Winston Churchill apocryphally said that if you have enemies, it shows that you’ve stood up for something. Judging by the enemies arrayed against him, journalist Tucker Carlson has been standing up for something in a very big way.
The attacks on Carlson are becoming literal, and more and more unhinged.
In 2018, a violent leftist mob targeted Carlson’s own family, deliberately choosing to strike while Carlson was on-air and not at home. Carlson’s family moved out of their long-time family home, to an undisclosed location.
Now The New York Times is trashing what sorry rags remain of its reputation by threatening, Carlson says, to reveal their new location.
And the left are playing another trick straight from their standard playbook: dodgy sexual allegations.
A series of harassment allegations against high-profile Fox personalities were made public in a lawsuit filed on Monday, to the sound of celebratory trumpet blasts from the rest of the news media. Many of the outlets that took weeks to report the alleged rape of a woman by Joe Biden were not nearly as hesitant to amplify the claims made against Fox hosts Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, among others.
Yet the allegations are so ridiculously frivolous that by comparison they make Brett Kavanaugh sound like Bill Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein combined.
A frequent Fox guest named Cathy Areu (she was not an employee of the company at the time of these alleged incidents) says[…]she was on Carlson’s show when, she claims, Carlson mentioned that he’d be alone in the city that evening. The lawsuit also says that Carlson changed his jacket in front of her and that she wasn’t able to escape this terrible scene because she was “tied to her chair” by her microphone. Areu makes similar claims against other Fox employees and personalities, and she says she was punished when she turned down Carlson’s alleged implied potential proposition by only being invited on the show three times afterwards.
He changed his jacket? The monster! And then he only went and had her back as a guest three times. The horror.
It is odd that Areu continued going back to Fox for guest spots even though, by her telling, she was being sexually propositioned left and right. If all of this happened, and if it made her uncomfortable, she could have avoided it just by turning down the appearance requests, which is something you can do by text or email with no effort or awkwardness at all. As for the allegations themselves[…]Areu does not allege that Carlson ever directly propositioned her or said anything about sex to her.
An old friend of mine who worked in a clothing store once had what we laughingly call in Australia a “TV personality” shop in their store. He didn’t just say he was staying in town that night, he tried to hand her his hotel pass key. Now that’s an obvious proposition – and she laughed at it.
On the other hand, Carlson’s comment sounds entirely innocent.
There could be any number of reasons why a person might say something like that to another person. Or it could be that he never said it at all. But whatever he said or didn’t say, there is no universe in which Areu’s claim against Carlson rises anywhere near the level of sexual harassment. The fact that she complains of him taking off his jacket, and alleges that she was helplessly bound to her chair because she couldn’t figure out how to take a mic clip off, just makes this all the more farcical.
Fox have appropriately responded to the allegation as “false, patently frivolous and utterly devoid of any merit. We take all claims of harassment, misconduct and retaliation seriously, promptly investigating them and taking immediate action as needed — in this case, the appropriate action based on our investigation is to defend vigorously against these baseless allegations”.
No Hollywood celebrities have taken time out from raping each other to comment.
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