Of course, it is possible for intelligent, thinking people to independently arrive at the same conclusions. This idea, though, is not one of them, for no one, but Ilana, has so much as floated it, let alone defended it.

While it is good that Pedro was given the opportunity to express Ilana’s brilliant insight on Tucker’s massive platform, he should’ve given credit to the person who first birthed and nurtured it. He could’ve then elaborated upon it, as Ilana herself did in her articles on the subject. Perhaps he was concerned that had he not passed off this provocative and original idea as his own, that neither Tucker nor any other high-profile conservative celebrities would lavish upon him the praise that Tucker in fact bestowed. If so, Pedro has it ass-backwards: Citing his source while cultivating her position would have revealed to his admirers that he was not just an honest man, but an educated one, for it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to explore, revise, and expand the ideas of others, to explore their nuances, their contours, and utilize them for the purposes of illuminating new circumstances.

Pedro Gonzalez would do himself a good turn to bear this in mind in the future.

Seriously, though, have you ever (EVER) thought worse of a person because they cited a source? Was your first thought, hmmm, that guy’s not an original thinker. On the contrary, I think I like the citer more for citing. It shows he’s reading deeply in the literature on the subject at hand, and that he has an appropriate sense of modesty and self-esteem. If PG had said, “you know, Tucker, I’ve been reading Ilana Mercer for years, and she has this wonderful image of…etc.,” it would have been the right thing to do and Tucker would have thought no less of him as being the fresh new face on the intellectual scene.

As far as being the fresh new face, well, he pales in comparison to people like Coulter & Malkin (but of course Fox banned them). He falls far way short of PJB in his prime. He’s surely not nearly as good as ilana in her own media appearances—not as well-mannered and obviously not as original. I think Tucker might have done a lot better to give a leg up to young guys like Darren Beattie & Nick Fuentes, than the ponderous Pedro. Of course, now that I think of it, Fox seems to have both of those fellows on their own no-fly list.