Pharisees of the Feed: Tucker Sat at a Table with a Sinner, Oh My!
- dkclements
- 10 hours ago
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THE CHILL TAPS MY GARAGE DOOR like fingers on a drum. I poured coffee and pulled up the feed. It ran hot with names. Mark Levin at the podium in Vegas, a nasal and irritated voice shrieking like a trapped mosquito in a glass jar. Tucker Carlson is poison now. He dines with the devil's own. Lara Loomer typed it sharper, day after day, no letup. Cut him out like a tumor. Dinesh D’Souza swung the gavel too. Tucker has lost his mind, he posted, a betrayal of everything we fought for. Over three hundred episodes Tucker has aired, voices from every shadow and sun. Only a handful have been critical of Israel’s government, but the mob clips them short, bleeds them dry, sells the wound as the man.
I scrolled deeper. Hundreds of blue checks lit up the screen, maybe a thousand voices by week's count, piling stones on the grave they dug in hours. Ben Shapiro, eyebrows like mustaches, called it cowardice. The Republican Jewish Coalition spoke as one: appalled, disgusted. Even pastors joined the chorus. Greg Locke, the firebrand from Tennessee, blasted Tucker on his platform, calling him a wolf in sheep’s clothing for giving air to Fuentes’ views. Ted Cruz echoed it, still hurt after Tucker embarrassed him on his wafer-thin theological grounds for always sounding the war drums against enemies Trump was trying to secure peace with.
They accuse Tucker of being lured by Fuentes' snake charm, or that Tucker was simply revealing a radical bent that was there all along, hidden from view until the interview aired. They condemned the platform given, and then the man, guilt by handshake, no trial, no mercy. Despite Tucker frequently opposing Nick Fuentes’ views; that Jews should never be singled out.
Tucker stating, “They're against me. I've always thought I have the world's most moderate position on Israel. Don't hate Israel. Just don't want to get involved in their wars. Don't want to pay for this. Don't want to pay for abortion on demand in a foreign country. Sorry…. It's not America first. That's my view. Not embarrassed of it at all. They are totally determined to take me out, I think because I'm reasonable. Who would disagree with that? And call me all these names, the most dangerous anti-Semite. I'm not even an anti-Semite. And they're not doing that to you…. because they're like, Fuentes discredits the reasonable people because he's always banging on about the Jews, the Jews. And so he makes everyone else look like a Nazi. And so it's like, he's playing a pretty valuable role in the same way that Israel has always funded extremism throughout the Middle East, including Hamas, because it discredits the reasonable people. That's a fact.” like, he's playing a pretty valuable role in the same way that Israel has always funded extremism throughout the Middle East, including Hamas, because it discredits the reasonable people. That's a fact.”
I’ve seen the template before, remembering Mel Gibson, the film that split the air like lightning. The Passion, blood on the frame, Pilate at the bowl, washing hands of the storm. The priests take the weight: His blood on us, on our children. Straight from Matthew's ink, black as night. Diane Sawyer leaned in, voice soft as silk. Is that fair? Mel met her eyes. It's the text, he said. They called Mel poison too, an antisemite, though the Good Book lay open, clear on the matter.
Fast forward to Tucker's words at Charlie Kirk's memorial service: Carlson recounted the plot to kill Jesus as described in the Gospel of John (11:47-53), paraphrasing it as follows: "Two thousand years ago, in a lamp-lit room in Jerusalem, a bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus were trying to figure out how to kill Jesus because he was saying things they didn't like. And they decided that the only way to shut him up was to crucify him. And they did. And they thought that would be the end of it. But it wasn't."
Was this statement inconsistent with the Bible’s text? No.
And any Bible believing Christian would tell you that it wasn’t the Jews that truly placed Christ on the cross. It was our sin. My sin. And if it helps Tucker’s accusers drop their stones, I openly declare my guilt.
Matthew 26:52–54 states:
“When the mob came to arrest Jesus in Gethsemane and Peter drew his sword, Jesus stopped him and said: “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”
It was Christ’s love that sent Him to the cross. It was His choice to suffer a sinner’s death, though He was innocent. To redeem all mankind, Jew and Gentile alike.
Like the Pharisees of old, Levin and his ilk would rather encourage the mob to set Barabbas free, than deal with a Christian nationalist that threatens their designs to bring the GOP back to the clutches of Mike Pence and Nikki Haley.
I’m sure other conservative voices silently agree with Tucker. But they, like Pilate, simply wash their hands and step back from a possible digital riot that would put them by his side.
So, what is it we are seeing? The religious spirit.
