After the historian made a big splash by calling out all the billionaires at Davos who flew in on private jets to explain how committed they were to addressing global climate change, Tucker Carlson was eager to have him on his show…until the actual interview happened, Bregman called out Fox News and Carlson for their hypocrisy, and then poor little Tucker melted down in fury and announced that he wouldn’t air the the interview, said Bregman should go fuck himself, and declared him a tiny-brained moron. Sweet.
Fortunately, Bregman was clever enough to record the interview for himself.
1/ Here’s the interview that @TuckerCarlson and Fox News didn’t want you to see. I chose to release it, because I think we should keep talking about the corrupting influence of money in politics. It also shows how angry elites can get if you do that. https://t.co/hs1474MJNM
— Rutger Bregman (@rcbregman) February 20, 2019
He did ask another perceptive question, though. Why is it that all these TV pitchmen at Fox (and, to be fair, elsewhere) millionaires? Sure, they should get a fair wage for putting the work in, but face it — they’re not particularly bright or talented.
You ought to get paid more than that for speaking truth to power. Bregman is totally transparent about who is paying him.
If anyone wonders who funds my work, that's The Correspondent. A grassroots, reader-funded platform for investigative journalism. Will start publishing in English in September of this year. https://t.co/flyg2FLBKt @The_Corres https://t.co/6bbdGSeL56
— Rutger Bregman (@rcbregman) February 20, 2019