The title unavoidably comes off like a slam against Tucker, but I do not mean it that way. I think he's more or less a normal person caught up in circumstances far beyond his control and is trying to do what's best in a murky situation.

First off, if anyone reading this does not or cannot believe that Julian Assange is either dead or--equivalently--in a black site he'll probably never come out of, then stop reading now because it will just make you upset and feel you need to argue about it for your own emotional stability.

The real Assange has been gone since October 2016, and everything after that has been DeepFakes and a modicum of simple hand-waving. Sounds primitive but it's fooled virtually everyone in the world. I suspect that Tucker might have had half an idea something was up and finally went to check it out.

Tucker Carlson Makes Surprise Visit to Julian Assange in Prison (TGP 11/2/2023)

Read that carefully. The only evidence really shown is Tucker and Assange's (fake) wife walking through a parking lot. All the rest I could have written up off the top of my head.

And that's it. No confirmation. No update. No "stay tuned for my upcoming interview". Nothing for nearly two months.

What was really going on? I think Tucker realized or had it confirmed there that Assange was dead. What to do? Well, let's see: a journalist was disappeared seven years ago and no one in the world realizes it. The most memorable factoid from that time was that Pam Anderson brought him a sandwich. Tucker himself is also a journalist, isn't he? Hey, how about a sandwich?

Anyway, it's not real clear that this is just something you go public with. Aside from the obvious, basically no normies and only a handful of conspiracists would even entertain the idea, let alone weigh the evidence. Is there a clear moral or ethical act? I don't think so.

So Tucker just punts, and that gives us today's article:

"It's Disgusting What They're Doing": Tucker Carlson Describes Visit With Julian Assange (ZH 12/23/2023)

If you deconstruct it, it's a few thin lies and the rest is a recap of "The Julian Assange Story" you could write up off his Wikipedia page. No video, no audio, no pictures. It didn't take Tucker two months to put the package together, it's the work of an afternoon.

Remember when they interviewed Manson in prison, several times? Tucker didn't even bother faking a selfie because that would be too deceitful. But let's look at the thin veneer put on for believability. For example, how did the guy look?

"Assange looks like press photographs of him, maybe older, pale, he hasn't been outside in 13 years..."

Oh, he did? Well, we've been told over and over about his physical and emotional decline over the years, and two years ago we were told this:

‘Looks very awful and ill’: Journalist tells RT he ‘couldn’t recognize’ Assange during High Court hearing on his extradition to US (RT 8/11/2021)

So that was a body double or just another outright lie. But if we assume it was him, maybe he's been working out, getting fit, and eating well at Belmarsh, right?

"The inmates are treated like animals."

Okay, enough of that. Well, what did "Julian" have to say, then?

"We talked about why he is in prison...."

The real Julian Assange was a smart, worldly, sensitive, passionate and articulate journalist, and after all that's gone on in the world since he's been "in prison", this is all he has to talk about with one of the world's highest profile journalists? We don't even know if he supports Trump or not!

Which brings up what finally occurred to me as the most significant continuing evidence Julian Assange is dead: Is he being held incommunicado? Is that even legal in any country? Everyone talks about extradition but no one mentions this?Doesn't he make and receive phone calls or letters? Is there a single person known to be in communication with him?

I guess even these guys gave up three years ago, after this tweet:

“This is not normal. @amnesty is almost always granted access to monitor court cases around the world. For our legal observer to find out this morning that he has not been granted even REMOTE access to the #Assange proceedings is an outrage.

He got married--or so we are told--but how is it his wife has no messages to pass on? No interview with Tucker about his situation or his persecution? Of course not. She's just a prop with limited dialogue.

A final reflection: If you've read this far, I hope you see that the point is not anything about Julian Assange, who, after all, was just one man in a world where thousands are outrageously slaughtered by various methodologies every single day.

Rather, think about how far the rest of the world is from this kind of information. You've joined me on the high vantage at the top of Everest. A commanding view, but very lonely, is it not?

And the analogy totally breaks down if you choose to tell anyone what you've seen from the top of that mountain: "Mount What? Doesn't exist. As a matter of fact, it cannot exist. That's science, dumbfuck."