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Tucker Carlson: The Media Doesn't Want You to Know This!

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Tucker Carlson: The Media Doesn't Want You to Know This!", an episode of The Tucker Carlson Show published June 22, 2023 (18 min, about 3,057 words). It mentions 26 people, works and ideas, including Anna Merlin, COVID-19 lockdown, Salon.com, Pharma lobby, Empiricism.

What this episode is about

Tucker Carlson discusses the intense media backlash faced by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his presidential campaign announcement, arguing that it surpasses the negativity directed at Donald Trump in 2015. He highlights how prominent news outlets like The New York Times, CBS, and NPR quickly labeled Kennedy as a dangerous figure and a threat to democracy, demonstrating an unprecedented level of disdain and hostility aimed at a political candidate.

Key takeaways

  • Comparing past hatreds: Trump got a massage, Kennedy a medieval lynch mob.
  • Bobby Jr.: Shaking faith in science or the media's favorite punching bag?
  • Mainstream media's horror: Allergies and regimented vaccine schedules in Bobby's spotlight.
  • Kennedy: From ignored observer to censorship's VIP list.
  • Observe, ask, repeat: Bobby's call for adult answers sparks media hysteria.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 3:00: Pharma lobby, Salon.com
  2. – 6:00: Empiricism
  3. – 9:00: Anna Merlin, Psalm 23, Vice.com
  4. – 12:00: Anti-vaccine movement, Peter J. Hotez, Putin government, Weaponized health communications
  5. – 15:00: Albert Schweitzer
  6. – 18:00: Anna Merlin, James Murdoch, Psychiatric drugs, Puberty blockers

Notable quotes from "Tucker Carlson: The Media Doesn't Want You to Know This!"

  • Solid that two outlets ran it simultaneously rollingstone and salon.com unfortunately neither one of them understood what they were up against the Pharma Lobby rolled out the most ferocious public relations campaign in.
    about Salon.com · at
  • Considered essential to the practice of science all scientific discovery comes from observation empiricism patient watching without the willingness to put aside your…
    about Empiricism · at
  • That's why they hate him as Kennedy spoke on the Rogan show a reporter for vice.com called Anna Merlin was watching Merlin was so enraged by what she saw that she dashed off an…
    about Anna Merlin · at
  • Into a school over the age of 12 has to be vaccinated this is the nature of the anti-vaccine movement in this country it's got it's somehow married now to far right wing…
    about Anti-vaccine movement · at
  • Now we're finding it in Africa and Latin America and remember what the other reason we're seeing this is the Putin government has this has been reported by U.S and British…
    about Putin government · at
  • Selfless trusted going without sleep self-denying persecuted by extremists for daring to tell the truth the Albert Schweitzer of cable news that's Dr Peter J Hotes the fact that a partisan buffoon like Peter Hotes can describe himself this.
    about Albert Schweitzer · at
  • Beclowned itself for all time it's official positions on vaccines psychiatric drugs puberty blockers reassignment surgeries a long list of other politically factual priorities have no connection whatsoever to legitimate science.
    about Psychiatric drugs · at
  • Where she now works was valued at more than five billion dollars genius investors like James Murdoch were showering the company with money everyone wanted it on the future of…
    about James Murdoch · at

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Full transcript with timestamps

hey it's Tucker Carlson there's never been a candidate for president the media hated more than Robert F Kennedy Jr you thought that title belonged to Donald Trump of course it must but go check the coverage Trump got a gentle Scout massage by comparison when he announced when Trump rolled out his presidential campaign in 2015 the New York Times waited until the 17th paragraph of the story to attack him but as well known as he is the paper said at the time Trump is also widely disliked then they cited a poll to back it up that was the attack on Trump eight years later the times attacked Bobby Kennedy in the very first sentence of the story quote Robert F Kennedy Jr the paper declared announced a presidential campaign on Wednesday built on relitigating covid-19 shutdowns and shaking Americans faith in science shaking Americans faith in science imagine if you're an ordinary New York Times subscriber reading that over

coffee in your pre-war rent control duplex on Columbus Avenue you'd think Bobby Kennedy just declared Warren the enlightenment my fellow Americans I have come to shake your faith in science join me as I drag our nation back to the medieval period you'd be appalled CBS News viewers likely were appalled in its coverage of Kennedy's announcement CBS denounced the candidates views as quote misleading and dangerous the LA Times called him a threat to democracy at the offices of national public radio in Washington a full-blown Category 5 hysteria typhoon broke out NPR devoted an entire segment to savaging Kennedy not just as a candidate but as a human being NPR described him as someone who for his own perverse reasons has made quote debunked and false and misleading claims that undermine trust in vaccines and who in his spare time provides moral support to crazed extremists Who quote rally under the banner of what they call

