We at “Tucker Carlson Tonight” spend a lot of time trying to explain what is happening to our country. This is usually a depressing exercise because the answer is always the same.
America is not rotten, the people who run it are rotten. That’s why things are so volatile. What you’re looking at is a crisis of our institutions, all of which are corrupt and some of which are collapsing.
However, not all of our institutions are the same. Some of them are bad, some of them are awful. But looming above the rest is our most corrupt institution: The mainstream news media.
How corrupt is the mainstream media? Imagine a drunken border guard at the crossing between Togo and Burkina Faso shaking you down at midnight as you pass through. The New York Times is much more corrupt than that. The media are more crooked than Jimmy Hoffa ever was. They’re more dishonest than your average bribe-taking building inspector in Queens and more treacherous than the Mafia. They make cops in Tijuana…