Matt Taibbi, Author of Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another and co-host of the podcast Useful Idiots, defends Tucker Carlson against the  “Un-American” NSA purportedly spying on him as well as the corrupt, incompetent, hysterical, corporate press that has reacted to Tucker’s claim by trivializing and smearing him. Taibbi argues that the Authoritarian arrogance of Carlson’s prestige media haters, as well as their continued attempts to mischaracterize Carlson as a line-towing GOP mouthpiece (as opposed to an equal opportunity populist), is not only helping Carlson remain the #1 voice on cable, but also expediting their own demise. Read more here.