when there's a famine, they talk about record rice harvest. you saw the story on your phone yesterday how russia bombed poland. poland is a member of nato. if russia attacked a country of nato, we'd have to attack back. that would be by definition world war iii, hundreds of people dying. this is not a small story. this story came from the associated press, citing an unnamed senior u.s. intel official. according to this unnamed intel official, russia had launched an entirely unprovoked first strike against poland. the russian military lobbed missiles into polish territory, therefore thereby killing two poles at a farm. by definition, it was time for europe and u.s. to invoke article v, the collective defense principle, and begin a total war on vladimir putin.

6:00 a.m., setting my towels up. just no more bananas. i guess we can afford it, because fox is paying, but listen that's coming out of joey's salary. he needs all the help he can get. that is all for us tonight. dvr the show. "tucker carlson" is up next. always remember, i'm watters. this is my world. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the frustrating thing about the news media, how horrible they are, is that you need them. you can't understand the world except through the news media. that's where all of our information comes from. can't really change that at this point, but we can go into it with open eyes. you should know that the thing about reading the news is even when it's not intentionally

when it's not intentionally dishonest, and often now it is, no matter what the intent of it, the first draft of the story you read is always wrong. not sometimes wrong. always wrong. occasionally in small ways. sometimes in big and utterly distorting ways. iraq has nukes. russia bombed its own pipeline. stories like this are laughably untrue. they are an inversion of the truth which emerges later. sometimes it's a mistake. they got it wrong. more often on the big stories, the ones that change policy, they are lying on purpose. how do you know whether they're lying on purpose or they just got it wrong by accident? when the story trends on social media, you know. that means that somewhere there's a tech executive who's decided to crank up the propaganda dial in order to manipulate you. it's not so different from what the north korea state agency does. when there's a famine, they talk about record rice harvest.