And that’s the topic for today:
Pharisees of the Feed: Tucker Sat at a Table with a Sinner, Oh My!
Luke 18:11-12 tells us about the Pharisee that “stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.”
They hurled outrage at Jesus, when they intoned, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” (Luke 15:2).
Do you see what’s happening? Conservative Inc. has made one thing abundantly clear. They are more righteous than Tucker. They are not like the sinner Fuentes. They would never sit and eat with these men, and they let you know through a thousand posts of condemnation.
It forced me to think of Christ’s response. “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Tucker has his defenders. Bret Weinstein, a Jewish intellectual, cut through the noise, his words stark on X. He states, “I wish Israelis understood what is happening to the good will towards Israel that existed in the U.S., and why that good will is evaporating. Considerable antisemitism here, spreading. But also legitimate questions, shut down with false accusations of bigotry. That has to stop. It is pushing the antisemites and the people with legitimate concerns onto the same team—a colossal blunder.”
His statement hung like smoke: the danger is in the blur, the innocent caught in the net.
Matt Barnes, Glenn Greenwald, Jason Whitlock, offered more defense, and echoed the danger of the blur. To question Israel’s government, Mossad, Bibi, the IDF’s delay in combatting the October 7th terrorist attack, all clumsily rendered antisemitism.
Instead of Lara Loomer conceding that Tucker’s critique is of Israel’s government, and not it’s people, she went straight for the jugular. "When can we admit that @TuckerCarlson is a raging Jew hater? ... He is denying we are American because we are Jewish... You hate Jews Tucker. We get it. Just say that. How badly do you want to call me a K*ke Tucker? Just say it already."
Bannon pushed back on Loomer’s inability to see Israel’s very own deep state.
“[If] the Israeli government had dealt straight with us, you wouldn’t have had this problem. They’re liars. They’ve been stone-cold liars. They gave bad information. So I’m not going to let that go unchallenged. That’s just bullshit. OK?"
He escalated further: "Do not—don’t sit there all innocent about what Netanyahu’s—Netanyahu’s government has been atrocious, and we should have regime change in Jerusalem, and we should have it immediately. They’ve lied to the American government. They’ve lied to the American people consistently... We need regime change in Jerusalem and we need it tonight!"
Tucker's critics do not know it, but every pseudo-Nazi sympathizing tweet thrown his way was a cry for a guilty verdict in the Courts of Heaven. Satan, the accuser of all accusers, delights in the digital mob picking up stones to hurl accusation. Planks in eyes, searching for Tucker’s speck. The kategoros of Revelation 12:10—who stands at the right hand of the throne, day and night, twisting evidence, takes a step back and marvels at the all the misguided Christians, Jews, patriots, and pastors, doing his job for him. Even the radical left stands awestruck in silence. Why join the chorus when Mark Levin’s shrieks will do the trick. Satan needs no algorithm (though he has it) only our mouths. Too bad Christ is not an X moderator, drawing a line in the sand, asking the digital mob whether they were free from sin before they loosed their self-righteous keystrokes.
I continue to think of the place where thrones sit heavy and the Ancient of Days opens ledgers. Daniel saw scrolls, judgment white as snow (Daniel 7:9-10). Psalm eighty-two has God amid shadows, scales steady. Satan at the right hand, as in Zechariah’s vision, hissing accusations. Revelation names him thrown down, yet his echo lingers in Conservative Inc.’s retweets, binding the innocent to thorns.
The interview played in my head, unedited. Tucker, leaning in like a confessor, Nick’s flinty face across. Why one tribe? Tucker pressed, four times. Speak to all men, universal fire. Fuentes dodged, swung wild—and joked about Stalin being his hero. Critics’ seized upon Tucker’s puzzlement. Why didn’t you confront him about what was said? Was Fuentes doing his best Norm MacDonald “Hitler was a good guy” impression? Was Tucker obligated to say, “you are joking, right?” Whatever you think his silence might mean, Tucker has a 30-year career leaving no doubts about what he thinks of Stalin.
Levin and Shapiro, the poorly re-cloaked neocons, lead the charge. I recall Levin’s old tapes—Never Trump in sixteen, a Nixonian trickster with dirty hands, I would never vote for him, he said, count me out—only to flip when the wind turned, his endorsement sounding like swallowed glass. From Ben Shapiro, the scorn was sharper: he branded Trump a "buffoon" and "unprincipled" on his podcast, declaring, "I will not vote for Donald Trump," while stumping for Ted Cruz as "the last best hope for conservatism," even writing in Cruz’s name over Trump in the general. Then, in 2023, he pivoted to Ron DeSantis, hailing him as the GOP’s future, praising his governance over Trump’s divisiveness—only to waver when DeSantis fell. Hypocrisy glows in the feed’s light. The voice of the base, they claim today, but the base was never theirs. They flipped scripts when the wind turned, yet swing stones at Tucker with the same old fire.
