Tucker yelled at The New York Times for not reporting about aliens enough

Maybe the biggest highlight of the first episode of Tucker on Twitter involved Tucker’s unfiltered thoughts on the subject of UFOs. Yes, somewhere towards the end of the episode, Tucker said the following, and I quote:

“UFOs are actually real and apparently so is extraterrestrial life. Now we know. In a normal country, this news would qualify as a bombshell—the story of the millennium—but in our country [and, I must add, at this point, Tucker can be seen shaking his head sadly, a rueful smile pressed to his lips] it doesn’t.”

If you’re worried Carlson was having a brain aneurysm when he said this, know that he was actually referencing a story involving David Charles Grusch, a decorated Air Force veteran who made wild claims this week that the government has a retrieval program for extraterrestrial vehicles and that alien bodies had actually been recovered by the program. Grusch is being hailed as a whistleblower and UFO nuts are going certifiable.

Because of its failure to cover the story involving Grusch, Tucker went on to un-ironically rebuke the New York Times for not running anything on “how an alien species is flying hypersonic aircraft over our cities.”

Admittedly, Grusch’s rank and lengthy stint in government does make the story notable. But just because a high-ranking military official says something outlandish doesn’t mean you should assume he’s telling the truth. A couple years ago, Israel’s top space security guy also claimed that aliens are real, even going so far as to claim that there existed a “galactic federation” and that Earth is a part of it. Was this worth reporting? Sure! Worth believing? Of course not. We have no idea why he said this. Maybe he was trying to sell a book. Maybe he was joking. Who knows?