Fox News host Tucker Carlson highlighted a new <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-interrupting-whiteness-training">report</a> from City Journal this week that alleged the City of Seattle sent an email last month inviting &#8220;white City employees&#8221; to attend a training session titled “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness,” which was reportedly designed to make white employees examine their “complicity in the system of white supremacy.”
Carlson ran a segment on Thursday night about the alleged incident, noting how there would be national outrage if another race of people were selected for this type of training and encouraging people to push back on this &#8220;purest kind of race hate.&#8221;
&#8220;Imagine if the conservatives who presumably run a local government in Oklahoma City sent an email to every African-American municipal employee telling them to report to a special meeting,&#8221; said Carlson (video and full transcript below). &#8220;Imagine that when those employees arrive, again, black employees only, nobody else allowed, they were informed that the fact they were black was deeply offensive. In fact, it was a kind of crime. And the only way to atone for the sin of their blackness was to apologize for it. Apologize for being born black and then work to shed all traces of your black identity. Stop spending so much time around your black friends, stop repeating things your black parents told you growing up, start admitting out loud that you hate yourself for having black skin. Imagine if that actually happened in this country. What would you think of it?&#8221;
&#8220;You’d be horrified, obviously, it’s completely disgusting,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It is immoral to attack people for how they were born. It’s always immoral. And by the way, it’s also illegal. The Justice Department would never tolerate something like that. Civil rights division would shut down the program tonight and would bring criminal charges against the people who ran it and you would applaud them as they did that, and we would too.&#8221;
&#8220;So with that in mind, consider what is happening right now in one of America’s most liberal cities, Seattle,&#8221; said Carlson. &#8220;Four years ago, Hillary Clinton got 87% of the vote in Seattle. There aren&#8217;t many places more loyal to the Democratic Party. Recently the city of Seattle summoned its white employees and only its white employees to a meeting and then informed them that their skin color is a crime. The city called this anti-racism training. Events like it are taking place all over the country right now, schools, local governments, corporations, the military. The city of Seattle named its training session &#8216;Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness&#8217;.&#8221;
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City of Seattle to workers: undo your whiteness. <a href="https://t.co/Jv7TrUqD7V">pic.twitter.com/Jv7TrUqD7V</a>
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<blockquote>Carlson: So here’s a thought experiment for you: Oklahoma City is one of the most conservative metro areas in the United States. Donald Trump won almost 60% of the vote there almost four years ago. Imagine if the conservatives who presumably run a local government in Oklahoma City sent an email to every African-American municipal employee telling them to report to a special meeting. Imagine that when those employees arrive, again, black employees only, nobody else allowed, they were informed that the fact they were black was deeply offensive. In fact, it was a kind of crime. And the only way to atone for the sin of their blackness was to apologize for it. Apologize for being born black and then work to shed all traces of your black identity. Stop spending so much time around your black friends, stop repeating things your black parents told you growing up, start admitting out loud that you hate yourself for having black skin.
Imagine if that actually happened in this country. What would you think of it? You’d be horrified, obviously, it’s completely disgusting. It is immoral to attack people for how they were born. It’s always immoral. And by the way, it’s also illegal. The Justice Department would never tolerate something like that. Civil rights division would shut down the program tonight and would bring criminal charges against the people who ran it and you would applaud them as they did that, and we would too.
So with that in mind, consider what is happening right now in one of America’s most liberal cities, Seattle. Four years ago, Hillary Clinton got 87% of the vote in Seattle. There aren&#8217;t many places more loyal to the Democratic Party. Recently the city of Seattle summoned its white employees and only its white employees to a meeting and then informed them that their skin color is a crime. The city called this anti-racism training. Events like it are taking place all over the country right now, schools, local governments, corporations, the military. The city of Seattle named its training session &#8216;Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness&#8217;.
City Journal wanted to know exactly what went on in the meeting like that, so [they] filed a public records request. This what [they] found. White employees in Seattle were informed that their so-called white qualities or offensive and unacceptable. Those qualities included perfectionism, objectivity and individualism. The employees were told to stop exhibiting these characteristics and instead they were ordered to undertake “the work of undoing your own whiteness.”
In order to achieve that, in order to erase the traits they were born with, white employees in Seattle were ordered to give up the following: They were ordered to give up comfort, they were ordered to give up spending time with her family, they were ordered to give up guaranteed physical safety, control over other people and the land, relationships with some other white people, niceties from neighbors and colleagues, and &#8216;the certainty of your jobs.&#8217; Prepare to be unemployed, pale employees of Seattle, your skin color disgusts us. All of that actually happen in Seattle. &#8230;
Atrocities like this aren&#8217;t just happening like this in Seattle, there happening everywhere. Some will almost certainly happen in your kid&#8217;s school this fall. No one will ask your permission before they do it, they’ll just attack your children for how they were born. The people doing the attacking, by the way, would tell you with a straight face how opposed they are to gay conversion therapy because, of course, it’s immoral to try to change people’s intrinsic qualities. They wouldn’t see the irony in that. More likely they don’t care about irony. This isn’t about principles, it’s about hate, humiliation and power. It is about hurting people, it always is. Telling people they are inferior because of their skin color was wrong when it happened 60 years ago in Alabama. It is every bit as wrong when it happens today in Seattle or at Yale or Google headquarters or your kid&#8217;s elementary school.
Attacking people on the basis for their race is a sin. There is nothing worse for a country. They can try to disguise it with Orwellian terms like &#8216;anti-racism&#8217;, but this is the purest kind of race hate. It will destroy America faster than anything else. Don’t put up with it. Resist, speak out, fight back. This is totally wrong until you stand up, it will continue.</blockquote>
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Tucker Carlson

WATCH: Tucker Highlights Seattle Allegedly Selecting City Employees For Anti-Racism Training Based On Skin Color

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Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) fired back at Tucker Carlson on Thursday after the Fox News host called her &#8220;a coward&#8221; earlier this week, and claimed neither Carlson nor President Donald Trump &#8220;know what patriotism is.&#8221;
In an op-ed for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/opinion/tammy-duckworth-tucker-carlson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The New York Times</a>, Duckworth explained her recent call for &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/duckworth-rips-mount-rushmore-wants-national-dialogue-about-removing-washington-statues-heres-what-she-said-running-for-senate-five-years-ago" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a national dialogue</a>&#8221; regarding whether statues of President George Washington should <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thomas-jefferson-descendant-calls-for-harriet-tubman-to-replace-flawed-founder-in-jefferson-memorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">come down</a>. In a Sunday interview with CNN host Dana Bash, Duckworth attacked Trump for his Fourth of July speech at Mount Rushmore, during which, she claimed, the president &#8220;spent all his time talking about dead traitors.&#8221; She went on to criticize Mount Rushmore itself for &#8220;standing on ground that was stolen from Native Americans who had actually been given that land during a treaty.&#8221;
Her position drew <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-tucker-carlson-unloads-on-moron-senator-tammy-duckworth-for-being-too-afraid-to-defend-her-own-statements" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sharp criticism</a> from Carlson on Tuesday, who said, &#8220;Only someone who hates the country would suggest ripping down monuments to its founder.&#8221; Carlson claimed he had extended an invitation for Duckworth to appear on his program to defend her position, but that the senator&#8217;s office demanded he publicly apologize to her before she would oblige. &#8220;Duckworth is too afraid to defend her own statements on a cable TV show,&#8221; Carlson said. &#8220;What a coward.&#8221;
Duckworth wrote in her op-ed, &#8220;Mr. Carlson disingenuously claimed that because I expressed an openness to &#8216;a national dialogue&#8217; about our founders’ complex legacies, people like me &#8216;actually hate America.&#8217; One night later, he claimed that I called George Washington a traitor even though I had unambiguously answered no when asked whether anyone could justify saying that he was.&#8221;
&#8220;Setting aside the fact that the right wing’s right to lie about me is one of the rights I fought to defend,&#8221; Duckworth clarified, &#8220;let me be clear: I don’t want George Washington’s statue to be pulled down any more than I want the Purple Heart that he established to be ripped off my chest. I never said that I did.&#8221;
Duckworth went on to emphasize the importance of &#8220;every American’s freedom to have his or her own opinion about Washington’s flawed history,&#8221; adding, &#8220;What some on the other side don’t seem to understand is that we can honor our founders while acknowledging their serious faults, including the undeniable fact that many of them enslaved Black Americans.&#8221;
Duckworth then pivoted to allege that Carlson&#8217;s attacks on her political views, which she claimed were &#8220;egged on by President Trump,&#8221; were actually intended as racist distractions from what she described as the president&#8217;s failures. &#8220;Their goal isn’t to make — or keep — America great. It’s to keep Mr. Trump in power, whatever the cost,&#8221; she wrote, adding:
<blockquote>They should know, though, that attacks from self-serving, insecure men who can’t tell the difference between true patriotism and hateful nationalism will never diminish my love for this country — or my willingness to sacrifice for it so they don’t have to. These titanium legs don’t buckle.</blockquote>
Duckworth concluded her op-ed by stressing the importance of questioning those in power. &#8220;Anyone claiming to stand up for &#8216;patriotic&#8217; values should recognize that, because, without it, the country these impostor patriots claim to love so much would not exist,&#8221; she added.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-marine-and-double-amputee-has-a-message-for-dem-senator-who-slammed-tucker-carlson" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Former Marine And Double Amputee Has A Message For Dem Senator Who Slammed Tucker Carlson</a>
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‘Impostor Patriots’: Tammy Duckworth Slams Tucker Carlson And Trump As ‘Self-Serving, Insecure Men’

