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The daggers are out in full force against Tucker Carlson, and this time, it’s not from the usual left-wing nutjobs but rather “friendly fire” from the right. That’s right, the hate has been flowing like lava from conservatives online and in the media. Folks on the right have such a hard time hiding their jealousy of Tucker. No matter how they dress it up with “facts” and “objectivity,” the envy is palpable. Instead of appreciating the interview between Tucker and Rogan for what it was—a free-flowing, casual, yet powerful and really interesting chat between two curious chaps just having a good time—they’ve twisted it into an opportunity to attack, slam, and mock Tucker, trying their hardest to label him as some kind of fringe kook who’s lost his relevance.

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that this same group has been targeting Tucker a lot recently, particularly over his interview with Putin and his alternative perspective on the Israel/Palestine narrative.

One of the most notorious neocon GOPe writers, Tiana Lowe, who writes for one of the biggest “right-wing” sites, the Washington Examiner, which tends to have an establishment slant, didn’t waste any time attacking Tucker Carlson’s appearance on Joe Rogan. She painted him as a pro-Hamas/Russian agent.

Washington Examiner:

Tucker Carlson, having decided he has provided enough cover for contemporary adversaries such as the Kremlin and Hamas, has pivoted to defending Imperial Japan. In the telling of the commentator, the Allied powers of World War II were not just unjustified in dropping the atomic bomb over Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, but they were outright “evil.”

“I love by the way that people on my side — I’ll just admit it, on the Right — have spent the last 80 years defending dropping nuclear bombs on civilians,” Carlson said on the latest episode of Joe Rogan’s podcast. “Like, are you joking? That’s just prima facie evil. If you can’t — ‘Well, if we hadn’t done that, then this, that, the other thing, that was actually a great savings’ — no. It’s wrong to drop nuclear weapons on people, and if you find yourself arguing that it’s a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then you are evil. It’s not a tough one, right? It’s not a hard call for me. So, with that in mind, why would you want nuclear weapons? It’s like just a mindless, childish sort of exercise to justify, like, ‘Oh no, it’s really good because someone else could get’ — how about, no? How about spending all of your effort to prevent this from happening.”

For starters, the Allies were not the ones to trigger the prisoner’s dilemma that culminated with the deployment of the Little Boy and the Fat Man. It was the Germans who began the atomic arms race with the Nazis’ discovery of nuclear fission, and thanks to the rampant racism of the Nazis, it was Jewish emigres from Nazi-controlled territories like Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard who ran to warn the West and help the Allies develop our own atomic bomb. Contrary to Carlson’s canard here, there is no counterfactual in which the Allies initiated nuclear weapons development unprompted, nor was merely destroying the Axis progress on their program in Central Europe a possibility.

But the real idiocy of Carlson’s irony is not just that the West wound up saving more lives in total by dropping the atomic bombs over Japan, but also that the United States specifically saved more American lives by doing so.

It’s the same old playbook used by NeverTrumpers and the left to attack President Trump. Clearly, the uniparty is alive and well and operating on the right. Independent journalist Mike Cernovich summed up the conservative ankle-biters best with this post on X:

Many of the ankle-biters going after Tucker are the usual suspects—NeverTrumpers, hardcore DeSantis supporters, and members of the GOP establishment, which, in some cases, are all the same group.

Tucker openly shared how he once fully believed everything the government told him, like the “weapons of mass destruction” narrative during the Iraq War. That’s a crucial piece of context for why he’s so skeptical now—and many people can relate to it because they trusted the government back then, too. This background really highlights why he pushes back so hard today.

For example, Tim C, who claims to be a former Trump supporter, recently said this:

 

Quite the conservative, right?

Tim C. also weighed in on a Tucker Carlson joke about flat earth with his same “conservative” gusto:

Peter Henlein, another self-proclaimed “conservative,” thinks Trump’s sham “hush money” trial looks bad for him and even calls him a “sleazeball” after months of promoting DeSantis and saying he would never vote for Trump. Another stellar “conservative” voice, right? It seems like these days, the title conservative gets thrown around much too loosely.

And right on brand, Peter also attacked Tucker after his appearance on Rogan:

Tucker Carlson was asked a few months ago if he thought the earth was flat.

His response was “I’m open to anything, how could I not be?”

That’s not ‘critical thinking’ or open-mindedness.

That’s pandering to idiots. That’s a refusal to offend idiots. Tucker knows idiots are a core part of his new (and rapidly diminishing) audience, and he won’t risk losing a single one of them.

People who don’t have the ability to say ‘the earth is round’ when asked shouldn’t be taken seriously, much less be the leaders of conservative thought.

That flat earth joke can be seen in full context here at 38:33:

Humorless Peter and the others don’t seem interested in digging into what Tucker is saying, especially his bigger points about the erosion of expert opinions and how today’s so-called conspiracy theories often turn into tomorrow’s accepted truths. We’ve seen this pattern repeat itself time and again, especially during the COVID era. In. addition, Tucker openly shared how he once fully believed everything the government told him, like the “weapons of mass destruction” narrative during the Iraq War. That’s a crucial piece of context for why he’s so skeptical now—and many people can relate to it because they trusted the government back then, too. This background really highlights why he pushes back so hard today. At this point, to shut our minds to potential truths, especially with everything we’ve witnessed, is just absurd. Making this point through exaggeration or humor? That’s not just effective—it’s perfect form from Tucker and for Rogan’s listeners.

These establishment ankle-biters would love nothing more than to have the controlled and constrained Tucker from the Fox News days, where someone like Paul Ryan could dictate what Tucker talked about. The reality is that Tucker being free to speak truth to power has been a blessing—not just for him but for anyone who tunes it. It’s refreshing to see him unshackled and speaking his mind on every topic, wild or not.

You can watch the entire Rogan/Tucker chat below:

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