks at the White House after having his political rival arrested.
00:04:45.680So I just hope it was sarcasm or a prank.
00:04:49.280I would say more generally, let me test your temperature on this.
00:04:55.940As you know, Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News, has famously turned against Trump in the past, recent past, and seems to be more of a DeSantis guy and maybe wants the network to focus less on Trump, etc.
00:05:11.300So that's what we knew to be true prior to this week.
00:05:17.200But if you were to watch the way Fox News is covering the Trump arraignment situation,
00:05:23.180I have a hypothesis that Rupert Murdoch thinks that the potential jailing of a presidential candidate is, to use my own term, too far.
00:05:37.820And it looks like maybe one of two things has happened.
00:05:44.400Either he has unleashed Fox News to go hard at this, or the hosts and the people at Fox News have just decided to say, fuck you, and they're going to go hard at it anyway, at risk of their jobs, I guess.
00:06:01.360If I had to guess, I would say Rupert Murdoch is like everybody else, who looks at this and says, all right, he may have done something you don't like, he may have done something technically illegal, but this is too far.
00:06:28.280And I'm fascinated to know if it came from the top, or maybe just everybody, you know, understands the same situation, so nobody needs to talk about it.
00:06:39.600You know, it could be that nobody needs to talk about it because it's just so obvious that you've got to be against this.
00:06:46.500If you're leaning right in any way, you've got to be against this.
00:06:49.980I mean, the fact that all of the challengers to Trump on the Republican side, I think every one of them has come out against this, which is against their own self-interest in a way.
00:07:15.340Anyway, Trump did his little speech after he was arraigned, which is the other funny thing about the chyron, is because it says a political rival arrested.
00:09:14.820Of course, Daniel Dale did a fact check on Trump's speech after the arraignment.
00:09:18.520And, of course, you know, he had lots of things to say were not factual.
00:09:23.840But here's something that he didn't fact check.
00:09:28.000Here's the dog that's not barking at all.
00:09:31.340It's the most silent dog in the world.
00:09:33.640I thought that Trump's primary defense of his own actions was the Clinton sock drawer defense, the defense that Clinton had a bunch of audio tapes he had taken from his administration.
00:09:48.920And that the legal opinion on that, the way it shook out, was that the mere removing of them proved that he considered them personal.
00:10:01.060And the president alone gets to decide what's personal, so the mere act of removing them was enough to prove that he meant them to be personal, and therefore there was nothing he had that was not his personal possession.
00:10:13.780Do you think that CNN fact-checked that claim from Trump, that the Clinton sock drawer defense is a foolproof defense?