Transcript [00:00] But one of the big issues that everyone [00:01] in conservative media and in the [00:03] conservative political space has been [00:05] talking about, especially in the Jewish [00:07] community and the pro-Israel community [00:09] uh over the last few months, has been [00:11] Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson, very [00:13] popular host on Fox News. I used to [00:15] watch him every day. I was very into his [00:17] commentaries. I thought he was a great [00:18] voice. But in the last year or so, maybe [00:22] a little more, he's turned very hard [00:25] against Jews and against Israel. And he [00:27] does it by platforming people who raise [00:30] all kinds of conspiracy theories and [00:32] raise up raise all kinds of ahistorical [00:35] questions about the Holocaust and point [00:38] the finger at Israel in all kinds of [00:39] ways. And he's been doing this for a [00:41] while. There's been a lot of speculation [00:44] about what is behind it. And in recent [00:47] months, he's also started to go after [00:50] Christian support for Israel, [00:52] specifically going after Christian [00:54] Zionism, calling it a heresy. And this [00:57] all is very interesting in light of [01:02] comments made by Ambassador Mike [01:04] Huckabe, maybe the most famous Christian [01:05] Zionist in the world right now. At a [01:08] conference in Jerusalem yesterday, this [01:11] was a big international conference on [01:13] anti-semitism, on Jew hatred around the [01:16] world, there were dignitaries, political [01:17] figures, and media people from all over [01:20] the world who were there. And here is [01:22] what Ambassador Huckabe had to say about [01:26] Tucker Carlson. Have a look at this. [01:29] >> Let's just take Tucker Carlson. That a [01:31] man in his mid-50s who I've known since [01:33] 1991 when his first job out of college [01:36] was in Little Rock, Arkansas working for [01:38] a newspaper. I worked with him for six [01:41] and a half years at Fox News in New [01:43] York. [01:45] Suddenly in a very short period of time [01:49] a switch is flipped and he has a [01:51] completely different worldview and his [01:53] ideological [01:55] base has completely changed. That's not [01:58] normal for someone in his 50s. It just [02:00] isn't. What happened? I don't know. Is [02:04] it that it is more profitable for him to [02:06] do what he's doing now than what he was [02:08] doing when he was at Fox News? He [02:10] wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't. [02:12] There's got to be on all of our part a [02:16] willingness to push back, stand up, [02:18] speak up, but to do it with facts, but [02:21] to do it not with a sense of anger and [02:23] hostility. I think that's a huge [02:25] mistake. If all we do is engage in the [02:28] same level of temperature, then we're [02:31] not going to be able to be successful. [02:34] We need to calmly but with a sense of [02:37] assurance and confidence push back on [02:40] some of the more outrageous things. I'll [02:41] give you an example. He made a speech [02:43] few months ago [02:45] and he made the comment. He said, [02:47] "Everybody knows that Jeffrey Epstein [02:49] was a MSAD agent." Now, he said this in [02:52] front of probably 1,200 people. I wonder [02:55] how many of those 1,200 actually knew [02:57] that Jeffrey Epstein was a MSAD agent. I [03:00] would say no one because to anyone's [03:02] knowledge, it has never been proven, [03:05] documented, that Jeffrey Epste was a [03:06] MSAD agent. [03:08] >> Whoa. So, here's Ambassador Huckabe [03:11] attributing Tucker Carlson's change to [03:15] to being to being paid to being making [03:17] more money and that it's been more [03:19] profitable for him to be anti-Israel. [03:21] And the truth is there's there is a lot [03:23] of reason to believe that because and [03:26] it's got nothing to do with necessarily [03:28] getting paid by Qatar or any of those [03:31] allegations. It has to do with something [03:32] much more basic. If you look on social [03:35] media, you'll see that being [03:37] anti-Israel, being anti-Jewish, [03:39] anti-Semitic, actually generates a lot [03:42] of clicks. It it causes things to go [03:45] viral. There's a number of accounts that [03:46] I've