Tucker Carlson has a bone to pick
with the CIA.
But his issue with the agency has
less to do with how it works to
topple democratically elected
leaders in various countries.
And more to do with the fact that
he thinks the CIA has become too
woke in its marketing campaign.
And you know what?
He kind of has a point, which calls
for Brett Ehrlich's special segment
from Happy Half Hour, Everybody In
This Story Sucks Farts.
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But with that said, let's talk
a little bit about Tucker Carlson's
criticisms of the CIA.
Now, as we've talked about before,
the CIA and
other government agencies have
been trying to recruit new workers.
And one of the ways that they do
that is by making it seem as though
the agency is very welcoming to
a diverse workforce, right?
Now, Tucker Carlson doesn't
like diversity,
so that's what he's decided
to focus on in this segment.
Let's watch and then I'll tell
you where he kind of has a point.
>> Apparently,
the American intel community spent
some of its diversity budget not to
achieve diversity, but
instead to buy a stock image from
the website Shutterstock.
The picture you just saw is
entitled, quote, Portrait of
Multicultural Office Staff Standing
in Lobby.
You could buy that picture too,
you can put it in your next
Christmas card if you wanted to and
maybe you should.
But apparently, this stock photo of
multicultural office staff wasn't
multicultural or diverse enough for
the Biden people.
So they inserted two other stock
images into the picture.
One of those documents is also
available on Shutterstock,
you could buy that for
your Christmas card too.
It's called quite literally,
Blind Young Man with Guide Dog on
White Background,
which is what it is.
The other is entitled, again quite
literally, Beautiful Businesswoman
with Tablet Computer in
Wheelchair on White Background.
So those aren't really intel
agents, they're stock photographs
from the Internet.
>> All right, so
everyone in this story sucks.
And the reason why I say that is
because, look,
the CIA in its attempt to recruit
a diverse workforce, right?
A diverse group of people,
relies on the same, in my opinion,
cheesy marketing ploys.
And yeah, the stock images
are laughable, right?
And people know that they are stock
images, you don't need Tucker
Carlson to spell it out for you.
And so I get that they have to use
stock images,
because what are you going to do?
You're going to use pictures of
actual CIA agents for
your marketing campaign?
You can't do that, right?
But at the same time,
the CIA is an awful, awful agency,
and has done awful, awful things.
Especially earlier in the 1950s
through the 1970s,
through various coups that were
unfortunately successful.
There was regime change that was
backed by the CIA, regime change in
Iran, specifically in 1953.
Then you have what the CIA did in
supporting regime change or
pushing for
regime change in Guatemala in 1954.
I mean, just going in and
destabilizing all these countries.
The CIA deserves harsh criticism
for that, right?
So Tucker Carlson doesn't care
about that, toppling regimes, he's
all into it, he's cool with that.
But for him,
it's like they're too woke now,
and that's what I'm going to base
all of my commentary on.
Not just once, not just twice, but
this is an ongoing segment.
This isn't the first time he's
touched on this.
>> Yeah, so this is a really
interesting ironic story,
because there is a lot I agree with
Tucker Carlson on this one.
But then I'm going to get to
the points that are very important
disagreements, okay?
So number one, I'm with Ana too,
what is this picture?
This is just silly, right?
What are you guys doing?
You had to put on a blind
person, why?
Why did you put the blind
person in?
You're trying too hard,
this whole nonsense about, well,
the CIA is woke now.
I'll believe you're woke
when you stop assassinations and
coups, okay?
[LAUGH] Because that's substance
as to what CIA does.
This is propaganda, okay?
What you're looking at there in
that picture is, actually in
a sense, classic CIA propaganda,
we're wonderfully diverse.
Now, and this newfound right wing
skepticism about the CIA and
intelligence agencies,
not so bad, okay?
Now, it's very mixed in how it has
shown itself now.
So I'll tell you the good news is,
you should be skeptical about
the Pentagon and the CIA, they have
a deep history of lying endlessly.
And the mainstream media,
in this case,
is more wrong than Tucker Carlson.
Mainstream media's like,
CIA said it, it must be true.
I bet that blind person and
the wheelchair lady, and all those
models in the picture are CIA.
