Crank pseudo historians must be a dime a dozen. As one such, there’s nothing special about Darryl Cooper. The focus is on Cooper in the episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored posted below. It features Andrew Roberts, Dave Smith, and Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon. It was Dillon’s tweets on X that originally drew my attention to Carlson’s promotion of Cooper and his teaching on World War II. I greatly respect Dillon’s decency in taking it on. Cooper, by the way, declined the invitation to appear on the show. I explained why that would be in “A man’s got to know his limitations.”
The story here is Tucker Carlson and his two-hour fanboy interview of Cooper. He promoted Cooper as the man who “may be the best and most honest popular historian in the United States. His latest project is the most forbidden of all: trying to understand World War Two.” You have got to be kidding me. Something — something else — is happening here.
Tucker would have us believe that the biting critique of his performance is an assault on free speech. This is sheer misdirection. Dillon talks about his communication with Tucker toward the end of the Piers Morgan episode above (at about 31:00) and in the tweet below.
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