noticed, one of them is [03:48] Representative Matt Gates, former [03:50] congressman. Every post he puts up [03:52] that's anti-Israel gets lots more [03:55] engagement than his posts that are on [03:58] other topics. So there's a lot of reason [04:00] to believe that people are turning [04:02] against Israel in in this space just as [04:06] a kind of grift. But with Tucker Carlson [04:08] specifically, there's probably more [04:10] there. Like for example, we have this [04:14] article, this uh this story from the [04:16] Washington Examiner from a couple of [04:18] months ago, conservative media targeted [04:20] by Qatari foreign influence operations. [04:22] And it outlines the fact that the [04:24] Qataris have been investing a lot of [04:26] resources in trying to sway the MAGA [04:30] movement, the conservative political [04:31] movement in America, the Trump movement. [04:33] And in here we read the following. [04:36] Perhaps Qatar's biggest victory in its [04:38] post-election right-wing media campaign [04:40] thus far was securing an interview [04:42] between Tucker Carlson and Qatari Prime [04:44] Minister Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman Alani [04:48] in March. The interview, which has raked [04:51] up nearly six million views, probably [04:54] should have said racked up, nearly six [04:56] million views across X and YouTube, was [04:58] friendly with Carlson praising the [05:00] country. Qatar paid top dollar to ensure [05:03] this interview took place. Foreign [05:05] Agents Registration Act records show [05:08] that Luminate Advisors LLC, a legal [05:12] consulting company for which very little [05:15] public information is available, has uh [05:19] helped facilitate between Carlson and [05:21] the Qatari dignitary. The embassy of the [05:23] state of Qatar paid Luminate Adviserss [05:27] $180,000 [05:29] per month to provide media and [05:32] communication coaching and consulting [05:36] services. Now, that's a lot of money to [05:38] pay for uh for an interview, but [05:41] Luminate Advisors, you might think, [05:42] well, they do a lot of interviews. they [05:44] do a lot of, you know, maybe they're, [05:46] you know, if they're paying them [05:47] $180,000 per month, they're obviously [05:51] facilitating a lot of interviews [05:52] interviews. But what's the problem? The [05:54] problem is that Luminate Advisors [05:57] is not providing a lot of interviews. [06:00] Meaning, if you look at their Farah [06:03] registration, what you find is that, and [06:07] this is the Farah registration for [06:08] Luminate Advisors. Okay? Okay, it says [06:10] here name of registrant illuminate [06:11] advisors and they're registering as a [06:13] foreign agent for Qatar. And if we go [06:16] down to their activities, the activities [06:19] for which they're registering are only [06:21] one thing. Tucker Carlson, the Tucker [06:24] Carlson show, embassy of the state of [06:27] Qatar interview with the prime minister [06:30] of Qatar [06:31] regarding war with Israel. Now that is [06:34] the only activity that is known for [06:38] luminate advisors. It's the only one. So [06:42] what do we do with that? If that is [06:45] literally the only [06:48] it's literally the only thing that it [06:51] says that they've done. So how could it [06:52] be that you have this consulting firm [06:54] and the only activity is a single [06:56] interview and they're now getting and [06:57] they're getting paid thousands $180,000 [07:02] per month. So there's some kind of big [07:04] money changing hands because of that [07:06] interview. It had a huge effect. Now [07:08] also with Tucker Carlson, we have this [07:09] guy Omid Malik, the technocrat Muslim [07:12] billionaire inside MAGA. This is a [07:14] Muslim American, father's Pakistani, [07:17] mother's Iranian, and he invested [07:20] millions and millions of dollars, uh [07:23] something like I think it was like $15 [07:24] million to help Tucker Carlson when he [07:27] left Fox start his new Tucker Carlson [07:30] network. He's also a big donor to JD [07:33] Vance's uh uh he was a big donor to JD [07:35] Vance's senatorial campaign. So what you [07:38] have here is a lot of money changing [07:41] hands. Uh a very prominent Muslim [07:44] billionaire