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Tucker, Candace, and Massie Are Lying to You About the USS Liberty | Ep. 32
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- The Jeremy Boreing Show
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- Jun 8, 2026
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Summary
Today marks the fifty-ninth anniversary of the attack on the USS Liberty. Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Thomas Massie and their ilk have been pushing a conspiracy theory about what happened on June 8th, 1967 — and they’re lying to you about what really happened. This is Jeremy's definitive debunking of the USS Liberty conspiracy theory: what the evidence actually shows, why the false flag narrative doesn't survive scrutiny, and why the dissident Right is pushing lies about the tragic deaths of 34 American sailors. On June 8th, 1967, Israeli forces attacked the USS Liberty, a U.S. Navy intelligence ship operating in the eastern Mediterranean near the Sinai coast. Thirty-four Americans were killed. One hundred and seventy-one were wounded. Every official investigation that followed — the Navy Court of Inquiry, CIA analysis, the NSA's declassified intercepts, the Clark Clifford report, the Joint Chiefs review, and multiple congressional investigations — reached the same conclusion: the attack was a tragic case of mistaken identity. Friendly fire in the fog of war. That verdict has never been overturned. The USS Liberty conspiracy theory exists not because the evidence supports it, but because the evidence has been systematically misrepresented by people with an agenda. Jeremy gets into: the eight specific claims made by USS Liberty conspiracy theorists and why none of them hold up — the American flag argument, the NSA tapes, the "unmistakable ship" claim, the life raft machine-gunning allegation, the rescue plane recall, the Ward Boston affidavit, the 2003 Moorer Commission, and the cover-up theory; the Gish Gallop — the debate tactic of substituting volume of weak claims for the strength of any single argument, and how it drives every USS Liberty conspiracy conversation…