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Nov. 22, 2023 - The Tucker Carlson Show
10:18
They Hate the Truth

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tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼
And then there's the question of lying.
And the question of lying, since I'm in the media, though I don't admit it very often anymore.
Well, I guess now I'm unemployed, but I was in the media.
It's a big question.
I mean, when I started in this business, following my father, who was in this business, in 1991, there was really just kind of one, well, the unspoken rule was have an interesting life and learn how to tell a story at dinner and, you know, don't pass out till you get home.
But the explicit rule in journalism really was just one, was to tell the truth.
We're in the truth business.
That's it.
And of course we get it wrong.
When we get it wrong, we admit it.
The basic requirement of seeking the truth is admitting when you don't find it, right?
That's how you know an honest person when he admits he was wrong.
And if you're dealing with people who never admit they're wrong, you're dealing with liars.
So there have always been liars and there always will be.
But what we're seeing now is very, very different.
Because the kinds of lies, there are two things that make it different.
The kinds of lies that we're hearing are not conventional lies at all.
They're the inversion of the truth.
They're the exact opposite.
They're the mirror image of what is true.
And anyone who has kids knows exactly what I'm talking about.
If you, all kids lie, this is how you know it's inherent to the human condition.
All kids lie.
Even your beloved little Dylan, he lies, okay?
But they lie in a very specific way.
So you come down for breakfast, you open the cabinet, and like half the Oreos are gone.
And you say, Dylan, did you eat an Oreo?
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And he's like, oh, no.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼
You ate an Oreo, didn't you?
Yeah, just one.
Dylan, there are 12 Oreos gone.
Well, maybe two.
You get it.
He's lying.
He knows he's lying.
He's ashamed of what he did.
He's trying to hide it.
You caught him.
He's doubly ashamed you caught him.
And so he's trying to hedge a little bit.
Well, it's not as bad as you think.
Not that bad a person.
I only ate two.
I didn't eat 12.
And instead of, you know, smacking him and saying, you liar, you get it, right?
If Dylan worked in the Biden administration, he would stare right in your eyes and smile and say, I didn't eat any Oreos.
You did.
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You ate the Oreos.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼
You ate the Oreos.
And he would be so calm and unperturbed and so certain of your guilt that in your mind you would think, shit, did I eat the Oreos?
Maybe I did.
Maybe I sleptwalked.
Because we're not used to dealing with people who can lie without guilt.
That's why the polygraph works.
And everyone lies about the polygraph.
Irony of irony is they lie about the lie detector test.
They're like, oh, it's not admissible in court.
It doesn't work.
Oh, it certainly does work.
No, it's not admissible in court.
I don't know why.
But if you work for a big company or CIA or DOD or if you work for any organization where telling the truth is a high-stakes matter, they will polygraph you.
And if you've ever been polygraphed, you know how effective it is.
And it's effective because people don't like to lie.
They do it because they feel they have to because they're hiding the truth about themselves.
I get it.
But they don't like it.
And something in your body, literally in your body, rebels against lying.
You tell a lie, your palms will sweat involuntarily, your heart weight will increase, and you will breathe more quickly.
And that's what they're measuring.
So they know you're lying.
So it takes a very rare person to lie in the way that we're being lied to.
And it takes a very rare moment to see lying at this scale.
But the final fact that makes this moment different is that they're not just lying.
They hate the truth.
They're offended by things purely because they are true.
Even when they don't possibly threaten anyone.
I saw this today.
Somebody sent me a piece.
There's a group called Media Matters, which is a, you know, it's a censorship organization funded by Soros and a lot of other people who hate Western civilization, designed to prohibit people from saying certain things.
Well, the things that they're prohibiting people from saying are 100% true, and that's why they're prohibiting it.
Somebody sent me a PC where Media Matters attacked a guy for suggesting that our historical timelines were wrong, and there had in fact been advanced civilizations in earlier moments in time, and that they had been eliminated somehow through climactic events, through natural disasters, and that we're not aware of them in any detail.
Well, that's a really interesting hypothesis.
I have no idea if it's true.
It kind of seems to be true.
I'm not emotional about it either way.
I don't, you know, I'd like to learn more because I think it's really interesting.
We have no idea how the pyramids were built, for example.
How can we not know that?
We sent a man to the moon, and you can't replicate the technology that created the pyramids.
You don't have any good guess as to how they were built?
We don't.
