Ep. 217 | Tucker's CIA Claim, Joe Kent Quits & Why the Media Is Rooting Against America

Tucker Carlson says the CIA is building a criminal case against him. Joe Kent just resigned from the DNI’s counterterrorism office with a letter that contradicts itself. And legacy media — the same outlets that cheerleaded the Iraq war without a single tough question — are now going wall-to-wall negative on Iran. Coincidence?

Meseidy and Rachel break down Tucker’s pattern of CIA and NSA victim claims, Joe Kent’s scathing resignation letter (and his very different statements from just two years ago), how the media is rooting against America because they’re rooting against Trump, and Joy Reid’s take that the U.S. is only “marginally better” than Iran. Plus: Cuba’s electrical grid has completely collapsed, Iranian women soccer players are being threatened back home, and it’s St. Patrick’s Day. Real talk, no filter.

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Episode Highlights

• Tucker Carlson claims the CIA is preparing a criminal referral against him — but his own track record of identical victimhood claims (including against the NSA in 2021) makes the story hard to take at face value
• Joe Kent resigned as Director of Counterterrorism citing conscience objections to the Iran war — except his own resignation letter applauds the same Trump foreign policy he now opposes, and clips from two years ago show him making the case for exactly this kind of action
• Legacy media covered the Iraq WMD narrative without skepticism in 2003; today those same outlets are running six pages of relentlessly negative Iran headlines while ignoring every military success — and Meseidy and Rachel ask the obvious question: which is the real bias?
• Cuba’s entire electrical grid collapsed, leaving 11 million people without power after Venezuela and Iran cut oil supplies — and protests are already breaking out
• Iranian women soccer players who sought asylum in Australia are being coerced into returning by threats against their families back home — and the regime has a documented history of executing athletes who embarrass it
• Joy Reid compared the United States to Iran on live television and called it “marginally better” — Rachel had thoughts
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Chapters

00:00 Introduction to CPAC and Personal Updates

02:42 Current Events: Iran and Media Coverage

05:36 Tucker Carlson’s Controversial Claims

11:38 Cuba’s Crisis and International Relations

17:38 Tucker Carlson: A Deeper Analysis

23:35 Conclusion and Reflections on Media Dynamics

23:56 The Role of High-Profile Journalists

26:50 Self-Deprecation and Privilege in Media

29:39 Rhetoric and the Rise of the Anti-Administration Right

32:14 Joe Kent’s Resignation and Its Implications

36:04 Contradictions in Joe Kent’s Statements

39:00 The Legacy Media’s Reporting on Iran

51:36 Negative Framing in Legacy Media Coverage

52:28 Iran’s Leadership Crisis and U.S. Response

54:54 Political Narratives and U.S. Foreign Policy

59:38 Media’s Role in War Narratives

01:01:54 Emotional Arguments in Political Discourse

01:03:27 Iranian Women’s Soccer Team and Asylum Issues

01:09:42 Cultural Reflections: Movies and Current Events

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