I mean, I could see MSNBC anchors
repeating that endlessly.
So now, that's all good news.
Look, if you watch this show,
I don't look the gift horse
in the mouth,
that's a funny way of putting it.
[LAUGH] So if the conservatives
say yes to our agenda, I love it.
If they're against war and
they agree with us, great.
Am I going to go over to
conservatives to
agree with their agenda?
No, because I don't agree with
them, that's easy, right?
So if they want to fight corporate
power, great, come on in,
you're late to the party,
but happy to have you.
But, of course there's a second
layer to what Tucker is saying,
diversity is bad.
>> Yeah.
>> And he said in that segment over
and over again.
He mocked how diversity is our
strength, right?
And is that a talking point
among Democrats?
Sure it is, right?
But is it true?
Yes, and so he thinks, no,
diversity is terrible.
Look at the assumption built
into that.
That if we just kept everything
white and
male, it would be obviously better.
>> Would it be better, though?
Especially if you're trying to,
look, I have problems with the CIA,
I just want to be clear about that.
But for its purpose, right?
In collecting intel, if you have
a bunch of white males collecting
intel in various countries that
aren't full of white males,
wouldn't it be a problem?
Isn't that a flaw- >> 100%, and
that's where I was going,
Ana, right?
>> Yeah. >> So he says diversity,
first of all their base assumption
is white males are awesome.
And if you try to bring diversity
to something that is predominantly
white male, you're obviously going
to make it worse by definition.
That is an insane and
logically racist position.
You cannot escape that that is
a racist position, right?
But the second half of it is,
especially for the CIA, how are you
going to blend into Morocco?
How are you going to blend in in
Southeast Asia, right?
No, white males are always
the best.
Send them in right now to Cambodia,
they'll blend right in, right?
I mean, they're just such
knuckleheads, it's so
obvious, right?
Now, finally though,
there's something even
more nefarious going on.
So Tucker read this long Twitter
thread the other day that a lot of
the right wing loved and a lot of
the fake left wing loved, okay?
And it explained why Trump voters
think the way that they do.
And they gave so
much credit to say, brilliant.
It's a brilliant analysis of why
Trump people think that, and
it's not because they're racist.
And then you read the thread,
which I did, and it's totally
racist all the way through.
And it has insane conspiracy
theories, like that the CIA
worked with Black Lives Matter to
organize the George Floyd protests
because they're trying to do
a color revolution inside America.
>> Obviously.
>> Cuckoo for cocoa, yeah, the CIA
has a long history of working with
black activists in America and
supporting them.
That's likely, right?
I mean, no,
people were not organically super
pissed about a man being choked to
death in front of our eyes, the CIA
had to get them pissed, right?
And then Black Lives Matter is
funneling money to Joe Biden.
They barely have any money,
what money are they funneling
to Joe Biden, right?
And then the final one was
about how, yeah, of course,
Trump lost all the cases about.
It's not because he didn't have any
evidence about voter fraud.
It's that the judges were scared of
black mobs that were
going to come and kill them.
But no, no,
no, Tucker's not racist.
This fake left is not racist,
the right wing's not racist.
It's just that black people
are the problem in this country and
they're working with the CIA.
No, no, no, so
if you're a right winger,
your new skepticism about the CIA,
good, keep that, okay?
But the CIA generally works for,
historically, giant corporations.
People who want to take the oil of
other countries,
people who want to take
the minerals of other countries.
Or even the fruits of other
countries, literally bananas.
That's why they're called
Banana Republic,
because the CIA did coups on behalf
of an American banana company.
They didn't do it on the behalf of
black activists.
No, come on,
how could you be that dumb?
You can't be that dumb.
Of course they work for
moneyed interests, not for
people with no money.
You know that,
don't let Tucker lie to you.
So yes, the segment's funny
about the guy and the person in
the wheelchair and the fake picture
and stuff like that.
But what he's trying to lead you
down a road is, no,
the CIA actually loves to work with
the powerless now.
[LAUGH] Don't let them get away
with it.
Make sure you put the rich white
people back in charge.
Okay, if you can't see that that's
a trick, there's something deeply
wrong with you.