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I've been a fan of Jacob Rees-Mogg for some time. He's more of a celebrity politician in the UK, but most Americans don't know of him. He was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons and was among the Conservatives who lost their seats in the last election. He has a YouTube channel and a program on GB News, both viewable in the U.S.
I haven't been a fan of Tucker Carlson since he left Fox News. To see a recent interview by him with Rees-Mogg on his YouTube channel was the first time I watched a full episode of Carlson's channel.
In it, Rees-Mogg gave a master class on how to handle an interviewer like Carlson. It shows, in particular, how prepared you have to be. Rees-Mogg would not let Carlson get away with changing the subject when he was about to get out-argued. But too often, these types of slugfests are two people talking past each other. The episode was truly a debate, one where you could actually see the differences between the men laid out so the viewer could actually make an informed decision about who was right.
This has gone viral, and I expect that Rees-Mogg's reputation and fame, already good in the UK, will go up from this.
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Tucker has been taking it easy lately, with tamer, more sympathetic guests. Rees-Mogg is a tougher, smarter debate opponent than that. I'd say he had the edge in most of the exchanges. Neither of them wiped the floor with the other.
Reading the comments, the Tucker claque is clapping away like the hippos in a 1930s cartoon. As usual, he's most pernicious on WWII, and anything even remotely connected to Jews.
He does have a brain, which makes it more troubling.
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I do wonder why Carlson chose to interview him. Maybe he underestimated him. Carlson traveled to the UK to interview him in his house. That may not be the only reason for the UK trip, but he did agree to interview Rees-Mogg on his own turf. Literally.
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JRM is a master class, in any medium on which he chooses to engage. Widely known by his soubriquet, "The Honourable Member for the Eighteenth Century," it's one he's come by honestly, and one which his six children (Peter Theodore Alphege, Mary Anne Charlotte Emma, Thomas Wentworth Somerset Dunstan, Charles Fitzwilliam, Alfred Wulfric Leyson Pius and Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher, will, hopefully never live to regret. His sister, Annunziata, isn't too shabby, either.
He still appears on GB News's "State of the Nation," although I don't listen all that often. I tend to hear him more often when he substitutes as the guest host with Camilla Tominey, on the Telegraph's Daily T.
One of the more recent ones I listened to gave the results of a listener poll as to who was the bigger "Posh-O," JRM or CT. Unsurprisingly, Jacob--generally regarded as the "poshest man" in Britain--won over Camilla (a parvenu if ever there was one) about 9-1. Jacob also had some pretty on-point comments, delivered with his usual dead-panache, regarding Charles Spencer and his new book.
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***swoon***
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