A wave of Republican attacks against two Muslim Democrats has ended with one of the most prominent right-wing commentators in the country endorsing Abdul El-Sayed for Senate.
Tucker Carlson wrote in his newsletter on Friday that El-Sayed’s opponent, Mike Rogers, was unfit for office and defended him over his past criticism of the war on terror.
The Michigan Democrat emerged from this past week after a wave of attacks were hurled at him and Zohran Mamdani, the first elected Muslim mayor of New York, around the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Both men were the subject of intense focus from media organizations on the right and even some mainstream outlets as the two faced differing but related accusations of anti-American sentiment impossible to separate from their Muslim faith.
Is Tucker a journalist? I suppose he is. I guess I kinda forget that. I guess to me he’s less of a journalist in my mind, and more of a political operative. Sure, they nominally do journalism, but ultimately they are and always have been a political agent. Their motives are rhetorical, not explicitly and certainly not solely to educate, but to convince.
His dad ran Radio Free during the fall of the USSR. Propaganda is in his blood.
That’s just what you call a “bad journalist”