Tucker Carlson Accused of Lying About Israel Detention
3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary
Radio America
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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First, they push back on Pres. Macron after he suggested tighter limits on speech he considers hateful or misinformation and anonymous speech online. Jim and Greg explain why restricting free expression is a dangerous path and what the freedom-loving response is to ugly speech. They also comment briefly on the arrest of former Prince Andrew in the UK.
Next, they examine Tucker Carlson’s claim that he and his team were “detained” at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel while traveling to interview Ambassador Mike Huckabee. Huckabee insists the screening was routine and that all travelers face similar scrutiny. Jim weighs in on Tucker's antics and the lesson Huckabee should learn here.
Finally, they're encouraged that polling currently shows Republicans are likely to keep a majority of governorships following this year's elections. They offer different thoughts on why Republicans may fare better at the state level than the national level this year.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.9 | Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.6 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.1 | Hey, very glad you're with us for the Thursday edition of the Three Martini Lunch and Jim, the cultural decline of Europe in so many different ways has been a headline of |
| 0:22.7 | ours a few different times. I actually made England or the UK, the institution fading into |
| 0:28.5 | oblivion in our year-end awards. We've talked about the inconsistent enforcement of speech laws |
| 0:34.5 | in England. There should be free speech, but if you criticize immigrants or you |
| 0:39.7 | criticize trans policy, they're all over you. If you just post online, you're getting arrested. |
| 0:45.7 | Now, if you're an immigrant raping teenage girls, well, then then we're going to look the other way |
| 0:49.3 | for the most part. But we've talked about the free speech erosion in England, and now we're |
| 0:54.0 | potentially seeing it in France as well. |
| 0:56.3 | Emmanuel Macron, the leader of France, was in India yesterday, and he believes that free speech is, and I'm paraphrasing this now, BS, and he says we just need more transparency on where people's speech is coming from. |
| 1:12.6 | Because I mean free speech is a pure bull-hs if nobody knows how you are guided through this so-called free speech, |
| 1:19.6 | especially when it's to be guided from one hated speech or another way to speech. |
| 1:24.6 | I just want to have a transparent road through these different speeches, and I want, by the way, to have a sort of public order. I want to avoid racist speech, hate speech and so on. This is my... And the third one... |
| 1:39.3 | Yeah, no, it's just going to be very transparent. You know, it sounds like maybe a disinformation governance board or something, Jim, |
| 1:45.6 | where he conveniently decides what's hate speech and what's disinformation or misinformation. |
| 1:51.1 | This is kind of the left's way of chipping away at everything. |
| 1:53.6 | Greg, we have always been a family-friendly podcast, |
| 1:57.0 | but I'm glad to know that based on this precedent, then I can talk about the thing that |
| 2:03.6 | you put on a bed, sheet. You put the sheet, then you put the blanket, then you put the pillow |
| 2:09.6 | on the bed. So I understand that France does not have a First Amendment and does not have |
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