John Cotter

Being dead hasn’t prevented people who died long before Faulkner from being cancelled. Could you please reply to the questions @Paul Brancato addressed to you? In other words, could you please explain exactly how Carlson was “blatantly racist” (or even “offensive” as @Mark Ulrik put it) and why that warranted his getting fired? One of the most important principles of ethics and law is that the burden of proof always lies with the accuser.

Do you think Nobel laureate William Faulkner should be "cancelled" because he commented on how black men fought?

Very insightful, as always, from Craig Murray.

I agree with that balanced view of the text message. Essentially, Carlson's better part won out in the end. The opposite interpretation is perverse, but it's classic demonisation - focusing on someone's negative tendencies and ignoring the prevailing positive ones. Unfortunately, that kind of falsely simplistic demonising mentality is typical of our present day culture warriors.

Tenuous tendentious cherry-picking.

Fair enough, Pat. As might be inferred from what I've said about Tink Thompson, I have no intention of reading anything by him - on any subject.

Apparently, the propensity to commit logical fallacies is a criterion for membership of the “research community”. In describing Josiah Thompson as “perhaps the most widely respected JFK researcher ever” and thus implying that that makes Thompson also an expert on 9/11, you were committing the “appeal to authority” fallacy. One doesn’t have to be a member of any community to identify and comment on a strawman fallacy and its implications – whether it’s committed by Tink Thompson, the Pope or anyone else. Invoking your purported membership of the research community is not a logical rebuttal of my argument. It’s just another instance of the “appeal to authority” fallacy. In other words, you’re posting nonsense. Thanks for the further validation.

Your deflection validates my argument.

The long-suffering masochist who can resist anything but temptation.

Your description of Josiah Thompson as “perhaps the most widely respected JFK researcher ever” doesn’t hold water. The short Umbrella Man (UM) video that he made with Errol Morris is so obviously and fundamentally flawed as to seriously call into question Thompson’s intellectual if not moral credibility. I have explained this elsewhere, but the gist of it is that by focusing on UM in isolation from the Dark Complexioned man, Thompson committed a strawman fallacy which ironically invalidates his dismissal of the significance of UM.

Your humility is an example to us all.

You say you're ok with the witnesses, but you also say they are idiots or lying. Perhaps you need to take up thinking as a hobby. If you did, you might see that the issue here is the behaviour of the FBI - though there's nothing new about that.

It’s ok, Marjan. On a slightly more serious note, I sent an email to the FBI field office in Dallas 12 days ago on April 17th about the JFK assassination. I sent it there because it appears that FBI HQ in Washington has no email address accessible to the public and I couldn’t find an email address for the FBI Director or the US Attorney General. Only two email addresses were displayed on the FBI Dallas office website, the email addresses of its two public affairs officers, Melinda Urbina and another woman whose name I forget. I sent my email to Ms Urbina. Not only have I received no response, but both of the aforementioned email addresses seem to have been removed from the website, so I can’t follow my email up. Apparently, they didn’t even go to the trouble of flim-flamming me. That’s surely a novel approach to public service. The text of the email is as follows: to murbina@fbi.gov Melinda Urbina Public Affairs Officer Federal Bureau of Investigation Dallas Dear Ms Urbina, I am sending you this email about the assassination of President John F Kennedy (JFKA) in Dallas, Texas, on 22nd November 1963, because it seems the Federal Bureau of Investigation has no central email address. The video linked below shows, inter alia, lawyer and author Mark Lane talking to witnesses of the JFKA who describe evidence of JFK being shot from the “grassy knoll” area of Dealey Plaza, Dallas, instead of or, in addition to, being shot from the Texas Schoolbook Depository building and possibly other locations. These witnesses include S.M. Holland, Richard Dodd, Buell Wesley Frazier, James Leon Simmons, James Tague, Orville Nix, Charles Brehm, Bill Newman, J.C. Price, Lee Bowers, Jean Hill, Phil Willis, Marilyn Willis, Linda Willis, Malcolm Summers, Buell Wesley Frazier, James Chaney and Mary Ann Moorman. Some of these witnesses say they reported what they saw to the Dallas Police and/or the FBI but they were never called to testify to the Warren Commission. The testimony of these witnesses constitutes proof that there was a conspiracy involved in the JFKA. In addition to this proof there is an accumulation of circumstantial evidence which also proves that there was such a conspiracy. In view of this proof, please advise as to what actions, if any, the FBI or any other US government agency has taken to bring the conspirators who assassinated President Kennedy to justice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egJmcUbarq0 Yours sincerely, John Cotter.