Liberty or freedom People magazine didn't even bother to report a single word of anything Kennedy said at his announcement and instead wrote an entire story about how his relatives hate him Kenny's younger sister Carrie the magazine reported solemnly does not approve of Bobby Jr's harmful views his harmful views Bobby Kennedy's thoughts alone are evil enough to hurt people that's been the tone of the media coverage around Bobby Kennedy Jr for the past 18 years since July of 2005. that's the moment that Kennedy published a magazine article suggesting there might be a link between the rise in diagnosed autism cases and the ever expanding schedule of mandatory childhood vaccines the day that story was published Kennedy's reporting was considered so solid that two outlets ran it simultaneously rollingstone and salon.com unfortunately neither one of them understood what they were up against the

Pharma Lobby rolled out the most ferocious public relations campaign in memory and both Publications swiftly caved both pulled the story and then disavowed it groveling as they did no one in the National media bothered to explain why autism diagnoses had skyrocketed if it wasn't the vaccines and maybe it wasn't then what was it to this day there has not been a convincing explanation instead reporters just attack Bobby Kennedy they've called him a lunatic and a Nazi Instagram shut down his account YouTube just last week pulled down a perfectly reasonable interview he did with Jordan Peterson setting unspecified misinformation and so on Kennedy became the most censored famous person in the United States at this point most Americans have heard a lot more about Bobby Kennedy Jr than they've heard from him he doesn't get many offers to speak from Big platforms but last week Joe Rogan gave him one

here's some of what he said why do five of my seven kids have allergies you know it's it and of course we know why as aluminum uh adjuvants give you allergies they're designed to make you you know to to create a hyper immune response to to you know to foreign particles and the last category is yeah the Allergic Disease is uh peanut allergies food allergies um eczema which I never knew anybody with eczema when I was a kid I never asthma I knew people with asthma but it wasn't one in every four black kids like it is today so you know all of those things now we went from uh six percent of American having chronic disease by 1986 we're starting to add the vaccines and we got um and 11.8 percent of kids now so it's doubled why do five of my seven children have allergies now we don't know the answer of course but it's an interesting question in fact it's an important question that deserves an adult answer

not that you should hold your breath waiting to get one Bobby Kennedy asks a lot of questions like that he notices things Kennedy pays attention to the world around him and he wonders why it's changing he's an Outdoorsman a falconer and a fly fisherman he's interested in how nature Works he's curious not so long ago these qualities were considered essential to the practice of science all scientific discovery comes from observation empiricism patient watching without the willingness to put aside your pre-assumptions and assess with honesty the things you see and touch and smell the changes taking place right in front of your face you can't do science you can't create art either or journalism or theology you have to be willing to notice the obvious and when they tell you you're not allowed to notice the obvious you should be concerned imagine you're on a commercial airline flight the plane is

just leveled out at 37 000 feet you're closing your eyes for a nap and suddenly you smell smoke and it's not your imagination you can see it it's starting to fill the cabin all around you people are hacking and choking the guy in the next seat has a napkin pressed against his mouth and he's mumbling what sounds like Psalm 23 yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death so clearly the airplane is on fire but almost unbelievably no one has said a word about it not a single person is acknowledging this is happening everyone is silent so in panic you yell for the flight attendant there's smoke in the cabin you say as if she hasn't noticed but she stares at you with hard eyes shut up racist she replies that's a dangerous Russian conspiracy theory stop spreading misinformation or I'll call TSA and have you arrested when we land that sounds like a fever dream but it's also pretty close to the experience of

living in the United States at the moment all around you things seem to be fraying and getting worse your gut tells you there's something very bad going on and all the evidence suggests that there is but the people in charge won't acknowledge that everything's fine they scream stop noticing but wait I don't remember this many kids having allergies or asthma or eczema or Autism or for that matter body dysmorphia and why so many suicides what's going on here shut up stop asking questions that's their answer but Bobby Kennedy won't stop asking and that's why they hate him as Kennedy spoke on the Rogan show a reporter for vice.com called Anna Merlin was watching Merlin was so enraged by what she saw that she dashed off an article attacking Joe Rogan's employer for allowing the conversation to take place Spotify has stopped even sort of trying to stem Joe Rogan's vaccine misinformation read the headline