Donald Trump

New York Times

Tammy Duckworth

On his Fox News show Wednesday, host Tucker Carlson contrasted CNN host Don Lemon&#8217;s recent political comments about the black community with comments he made in 2013.
In the segment, Carlson highlighted comments from this week in which Lemon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-cnns-don-lemon-battles-with-terry-crews-over-black-lives-matters-agenda">suggested</a> that &#8220;black lives matter&#8221; does not mean &#8220;all black lives matter,&#8221; stating that the movement is not &#8220;all-encompassing&#8221; and specifically does not focus on black-on-black violence, as well as comments in which he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-chris-cuomo-don-lemon-mock-rising-crime-rates-in-democrat-controlled-cities">mocked</a> reports about the rising crime rates in major U.S. cities. Carlson then played comments from Lemon in 2013 addressing issues in the black community.
&#8220;Now if you’re running a channel like CNN, you want dumb people on TV because they are compliant, they will say what they’re told, they will tell the audience what the moment demands, they will never stray from the script, and that’s exactly what Mr. Lemon is doing,&#8221; Carlson said. &#8220;But just seven years ago, it was a different country and people were kind of allowed to say what they thought was true. And so at the time, here’s what Don Lemon was saying about black communities.&#8221;
In the 2013 CNN clip, Lemon said:
<blockquote>More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock, that means absent fathers. And the studies show that a lack of a male role model is an express train right to prison, and the cycle continues. So please, black folks, as I said, if this doesn&#8217;t apply to you, I&#8217;m not talking to you. Pay attention to and think about what has been presented in recent history as acceptable behavior.
Pay close attention to the hip-hop and rap culture that many of you embrace, a culture that glorifies everything I just mentioned. Thug and reprehensible behavior, a culture that is making a lot of people rich, just not you and it’s not going to.</blockquote>
&#8220;Wow,&#8221; Carlson said after playing the clip. &#8220;Can you imagine what would happen if Don Lemon or his bodybuilding buddy [Chris Cuomo] over there or any of these hair-hats said something like that on CNN tonight or MSNBC? That would be their last live broadcast ever. They would be fired immediately. You can’t express views like that, and so they don’t. It tells you a lot.&#8221;
A longer clip of the 2013 CNN segment featuring Lemon floated around on social media earlier in the day and showed some of the other comments that Lemon made. Lemon said:
<blockquote>CNN&#8217;S DON LEMON: It&#8217;s time now for some tough love on the subject.
[BEGIN VIDEO CLIP]
BILL O&#8217;REILLY, FOX NEWS HOST: The reason there is so much violence and chaos in the black precincts is the disintegration of the African-American family.
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LEMON: He&#8217;s got a point. In fact, he&#8217;s got more than a point. Bill?
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O&#8217;REILLY: Raised without much structure, young black men often reject education and gravitate towards the street culture, drugs, hustling, gangs. Nobody forces them to do that, again, it is a personal decision.
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LEMON: He is right about that, too. But in my estimation, he doesn&#8217;t go far enough. Because black people, if you really want to fix the problem, here&#8217;s just five things that you should think about doing.
Here&#8217;s number five. Pull up your pants.
Number four now is the n-word.
Now number three. Respect where you live. Start small by not dropping trash, littering in your own communities. I&#8217;ve lived in several predominantly white neighborhoods in my life, I rarely, if ever, witnessed people littering. I live in Harlem now, it&#8217;s an historically black neighborhood, every single day I see adults and children dropping their trash on the ground when a garbage can is just feet away. Just being honest here.
Number two, finish school. You want to break the cycle of poverty? Stop telling kids they&#8217;re acting white because they go to school or they speak proper English. Over the course of a career, a college grad will make nearly $1 million more than a high school graduate. That&#8217;s a lot of money.
And number one, and probably the most important, just because you can have a baby, it doesn&#8217;t mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first. More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers. And the studies show that lack of a male role model is an express train right to prison and the cycle continues.</blockquote>
Carlson&#8217;s segment has been widely circulated online. Among others, popular political commentator Dave Rubin tweeted out the video clip and declared that it was &#8220;an absolutely staggering take down.&#8221;
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This is an absolutely staggering take down of Don Lemon by <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TuckerCarlson</a>. <a href="https://t.co/Gm7P5li6P6">pic.twitter.com/Gm7P5li6P6</a>
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🚨📽️Just Watch📽️🚨
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I must admit: Don Lemon genuinely seemed to care about black lives in 2013<a href="https://t.co/XSf3nQua7o">https://t.co/XSf3nQua7o</a> <a href="https://t.co/kBFa6SPpH1">pic.twitter.com/kBFa6SPpH1</a>
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WATCH: Tucker Plays Lemon’s Comments From 2013 On Black Community That’d Get Him ‘Fired Immediately’ Now

