His monologues are typically disinformative, but as the Fox lead-in to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, Tucker Carlson decided to erase Trump and/or the pandemic from a series of before/after comparisons, and of course, blame Biden for all of it, saying of the speech, “We don’t expect a single honest word.  We hope we’re surprised, but we don’t expect to be.”  We’re not surprised by Tucker’s distortion of reality to manipulate his audience.  It’s what he does.  He does that. He lies.  Some examples:

“Since his predecessor, Donald Trump, gave his final address to a joint session of Congress”–This is how Carlson prefaces the first set of comparisons between how Trump left office and the present condition.  For those who don’t see Carlson’s deception:  Trump’s last SOTU was February 4, 2020, before he mismanaged the federal response to the pandemic and set the US economy reeling.  So Tucker just un-histories that whole thing.

Before launching into an anti-immigrant screed in which he declared “We simply cannot assimilate that many people.  We can’t,” Carlson’s first set of bitches is about inflation–from February 2020 to now–which is all Biden’s fault, not Trump’s mismanagement, or the global pandemic, or corporate supply chain problems.  Nope, it’s all on Joe to accept all blame.  The percentage of working-age men in the workforce is just 68%, Carlson decries as he blames the seven-decade trend on (say it with me) Joe Biden.  Tucker fails to note that the number of working-age women in the workforce has gone up over the 70-year timeframe Carlson cites.  Why doesn’t he mention that?  Perhaps he’s scared.  Maybe he’s a misogynist.  Maybe people different than him make Tucker scared.  Maybe he poops his pants when he thinks of a Black woman.  I don’t know for sure, but it makes sense.  I’m just asking questions.  And we need to know why.