Pseudohistory Makes a Comeback on Tucker Carlson's Show
The Michael Shermer Show
Michael Shermer
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
During a two-hour interview with Tucker Carlson, Darryl Cooper made sensational claims about the Holocaust and World War II, with Carlson calling him "the best and most honest popular historian in the United States." In this solo episode, Michael Shermer takes a critical look at the pseudohistory and historical revisionism presented by Cooper on Carlson's show.
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| 0:00.0 | Tucker Carlson, resurrects, revisionism. |
| 0:04.0 | Yep, here we go again. |
| 0:07.0 | This week I need to return to a form of debunking I launched in the early 1990s when taking on the Holocaust deniers, namely the |
| 0:15.4 | pseudo history of so-called historical revisionism. You know the Holocaust didn't |
| 0:20.5 | happen the way everyone from perpetrators victims and bystanders to historians think it did. |
| 0:26.0 | World War II was really just the unfortunate outcome of British and American interventionism |
| 0:30.8 | into Germany's struggle for independence from the restrictions imposed on it after |
| 0:35.0 | World War I. Hitler's misunderstood. |
| 0:38.0 | They really wanted to create a Paxiropa. |
| 0:41.0 | Churchill and Roosevelt were autocrats who impose their wills on nations fighting for self-determination. |
| 0:48.6 | The mass bombing of Dresden in Hamburg were just as bad as the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the |
| 0:56.2 | like. I debunked all this nonsense in the pages of Skeptic and two different |
| 1:00.8 | issues. Here's one with Hitler on the cover. Here's another one with |
| 1:03.7 | Hitler on the cover. We did two with Hitler on the cover, the different kinds of revisionism. |
| 1:08.9 | And in my book, Denying History, that I co-authored with Alex Grobman, who says the Holocaust never |
| 1:16.4 | happened and why did they say it? |
| 1:20.0 | Okay, thanks to Tucker Carlson's podcast episode this week with pseudo historian |
| 1:27.7 | Darrell Cooper, aka martyr made, yeah martyr made, made on X anyway, who Carlson introduced as, quote, the best |
| 1:39.1 | and most honest popular historian working in the United States today. |
| 1:44.0 | Oh, really? |
| 1:45.0 | Okay. |
| 1:46.0 | And without him, all of this historical distortion |
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