I don’t want to preach about planks and splinters, casting stones, or when to rebuke versus seek the lost—Saul, persecutor of Christians, became Paul on a Damascus road; Nick, mock persecutor of Jews, might be a lost cause worth reaching. Time will tell. Instead, I've observed the 72-hour rule, watching for patterns to emerge, to sift authentic argument from bot scripts. One thing is for sure. Tucker and Fuentes aren’t done talking—their voices will echo beyond this storm.
They say the sit-down with Nick sparked his rise, gave him wings. I checked the numbers. Nick roared for years before Tucker dialed him up. The clip didn’t birth him—it exposed a wound. The real spark? DEI policies screaming that white boys are born wrong, maleness toxic, skin a debt unpaid. Nick, a shock troll thriving on controversy, is their creation, inevitable as are the millions of demonized white males existing in silence.
So many compare Fuentes to Hitler—but their rebuke collapses as soon as you realize the absurdity of equating appalling words to the actual atrocious deeds of a mass-murderer. What is the greater sin, Fuentes' reckless trolling, saying things he may not even believe to grab attention, or being so intellectually sloppy that we compare a twenty-something podcaster to an actual mass murderer? Yes, Fuentes spews indefensible filth about women, blacks, and Jews, making him the perfect target. But his critics wield those sins as a veil to dismiss something he is telling the absolute truth about: U.S. foreign policy’s overreach, including Mossad’s outsized influence on American politics. Wrong on so much, yes, but right on the war machine’s excess, a point the neocons bury under ad hominem snow.
Tucker approached Nick not with stones but with a shepherd’s resolve, driven by a biblical call despite the personal sting. In an interview with Dave Smith, Tucker revealed, "Nick Fuentes is the most influential voice for men under 30. More influential than me or you! [...] But look, he's said some wild stuff about me, about my family—calling my kids things I won't repeat here. And yeah, that stings. It's personal, it's ugly, but it's also why I had him on. You can't ignore a guy like that; he's got a grip on a generation that's pissed off and disaffected."
This wasn’t vengeance but a confrontation, a chance to turn a lost cause like Saul on his road to Damascus, facing the venom head-on to seek out a disaffected youth cancelled at every turn. Yet the neocons, blind to their own planks, cry monster, turning accusation into reality. Dinesh states on X, “Nick Fuentes is not a real Nazi. He’s a poseur. Nazism is his shtick…. They know Nick is too much of a beta male and a pansy to do any of the things Hitler did.” Talk about a dog whistle. Is Dinesh baiting Fuentes to do more than talk like a Nazi, and start executing Jews like Hitler? How reckless. You see the trap? Either Fuentes is the monster Dinesh says he is, or he will encourage Fuentes to become the monster he says he is.
Make no mistake, the outrage we are seeing is not about Tucker interviewing Nick Fuentes—it’s a about the power vacuum of what happens when Trump exits the stage. I hope Trump sticks around for another term. Levin, Shapiro, the neocon relics, say he can’t. Tucker has stated he would never run for President, but he would be a wildly popular candidate. His influence far outstrips his critics. And he dares to question their script. Everyone is jockeying for position.
My interest in this hatchet scheme differs from the screen-glued masses. I love Israel’s people. I can even be persuaded to some degree that foreign aid in the region meets our legitimate national security interests.
But I am war weary. I question my own government’s corruption daily. It does not make me a hater of America. So, can I question Israel’s political corruption, without being called a Jew hater? Can we question Israel’s designs to use its relationship with America to see certain nations as forever enemies, rather than seeking peace—no matter how unlikely?
While I monitor the Pharisees’ Feed, I’m far more concerned about the continued silence over the 2020 election, rigged and stolen, never addressed by politicians bought and paid for by AIPAC. Recall Matt Gaetz stating the following: "I remember my first AIPAC reception, and like your fundraiser tells you ‘you have to go,’ and your chief of staff tells you ‘you have to go,’ your committee chairmen all tell you ‘you have to go.’ You get there and you wear this name badge and I remember there’s a QR code on it, and what we were supposed to do was go talk to donors, and then if they liked you, they scanned your QR code to make a donation, like on the spot."
