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After Burger King, Tucker Carlson has become the king of the whoppers. One of his latest involves a claim that Israel got Ben Shapiro into Harvard Law School. As is his wont, he just threw it out there as something obvious to everyone: the solution as to why Shapiro always seems so pro-Israel and how awful Israel is in interfering in American affairs via Carlson’s rival. Carlson does this often, claiming that Bibi Netanyahu controls Donald Trump and that the IDF killed “tens of thousands” of Gazan children, though the numbers don’t add up for him. When he spoke to Mike Huckabee, he said that a 14-year-old with a Kalashnikov cannot be killed, though in much of the world children are soldiers and terrorists and are considered as such.

With the Shapiro lie, Carlson relies on one of the pillars of his post-Fox career: he throws out a lie, one that cannot be proven 100 percent to be the lie it is. Israel has zero sway over Harvard. For years, the admissions office has accepted two Israelis — one Jew and one Arab. However hard I tried to get the kids I interviewed into the college, nothing worked. “Generational talent”, “not to be passed over,” and other options on the interviewer form made no difference: one Jew, one Arab, and better if one is male and one is female. So no, Israel did not get Ben Shapiro into Harvard. He is a bright and talented young fellow, and his success and accomplishments got him into Harvard. But now go PROVE that Israel did not get Ben over the finish line! There is the story from the Talmud of one sage telling the other that everyone is commenting on the latter’s sister being a prostitute. “But I have no sister!” “Prove that you have no sister!” And so it is. Harvard will not spill its admission secrets, even if Ben Shapiro........

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