the piece never even described much of what Bobby Kennedy had actually said Merlin dismissed the entire interview was quote a detailed survey of Kennedy's most dangerously incorrect views a far too extensive list to outline in full in other words we hear advice don't have time to describe all of Bobby Kennedy's lies but trust us they were lies then Merlin called Spotify to see if she could get the episode censored much to her profound frustration Spotify refused to censor the episode and kept the interview on its website so she spent the next several days ranting about all of this on Twitter people were listening to the wrong things and Anna Merlin was mad about it so is Peter Hotes Hotes is a pediatrician from Texas who became moderately famous on MSNBC during the coveted lockdowns as a Biden shill and a vaccine promoter Hotes read Anna Merlin's piece and then huffily retweeted it effectively why is Bobby

Kennedy allowed to talk in public and that gave Joe Rogan an idea why not have Peter Hotes debate Bobby Kennedy on his show you claim he's wrong why don't you explain why he's wrong that seemed Fair but hotels wouldn't bite so Rogan offered to give a hundred grand to hotez's favorite charity if he agreed to come on soon others made their own pledges and the pot swelled to over a million dollars but still Peter Hotes wouldn't come instead he scampered back to MSNBC where one of the Channel's oilier hosts assured him he was doing the right thing by dodging the debate arguing with Bobby Kennedy is morally equivalent to debating a holocaust denier the host said no decent person would do that and of course Hotes agreed quote 200 000 Americans needlessly perished because they believed the anti-vaccine disinformation and refused to get coveted shot so really talking to Bobby Kennedy would be a lot like a betting murder and Peter

Hotes MD PhD was not going to do that but wait a second you ask yourself let's think about those numbers 200 000 people died because of vaccine disinformation from Bobby Kennedy and people like him hmm how do we know that is that really science no it's not science because we don't know that we can't know that there is no way to know that Peter hotes's claim is a political attack posing as science and he specializes in those here he is on television during the so-called pandemic it's all about mass mass compliance that's going to be absolutely critical because if you don't have mass remember this virus aerosolizes so even six feet is not enough it can go 17 18 feet several meters what you really have to do is have vaccine mandates in the schools we should have a rule that anyone who walks into a school over the age of 12 has to be vaccinated this is the nature of the anti-vaccine movement in this country

it's got it's somehow married now to far right wing extremism and and white nationalist group anyone who's unvaccinated and has been lucky enough to escape covid your luck is about to run out and I call it anti-science aggression coming from Senator Rand Paul Senator Johnson members of the House of Representatives in addition to those two senators are killers it's all about Mass compliance we must have vaccine mandates for children take the vax or you will die anyone who disagrees with me is a white nationalist and a killer and probably an agent of Putin did we say probably let's revise that certainly an agent of Putin again here is Dr Peter Hotes we're starting to see now those same anti-vaccine messages that's coming out of the U.S uh and and now we're finding it in Africa and Latin America and remember what the other reason we're seeing this is the Putin government has um this has been reported

by U.S and British intelligence has been piling on with this whole systematic program of what's been called weaponized Health Communications trying to destabilize democracies with anti-vaccine anti-science messages and targeting so according to British and U.S intelligence anyone who disagrees with Dr Peter hotez is a disloyal American working to destabilize our democracy on behalf of Vladimir Putin Now by comparison never in his life has Bobby Kennedy Jr said anything half that demented but keep in mind Peter Hotes claims to have a valid medical license he is allowed to treat patients after a while even MSNBC viewers were going to have some questions about a guy who talks like that and apparently some of them did as the lockdowns were on the population started to notice that many of the core claims the TV doctors were making were untrue you only need one shot if you got the shot you would never

get sick you would never pass the virus to others and so on they said these things as you know again and again ultimately they were proven wrong but they never admitted it they just attacked the people who noticed here's Dr Peter Hotes calling for the Biden Administration to arrest anyone who questions the covet vaccine the Biden Administration has to realize that that anti-science is a killer disinformation it's not even just disinformation this is an anti-science Empire right now and we need Homeland Security we need the justice department we've really got to figure this out in the health in Health and Human Services will not be able to figure this out on their own it's not a medical problem it's a law enforcement problem they've doubted me arrest them it's a horrifying Outburst if you think about if you were on tape saying something like that you would be deeply ashamed but Peter Hotes is not ashamed

