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Meltdown: Tucker Carlson Can’t Pronounce Kamala Harris’s Name

Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson (screen capture)
Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson wet his diaper Tuesday night after a guest, political consultant Richard Goodstein, attempted to teach Carlson how to pronounce Sen. Kamala Harris’s first name. Goodstein began his appearance saying to Carlson, “Tucker, can I just say one quick thing because this is something that will serve you and your fellow hosts on FOX. Her name is pronounced ‘Comma’ — like the punctuation mark — ‘la.’ ‘Comma-la,’ okay?” Carlson, whose face is often the picture of confusion, shot back, “So what?” Explaining the obvious, Goodstein shared, “I think out of respect for somebody who is going to be on the national ticket, pronouncing her name right is kind of a bare minimum.” Considering Carlson is probably going to be saying Harris’s name quite a bit over the next several months (if not years), surely he can muster enough respect to pronounce the name of the first Black woman, and first Asian American woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket? Cue the predictable meltdown. “So I’m disrespecting her by pronouncing her name unintentionally?,” bellowed Carlson. “So it begins. So I’m not. You’re not about to criticize (pronouncing it wrong again) ‘Ka-MAL-a’ Harris or ‘CAMEL-a’ Harris or whatever.” “Okay look, I unintentionally mispronounced her name, but I love the idea that she is immune from criticism,” continued Carlson’s indignant rant. “On this show, nobody in power is immune from criticism. Our political leaders must be held to account. That’s our job.” Please note – being corrected on how to pronounce the name of a vice-presidential candidate is NOT the same as saying you can’t criticize them.  

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Tucker Carlson: ‘Let’s Just Agree Trump Is A Racist Liar And Move On’

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Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson admitted to his television audience last night what most Americans already know – that Donald Trump consistently lies and his followers don’t care. In a lengthy monologue on his show last night, Carlson told the nation, “Trump is a racist liar.” The statement was borne out of Carlson noting the Washington Post has been taking notes in regard to the Donald’s lies and exaggerations as if it’s a bad thing to hold the president of the United States accountable.

“The crowd at the 2017 inauguration was not the largest ever measured on the national mall. Sorry, it wasn’t. Why did the president claim it was? Because that’s who he is. Donald Trump is a salesman: A talker, a boaster, a booster, a compulsive self-promoter. At times, he’s a full-blown BS artist.

“If Trump hadn’t gotten rich in real estate he could have made a fortune selling cars. Most people know this. It’s transparent, really. 

“Is lying really the reason the left despises Donald Trump? Or could the real problem be, as is so often the case, the exact opposite of what they claim it is? Think back over the last four years. When have the CNN anchors been the angriest?

“Was it when Trump told some whopper or exaggerated his own accomplishments? Nope. They’re used to that kind of lying. Everyone who spends time around politicians is. What infuriates official Washington is not when Trump lies, but when he tells the truth.

And that’s where Carlson goes off into the underbrush on the way to Poughkeepsie as he slices and dices language & logic to address multiple topics – Haiti, MS-13, justifying Saudi Arabia’s killing of a journalist – often using ‘absolute’ positions as reality. But by the end, he does circle back to say: “Let’s just agree that Trump is a racist liar and move on. By the way, did you know he’s up to almost 14,000 lies by now? My gosh, what a bad person he is. Unlike us.”

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Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Taking A Sudden ‘Vacation’

After receiving a lot of backlash for declaring white supremacy in America to be a "hoax," Fox News' Tucker Carlson announced last night that he will be taking a vacation.
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson

After receiving a lot of backlash for declaring white supremacy in America to be a “hoax,” Fox News’ Tucker Carlson announced last night that he will be taking a vacation.

How convenient…

CNN contacted Fox News spokesperson about the trip and was told it had been in the works before Carlson had made his incendiary remarks.

According to the spokesperson, Carlson will return to his show on August 19.

