Tucker Carlson

You don't have to kill yourself or anything, but you can't work here again.

And we're not going to endorse you.

We're not going to pass you on to the next employer with like a fake letter of recommendation.

Oh, you did such a good job.

No, you were terrible.

That's why we fired you.

Only in a system like that, a true meritocracy, can you have excellence.

But that's the opposite of what we have.

No one is ever punished.

No one is ever criticized.

No one ever takes the fall.

No leader is ever humiliated.

Only the people beneath him who carried out his orders.

That's the definition of a perverse system that produces, not surprisingly, perverse results like the ones we're experiencing now.

So that's the next thing we need to do.

Be honest about how Iran, this primitive country, just humiliated us.

That's not anti-American, that's pro-American.

We love our country enough to want to know and we need to know.

And the final thing we need to learn from this particularly ugly experience is that you have to have leaders who care about you.

Because that really is the basis of good governance.