Tucker Carlson's intellectual dishonesty

There are times when Tucker Carlson can't help himself. Last night, he spoke about Gen. Mark Milley. It's time to either fire Carlson or find him better researchers. Last night, he said "Yesterday we learned that Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a danger to the country. That was not totally surprising. We already knew he was a reckless nutcase. In June, in the middle of a televised congressional hearing, Milley leveled a racial attack against more than half of this country. Milley told Congress that something called White rage was a national crisis. He never proved it or even defined the term and yet still he kept his job, which says as much about Congress as it does about him. Then in July, we learned that Milley had suggested the U.S. military was willing to use violence against Donald Trump, who was then the sitting president. 'We're the guys with guns,' he told fellow officers. Still, Congress did nothing."

Republicans are in the minority in both the House and Senate. That means they can't call hearings or conduct investigations. That means it's impossible to impeach people.

Carlson has lived in DC for quite some time so it's doubtful that he doesn't understand how the system works. I suspect that he's just trying to fire up his audience. Whatever his motivations are, he isn't being honest about this situation.

Congress doesn't have the authority to fire people in the executive branch. That's a principle known as separation of powers. Because the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is required to be confirmed, the chairman can be impeached. The chances of that happening with Pelosi as speaker are nonexistent.

Marco Rubio sent this letter to Joe Biden:

I write with grave concern regarding recent reporting that General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, worked to actively undermine the sitting Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces and contemplated a treasonous leak of classified information to the Chinese Communist Party in advance of a potential armed conflict with the People’s Republic of China (PRC),” Rubio wrote. “These actions by General Milley demonstrate a clear lack of sound judgement, and I urge you to dismiss him immediately."

"General Milley has attempted to rationalize his reckless behavior by arguing that what he perceived as the military’s judgement as more stable than its civilian commander," Rubio continued. "It is a dangerous precedent that could be asserted at any point in the future by General Milley or others. It threatens to tear apart our nation’s longstanding principle of civilian control of the military."

Others have called for Milley's resignation, too. Apparently, that doesn't impress Carlson. It would be appreciated if he applied consistent standards but that's likely impossible considering the fact that he's spent years and decades in the DC Swamp.

Let's be clear about something. It isn't unreasonable to question the integrity of the most salacious parts of a Woodward book. It isn't like Woodward has a spotless record with books. Further, questioning Tom Cotton's integrity, which Carlson did, is foolish. Cotton was the first person that talked about COVID coming from the Chinese lab, not the wet market. Carlson must've forgotten about this interview:

Tucker Carlson is a political hack. I don't watch his show because he isn't intellectually honest. He's also willing to throw past allies under the bus if it suits him.