But, as CNN points out, there is a long history of Fox hosts going on vacation amid controversy:

• Laura Ingraham was suddenly absent in March 2018 after mocking Parkland survivor and gun control activist David Hogg.

• Sean Hannity conveniently took personal time in May 2017 after losing advertisers for promoting the Seth Rich conspiracy theory.

• Jesse Watters made for the hills in April 2017 after making a comment widely criticized as lewd about Ivanka Trump.

• And who can forget Bill O’Reilly, who left and never returned from vacay in April 2017 after the New York Times reported he had settled five sexual harassment allegations for millions of dollars?

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Fox News’ Tucker Carlson: White Supremacy Is “Actually Not A Real Problem”

Fox News host Tucker Carlson told his TV audience last night that white supremacy is “actually not a real problem in America.”

“This is a hoax, just like the Russia hoax,” he added. “It’s a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power.”

Saying “the whole thing is a lie,” Carlson downplayed the threat by saying, “The combined membership of every white supremacist organization in this country would be able to fit inside a college football stadium.”

As CNN reports, the point is that men like the suspect in the El Paso shooting aren’t “members” of an “organization.”

The suspect made clear in the manifesto he left behind that he wanted to kill as many Mexicans as possible.

But Tucker Carlson says white supremacy is not a real problem in America.

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Tucker Carlson Talks “Consuming” Mayor Pete “Like A Hearty Stew”

Folks are starting to wonder about Fox News asshole pundit Tucker Carlson.

During one segment last night, he pondered Mayor Pete out-Beto-ing Beto O’Rourke closing with the idea that the media is now cheating on Beto, wanting to “consume” Mayor Pete “like a hearty stew – every last drop of Buttigieg.”

#WTF

“Imagine how it must feel to be to be Beto O’Rourke right now. If you’re O’Rourke, you’re out there running for president really hard, or at least running for vice president. You are running anyway. You are giving speech after speech every day: ‘Children are our future. Today the first day of the rest of your life.’ Inspiring stuff like that, deep stuff like that, and there is a physical component to the job, too. You’re riding your skateboard for the camera taking God knows how many selfies for your fans on Snapchat and Instagram.

“It is not an easy gig. Then one morning you wake up and discover that your one true love, the American news media, have called it off. They’ve left you for a younger, hotter candidate. Went out for a pack of cigarettes and just never came home. They split with some guy from Indiana. You cannot even pronounce the guy’s name. Even by the naughty standards of the news media, this is a new level of political commitment. They don’t just want to vote for this guy. They want to consume him, like a hearty stew. Every last drop of Buttigieg. Yum! They’re all in.”

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News Round-Up: March 12, 2019

'Fitness obsessed' InstaHunk Austin Wolf (above) knows how to find the dramatic gym lighting for maximum selfie impact.
Austin Wolf finds his light

Some news items you might have missed:

• ‘Fitness obsessed’ InstaHunk Austin Wolf (above) knows how to find the dramatic gym lighting for maximum selfie impact.

• A man wrote in to an advice column after he met his girlfriend’s parents and realized he’d once hooked up with the dad.

• Donald Trump threw a Twitter rant over so-called ‘presidential harassment’ after the New York attorney general’s office issued subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Investors Bank for records relating to the financing of four major Trump Organization projects and a failed effort to buy the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League in 2014.

• Hate group leader Bill Donohue pens an op-ed for the Catholic League whining passage of the Equality Act will result in “affirmative action for the sexually confused.”

• A new app will help #MAGA Trump supporters find restaurants that are safe spaces for their red hats and white nationalist views.

• Media Matters for America has released several recordings of Fox News host Tucker Carlson calling into a favorite radio show in the early 2000s using homophobic, misogynist and racist slurs. #WhoIsSurprised?

• Dido drops a beautiful acoustic version of “Mad Love” from her new album, Still On My Mind.

I find her voice to be so pure; and her music has a chill, relaxing effect on me. Hit play below.

