Here’s a 7-minute video from a couple of Brits (who call themselves the “Goon Squad” -- which I wonder if that comes from the classic and rebellious Goon Show on BBC radio that I've written about, most notably here). It show how they just pranked Tucker Carlson over the Kate Middleton “photo scandal.” This comes hot on the heels of Tucker Carlson being pranked by Vladimir Putin into giving an interview where Carlson didn't realize he was being easily manipulated as a "useful idiot," while thinking he was showing a murderous despot as a wonderful and benevolent world leader whose country was better than the U.S. because it has a nice grocery store. Some have wondered why the "Goon Squad" folks would have posted this on Twitter before it aired on Carlson's show, knowing that his staff would have found the video and then not put the piece on, which is what happened. I have a guess about that. My guess, which I will also make a guess is the right one (because clearly from their efforts here these people aren’t stupid) is that they only wanted to prank Tucker Carlson by posting the video, and didn’t want his viewers to think what they did was true. Which the viewers probably would think. So, they knew if they announced this first, he wouldn’t air the prank, his viewers wouldn’t be tricked into believing the wrong thing, and they could still post their prank. I think that was likely their thinking. But I don’t know. And even if it wasn’t -- much as I’d liked to have seem Carlson humiliated by airing the fake interview -- a side of me is glad their lie won’t get perpetuated as the truth to an idiot audience who’d believe it.
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