Professor! Tell me, what is step one in delivering world-class fealty to power?
Tucker Carlson: [recording] Here's why we're doing it: First, because it's our job. We're in journalism.
Jon: "Lie about what your job is."
Tucker Carlson: [recording] Our duty is to inform people.
Jon: "Lie about what your duty is."
Tucker Carlson: [recording] Americans have a right to know all they can about a war they're implicated in; freedom of speech is our birthright -- we were born with the right to say what we believe.
Jon: Oh, shit... Kudos, sensei! That was deep -- I have much to learn. "Disguise your deception and capitulation to power as noble and moral and based in freedom." Yes, master...
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