Joe Kent casts his lot with the Carlson/Owens wing of …
… of some group or other. I don’t know exactly what to call them, because they’re certainly not conservative. “Far right” indicates they actually are on the right, and I think they really merit their own designation because the actual right disowns them (rightly). We could call them neo-Nazis, but they don’t have the tattoos or other regalia.
At any rate, Joe Kent, who’s enjoying his fifteen minutes of fame, appeared on Carlson’s show yesterday. That’s no surprise; he’s been allied with Carlson for years and appeared on his show as early as the Fox News days (see this).
Some tidbits from the interview; it’s astounding this guy was in US government intelligence till just the other day. And I bet he’s not alone in these sentiments:
After resigning this week over what he said was Israel’s manipulation of President Donald Trump into war with Iran, former national counterterrorism director Joe Kent is now insinuating Israel may have also killed Charlie Kirk as part of its pressure campaign.
Kent made the comments on a Wednesday evening appearance on Tucker Carlson’s podcast, as the FBI launched an investigation into whether Kent shared classified material. He is also scheduled to appear Thursday evening at a “Catholics for Catholics” gala featuring podcaster Candace Owens, who has promulgated antisemitic conspiracy theories and praised Kent.
“When one of President Trump’s closest advisers, who is vocally advocating for us to not go to war with Iran and for us to rethink, at least, our relationship with the Israelis, and then he’s suddenly publicly assassinated and we’re not allowed to ask any questions about that, it’s a data point,” Kent told Carlson about the 2025 murder of the right-wing pundit. “It’s a data point that we need to look into.”
He’s going to be appearing with Owens, too, which makes perfect sense considering his views.
Carlson has also taken it upon himself to defend the British Fascist Oswald Moseley. I think one of the things he’s doing is exploiting the historical ignorance of the young.
Lastly, I wonder – with zero evidence, so this is truly just a thought – whether the investigation of Kent for leaking (an investigation which started prior to his resignation) has to do with leaking information to Carlson or Owens or both.
Birds of shit-for-brains flock together.
It’s disturbing that someone this unhinged was serving in such a high position. I knew he was an isolationist but I really didn’t think he was this batsh*t crazy. There are probably others like him still serving and they need to be fired.
It’s not well-known, but this Elvis Costello song is about the fascist Oswald Mosley:
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Calling Mister Oswald with the swastika tattoo
There is a vacancy waiting in the English voodoo
—Elvis Costello, “Less Than Zero”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJygTz0gB6g
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Later Costello explained:
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“Less Than Zero” was a song I had written after seeing the despicable Oswald Mosley being interviewed on BBC television. The former leader of the British Union of Fascists seemed unrepentant about his poisonous actions of the 1930s. The song was more of a slandering fantasy than a reasoned argument.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less_than_Zero_(Elvis_Costello_song)
one was reminded len deighton, passed recently, he was an airman in the post war era, the creator of Harry Palmer, not named in the book,* a very down to earth spy, who works for a non descript government (WOCP) I think it was called, this was after Bond,
coined the more glamorous upper crust operative, and before Lecarre if memory served,
*Michael Caine, played Harry, who curiously enough is the name of the protagonist in the kingsman played bycolin firth, but his boss is played by Caine, as atreacherous mandarin, much like the villains in Ipcress, working with the Villain
it is said he was inspired by the Tyler Kent affair, about an American cipher clerk, who was leaking to the Germans from his perch in the American Embassy,
in retrospect the plot sounds more like the Cambridge 5 cadre of Soviet agents,
@ Neo > “… of some group or other. I don’t know exactly what to call them, because they’re certainly not conservative.”
Free-Range anti-Semitic Idiots?
FRASI – has kind of a nice ring to it.
But perhaps not quite yet full-bore Fascist-Stasi (to avoid invoking Godwin’s Law*, which is now heeded about as much as immigration laws under Biden Inc.)
*Wikipedia: “Godwin’s law (coined 1990), short for Godwin’s law of Nazi analogies, is an Internet adage asserting: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” The law’s creator, Mike Godwin, maintains these comparisons often trivialize the Holocaust. It is an example of the reductio ad Hitlerum fallacy”
“Joe Kent is now insinuating Israel may have also killed Charlie Kirk as part of its pressure campaign.”
It is always to be welcomed when people reveal who they are and what really lies within their hearts. Kent, Carlson, Owens and Fuentes are being cheered on from the depths of hell by Hitler. No doubt he’s looking forward to making their acquaintance.