Black Lives Matter

Don Lemon

Fox News

Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) on Tuesday night over comments she made about President Donald Trump&#8217;s speech at Mount Rushmore, as well as for her failure to come on his show to defend her claims.
Carlson criticized Duckworth after she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/potential-biden-vp-pick-tammy-duckworth-signals-openness-to-tearing-down-statues-of-founding-fathers">suggested</a> over the weekend that she was open to tearing down statues of some of the Founding Fathers, including President George Washington. Duckworth responded to criticisms from Carlson by writing on Twitter, &#8220;Does @TuckerCarlson want to walk a mile in my legs and then tell me whether or not I love America?&#8221;
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Does <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TuckerCarlson</a> want to walk a mile in my legs and then tell me whether or not I love America?
&mdash; Tammy Duckworth (@SenDuckworth) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenDuckworth/status/1280313123887603712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Carlson responded to Duckworth in a fiery segment for allegedly refusing to come on his show to defend her own statements unless he apologized (transcript via Fox News; video below):
<blockquote>Carlson: So last night we played you long clips from the president’s recent address at Mount Rushmore. It may have been the best speech Donald Trump has ever given. It was succinct and clear, and it was true, and for all of those reasons the Democratic Party and its many minions absolutely hated it. They denounced the speech, and this may not come as a complete surprise to you, as “racist!”
Now, that’s a slur long divorced from any actual meaning, but we should tell you that as a factual matter, it’s a lie. There was nothing even conceivably racist about Trump’s speech, go watch it for yourself. There was not a racist word or idea in the whole thing. The only time Trump even brought up the Civil War was to praise Abraham Lincoln, who, thank God, won it. He never mentioned the Confederacy or anyone in the Confederacy. Instead, Trump praised unabashed American heroes like George Washington, Clara Barton, the Wright brothers, Jackie Robinson.
Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois watched Trump&#8217;s speech, or claimed she did. Her summary of it? “He spent all of his time talking about dead traitors.” George Washington, Clara Barton, Jackie Robinson, they are all, according to Tammy Duckworth, dead traitors. Pretty shocking.
In case you think we are being unfair here, in the same interview, Senator Duckworth was asked if we should tear down statutes to George Washington. &#8216;Sure,&#8217; she responded, &#8216;let’s talk about it.&#8217; That tape we played for you last night and we noted how grotesque it was. Only someone who hates the country would suggest ripping down monuments to its founder. Apparently Tammy Duckworth saw what we said. She didn’t disagree with it exactly, instead she questioned our right to criticize her at all since she was once injured while serving in the Illinois Army National Guard. That’s what passes for an argument in modern identity politics. They don’t address the points that you make, they question your right to make them at all.
The irony of course is that George Washington himself, the &#8220;dead traitor&#8221; Tammy Duckworth has such contempt for, also served in the military. Washington spend most of his adult life under arms. He fought in two wars. At one point in the winter of 1777, Washington lost almost a quarter of his entire army to cold and malnutrition. So George Washington paid his dues. He was, as we might say today, a combat veteran. And by the way, Washington also created the country we live in. George Washington was a genuinely great man, but to morons like Tammy Duckworth, Washington is just some old white guy who needs to be erased. &#8220;Let’s tear down his statues, rename our capital city Sharpton or Mandela and let the revolution continue.&#8221;
But hold on, not so fast. Changes that profound deserve a debate. Not some fake national conversation with screamed commands at you and you get to obey, but a vigorous reasoned exchange between adults. We wanted to have an exchange like that with Tammy Duckworth tonight. So we called her office and we invited on the show. Her flack informed us that before even considering our request we must first issue a public apology for criticizing Tammy Duckworth. In other words, &#8216;I will not debate you until first you admit you’re completely wrong.&#8217; Keep in mind, Tammy Duckworth is not a child, at least not technically, she’s a sitting United States senator who is often described as a hero.
Yet Duckworth is too afraid to defend her own statements on a cable TV show. What a coward. Tammy Duckworth is also a fraud. Five years ago while she was a member of Congress, whistleblowers from a VA hospital in Illinois approached Duckworth to report the widespread mistreatment of sick veterans. Remember that story? The whistleblowers met with Tammy Duckworth three times. She refused to help them. According to a cardiologist who attended those meetings, Duckworth dismissed the systemic cruelty inflicted on dying veterans by saying that “that’s just how it is” at the VA. The whistleblowers were horrified by her response. Ultimately, in frustration they took their story to the media and it became a national scandal. This is the person lecturing the rest of us about her moral authority as a veteran. Spare us.
Tammy Duckworth is a callous hack who ignored the callous suffering of actual veterans when it actually mattered. She has no moral authority, she’s just a politician like the rest of them. She works for us, this is a democracy, she has an obligation to explain herself and answer our question. And our first question would be, &#8216;How can you lead a country you despise?&#8217; It’s not something we would ask only to Tammy Duckworth by the way. Hating America is a major theme in the Democratic Party right now, it’s everywhere. Turn on the TV. &#8230;</blockquote>
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We have every right to fight to preserve our nation, heritage and culture. When vandals like Tammy Duckworth and Ilhan Omar tell us that we’re not allowed to question their patriotism, as they scream about how horrible this country is, we have every right to laugh in their faces. <a href="https://t.co/0xjVtUaG3P">pic.twitter.com/0xjVtUaG3P</a>
&mdash; Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1280663377338130440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Tucker Carlson Unloads On ‘Moron’ Senator Tammy Duckworth For Being ‘Too Afraid To Defend Her Own Statements’

American History

Fox News commentator Johnny Jones admonished Sen. Tammy Duckworth on Monday for her strong reaction to criticism from Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
Duckworth (D-IL), a disabled war veteran with prosthetic legs, challenged Carlson to “walk a mile in my legs” after the popular cable news host questioned Duckworth&#8217;s and other Democratic leaders&#8217; patriotism for their soft stances on statues of traditional American heroes. Jones, also a veteran with prosthetic legs, chided Duckworth for using her disability to answer the criticism.
“A tragic injury from military service doesn’t exempt you from criticism for the choices you make and rhetoric you speak In a political career you sought out. You can be more (or less) than your injury, trust me!” Jones responded to Duckworth on Twitter.
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A tragic injury from military service doesn’t exempt you from criticism for the choices you make and rhetoric you speak In a political career you sought out. 
You can be more (or less) than your injury, trust me! 🇺🇸
-a credible source <a href="https://t.co/PFRb98NqTO">https://t.co/PFRb98NqTO</a>
&mdash; Johnny (Joey) Jones (@Johnny_Joey) <a href="https://twitter.com/Johnny_Joey/status/1280322634459291648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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“Does @TuckerCarlson want to walk a mile in my legs and then tell me whether or not I love America?” Duckworth tweeted after Carlson had played a clip of her endorsing a “national dialogue” over what place monuments to figures such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson should have in American society.
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s campaign is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/duckworth-emerging-as-a-contender-to-be-bidens-running-mate/2020/07/05/285fed3e-be60-11ea-bdaf-a129f921026f_story.html">considering</a> tapping Duckworth to be the Democratic candidate’s vice president. Carlson had noted the senator’s prominent place in the veepstakes contest and bluntly criticized her and Democratic Party leaders for questioning the Founding Fathers’ place in American history.
“You’re not supposed to criticize Tammy Duckworth in any way because she once served in the military. Most people just ignore her, but when Duckworth does speak in public, you’re reminded of what a deeply silly and unimpressive person she is,” Carlson said during one of his monologues on Monday.
After noting her comments on two of the United States Found Fathers, Carlson continued: “It’s long been considered out-of-bounds to question a person’s patriotism … But in the face of all of this, the conclusion can’t be avoided: these people actually hate America.”
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Duckworth piloted a Blackhawk helicopter for the Illinois National Guard in the Iraq War. She lost both of her legs and earned a Purple Heart when, on November 12, 2004, Iraqi insurgents shot her helicopter with an RPG. The blast did not destroy the vehicle, but it forced doctors to amputate Duckworth’s right leg just below the hip and her left leg below the knee.
Jones is a fellow combat veteran and double amputee. In August 2010, he was <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-eod-joey-jones">working</a> as a bomb technician in the Afghan town of Safar clearing the area of improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. On his sixth day working that particular job and after clearing out dozens of mines, he stepped on an IED that took off both of his legs above the knees. One of the two men he was working with, Cpl. Daniel Greer, eventually died from injuries sustained during the blast. The other, Staff Sgt. Eric Chir, suffered wounds from shrapnel all over his body.
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Former Marine And Double Amputee Has A Message For Dem Senator Who Slammed Tucker Carlson

