Tucker Carlson joins long line of ‘useful idiot’ journalists helping tyrants – POLITICO
The British socialite Unity Mitford turned to Nazi propaganda out of idol worship.
In 1934, she went to Munich hoping to meet Adolf Hitler and stalked him at the Osteria Bavaria, his favorite eatery. Finally, after 10 months, Hitler invited her over to his table. “It was the most wonderful and beautiful [day] of my life,’ she wrote to her father. “I am so happy that I wouldn’t mind a bit, dying. I’d suppose I am the luckiest girl in the world. For me he is the greatest man of all time.”
Germany’s Führer approved of Mitford’s middle name Valkyrie and was delighted that her grandfather had translated the anti-semitic works of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, a favorite author, according to historian Giles Milton. Unity became part of Hitler’s inner circle, and wrote for Julius Streicher’s anti-semitic newspaper Der Stürmer a vitrolic article denouncing the Jews, beginning the piece, “The English have no notion of the Jewish danger.”
She shot herself in the head at the outbreak of war, but survived and was visited by Hitler, only dying in 1948 from complications from swelling around the bullet.
The Nazis were also able to press into service the comic novelist P.G. Wodehouse, known for his fictional characters Jeeves and Wooster. Interned by Vichy French authorities, Wodehouse was released by the Germans and whisked off to the luxury Hotel Adlon in Berlin and agreed to make five broadcasts to the U.S. via German radio before America joined the war, comprising humorous anecdotes about his experiences as a prisoner, that helped to humanize the Nazis.
Carlson himself has defended his approach, by lying that Western media have not even bothered to try to speak to Putin.