Watt?

Wattage is he?

Excellent analysis as always by Mark Dice. Spurious allegations of antisemitism and/or sexism seem to have become a standard method of “cancelling” those who are a threat to the establishment when there are no legitimate reasons to get rid of them.

It's probably a major factor. Both Tucker Carlson and RFK Jr are calling out and challenging the US "corporate kleptocracy" for what it is. Hence, they have to be shut down.

“The technique of infamy is to invent two lies and to get people to argue heatedly over which one is true.” (Ezra Pound). That sums up US and western so-called democracy. Yes, Roger, it is all fake. I watched both of those Tucker Carlson videos you mentioned – the Heritage Foundation one was linked by @Matthew Koch on another thread. Carlson is clearly very knowledgeable about the inner workings of the US corporate kleptocracy, as RFK Jr accurately described it, the tyranny of which was enforced by the 1960s assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK. RFK Jr seems the only one who might be capable of seriously challenging that tyranny. He has demonstrated his credentials in that regard by “walking the walk” in a manner that no one else has.

William, Thank you for further illustrating my point. In view of the irrationally vitriolic import the term has acquired in the covid-related culture war – to the extent that it is a largely meaningless term of abuse – I take particular exception to being called an “anti-vaxxer”. In the context of this discussion, it is a blatantly gratuitous and irrelevant ad hominem. Therefore, I request that you delete this post, and I am also reporting it in accordance with the forum rules. Also, since this is not the first time you have crossed the line with me, as acknowledged by the moderators, I submit that some form of sanction by the moderators is warranted.

Matt and William consider a hodgepodge of cherry-picked soundbites cobbled together by a political fellow traveller to be an accurate portrayal of someone they hate with the venom of a rabid dog. To make matters worse, William omitted a key word in the purported verbatim quotation he ascribed to me. That’s how demented the Punch and Judy show of US mainstream politics has become. Well done, lads. PS. I note that by the time I submitted the above, William had apparently amended his post to include the word he had omitted, namely, “U.S”. ________________________

Given the CIA’s penchant for engineering assassinations of political “undesirables” and setting up patsies to take the blame, it’s not all far-fetched to wonder if John Lennon was a victim of this murderous modus operandi. Here’s an article about John Lennon’s political radicalism, “Gimme Some Truth: John Lennon’s Political Rebirth”, subtitled “Penning songs such as ‘Gimme Some Truth,’ John Lennon radicalized his music and became one of the most politically engaged musicians in history.”: https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/gimme-some-truth-john-lennon-politics/ The lyrics of Lennon’s song “Working Class Hero” are a scathing critique of the American Dream: As soon as you're born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be They hurt you at home and they hit you at school They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool Till you're so xxxxing crazy you can't follow their rules A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be When they've tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years Then they expect you to pick a career When you can't really function you're so full of fear A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still xxxxing peasants as far as I can see A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be There's room at the top they're telling you still But first you must learn how to smile as you kill If you want to be like the folks on the hill A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be If you want to be a hero well just follow me If you want to be a hero well just follow me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMewtlmkV6c

Yes, good for the delusion of continued US global dominance.

It seems that the main reason Fox News fired Tucker Carlson is that tweets by him saying he despised Donald Trump had been discovered in the course of legal proceedings, and that Fox News’ most prominent TV host couldn’t be seen to be so negatively disposed towards the Republicans’ leading presidential candidate. That screws up the simplistic narrative of the anti-Carlson fanatics who are celebrating his axing. Ironically, the reason for the celebration is that he is probably the most incisive and articulate TV host in US mainstream media. It’s classic “shooting the messenger” cancel culture which has been destroying western so-called democracy. Denying reality is not going to change reality – the reality that unipolar US global dominance is being inexorably supplanted by a multipolar geopolitical order. The sooner US jingoistic imperialists wake up to this reality, the better it will be for all of us.

Well said, James.

Another deflection by Leslie - in this case deflecting from her own mistake by blaming her opponents for breaking some rule(s) she just made up. Is there no end to the gibberish?