Although the 2020 presidential election is still four months away, Fox News host Tucker Carlson has been drawing buzz over his potential to serve as the Republican successor to President Donald Trump.
Politico reports that “there’s an emerging consensus in the GOP that the 51-year-old Carlson would be formidable if he were to run” in the 2024 election.
<blockquote>Sixteen prominent Republicans interviewed by POLITICO said there’s an emerging consensus in the GOP that the 51-year-old Carlson would be formidable if he were to run. Some strategists aligned with other potential candidates are convinced he will enter the race and detect the outlines of a stump speech in Carlson’s recent Fox monologues. Others, particularly those who know him well, are skeptical that he would leave his prime-time TV gig.</blockquote>
“What he’s been saying speaks for a lot of people, and it’s basically not expressed or serviced by most Republican politicians,” Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/02/tucker-carlson-2024-republicans-348334">Politico</a>. “There’s a lot to be said for being fearless, and he is, while Republican politicians, as a breed, are not.”
Sam Nunberg, a former Trump aide who also knows Carlson, told the news agency that while he doesn’t believe Carlson will run for president, as he’s “so disgusted with politicians,” the Fox News host would become the 2024 Republican nominee if he were to run during a Joe Biden presidency.
The Fox News host has been drawing record ratings, likely in part for his willingness to challenge GOP politicians when he believes they&#8217;re wrong. Earlier this week, the Fox News host went after Senators Ron Johnson (R-WI) and James Lankford (R-OK) for trying to remove Columbus Day in order to make room for Juneteenth, a move <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-gop-senators-propose-recognizing-juneteenth-as-federal-holiday-swapping-out-columbus-day">they said</a> was a money-saving measure.
“They describe themselves as conservatives, improbable as that may seem,” Carlson said of the two senators, later adding, “They’re hoping to quietly eliminate Columbus Day and then move on to the next rioters’ list of demands.”
In recent weeks, Carlson also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-tucker-carlson-unloads-on-republican-senator-mike-braun-over-police-reform-bill">challenged</a> GOP Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) on his own show over the senator’s proposal to reform the legal doctrine of qualified immunity — which protects police officers and other government workers from civil lawsuits in situations where they did not violate “clearly established law” — without having support from law enforcement groups.
“If you care what they think, why don’t you write something they’ll endorse?” said Carlson, later adding, “The country’s burning, not because cops are burning it down, but because the mob is.”
As National Review <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/qualified-immunity-reform-divides-senate-gop/">notes</a>, the current form of qualified immunity has proven to be divisive among Republican senators. In addition, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has also expressed doubt about qualified immunity in its current form, having written so after the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/061520zor_f2bh.pdf">rejected a case</a> last month.
After appearing on Carlson’s show, <a href="https://www.14news.com/2020/07/02/law-enforcement-speaks-out-sen-mike-brauns-qualified-immunity-bill-proposal/">14News</a> reports that Braun distanced himself from his own police reform bill: “Democrats have blocked any attempt for police reform, and I’m not going to push this bill further without input from law enforcement.”
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson unloaded on Republican Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) on Monday night after Braun introduced a bill that would limit the circumstances in which law enforcement officials could avoid being held personally liable in lawsuits.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-mike-braun-qualified-immunity-reform">reported</a>, &#8220;Under the bill, which Braun introduced last week, officers could only claim immunity from legal action if the conduct in question had previously been authorized or required by federal or state law or regulation, or if a court had ruled the conduct was lawful and Constitutional.&#8221;
Carlson unloaded on Braun for his recent support of the far-left activist group Black Lives Matter and for his recent remarks about the shooting of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta, who was killed after he resisted arrest and fired a taser at a law enforcement officer.
&#8220;Black Lives Matter has of course called for the murder of police officers,&#8221; said Carlson. &#8220;Why do you support it and are there any other race-specific revolutionary movements that you support? &#8230; Have you read their web site? Are you in favor of abolishing the nuclear family? What do you support, exactly, in Black Lives Matter?&#8221;
&#8220;Not at all,&#8221; said Braun. &#8220;I support anybody that does have a grievance to be able to air it and that is it. That doesn’t mean all lives don’t matter, it just means that if you think a certain sector of society has a grievance, it ought to be through transparency and a willingness to debate it and get it out there.&#8221;
Carlson then pressed Braun on his comments about Brooks. &#8220;We just showed tape of you, Senator, saying that we need to make it easier to sue the police because of the egregious incidents like the death of Rayshard Brooks. You said you wanted to speak about specifics. Do you believe that he was killed unjustly? Do you believe Officer Rolfe deserves the death penalty, which he now faces? What did you mean by that?&#8221;
&#8220;I believe you ought to have the ability just like when anyone civil rights would be violated that you’ve got access to due process to have your case heard,&#8221; Braun responded.
&#8220;He’s been charged, they have the right to sue him under qualified immunity, as you know since you&#8217;re writing the change to the law. So that’s irrelevant,&#8221; said the host. &#8220;I’m asking about the case, you cited it. Do you believe the officer now facing the death penalty deserves to face the death penalty? And if you don’t, tell us what he should have done.&#8221;
&#8220;I think that will be determined by the courts,&#8221; said Braun, later saying, &#8220;you don’t shoot somebody in the back.&#8221;
When they addressed Braun&#8217;s police reform bill, Carlson asked, &#8220;So what law enforcement groups are endorsing your bill?&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re not endorsing it, but they said it was a good place to work from,&#8221; said the senator.
&#8220;If you care what they think, why don’t you write something they’ll endorse?&#8221; said Carlson, adding later: &#8220;The country&#8217;s burning, not because cops are burning it down, but because the mob is. But you think the morally culpable party is the police, so you’re making it easier for left-wing groups to see them? Am I missing something?&#8221;
During the interview, Carlson also pressed Braun for not doing more to help those who are the backbone of the Republican Party: business owners.
&#8220;Are you making it easier for business owners to sue the mob for burning their businesses down?&#8221; Carlson said. &#8220;I haven’t noticed that bill coming out of the Senate.&#8221;
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<blockquote>FOX NEWS HOST TUCKER CARLSON: As you’ve seen in excruciating detail, no institution in American life has come under more ferocious attacks than local police departments. In Minneapolis, police being abolished entirely. In Los Angeles and New York, their funding is being slashed dramatically. In cities across the country, monuments to the police are being vandalized or ripped down. In the city of Atlanta, officer Garrett Rolfe faces the death penalty for shooting a man called Rayshard Brooks after he stole his taser and fired at him. So what are Republican officeholders doing in the face of this unprecedented attack on our laws and on public safety itself? Well, not a lot. Few have stepped up to defend the police from totally bogus accusations of &#8216;systemic racism,&#8217; some are repeating that slur. One Republican has gone farther than that. As we told you last week, Senator Mike Braun of Indiana has introducted legislation to make it easier for left-wing activists to sue police officers. We must do this, Senator Braun explained in part because Rayshard Brooks’ death was egregious.
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SEN. MIKE BRAUN (R-IN): I wanted to put a template out there that protects law enforcement from frivolous lawsuits but holds the egregious departments and individuals accountable in these instances of a George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, or Breonna Taylor.
[END VIDEO]
CARLSON: In case you suspect we somehow selectively edited that clip, here&#8217;s Republican Senator Braun going all the way in endorsing Black Lives Matter.
[START VIDEO]
REPORTER: Do you support the black lives matter movement?
BRAUN: I support that movement because it is addressing an inequity that has not been solved from a grassroots level.
[END VIDEO]
CARLSON: After a segment on Thursday, Senator Braun asked to come on this show to detail his position and of course we&#8217;re happy to have him, thank you so much for coming on. Before I ask you about qualified immunity and your attempts to water it down, I was very surprised by that endorsement that you gave on camera of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter has of course called for the murder of police officers. Why do you support it and are there any other race-specific revolutionary movements that you support?
BRAUN: So, Tucker, thanks for having me on in the first place, I know when you came out, and I like it when somebody does challenge especially something like this, when you’re talking about changing something that’s been around for a while and I come from mainstreet. Your viewers are my supporters and I&#8217;ve got one of the most conservative voting records.
CARLSON: I don&#8217;t know about that.
BRAUN: No, that’s true. You’d have to check with them just like I checked with the Indiana State Police, Indiana Sheriffs Association, Fraternal Order of Police spent over an hour with them last week to make sure I wasn’t off-base and here’s where I come from&#8211;
CARLSON: I&#8217;m sorry, i’m confused, really quick. You&#8217;re off base in your support of Black Lives Matter? Your endorsement that you just gave? Have you read their web site? Are you in favor of abolishing the nuclear family? What do you support, exactly, in Black Lives Matter?
BRAUN: Not at all. I support anybody that does have a grievance to be able to air it and that is it. That doesn’t mean all lives don’t matter, it just means that if you think a certain sector of society has a grievance, it ought to be through transparency and a willingness to debate it and get it out there. I&#8217;m going to always go on the merits of the particular case and going back to what I learned last week, first of all, law enforcement in Indiana thought I was talking about eliminating it or drastically modifying it. This was to define that sweet spot to where they said they are being unduly stigmatized because of these events because in some cases, their own aren’t held accountable, and when they knew that, they basically said we need to be in the discussion. Look how we got with Obamacare when we refused to discuss it 10 years ago.
CARLSON: I’m sorry, we just showed tape of you Senator saying that we need to make it easier to sue the police because of the egregious incidents like the death of Rayshard Brooks. You said you wanted to speak about specifics. Do you believe that he was killed unjustly? Do you believe Officer Rolfe deserves the death penalty, which he now faces? What did you mean by that?
BRAUN: I believe you ought to have the ability just like when anyone civil rights would be violated that you’ve got access to due process to have your case heard.
CARLSON: They do have that right, qualified immunity has nothing to do with that case. He’s been charged, they have the right to sue him under qualified immunity as you know since you&#8217;re writing the change to the law. So that’s irrelevant. I’m asking about the case, you cited it. Do you believe the officer now facing the death penalty deserves to face the death penalty? And if you don’t, tell us what he should have done.
BRAUN: I think that will be determined by the courts.
CARLSON: You cited it. What do you think of it? You’re the one who called it egregious, so why don’t you tell us what officer Rolfe should have done when this man fired a taser at him. What do you think?
BRAUN: I think that you should have had the judgment in a traffic stop like that, you don’t shoot somebody in the back, so, if we keep doing that&#8211;
CARLSON: Hold on. I want you to explain. I think it’s fair. You are an office holder. I don’t normally press people like this but it’s not fair for you to filibuster without answering the question which is very simple. The officer facing the death penalty had a guy fire a weapon at him, what should he have done then?
BRAUN: Probably not have killed the guy.
CARLSON: What should he have done? You&#8217;re not saying its egregious. Let him go?
BRAUN: Do you think he was going to get away? They were going to find him.
CARLSON: You tell me. You’re the one judging the officer, so maybe you could explain why you’re judging him.
BRAUN: Tucker, that’ll all come out in the court process and all I’m saying, let me finish this, if we don’t get better at it for all of us on mainstreet, Democrats are going to spin it, Chuck Schumer has already decided he can make hay of this in the election and we will end up on the short side of it again.
CARLSON: Who controls the senate? Does Chuck Schumer control it? I thought republicans controlled the senate? so you’re taking your cues from chuck schumer? You&#8217;re saying Chuck Schumer might criticize me and therefore i have to pass a law that makes it easier to sue police?
BRAUN: Tucker, you know you have to have 60 votes in the senate to get anything done.
CARLSON: They&#8217;re about to change that when they take over.
BRAUN: You can check my record, I stand on it and even law enforcement in Indiana thinks in some of these cases, it is giving them a bad name and bad apples, there ought to be due process therefore the victims.
CARLSON: So what law enforcement groups are endorsing your bill?
BRAUN: They&#8217;re not endorsing it but they said it was a good place to work from.
CARLSON: Well, why aren’t they endorsing it then? You’ve cited them twice as supporters of this idea but they’re not endorsing your bill so they don’t actually support it, so why are you bringing them up as evidence that it’s a good idea?
BRAUN: They think it’s a better idea to be in the discussion then to be outside of it.
CARLSON: If you care what they think, why don’t you write something they’ll endorse?
BRAUN: That doesn’t necessarily mean we won’t get there. That’s not going to be done today. The Democrats now think they can win with it in the election, and that’s why we need to be engaged now in a way that would have kept it on the table.
CARLSON: So you need to write a bill that law enforcement won&#8217;t endorse? The country&#8217;s burning, not because cops are burning it down but because the mob is, but you think the morally culpable party is the police so you’re making it easier for left-wing groups to see them? Am I missing something?
BRAUN: You are missing it, but you&#8217;re trying to put words in my mouth.
CARLSON: I’m not.
BRAUN: I don’t justify any of the looting, any of the rioting, and if you don’t address the underlying issue, you think it’s going to fix itself on its own? You think it&#8217;s going to get better?
CARLSON: You think the underlying issue is Rayshard Brooks being shot? So, you’re telling me that what’s happening now is the result of police behavior, it&#8217;s the fault of the police? That’s what you’re saying?
BRAUN: No, I’m saying what they are getting by with on the other side is trying to generalize on the specific and they will get away with it if we decide to do nothing. That’s just a general disagreement and approach.
CARLSON: Are you making it easier for business owners to sue the mob for burning their businesses down? I haven’t noticed that bill coming out of the senate.
BRAUN: If we are not in the discussion, we are going to be on the sidelines like we are on so many issues as conservatives because we failed to engage and they run circles around us in the end run.
CARLSON: You think you’re going to keep the senate in the fall on this platform?
