Diana West Substack article on Tucker Carlson and his best ever historian, Darryl Cooper

Posted on by

Whole article is here

One of the more interesting things Darryl Cooper revealed while ensconced on the massive Joe Rogan platform last week concerned his appearance on the even more massive Tucker Carlson platform last summer. It was the night before the Carlson interview, Cooper recalled, and he and Carlson were having dinner, talking about the upcoming show. Carlson informed Cooper that he was going to introduce him as America’s greatest living historian. Cooper says that he demurred, having explained to Carlson that he was no historian, did no original research, published nothing; rather, that he was someone who recorded stories about what he had read.

Carlson was having none of that. He was dead set on tagging Cooper with this nonsensically extravagant accolade and told him just to roll with it during the taping the next day. If you go back and watch Tucker’s opening of the Cooper show, you will notice that no blush, no gulp, and barely a muscle move across Cooper’s face as Tucker coats him with this syrupy wash of words — “the most important popular historian working in the United States today.” But even that wasn’t enough for Tucker: “I want people to know who you are, and I want you to be widely recognized as the most important historian in the United States today because —”

Yes, yes … why? Tell us why!

“— because I think that you are.”

If Carlson’s motives remain opaque, we are now at least privvy to the calculation, the Barnum-esque decision, to dress up the podcaster as this “greatest,” this “most important” historical expert in the whole of these United States. This created what I see as the moving target. Step right up and take you turn … and sure enough, a flurry of “outlets” I don’t pay attention to, and a clutch of “court historians” (ditto) stepped right up and took their turn at shooting down some of the clunkier clay pigeons Cooper launched — Churchill, the “chief villain” of World War II (Cooper also called him a “psychopath”), Hitler, the peacemaker (Cooper did not call him a “psychopath”), and the Holocaust, the accident, which Cooper did not name at all. The massive response was more like shooting fish in a barrel. Surely, I thought, something else was going on in or around this apparent provocation.

Please read the whole article at Diana’s substack. Diana West is a meticulous researcher and has taken on giant narratives, even ones that present themselves as on the side of the counter-revolution but are decidedly not.

Diana’s article may explain why you can see the entire interview on YouTube.

Screenshot

About Eeyore

Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

15 Replies to “Diana West Substack article on Tucker Carlson and his best ever historian, Darryl Cooper”

  1. Thank you for the link to Diana West’s substack article. I am grateful to Diana for saving me the heartache of listening to this interview. I had hoped that Joe Rogan would push back against Cooper. However Diana wrote that she heard only Joe’s assent to Cooper’s sly antisemitism. Why was Cooper platformed on this most prominent of podcasts? The most parsimonious explanation I can find is in the “Management of Reality” Substack of historian and sociologist Francisco Gil White. Vlad Tepes, I would love to see you comment on Professor Gil White’s work.

  2. In her article, Diana West brilliantly chronicles the incredibly strange saga of Tucker Carlson’s promotion of pro-Hitler “historian” Daryl Cooper. It is apparent now that Tucker is mounting his own Jihad to attack Jews and Israel. Cooper is only the latest in a long line of Israel-haters/Jew-haters that Tucker has featured including Dave Smith, Ian Cooper, Jeffrey Sachs and others. Never has he interviewed anyone who supports Israel or the Jews to give the other side of story. So the lies go unrebutted. One would think that as an alleged “journalist Tucker would present the other side – just once. But he doesn’t. One of the stranger aspects of the Cooper episode is that Tucker introduced Cooper (an ignorant, disturbed, non-entity) as one of the most important historians in America. The question is who or what is driving Tucker Carlson to the ranks of the lowlife Jew Haters now crawling out from under their rocks like swarms of newly born maggots?

    • This hate expands and becomes more entrenched everyday. SOME conservative political junkies, proud Christians of the MAGA persuasion are changing.

      The Conservative Treehouse blog has been an American treasure for decades. A Tea Party legacy, Sundance writes flawless essays on the news of the day. Events are put into context from every angle: economics, national security, Congress, and so on.

      He dives deeply into our Middle East policies and shows why they play out as they do. cui bono?? Straightforward facts, Benghazi to Arab Spring to Yemeni Houthis, the acid test: Is it good for America?

      Sundance is as pitch-perfect as ever, but the comments are losing their charm. In the past when a Pat Buchanan or Ron Paul remark popped up, it would be crushed immediately by rebuttals as savvy as those of William F. Buckley. That’s changing.

      Media manipulation has hit the sweet spot on those conservatives already carrying the oldest hate gene. They know MSM is lies, but quote RT, Scott Ritter, and the stable of Russian govt shills as gospel.

      They’re nodding along with Candace Owen {spit} and F. Carlson {spit}. Their critical eye with respect to the joooz and Isr has gone blind.

      I just glanced at the comments, but this is what I mean:

      https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/03/24/u-s-ukraine-and-russian-technical-negotiation-teams-meet-in-saudi-arabia/comment-page-1/#comment-11671876

  3. Diana West is right on the money.

    The Far Far Left National Socialist (Nazis, Islam etc ‘In God We Trust’) and the Far Left International Socialists. (Communists).

    Together in arms using a pincer movement to reduce the sane population in the middle. White and Red Armies.

    This Socialist coin. Heads or tails. Dom or Sub. Unpeaceful males and unfairness females. Repairing themselves after a deliberately insulted dissociation of affection in childhood. And now never will. Unwilling to return this coin of Pride.

    The childhoods of Mohammed, Stalin, Hitler, Mao and their escapist sexual perversions. Unable to do normal.

    : P

      • Likewise. It’s a joy to be alive Yucki. 🙂 I’m amazed this Blog has not hit the stratosphere. Well done for everyone contributing.

        Now that the poem detractors have left….

        Tattoo-man shoots subject they dint know to contain
        Like Little Officers with no options to name
        Tasers don’t work on such a big game
        So where’s the drug dart that someone can aim?
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM8zdby8sGA&rco=1
        (Video has a shooting by police so warning)

        The reality is Police Officers are no longer drawn from the finest in the community. And so this makes criminals honest. Because an honest criminal – over a hypocrite – has the moral superiority.

        Just like Islamists and Communists openly speak about the perverted lifestyles of the West. Who would you trust to go into a righteous war with. The turncoats who change their identities when under stress?

        An honest Police Officer would have known something was up. Discernment. And a medic backup would have been called. Mentally-ill people need help not crying men.

        This shrinking world of being able to express your thoughts.