Jamesian Philosophy Refreshed

  Tucker Carlson's son quits JD Vance's team after pundit suggested Trump might be 'Antichrist' News from inside the belly of the beast.  JD Vance is best bud with Tucker Carlson.  Back in the day, Tucker got his ambitious son, Buckley Carlson, a job on Vance's staff. I personally like to imagine that the rest of the staff called him Skippy.  That was back when Carlson, Vance, and Trump were all posing alike in their professed opposition to the neoconservatives of the Bush family circle and their forever wars.  Now, Trump is the wartime president, Carlson (bless his otherwise infernal soul) will not abide that.  Vance has no choice but to abide whatever Trump does and put a smile on his face while Trump does it, devastating as it may be to JD's chances of prevailing as a peace candidate in 2028.  Also devastating to Skip Carlson's chances of being a bigshot. Imagine my despair. 

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, explaining recently why he had given all of the Jan. 6th footage to Tucker Carlson, and not to the world in general, asked the circle of reports around him, "haven't you ever had an exclusive?" Now, he is saying, Carlson gets an exclusive. That's how the cookie crumbles.  Personally, yes. As a member of the fourth estate, I have had exclusives. They work this way. A source tells me, "right now this information is yours alone to do with as you can -- but as of noon tomorrow, it goes up on businesswire. "  In my corner of the journalistic world, putting a release on businesswire (or prnewswire) is, in effect, telling the world.  Real scoops, in other words, are designed to be self-terminating. Either McCarthy or Carlson could give the world all of this footage -- not through businesswire, but by putting a link to it up on their respective websites. That hasn't happened yet. The world is reliant on Carlson's monopol...