he's become even more grandiose has written as self-congratulatory new book called The Deadly rise of anti-science a scientist warning as if you were a scientist here's how Hotes describes himself in the book's promotional literature quote during the height of the covid-19 pandemic one renowned scientist in his famous bow tie appearing daily on major news networks such as MSNBC NPR and BBC and others Dr Peter J Hotes often went without sleep working around the clock to develop a non-profit covid-19 vaccine and to keep the public informed during that time he was one of the most trusted voices on the pandemic and was even nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his selfless work he also became one of the main targets of anti-science rhetoric that gained traction through conservative news media end quote though we could go on so here you have a renowned scientist selfless trusted going without sleep

self-denying persecuted by extremists for daring to tell the truth the Albert Schweitzer of cable news that's Dr Peter J Hotes the fact that a partisan buffoon like Peter Hotes can describe himself this way with a straight face and the backing of a publisher makes you despair for the country's future but don't despair there is hope hotels will never debate Bobby Kennedy Jr but it doesn't matter Kennedy has already won he's more honest than Dr Peter Hotes and that's obvious to anyone who's paying attention a new Economist poll shows that Kennedy is more popular and far less hated than either major party front-runner after almost 20 years of being silenced Bobby Kennedy Jr is being heard and why wouldn't he be Kennedy's theories about vaccines may be right it may be partially right they could be even utterly wrong no one's proved it either way but what we can say was certainty is that America's Medical establishment has

beclowned itself for all time it's official positions on vaccines psychiatric drugs puberty blockers reassignment surgeries a long list of other politically factual priorities have no connection whatsoever to legitimate science it's all effectively witchcraft at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association in Chicago last week for example delegates issued a statement attacking the body mass index as a tool of quote racist exclusion which has caused historical harm next year they will denounce thermometers and stethoscopes they're insane compared to them Bobby Kennedy is a mainstream figure and people understand that that's why he's winning and you know he's winning by how his critics are doing so it is four years ago Anna Merlin was regarded as an important expert on conspiracy theories and misinformation she'd written a book on the topic here she is talking about it I've always

thought that in the case of conspiracy Peddlers it's not necessarily a super profitable Enterprise to ask whether they really believe it or not because I don't know what's in their hearts I don't know what's in their minds all I know is what they spend their time doing which is promoting conspiracy theories um in the case of Ordinary People conspiracy consumers and most Americans are to some degree consumers of conspiracy theories all the studies that we have show that like one in three Americans believe in some conspiracy theory to some extent for the people in the very sort of deep end of the conspiracy pool people are consuming a lot of conspiracy content I think it's really important to look at the way it helps them make sense of the world and make sense of our political moment and make sense of a lot of times like what's happening in their own lives all the studies that we have show that

like one in three Americans believe in some conspiracy theory you'll notice the upspeak the rising inflection at the end of the sentence that's a familiar tick in Brooklyn it's designed to turn a declarative sentence into a question and thereby belittle The Listener do you follow me is this too complicated for you so the lady in the nose ring wants you to know she's smart but she's not when Merlin recorded that interview Vice where she now works was valued at more than five billion dollars genius investors like James Murdoch were showering the company with money everyone wanted it on the future of media which was up talkers like Anna Merlin lecturing you about racism and misinformation but that has changed last month Vice filed for bankruptcy Anna Merlin is still on Twitter screeching about how her critics are transphobic but nobody cares nobody wants to hear from Anna Merlin anymore The Gatekeepers

are transparently ridiculous everyone can see that people have started to notice thank you

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Tucker Carlson: The Media Doesn't Want You to Know This!"?

Tucker Carlson (Guest), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Guest), Peter J. Hotez (Guest), Anna Merlan (Guest).

What is "Tucker Carlson: The Media Doesn't Want You to Know This!" about?

Tucker Carlson discusses the intense media backlash faced by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his presidential campaign announcement, arguing that it surpasses the negativity directed at Donald Trump in 2015. He highlights how prominent news outlets like The New York Times, CBS, and NPR quickly labeled Kennedy as a dangerous figure and a threat to democracy, demonstrating an unprecedented level of…

What is mentioned in this The Tucker Carlson Show episode?

26 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Anna Merlin, COVID-19 lockdown, Salon.com, Pharma lobby, Empiricism, Psalm 23. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Tucker Carlson: The Media Doesn't Want You to Know This!"?

The episode runs 18 min; the transcript is about 3,057 words in 20 timestamped sections.

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