It\u2019s exhausting to think about writing about Tucker Carlson. I really don\u2019t have the time or patience to waste on people who pretend to do journalism, or once did, and now willingly spread poison under the guise of \u201cjust asking questions.\u201d Many others have been probing \u201cWhat the hell happened to Tucker Carlson\u201d as he simps for Qatar and raises questions about whether Iran is all that bad, all while claiming he only really cares about America and Americans.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But this weekend Carlson so dominated my social media feed with his smug, smirking and bad faith questions of Mike Huckabee, the conservative former governor of Arkansas and current U.S. ambassador to Israel, that it requires saying the words, however news-making this might be to him: Tucker Carlson has been swallowed up into the dark abyss of antisemitism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The peak of this 2.5 hour interrogation \u2013 because it didn\u2019t really feel like a discussion \u2013was Carlson sliding into bizarre conspiracies, like suggesting that Jews of today might not in fact be related, genetically, to the Jews of yore and we should test everybody to make sure they are. I\u2019m not kidding.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n