BRAUN: I think we are going to keep the Senate if we at least are willing to engage in issues that are important to the American public and that we don’t always stand on the sidelines until it’s too late. It’s more about when you get involved in the issues.
CARLSON: I don’t think the public supports you at all on this.
BRAUN: I think law enforcement knows they need to have a better system than what they’ve got now because it is stigmatizing them.</blockquote>
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On Tuesday night, appearing on <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/bob-woodson-rejects-systemic-racism-class-race">Fox News</a> with host Tucker Carlson, former civil rights activist Bob Woodson, who once headed the National Urban League Department of Criminal Justice, slammed Black Lives Matter and the concept of “systemic racism.” Woodson harshly criticized liberal Democrats running the inner cities, ripped former Attorney General Eric Holder, and asserted, “There are two people that I think are destroying this country, and they are guilty white people and angry, rich, entitled blacks who continue to play the race card.”
Woodson stated:
<blockquote>As a veteran of the civil rights movement, one of the great promises we gave to lower-income lacks is that if you were to elect blacks to public office through voting rights acts, and we were running those institutions, that all of black America would be better off. In the past 50 years $22 trillion has been spent on poverty programs; 70% goes not to the poor but those who serve poor people. So many of those people taking office used this money to create a class of people who are running these cities. And now, after 50 years of liberal Democrats running the inner cities where we have all of these inequities that we have, race is being used as a ruse, as a means of deflecting attention away from critical questions, such as: Why are poor blacks failing in systems run by their own people if race was an issue, even in the criminal justice system?</blockquote>
Woodson said bluntly, “And if we continue to look at life through a racial prism, when evil wears a black face it will escape detection, and therefore correction.”
He turned to the damage caused by rioters in Minneapolis, noting that local residents who were hurt by the riots had lost patience with celebrities and the media for ignoring the aftermath of the riots:
<blockquote>When you have low-income people like in the Phillips section of Minneapolis, these are ethnic neighborhoods, business centers that have been wiped out. People cannot get to the stores now and they are crying out and they’re saying when everyone goes home and the cameras are gone and the civil rights celebrities have done what they have done, low-income people are the ones who are suffering already and they will continue to suffer.
And that’s why we must confront this and not allow — we must deracialize race and we must desegregate poverty. And that’s what the Woodson Center is committed to do: working with the least of God’s children to give them an opportunity to create solutions from the bottom up. But it is not race. I don&#8217;t know what systemic racism is. Maybe someone can explain what that means.</blockquote>
Asked how he felt, as someone who had worked for 50 years for civil rights, to see some activists like Shaun King claim they were civil rights activists, Woodson replied, “It is bewildering and also painful. I left the movement because I realized that many of the people who suffered most, poor blacks did not benefit from the change, that their demographics were used by some of those leaders. It’s more class than it is race, and now race is being used to deflect attention away from the failures of people running those institutions. The question is why are black kids failing in school systems run by their own people?&#8221;
He continued with a blast at the Obama administration, saying, “When Eric Holder was a U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., a lot of young people were shot by the police, but they were black police shooting black kids and not one was prosecuted. But there was no public outcry because as long as illegality or evil wears a black face, then it escapes detection and that&#8217;s what&#8217;s wrong with looking life through the prism of race.”
Asked why many corporations champion organizations like Black Lives Matter, Woodson responded:
<blockquote>It’s really white guilt and it’s an easy out. There are two people that I think are destroying this country, and they are guilty white people and angry, rich, entitled blacks who continue to play the race card. And they don’t have to live with the consequences of their advocacy. The worst thing that can happen with police — right now, it’s very ironic that as police nullification occur and they don’t patrol in those communities, the murder rate goes up. And so actually, when these middle class people who live in safe communities villainize the police, the murder rate goes up.
That same study you quoted from Harvard also documented the fact that police nullification results in less police, more black on black crime, more black on black deaths. Poor people are being hustled by these middle-class politicians. As Malcom X said, they’re being bamboozled, scammed, hoodwinked, and one day that sleeping giant is going to wake up and understand who the real culprit is. And it is people who look like them who are failing to use their positions to profit the least of God’s children. Instead, they’re using it to benefit themselves and their own group.</blockquote>
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A shakeup at NBC News that includes the replacement of its longtime chairman, Andy Lack, is coinciding with an investigation into the network by New York&#8217;s attorney general, according to a former NBC producer who witnessed firsthand an alleged &#8220;cover up&#8221; scandal at the network.
As reported by the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/05/04/nbc-news-chairman-andy-lack-steps-down-in-corporate-shakeup/">New York Post</a> Monday, NBC&#8217;s plan is now for Lack to leave at the end of the month rather than after the 2020 presidential election. Lack &#8220;came under fire after Ronan Farrow’s book &#8216;Catch and Kill&#8217; accused NBC News executives including Lack’s right-hand man Noah Oppenheim of killing his Harvey Weinstein reporting,&#8221; the outlet notes.
In an appearance on Tucker Carlson Monday night, former NBC News producer Rich McHugh — who worked with Farrow on his &#8220;killed&#8221; bombshell exposé on Weinstein&#8217;s alleged sexual misconduct — slammed his former network and made some comments that NBC executives probably do not want to hear on the airwaves.
On his show Monday, Carlson, who slapped Lack for &#8220;protecting&#8221; disgraced megaproducer and Democrat megadonor Weinstein, asked McHugh about reports that the New York attorney general&#8217;s office is investigating the network on its handling of sexual misconduct claims. While &#8220;no one’s been charged,&#8221; said Carlson &#8220;people have come in and been interviewed.”
Asked if he&#8217;d heard the same, McHugh said, “Yes, I have, Tucker. That is true.&#8221;
&#8220;I have been looking into it for a story,&#8221; he added, as reported by <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/ex-nbc-producer-rich-mchugh-blasts-outgoing-chairman-andy-lack-says-ny-ags-office-probing-the-network/">Mediaite</a>. &#8220;It was the New York attorney general’s office civil division. We’re not sure if it could lead to anything criminal, but I do know they have been looking into this and interviewing employees over a number of months.&#8221;
&#8220;One has to assume that they caught wind of this investigation because it’s been going on for months and they have spoken to dozens of employees,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I believe that has a role to play in it. There’s new management at the top and so they have decided we’re going to try to get away from this black eye who presided over the Harvey Weinstein story and the Lauer disgrace and all of it. This is a good first step, I should say. I should point out that I’ve spoken spoken to a number of women, victims who worked at NBC, and they say, you know, the fact that Andy Lack gets to walk out of the building on his own accord is a disgrace. Their careers have been ruined. I personally left NBC largely because of things that he and other executives did with our reporting. The fact that he can just kind of walk away is upsetting.&#8221;
As for Oppenheim, who has been allowed to remain at NBC, McHugh said, &#8220;It looks like this move has taken some of his power away.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it needs to be said that if they’re really going to clean house and try and restore their credibility, they need to clean house,&#8221; he added. &#8220;One half of the team that presided over our reporting killing our story is still in power.&#8221;
As detailed by the Post, since Lack returned to NBC in 2015, &#8220;his division has been riddled with controversy,&#8221; including the Brian Williams &#8220;embellished&#8221; Iraq war story and the network&#8217;s much-criticized handling of Megyn Kelly&#8217;s contract. But the worst scandals involved sexual misconduct allegations against Matt Lauer in 2017 and the alleged burying of the Weinstein story.
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed CNN&#8217;s Chris Cuomo on Tuesday night over an apparent &#8220;fake&#8221; stunt that Cuomo and his network engaged in the night before.
&#8220;Whether he can do it or not, obviously the governor Andrew Cuomo would like to be the president,&#8221; Carlson began. &#8220;Meanwhile his brother over at CNN wants you to think that he has risen from the dead as well. Several weeks ago he contracted coronavirus and we express sympathy for him that night, it was totally sincere and we haven’t criticized him in any way since then. But then we watch him seize every chance to remind everyone watching that he was sick and in containment.&#8221;
Carlson played a series of clips of Cuomo in his basement while being quarantined after reportedly being diagnosed for COVID-19.
&#8220;Thankfully, Cuomo got better and we are happy to hear that, not kidding,&#8221; Carlon continued. &#8220;But CNN, shameless cheese balls that they are celebrated by filming Cuomo rising like a buff cable news Lazarus from the grave and back into ordinary life.&#8221;
&#8220;When did journalists start talking about themselves so much? It’s not a story, it’s narcissism,&#8221; Carlson continued. &#8220;And that’s weird enough. But it’s not all. That was fake. Just last week Cuomo admitted getting into a fight with the bicyclist who harassed him for going outside and congregating with other people, something CNN has been vilifying ordinary people for wanting to do.&#8221;
The Fox News segment then highlighted remarks that Cuomo made during a radio interview following the alleged incident, &#8220;I don’t want some Jacka*s loser fat-tire biker to be able to pull over and get in my face and in my space and talk bulls**t to me. I don’t want to hear it.&#8221;
&#8220;By the way, if you are the loser fat tire bicyclist, you are always welcome in the show,&#8221; Carlson said. &#8220;We&#8217;d love to hear from you. That whole exchange seems kind of unpleasant but there is a scandal underneath it. Here you have a top CNN anchor who appears to have been ignoring the social distancing rules his network has been promoting and forcing on everyone else. It seems like he wasn’t telling the truth about staying.&#8221;
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&quot;When did journalists start talking about themselves so much? It&#39;s not a story. It&#39;s narcissism.&quot;
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The segment comes after a man named David told The New York Post about an incident last week where he allegedly saw Cuomo not social distancing despite being diagnosed with COVID-19.
The Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/04/14/long-island-bicyclist-verbally-attacked-by-chris-cuomo-fires-back/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>David told The Post he was stunned that Cuomo verbally attacked him the way he did.
The 65-year-old longtime resident said he was just out for a bike ride before Easter dinner when he spotted who he thought was Chris Cuomo on property he says the CNN anchor bought in East Hampton last year. The acreage is still being developed; a steel frame for its future house is all that’s up at the moment, David said.
David said Cuomo was with his wife, another woman and three kids who were playing around on the property.</blockquote>
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On Wednesday evening, Fox News host Tucker Carlson confronted New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy about his executive order banning religious services in the state during the coronavirus crisis, an order that resulted in 15 men being arrested for congregating at a synagogue earlier this month. The Democratic governor responded by defending his severe order and openly admitting that he &#8220;wasn&#8217;t thinking of the Bill of Rights when we did this.&#8221;
&#8216;The Bill of Rights, as you well know, protects Americans&#8217; rights — enshrines their right to practice their religion as they see fit and to congregate together to assemble peacefully,&#8221; Carlson reminded Gov. Murphy on his show Wednesday, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-phil-murphy-bill-of-rights">Fox News</a>.
The First Amendment specifies that &#8220;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.&#8221;
&#8220;By what authority did you nullify the Bill of Rights in issuing this order?&#8221; Carlson asked Murphy. &#8220;How do you have the power to do that?&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s above my pay grade, Tucker,&#8221; said the governor. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t thinking of the Bill of Rights when we did this &#8230; we looked at all the data and the science and it says people have to stay away from each other. That is the best thing we can do to break the back of the curve of this virus, that leads to lower hospitalization and ultimately fatalities.&#8221;
Clearly unsatisfied with Murphy&#8217;s response, Carlson pressed again. &#8220;Since you are an elected official, a leader in the government, an executive, how do you have the authority to order something that so clearly contravenes the Bill of Rights of the United States – the U.S. Constitution – where do you get the authority to do that?&#8221; he asked.
&#8220;We know we need to stay away from each other, number one,&#8221; Murphy replied. &#8220;Number two, we do have broad authority within the state. And number three, we would never do that without coordinating, discussing, and hashing it out with the variety of the leaders of the faiths of New Jersey.&#8221; The governor went on to claim that he spoke with multiple religious leaders, including Newark Archbishop Joseph Cardinal Tobin.
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Tucker Carlson asks New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy where he got the authority to nullify the Bill of rights when he banned religious services in his state:
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Like many states, New Jersey has <a href="https://nj.gov/infobank/eo/056murphy/approved/eo_archive.html">mandated</a> closure of businesses, organizations, and activities deemed &#8220;non-essential.&#8221; As a result, the national economy has begun to collapse, with now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/economy-is-falling-off-a-cliff-another-5-2-million-americans-filed-jobless-claims-last-week-totaling-22-million-in-last-month">22 million</a> Americans filing for unemployment over a span of just four weeks, an unprecedented development.
In response, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lockdown-backlash-builds-protests-organized-in-multiple-states">backlash</a> has begun to grow in many states, particularly those where officials have been deemed to have &#8220;overreached&#8221; their authority and violated constitutionally protected rights.
In Michigan, where the backlash is particularly strong over Democratic. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer&#8217;s severe executive order shutting down most of the economy and making access to some goods difficult for residents, four sheriffs have declared that they will not enforce some of the restrictions, citing their duty to serve as the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sheriffs-say-no-to-democrat-governors-draconian-lockdown-orders-we-will-protect-civil-liberties">last line of defense in protecting your civil liberties</a>.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-police-arrest-reopen-america-protester-say-constitutionally-protected-rights-non-essential">WATCH: Police Arrest ‘Reopen’ Protester; Say Constitutionally Protected Rights ‘Non-Essential’</a>

