Sometimes, while watching TV in the evening, especially if it's been a day of big political news, I'll switch over to Fox, just to be either amused or angered, and occasionally to reap the reward of experiencing an odd brew of these two sensations. So last night qualified, what with the day's public impeachment hearing, etc. It happened that Tucker Carlson was on. His guest was a woman, "a former federal prosecutor" who fulsomely expressed the view that women everywhere should be outraged by the way the Democrats had treated Marie Yovanovitch, our former ambassador to Ukraine who was 86'd so that Trump and Giuliani could get their stooge, Sondland, in there to help work up some dirty doings against Biden. The whole point of the hearing, in her telling, was to get a sympathetic woman on TV to weep about having been treated badly by Big Bad Trump. She doesn't know anything, but could pull on our heart strings, and it was an affront to any genuine feminist sensibility that Democrats had found a girl to cry and make Trump look like a meany. That's what she said, and whenever she paused for air Tucker interrupted his fond gaze to agree wholeheartedly in words.
I was recoiling from that huge turd during the commercial break and so forgot to change channels. When the show resumed, the next segment was about Roger Stone, who while Yovanovitch was testifying had been convicted of seven criminal counts. The guest was Stone's daughter. She whimpered and sighed through the whole interview, if you want to call it an interview: Tucker mainly kept quiet so that, voice quavering, she could mewl about how awful it was that her father had been taken from the family. Once he interjected, morosely, "All because he supported the wrong political candidate." Had I died and gone to heaven, the previous guest would at this point have walked back on the set, holding the world's smallest violin to her chin, and mentioned the fact that the weepy girl's father is a lying sack of shit before beginning to play, but I was still alive, it was still Fox News, and Roger Stone's dewy-eyed daughter was beseeching the president for a pardon. "Donald Trump, if you're listening, save our family!" I'm not making this up, honest.
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