Tucker Carlson and the Big Box of Nothing

 

Tucker Carlson says 'damning' Hunter Biden documents mysteriously vanish in transit to Los Angeleshttps://t.co/sgQxgDzb8O

— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 29, 2020

So documents were sent by regular mail, with no back-up like a .pdf stored on a hard drive or whatever? And then somehow, some deep state operative or whatever picked this package out of all the other bits of mail and stole the documents, which definitely were not labeled "Damaging Hunter Biden info, Deep State Operatives KEEP OUT." 

And, because the lack of a back-up of any sort would be embarrassing enough in terms of how one would handle stuff you're trying to vet and report on, pretend journalist Tucker Carlson is going to go with "we had incriminating stuff and now it is gone, please believe it existed for realsies" instead of more prudently not mentioning it because the actual story he's giving us is amazingly weak? 

Sigh. Unfortunately, I've been looking at stuff like, well, this, for a long time, and have found this is actually not ineffective. For a certain type of conspiracy-minded person, lack of proof of the conspiracy is proof of a cover-up, which in itself is proof that the conspiracy is way worse and the people running the show are way more devious than you even want to know. If you think "Oh Vixen, that's bollocks" think about how Sean Hannity pimped the Seth Rich conspiracy lie because dead men tell no tales and it made the Clintons into the obvious villians. This is like the decaf latte version of that. 

If the Republicans who like this sort of thing want to know why a lot of people are not biting on this story, it's not because social media is "throttling" it. It has a lot to do with the fact that the people who are promoting it are the sleaziest people alive and the story is rickety. Tucker Carlson right here went from his usual "if Richard Spencer but with a tv job" schtick to some balls-out Alex Jonesery. I genuinely wish that meant his reputation took a hit, but....I do not expect nice things.

 You know, and I know you know, that bleach isn't a fix for COVID. But goddamn, something needs to disinfect the RW media ecosystem.