pouring piles of money into [07:46] Tucker Carlson when he leaves Fox. You [07:49] also have this obscure firm, Luminate [07:52] Advisors, that has no activities [07:54] whatsoever. There's no record of them [07:56] doing anything as an as an organization [07:59] other than arranging a single interview [08:01] between Tucker Carlson and the prime [08:03] minister of Qatar. Uh so Mike Huckabe [08:06] might be right. There's a lot of money [08:08] changing hands. But let me add in that [08:10] there's also a lot of incentive [08:12] unfortunately on social media to be [08:14] anti-Israel. What happens is when people [08:16] say inflammatory things about Jews in [08:18] Israel, it generates it generates a lot [08:21] of clicks. There's a number of accounts [08:22] that I've been watching on social media [08:25] and looking at what are their engagement [08:27] numbers when they talk about other [08:28] issues and what are their engagement [08:30] numbers when they bash Israel or say [08:32] anti-semitic things. And you could just [08:34] look at it that way. One account for [08:37] example is that the account of former [08:39] Congressman Matt Gates, Representative [08:41] Matt Gates. If you look at his social [08:42] media account, and he's also only in the [08:44] last year or so suddenly become this [08:46] anti-Israel voice, but go through his [08:48] Twitter account, start scrolling through [08:50] it and looking at the engagement numbers [08:52] on different posts in his account. And [08:54] when he's posting anti-Israel or ant or [08:57] or you know, things about the Jews, then [09:01] suddenly his engagement numbers are much [09:04] much higher by orders of magnitude. And [09:06] if he's talking about some other issue, [09:08] he doesn't get the clicks. So, it could [09:10] very well be that these people are just [09:12] grifters who know that being anti-Jewish [09:14] and being anti-Israel generates a lot of [09:16] activity. It generates a lot of viral [09:19] activity. The same could be said [09:21] possibly about Candace Owens. Again, I [09:22] don't know what their true motivations [09:24] are. But Ambassador Huckabe is probably [09:26] not far off that Tucker Carlson made the [09:29] decision that it made sense financially [09:31] for him to turn against Israel and [09:34] against the Jews. And uh you know he [09:38] continues to praise Islam. At the recent [09:40] uh Turning Point USA America Fest and [09:42] Tucker Carlson speech he actually [09:44] rebuked the crowd for saying negative [09:48] things or about Islam or or harboring [09:51] anti-Islamic sensitivities which was so [09:54] ironic considering that Charlie Kirk in [09:56] the final months of his life had really [09:59] leaned into the fact that Islam is a [10:02] threat to Western civilization and the [10:03] crowd was not really with him. I was in [10:05] the room. the crowd was not with um was [10:07] not with Tucker when he was saying these [10:09] you when he was saying these things. So [10:11] Tucker Carlson seems to have become a [10:13] shill for the anti-Israel leadership for [10:16] the you know for the Muslim world and uh [10:18] and and Huckabe was you know was on [10:21] stage in Jerusalem calling it out. So we [10:25] need to do what what Ambassador Huckabe [10:27] said and this is another point about [10:28] what he said and I'll end with this. I [10:30] totally agree with him that we need to [10:31] push back calmly and with facts and [10:34] don't just get into a spitting contest [10:36] where we demonize people or just, you [10:37] know, if you if you get up and you make [10:39] a statement, oh, Tucker Carlson's an [10:40] anti-semite, it doesn't gain you [10:42] anything because he knows what he's [10:43] doing. He expects that that inflammatory [10:46] response. We have to calmly push back [10:48] and point out the lies, point out the [10:50] inaccuracies of the things that he's [10:52] saying. And that's how we are going to [10:55] be successful. And in the end of the [10:57] day, I think we're winning. I think that [10:59] people are smarter than you think. We [11:00] also have to remember that social media [11:02] world is not necessarily reality. Uh and [11:06] uh you know kudos to Ambassador Huckabe [11:08] for speaking up.