What sway does Israel hold over our leaders’ selection? I know that Marxists, domestic and foreign, rig the game; but is it unreasonable to suggest other foreign interests, tempted alike, could do the same? Indirect funding flows from pro-Israel groups into Turning Point—ballot chasing, early voting, silent on rigged machines—tying their initiatives to electoral outcomes. Over 100 million dollars allocated to the effort. Talking points in lockstep with intelligence agencies controlling the modern-day slave trade. And make no mistake, this foreign electioneering serves as an existential threat to our country being “of the people.”
Which people? My people. American citizens.
Charlie Kirk questioned Israel’s censorship on their delayed response to the October 7th attack. I can only pray he was on the cusp of seeing how foreign interests filling his election coffers to fund deep state talking points on how to “secure” our elections was a form of nonlinear warfare that destabilized us as a nation. Now he’s dead, another vacuum left. A leaked memo confirms that Kirk called for a DOGE like audit of Turning Point just days before he was assassinated. He raised questions over funding sources.
Netanyahu allegedly offered to arrange a massive new infusion of Zionist money into TPUSA via wealthy U.S. donors, in exchange for Kirk toning down criticisms of Israel's influence in Washington, its Gaza operations, and Netanyahu's role in pushing for war with Iran. Kirk reportedly rejected the offer, viewing it as an attempt to "bring him to heel" or buy silence. Shortly after Kirk was assassinated, Ben Shapiro pledged 1 million dollars to Turning Point, stating “we’re gonna pick up that blood-stained microphone where Charlie left it.” Investigative journalist Brian Ference asked,"Maybe we should be transparent about the TPUSA donor list, what foreign countries they represent, where the money went, and why Tyler Bowyer [Kirk’s right hand] cancelled the DOGE style audit and culture change Charlie Kirk ordered as his last wishes?"
Now look at the narratives that emerged from Tuesday’s election results.
Lara Loomer declares, "The GOP lost every major election and now multiple Islamic jihadists are in power. I warned the GOP this would happen if they didn’t start speaking out about the Islamification of America... The GOP has their priorities wrong." Not true. We lost because our elections are rigged.
Jack Posobiec opines, “Mamdani has a 12-point lead coming out of early voting. This is what happens when you let the left own the mail-in and early vote game. GOP has to match intensity before Election Day.” Not true. We lost because our elections are rigged.
Scott Presler admonishes, “If you do not engage in early voting, and if you request a mail-in ballot, you are going to lose everything.” Not true. We lost because our elections are rigged.
None of these takes on why the GOP had its ass handed to it are correct. What do they all have in common? Silence concerning the CIA/Mossad backed subversion of our elections through use of rigged machines, rigged software, mail-in ballots, and forever voting.
These are all limited hangout narratives. Lies wrapped with truth.
Is antisemitism real? Yes.
Is Islamic extremism dangerous? Yes.
But both threats pale in comparison to the actual soft coup carried out November 3rd, 2020. We were already overtaken from within. And for some reason, these influencers seem to always deflect from what made it all possible.
The slave master’s election code.
I end with this. Israel has an unquestionable right to exist.
But so does America. Our birthright was purchased by the blood of our Founding Fathers, not foreign lobbyists.
Tucker is a threat, but not the one his critics suggest. He has picked the far more difficult path. To not be the tool of the war machine. And no Christian should be demanding that Tucker repent for having a conversation where he did not yield any portion of his Christian witness. I heard the man’s interview. He sees all individuals as image bearers of God. He rejects collectivist calls to demonize entire people groups. And I believe Tucker’s interview demonstrated a man willing to overlook personal attacks, a willingness to pursue, reason, and petition someone that needed correction. A man in Nick Fuentes whose social media following rivals that of the entire U.S. Jewish voting population. Saul’s threats to Christians turned to preaching, with one-time Pharisee brothers demanding his death once he was renamed Paul. Nick Fuentes’ road awaits.
Christ words loom large.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:43–48)
I type the following slowly: For those I have attacked in the fog of war, quick to accuse, I repent for what those accusations were used for in the Courts of Heaven. Let’s walk away from Satan as he stands using our accusations against enemies we should be praying for. Imagine his smile fading as we walk away, the deceiver standing alone. Pray that Tucker’s accusers let their stones fall.
When I examine my advocacy these past five years, I hope it will be said, that my chief contribution was not accusation. Our Great Advocate’s plea holds. We are saved by His righteousness. His blood. Pray for Israel’s people, yes. Pray for all people. And pray for your enemies. I find it hard to hate someone I force myself to pray for.
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