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Tucker Carlson Cusses Out A Guest And Then Trashes Interview


 Fox News’ Tucker Carlson did a pre-recorded interview with historian Rutger Bregman regarding taxation and wealth equality, but didn’t like what he was hearing. So he cussed Bregman out, and never aired the interview.

I wonder how many interviews Tucker Carlson and his producers have recorded and jettisoned because they just didn’t like Carlson’s performance?

You can watch Bregman’s side of the chat below since he recorded the interview himself.

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News Round-Up: December 18, 2018

Some news items you might have missed:

• Who’s getting ready for Christmas? (image via Instagram)

• Michael Critchfield, a transgender boy in West Virginia, was harassed while using the boys room at his high school by a vice principal. According to reports, Lee Livengood, the vice principal, kept yelling over the bathroom stall door, “Why are you in this bathroom?” Even though the bathroom was empty, the encounter left Critchfield in tears.

• After suggesting that immigrants are making America “dirtier” last week, Fox News host Tucker Carlson has lost 14 advertising sponsors to date.

• The White House has now signaled it will back off a threat of shutting down the federal government if Donald Trump doesn’t get the funds he wants to build his infamous wall along the Mexican border. Wasn’t Mexico was going to pay for the wall???

• Earlier today I wrote about the passing of director and actress Penny Marshall, but you really should click over to Matt Rettenmund’s much more comprehensive obituary at Gr8erDays. Matt knows his TV history like no one.

• Queer as Folk is getting the reboot treatment on Bravo! According to my Instinct Magazine colleague, Mickey Keating, we’re getting all new characters in a new setting which follows a group of club going friends who find support in the gay community after a tragedy.

• Gus Kenworthy wins the award for yesterday’s funniest tweet after Donald Trump accidentally referenced a gay movie in one of his Twitter rants.

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Fox News Host: Trump Looking At Eclipse “Perhaps The Most Impressive Thing Any President Has Ever Done”

During yesterday’s total eclipse, Donald Trump looked at the sun without glasses even as someone shouted: “Don’t look!”

Fox News host Tucker Carlson later said, in all seriousness, “Almost the entire country saw 60 percent of the sun covered up by the moon. Even the president saw it, but in a move that is not a complete surprise, he looked directly at the sun without any glasses. Perhaps the most impressive thing any president has ever done.”

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Tucker Carlson: Teenage boys can’t be raped by older females

Tucker Carlson – who recently said sex between male students with female teachers would be, in the student’s mind, “the greatest thing that ever happened” – was at it again today with dolling out the double standards.

In a discussion in FOX News’ “Outnumbered” about Queens high school gym teacher Joy Morsi, who is accused of rape by a 16 year old student, Tucker Carlson says it’s “ludicrous” to say the boy was raped.

“It’s ludicrous that we are calling this a rape. Are you serious?” Carson explained.” I’m not joking a tiny bit. I’ll tell you what’s wrong to this extent: he went and tattled to the police and destroyed her life. Are you joking? What a whiny country this is.”

“You’re this boy, and all of a sudden you’re a rape victim? You pursue an older woman, and have a relationship with her, and you’re a rape victim?” he said. “It defies common sense. And anybody who’s being honest with himself knows exactly what I’m talking about. We all have to pretend.”

Carlson concluded by calling the issue a “first world problem,” adding, “this is your problem?”

I’m guessing that what Carlson is calling “pretending” is that all boys think it would be “hot” to have sex with a female teacher?

The ladies on the panel disagreed with Carlson across the board.

Carlson specifically says that if the sexes were reversed in the case it would be completely wrong.

What do you think? If you were a parent and found out your teenage son’s 39 year old teacher was having sex with him, would that be cool?

On the video below, Carlson frames the relationship between teacher and student as one where the student pursued the teacher, but I haven’t found any news reports that substantiate that claim.

(via Raw Story)