Victor Davis Hanson Sets the Record Straight on Tucker Carlson and Graham Platner

[00:00:00]Victor, you mentioned um Tucker and I saw this post this morning on X and I'll just it's Tucker Carlson defends Graham Platner. Quote, rather than respond to what his positions are, they've called him a Nazi because he had a tattoo that was not a SWAT sticker but was allegedly connected to the German military.

[00:00:23]>> You said allegedly.

[00:00:24]>> Allegedly. They they've attacked the guy and his personal life. They don't like him because he's not sufficiently supportive of Israel. That's that's Tucker Carlson on Graham Platner. So, um just thought I'd So, let me get this straight.

[00:00:44]>> The toten cough uh it just means in German death's head.

[00:00:51]Milly many militaries have it, but there is a particular way of portraying that death's head. And yes, in the 18th century, Austrian and Hungarian husters, those were the light calvary, they wore a scald. But this particular typology is popular in European right-wing circles and in other white supremacist circles because it denotes the toten cough.

[00:01:25]I think it's the called the Verbond.

[00:01:29]That was the particular SS group that was responsible for the death camps. And they had it for a reason. They were there to kill people. And they that particular insignia was worn by them.

[00:01:42]And and number two, there were S waffen SS that is military SS groups. And one of the most notorious was the third panzer division. and they had toten cop.

[00:01:55]By the way, when the American soldiers saw those people and uh that they were waffing SS and they tore off their shirts and they found their because they tattooed their blood types onto their arms.

[00:02:10]>> Mhm.

[00:02:11]>> And that was the giveaway. And they tried to erase them after when they were surrendering, but they did not treat them very well. They knew who they were.

[00:02:18]They knew they had murdered prisoners in Normandy. They knew all about how they had treated Americans and they had that particular type of toteen cop. When Graham Platner said he didn't know that is completely contradicted by girlfriends who said that he said my little toteen cop he knew with people who went in there he went there. Then when he asked why he did it he said first I didn't know when that ex Jesus did not work. Then he said he had uh post-traumatic stress syndrome and he and he was suffering from it when he did it. Then when that didn't work, he said he was a victim of toxic military masculinity culture that had embied him with it. He in other words he was lying because he knew what he had done because he liked the idea of wearing it and that's why he told people about it and pulled off his shirt and took pictures of it. When Tucker says allegedly, >> that's simply not true, Tucker. It's not allegedly. It was tied directly. That particular version of a death's head is tied particularly with SS groups that slaughtered people both in the Holocaust and Prisoners of War. And he knew that and he put it on it there for a reason.

[00:03:40]And that reason is substantiated with all of his white supremacist stuff he he was on. And it's not just that they're looking into his personal life. They're looking into his personal life because he keeps saying that they're not going to find anything. And every time he says he didn't abuse women, some woman comes and says he jammed my arms behind my back. He pushed me. He locked me in a room all night. And then when he says, "I'm just an oyster man." Okay, this is politics. Let me see your oyster. Oh, you're a one person oyster man. Oh, you have one climate, your mother. You Oh, you're working on an oyster island that your father's done. And then I have put I you know, I know what it's like to buy a house. No, you don't. You got a $200,000 loan from your daddy. So, everything he says is not true. And the next thing is when Tucker is defending him, Tucker's a conservative. He still believes I think maybe I'm wrong. Maybe he's gone full Bill Crystal, but I have been given things that he sends out. I think I'm still on a list that he's and I look at it and he's very critical of open borders. He wants deportation. I assume he still wants energy development.

[00:05:02]Graham Pratt doesn't want any of that.

[00:05:05]Nothing. So what I'm getting at, Jack, is that the one issue that he may differ with Graham Platner is Jews, I mean, not differ are Jews and their influence in the United States and Israel. And then therefore, because that issue uh is the one issue that he's upset, but he's not upset. I don't hear Tucker saying, "I don't like Trump because of his border policies. I don't like Trump because he deported people. I don't like Trump because he cracked down on crime.

[00:05:39]I don't like Trump because he's pumping too much oil. I don't like I like Trump.

[00:05:44]No, it's one issue. It's the Iran war and the Jews made us do it. And that's that issue then overrides all the other issues. All the other issues pale. I am a 90% conservative, but I hate Israel so much and the people who support it so much, I am willing to cancel out all the other issues and join this fanatic fanatic communist socialist. Makes no sense.

[00:06:12]>> Yeah. Well, on tattoos, Victor, I I'm not I I don't have any tattoos. I will never have a tattoo. I assume though by by the variety you see on the street and the number of tattoo parlor, there's probably several hundred thousand tattoos you could get if you wanted to get a tattoo. And to to pick that particular tattoo out to put on you instead of having, you know, a tattoo of Kermit the Frog or some something but, you know, a heart with I love you, Mom.

[00:06:42]Uh it's it's it's kind of foolish. I only allegedly think >> I only considered it at one time. I was in let me see now. I was like 47 or 46.

[00:06:59]And all my daughter's friends at college had these strategically placed tattoos, you know, they on on their foot, you know, or in their back >> so they could show it if they wanted.

[00:07:11]And they all had nose rings.

[00:07:14]>> And my daughter came home with a nose ring.

[00:07:18]>> And I said, "Okay." I I got all both my daughters and my son together. And I said, "If anybody gets a nose ring or gets a tattoo, here is what I'm going to do. I've always wanted a bob wire tattoo around my biceps. And I've always want to wear a wife beater t-shirt. So, here's what I'm going to do. Every single day that I pick you up at school or I'm with you, I'm going to have two bobb wire about on each arm and I'm going to show them.

[00:07:54]>> Yeah.

[00:07:54]>> And my son said something like, "Well, you don't have big biceps." Like I I said, "That'll be even more pathetic, won't it?"

[00:08:04]And then I said, "If that doesn't work, I don't want to do it." because I have sinus problems. I might have to get a a nose ring.

[00:08:14]>> And that was it. The nose the the nose ring came out and neither all three of them never had a tattoo.