"There's pro-Israelite propaganda everywhere," charged Amalekite diplomat Stew Peters.
Plains of Moab, July 10 - Media observers and Hebrew leaders voiced their frustration today with one of the world's leading independent journalists, after the latter interviewed the prophet-sorcerer intent on placing powerful hexes on them, but refrained from posing anything but softball questions to the Aramean mage, allowing him to spew his propaganda at length without pushback.
Bil'am, sometimes rendered Balaam, son of Be'or, granted an interview to Tucker Carlson that was broadcast this week. In the exchange, Carlson - who had previously gained a reputation for refusing to fawn over prominent interviewees - went out of his way to avoid lines of questioning that would discomfit Balaam, leading to scathing criticism from others in media and from the Israelites in particular, who disliked Carlson's choice not to challenge Balaam on critical issues such as the sorcerer's attempts to curse the Israelites on behalf of the Moabite King Balak, and Balaam's instigation of a divine plague upon the Israelites by sending Moabite and Midianite women to seduce Israelite tribal leaders into idolatry.
"What's next, asking Pharaoh why he's a victim?" wondered a bewildered Caleb of the tribe of Judah. "Broadcasting clips of wailing widows of Egyptian cavalrymen drowned in the Sea of Reeds? Tucker's a joke."
In the interview, Carlson sat attentively and uncritically as Balaam spouted a litany of imagined Israelite offenses, such as threats to conquer Moab, massacres of Amorite women and children, and crushing Amorite chieftains under mountains. His follow-up questions implied acceptance of those slanders instead of attempting to cast a critical eye on such far-reaching claims, especially in the immediate aftermath of the Midianite and Moabite women debacle and Balaam's own work as a mercenary sorcerer on behalf of King Balak.
Carlson and his defenders asserted that his efforts provide a critical counterbalance to the one-sided news and commentary otherwise available. "There's pro-Israelite propaganda everywhere," charged Amalekite diplomat Stew Peters. They control the media. You're not allowed to criticize them. Tucker bravely shares criticism and wouldn't you know it, the Hebrews are trying to cancel him now. Balaam's been trying to sound the alarm about these people for years and years. No wonder Pharaoh decided the safest thing to do was enslave them and exterminate their boys. You can't be too careful."
Carlson has also faced criticism from fellow journalist Piers Morgan, who has failed to conceal resentment over Carlson getting to uncritically give Balaam a platform first.
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