Episode · The Tucker Carlson Show · 2024-06-27
Tucker Carlson & Matt Taibbi: books mentioned on The Tucker Carlson Show
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Matt Taibbi is an award-winning investigative reporter and one of America’s more recognizable literary voices. His newsletter Racket News on Substack, is popular among readers all across the political spectrum.
Matt Taibbi discussed The Quiet American by Graham Greene and Information Wars by Richard Stengel. Tucker Carlson discussed Manufacturing consent by Edward S. Herman and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Quiet American
The Quiet American by Graham Greene is a brilliant political novel set in Vietnam that examines the tragic consequences of misguided Western idealism and foreign intervention through the eyes of a cynical, world-weary British journalist.
Discussed“It's like, you know, if you've read the quiet American read, it was it was that attitude toward.”
Where to get it
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Manufacturing consent
Manufacturing consent by Edward S.
Discussed“Chris Hedges, you know, I know, and Chris Chris was sort of. A classic example of a phenomenon that Noam Chomsky once wrote about in Manufacturing. Consent”
Where to get it
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Information Wars
Discussed“He wrote a book called Information Wars that we all had to read when we were doing the Twitter files, because we didn't know about this organization.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“But for the most part, you know, people came in, and they just treated it as a, you know, as a third world backwater.It's like, you know, if you've read The Quiet American, it was that attitude toward...”
“I had a book out at the time. Called Insane Clown President about Donald Trump.”