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson attacked the Heritage Foundation on Friday night, claiming that it &#8220;no longer represents the interests of conservatives&#8221; on the issue of big tech – a claim that was met by strong push back from the Heritage Foundation.
Carlson made the remarks in a segment about &#8220;how Google, Facebook, and Twitter work in secret to impose a left-wing political agenda on this country.&#8221; Carlson cited multiple documented examples of things that big tech companies have done that clearly work against those who are conservative.
Carlson, a few minutes later, transitioned into why he thinks Congress does not act and push back against the tech companies for their bias against conservatives.
Here are the relevant remarks from Carlson where he attacks the Heritage Foundation:
<blockquote>Why all the inaction on these questions? Well, a big part of the problem is that conservative nonprofits here in Washington, the ones that are supposed to be looking out for you, aren’t actually looking out for you. They’re looking out for big tech. A new report from The Campaign For Accountability obtained by this show highlights how conservative organizations in D.C. have colluded with big tech to shield left-wing monopolies from any oversight at all. It’s an amazing story and it’s happening now.
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In all, the Koch network quietly spent at least $10 million defending Silicon Valley companies that work to silence conservatives. The richest companies in the world being defended by a “conservative” nonprofit as they attack conservatives. Why are they doing this? As one former Koch employee recently told this show off the record, “I know for a fact they take money from social media companies to do their bidding.” And it turns out, he was right. Google has given money to at least 22 right-leaning institutions that are also funded by the Koch network. Those institutions also include the American Conservative Union, the American Enterprise Institute, the National Review Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and the Mercatus Center, we could go on.
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Here’s how it works: Big tech companies silence conservatives. Conservatives’ nonprofits try to prevent the government from doing anything about it. Makes sense.
Then there’s the Heritage Foundation – maybe the biggest and best funded think tank in Washington. Half the conservatives in the city have seemed to work there at one time or another. Almost 30 years ago, I did, for example. To this day, there are a lot of nice and very well-meaning people at Heritage. But, as an organization, Heritage no longer represents the interests of conservatives – at least on the question of tech. A recent paper by Heritage entitled “Free enterprise is the best remedy for online bias concerns,” defends the special privileges that Congress has given to left-wing Silicon Valley monopolies. And if conservatives don’t like it, Heritage says, well they can just start their own Google. The paper could’ve been written by tech lobbyists. In fact, it may have been written by tech lobbyists. A trade association that represents Silicon Valley called the liability exemption that Googles enjoys, “the most important law in tech.”
Well, Heritage’s paper repeats that line verbatim. Word for word. Along with many other lines that the lobbyists wrote. It’s embarrassing. But heritage isn’t embarrassed. None of the so-called “conservative nonprofits” in Washington are embarrassed. They make deals with people who hate you; they secretly sell out your interests; then they beg you to tithe like it’s the medieval church, like you owe them your money. That’s the system that we’ve had for decades. And maybe that’s why, no matter how much money you send, nothing gets more conservative. Just the opposite. You wonder how much longer the system can continue?</blockquote>
The Heritage Foundation responded with a statement on Saturday, saying that Carlson&#8217;s segment contained &#8220;several false, outrageous, and unfounded accusations against The Heritage Foundation.”
Rob Bluey, vice president of communications at Heritage, released the following <a href="https://www.heritage.org/press/heritage-foundation-responds-tucker-carlsons-false-accusations-big-tech">statement</a> in response:
<blockquote>For nearly 50 years, The Heritage Foundation has represented the interests of the American people based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional values, and a strong national defense. Heritage does not support policies that deviate from these principles, nor are our recommendations ever influenced by donations or outside political pressure.
It was, therefore, incredibly disappointing to hear Tucker Carlson, whom we hold in high regard, mislead his viewers about Heritage’s work on the topics of big tech and censorship. Carlson is a former employee of Heritage who last year received our <a href="https://www.heritage.org/impact/tucker-carlson-wins-heritages-salvatori-prize-citizenship?_ga=2.141019121.238436227.1576940171-1290591802.1576940171" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">prestigious Salvatori Prize</a> and who regularly features Heritage guests on his Fox News program. In other words, he knows Heritage, our people, and our principles.
Unfortunately, Carlson did not contact us in advance of his segment or provide Heritage with an opportunity to respond to his accusations. Rather than engage in a substantive policy debate, he chose instead to make ad hominem attacks and question our integrity. We are disappointed this came from someone whom we admire and respect.
The Heritage Foundation will not let these attacks go unanswered and we welcome the opportunity to have a substantive debate on public policy.
Carlson’s claims began with an attack on a recent <a href="https://www.heritage.org/technology/report/free-enterprise-the-best-remedy-online-bias-concerns?_ga=2.183944421.238436227.1576940171-1290591802.1576940171" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Heritage report about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act</a>. He claimed the report’s author repeated lines verbatim from a trade association. This is false. In fact, the 13-page Heritage report contained 22 footnotes, all of which were properly quoted and attributed to sources. The report went through a thorough and lengthy process of vetting and review by Heritage scholars to ensure accuracy and agreement among all Heritage analysts involved in technology and social media policy.
The conclusions of Heritage’s report were based on the principles that guide all of our policy recommendations—principles Carlson seems curiously less interested in defending. Instead, he made an unfounded assertion against Heritage and outrageous smear of one of our scholars. It is disappointing that Carlson would deceive his viewers with such patently false information.
It should come as no surprise that Heritage supports empowering consumers rather than government. We are, and have always been, champions of the free market and critics of government intervention. That’s why we are forcefully pushing back on the few outspoken individuals who seem to prefer an expedient answer rather than a principled solution.
Carlson also failed to acknowledge Heritage experts’ consistent criticism of technology companies, including <a href="https://www.heritage.org/technology/commentary/google-searching-moral-high-ground-the-wrong-places">Google’s decision to withdraw from the Department of Defense’s Project Maven</a> and its work with <a href="https://www.heritage.org/cybersecurity/commentary/googles-plan-censoring-app-china-makes-mockery-its-mission-information">communist China on a censored search engine</a>.
He apparently missed Heritage President Kay C. James’ <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-wanted-to-help-google-make-ai-more-responsible-instead-i-was-treated-with-hostility/2019/04/09/cafd1fb6-5b07-11e9-842d-7d3ed7eb3957_story.html" data-external="yes">Washington Post op-ed blasting Google</a> for caving to the radical left and disbanding its AI board simply because she, a prominent conservative leader, was asked to join it.
And he made no mention of Google-owned <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/05/youtube-wont-let-a-medical-doctor-say-this-sentence/" data-external="yes">YouTube censoring a video produced by The Daily Signal</a>, Heritage’s multimedia news outlet. On our public platforms and in a private meeting with YouTube’s CEO, we made our position abundantly clear: We will not tolerate this type of censorship and will stand side by side with other conservatives experiencing similar challenges.
Heritage and its team of dedicated scholars are committed to pursuing public policies that make life better for all Americans. Heritage is the largest public policy organization in America with more than 500,000 members and has the No. 1 ranking from the University of Pennsylvania for impact on public policy. We won’t be intimidated or bullied as we continue to represent the interests of conservatives and all Americans.</blockquote>

