This video illustrates something I faced as I wrapped up my career in institutional public life a couple decades ago.  In the closing years of that career I employed an expert ghost writer.  He made it possible by basically providing his services for free.  The awareness and information in his narrative exceeded my own.

I remember one particular media interview that was based on his writing.  While I read everything he wrote before it was published I didn’t always fully understand the concepts.  This led to me bungling this one particular interview. 

He also successfully pursued a strategy that unearthed an image of Maine’s governor with the infamous Communist, Fidel Castro.  While I was ill prepared to talk “communism” on a global stage I mostly managed to avoid “stepping in it” while that played itself out in the media.

I see Tucker Carlson making a similar mistake in this interview of Sam Bankman Fried.  Tucker has gone from being a talking head on FoxNews to being the CEO of one of the world’s most influential alternative media platforms.  That’s no excuse for his mistake here.  It’s just my guess as to what’s going on.

Amen.