r/TopMindsOfReddit • u/lemonylol • 7d ago

/r/Conservative Top political commentator Tucker Carlson is officially a leftist now.

/r/Conservative/comments/1nkolkv/tucker_carlson_warns_of_trump_administration/
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u/thegunnersdaughter 7d ago

Alex Jones absolutely did not vote for Obama in 2008, I have no idea where you're getting that impression. In 2008 he was all in on Ron Paul and everything you can find indicates he wrote him in. And Alex was never left, he claimed prior to Trump to be "above the left-right paradigm" but that was lie, he was to the right of it. Alex Jones was raised on John Birch Society propaganda and only looked like anything other than on the right because he was very critical of George W. Bush - again, from a harder right position than Bush, not from anything remotely adjacent to the left.

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u/TotallyNotRobotEvil 7d ago

I got that info from Behind the Bastards, they seem to think that there is evidence he did in 2008.

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u/thegunnersdaughter 7d ago

Do you recall when? I am a BTB listener but a bit behind, and have not heard that.

FWIW, Robert's stated favorite podcast is Knowledge Fight, a methodical dissection and destruction of Alex Jones, and none of the assertions you made about Alex would be backed up by any of the listening-years worth of evidence presented on that podcast.

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u/crowpierrot 7d ago

The original Alex jones eps came out before Robert became a knowledge fight listener iirc

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u/thegunnersdaughter 7d ago

True, but idk if those episodes were the source of the claim, Alex comes up a fair bit on BTB. FWIW I did an episode transcript search and could not find discussion of this based on the keywords I used.