Tucker Carlson Attacks Heritage Foundation. Heritage Foundation Fires Back In Statement.

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson admits that President Trump is a &#8220;full-blown B.S. artist&#8221; who &#8220;could&#8217;ve made a fortune selling cars,&#8221; but his knack for twisting the truth to make his &#8220;sales pitches&#8221; isn&#8217;t why the media actually despises him, as they claim. In fact, argued Carlson on his show Wednesday night, the media resents Trump so much for &#8220;the exact opposite&#8221; reason.
&#8220;One of the reasons progressives say they hate Donald Trump is because he lies a lot,&#8221;  Carlson said on his <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-truth-is-the-reason-the-left-despises-trump">Fox News</a> show Wednesday night. &#8220;Trump, they&#8217;ll tell you, is a committed liar, an inveterate one. To prove he point the left has set about trying to catalog Trump&#8217;s dishonesty with the kind of scientific precision you normally associate with obsessed baseball fans or amateur bird watchers. As of last month, according to The Washington Post, Donald Trump has made a total of 13,435 false or misleading statements while in office.&#8221;
Carlson then played a famous claim by Trump which the Post marks as the starting point of Trump&#8217;s presidential lies: his claim that his inauguration crowd was &#8220;the biggest ever.&#8221;
&#8220;We’re not going to lie to you: that was untrue,&#8221; said Carlson. &#8220;The crowd at the 2017 inauguration was not the largest ever measured on the national mall. Sorry. It wasn’t.&#8221;
&#8220;Why did the president claim that it was?&#8221; Carlson asked. &#8220;Well, because that&#8217;s who he is. Donald Trump is a salesman. He&#8217;s a talker, a boaster, a booster, a compulsive self-promoter. At times, he&#8217;s a full-blown B.S. artist. If Trump hadn&#8217;t gotten rich in real estate, he could&#8217;ve made a fortune selling cars. Most people know this. It&#8217;s obvious, transparent, really.&#8221;
Carlson then got to his central argument: Yes, Trump is a &#8220;B.S. artist,&#8221; but his lies are not what is actually driving the mass disdain for him from left-wing politicians and their allies in the media.
&#8220;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?&#8221; asked Carlson.
&#8220;Think back over the last four years,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;When have the CNN anchors been the angriest? Was it when Donald 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 used to it. What infuriates official Washington is not when Trump lies, it&#8217;s when he tells the truth. Truth is the real threat to their power.”
&#8220;There&#8217;s an unspoken agreement among the people in charge of our country not to talk about what has happened to it,&#8221; Carlson said. &#8220;They are personally implicated in its decline, for one thing &#8212; often they&#8217;re profiting from it. The last thing they want is a national conversation about what went wrong. So they maintain an increasingly strict policy of mandatory reality avoidance.&#8221;
As an example of this &#8220;reality avoidance,&#8221; Carlson pointed to our unsustainable immigration policies. &#8220;If the people in charge actually cared about us, they would protect our borders,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The gatekeepers in our national media, the people who should have been sounding the alarm about all of this, but instead made common cause with the ruling class they were supposed to be covering and keeping honest.&#8221;
When Trump tells the truth about the situation at the border, he&#8217;s branded a bigot by Democrats and the media in an attempt to deflect from the issue. Raising such issues as immigration exposes the ruling class&#8217;s &#8220;own egregious failures and selfishness,&#8221; so they instead try to redirect the conversation by declaring that &#8220;Donald Trump is a racist liar.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-post-obama-is-a-conservative">Washington Post: ‘Obama Is A Conservative’</a>
Partial transcript via <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-truth-is-the-reason-the-left-despises-trump">Fox News</a>, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/trump/a-full-blown-bs-artist-tucker-carlson-says-media-is-right-about-trump-lying-but-defends-him-still/">Mediaite</a>.