We don't even know when they were built.
Those are facts.
So a normal curious person would say, well, why don't we know that?
And what does it tell us about ourselves and about the past that we don't know?
That's what I would think people would ask.
They were attacking this guy for asking that question.
And I was like, why would Media Matters care about your opinions on the pyramids?
Why do they care?
Or whether they were big civilizations in Illinois 10,000 years ago, which there were, by the way, that used metal.
Amazing.
But why would anyone care?
Well, they care because that's true.
That is just true.
And the current version of history that we've been told is not only incomplete, it's just wrong.
It's just flat out wrong.
Now, I don't know what the truth is.
I don't know what it means, and I would never claim to.
But I know that what I learned as a kid is wrong.
And so it is much closer to the truth to say we have no freaking idea how they built the pyramids, and that's kind of amazing.
And Media Matters was offended.
Now, why were they offended?
They were offended purely because it was true.
And that is across the board the case.
Every person, and I just, by happenstance, nature of my job, know like 80% of the people who have been canceled, which is to say had their lives destroyed by the censors.
And I can't think of a single case where someone was destroyed for telling the truth.
For lying, rather.
For lying.
There's no penalty for lying.
If they had lied, if they had repeated whatever dumb slogan they were told to repeat, whatever, we're in a climate crisis.
Diversity is our strength, or whatever.
Whatever the approved script is, if they just read it like a good little robot, they would have ascended the ladder at NBC News.
They wouldn't be living in their weekend house.
But they didn't.
What they did was they told the truth.
And that is the case everywhere.
And if you don't believe me, look back and do it when there's no one else around because everyone's afraid even to have unapproved thoughts now.
But go through like the last 15 famous people who are canceled for saying the wrong thing and ask yourself, is the thing they said wrong?
You may not agree with it.
It may offend you.
Some of the things people get canceled for are kind of offensive in my opinion.
But that's not the measure.
The measure always and everywhere has to be in a free society, in an honest society, in a decent society, is it true?
Truth has to be a defense.
And it used to be our first defense.
You would say, well, in fact, there was a guy who used to say, facts don't care about your feelings.
He's changed his views on that recently.
But that remains true.
The facts matter most.
And even more important than the facts, the truth of the facts.
What do they mean?
That's the most important thing.
And it used to be, you could say, well, I'm sorry.
I shouldn't have said that.
I always say to my children, never tell the truth about other people in their presence because it can really hurt them.
I told my kids to lie.
The only lies that hurt people are the true ones, the only attacks.
You know, don't call a fat girl fat.
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That's cruel.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼
But in the end, that's a function of politeness.
I was telling my children to be polite, to care about the feelings of others, which I think is super important.
But as a legal matter and a cultural matter, you cannot punish people for telling the truth, period.
Or else you become an empire of lies.
In every sense, both in a literal sense and in a spiritual sense.
That is just true.
And if you are governed by people who actively hate the truth and who lie for the sheer animal thrill of doing so, you are living in a dark time under very dark people.
And the stakes are the ultimate stakes.
It's not about who gets elected.
It's about what happens to the world in your soul.
And so my advice, like, what can you do about that?
You know, it's a very action-oriented, practical country.
So people are always like, well, what can you do?
I have no freaking idea what you can do.
Write your congressman, he's not going to read your letter.
Go to your school board meeting, you're going to get arrested.
I think you should do it anyway.
I think you should tell the truth anyway.
I think the only way to stay alive and fully human in a moment like this is to resolve that you are going to tell the truth in every and all circumstances.
And if you can't say it out loud, stay silent.
If it's going to hurt the feelings of someone you love, that's an absolutely justifiable reason to be quiet.
But in every other circumstance, whether you're standing in carpool line with all the fashionable ladies in your neighborhood at the stupid private school, no offense, I sent my kids to one too.
I hate them.
Or whether you're at a dinner party, or whether your wife's friends are over in their soul cycle outfits talking about something and you disagree, there's a way to do it.
You can be gentle, you can be empathetic, and you always should be.
But you should never allow yourself to repeat anything that you know is not true.
That will destroy you.
That is the mark not of a free man or a citizen, but of a slave.
That is the difference between freedom and slavery, is the right to say what you actually think.
That is the line.
And anyone who is trying to force you to lie is A, your enemy, and B, believes that you are subhuman.
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Younger people say the news is full of lies on Tennessee's motorcade.
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