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It was a rather innocuous throwaway line, but it was enough to make some ears perk up and further fuel speculation about the prospect of &#8220;Hillary 2020.&#8221;
At an event at Georgetown University Law School on Wednesday, former President Bill Clinton — sitting next to former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and progressive icon Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — uttered the phrase &#8220;she may or may not run &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;She may or may not run for anything, but I’m never running for president again,&#8221; said the would-be First Gentleman, as reported by <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/10/31/bill_clinton_on_hillary_she_may_or_may_not_run.html">RealClearPolitics.</a>
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“She may or not ever run for anything, but I can’t legally run for President again.” &#8211; Bill Clinton leaving the door open on <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillaryClinton</a> running for President in 2020. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StillWithHer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StillWithHer</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hillary2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hillary2020</a> <a href="https://t.co/gDrmcR0ax1">pic.twitter.com/gDrmcR0ax1</a>
&mdash; Joel McAuliffe (@JdMcAuliffe) <a href="https://twitter.com/JdMcAuliffe/status/1189699446776446977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The comment follows a series of equivocal statements by Hillary and her camp suggesting that she is seriously considering a third presidential run. One of the more recent statements about yet another Clinton presidential campaign that turned heads came from longtime Clinton advisor Philippe Reines during an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson two weeks ago.
&#8220;So, I’m assuming what I just said and what we’re hearing is true, that if she thought she was the best position to beat Donald Trump, she would get in the race,&#8221; said Carlson, as reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-hillary-clinton-adviser-adds-more-fuel-to-fire-that-clinton-will-run-in-2020">The Daily Wire</a>.
“You know, she ran for president because she thought she would be the best president,” said Reines. “If she still thought that now, if she thought she had the best odds of beating Donald Trump — I think she would think about it long and hard.”
“She’s not — she hasn’t foreclosed the possibility, I guess,” Carlson replied.
&#8220;No, she has not,&#8221; said Reines.
&#8220;She really likes a lot of the people running. She knows them well. She thought about some of them for her vice presidency,&#8221; Reines said later. &#8220;But there might be a reason that she’d be the best person, not only to beat Donald Trump, but to govern after Donald Trump, which is a part we don’t talk about much.  And, look, you can make fun of her all you want, but 65 million people voted for her and that’s second more to anyone except Barack Obama.&#8221;
A recent report by <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/us/politics/democratic-candidates-2020.html">The New York Times</a> likewise has helped stoke speculation that Clinton may end up jumping in the race. &#8220;Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Bloomberg have both told people privately in recent weeks that if they thought they could win, they would consider entering the primary — but that they were skeptical there would be an opening, according to Democrats who have spoken with them,&#8221; The Times reported two weeks ago.
&#8220;Democrats who have recently spoken with Mrs. Clinton say she shares the same concerns other party elites have about the field — worried about Mr. Biden’s durability, Ms. Warren’s liberal politics and unsure of who else can emerge to take on Mr. Trump,&#8221; the Times reported.
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/anxiety-rises-among-democrats-worried-about-partys-prospects-in-2020/2019/10/22/b9c015d4-f4d9-11e9-8cf0-4cc99f74d127_story.html">The Washington Post</a> reported similar comments from Clinton insiders. &#8220;Hillary Clinton, according to two people close to her, has not ruled out jumping in herself, a sign that she is hearing similar dissatisfaction,&#8221; the Post reported.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/impeachment-witness-told-congress-he-warned-about-biden-ukraine-problem-in-2015-got-shut-down-by-bidens-office">Impeachment Witness Tells Congress He Warned About Biden-Ukraine Problem In 2015, Got Shut Down By Biden’s Office</a>

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Wednesday over her open &#8220;bigotry&#8221; after she blamed an entire racial group for &#8220;producing climate change&#8221; during a congressional hearing last week.
&#8220;She&#8217;s an unapologetic bigot, someone who attacks others for the way they were born,&#8221; Carlson said. &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing legitimate about that, you can&#8217;t debate bigotry, it&#8217;s pure poison.&#8221;
Carlson continued, &#8220;It&#8217;s terrifying to think that someone who spews open racism has become a role model for our young people but that is exactly what has happened and it&#8217;s been happening since Ocasio-Cortez arrived on the public stage.&#8221;
During the hearing, Ocasio-Cortez asked so-called &#8220;experts&#8221; the following questions:
<blockquote>&#8220;Do we see largely that it&#8217;s the global South and communities of color that may be bearing the brunt of the initial havoc from climate change?&#8221;
&#8220;And in terms of that wealth, the people who are producing climate change, the folks that are responsible for the largest amount of emissions, or communities, or corporations, they tend to be predominantly white, correct?&#8221;</blockquote>
&#8220;The people that are producing climate change, that&#8217;s right, those people, the ones destroying the earth, driving entire species to extinction, killing children,&#8221; Carlson said as he highlighted Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s bigoted statement. &#8220;Ever notice how all those people look alike? They&#8217;ve got something in common, don&#8217;t they? That&#8217;s right, they&#8217;re the same color. That&#8217;s what she&#8217;s saying.&#8221;
&#8220;For all the hysteria you hear about how the president is a racist, Donald Trump has never said  anything close to that, nothing close to as bigoted and vicious as that,&#8221; Carlson continued. &#8220;The people wrecking the world are all of one race? Who talks like that? In fact, it&#8217;s hard to think of anyone in American life saying anything that disgusting and foolish and dangerous.&#8221;
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&#8220;There&#8217;s a darker side to AOC&#8230; she&#8217;s an unapologetic bigot.&#8221;
Tucker Carlson explains why AOC is so famous: she&#8217;s authentic. And that&#8217;s why she&#8217;s so dangerous. She has bigoted views and yet she&#8217;s still popular and enabled by the media. <a href="https://t.co/aK4VB6HRsE">pic.twitter.com/aK4VB6HRsE</a>
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1189726604659810305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
Partial transcript of Carlson&#8217;s remarks on Ocasio-Cortez below:
Unlike most members of Congress, Ocasio-Cortes actually believes most of what she says. It&#8217;s easy to see why young people listen to her and in the end that is the problem with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It&#8217;s not her economic views, the ones that get all the attention. Yes, she&#8217;s a wild-eyed left-winger who&#8217;s pushing socialism on the country. Her ideas maybe stupid and wrong.
The problem is the rest of what she says, there&#8217;s a darker side to Ocasio-Cortez and it has nothing to do with the Green New Deal.
She&#8217;s an unapologetic bigot, someone who attacks others for the way they were born. There&#8217;s nothing legitimate about that. You can&#8217;t debate bigotry, it&#8217;s pure poison.
It&#8217;s terrifying to think that someone who spews open racism has become a role model for our young people but that is exactly what has happened and it&#8217;s been happening since Ocasio-Cortez arrived on the public stage.
During her first run for Congress last year, Ocasio-Cortez suggested that the incumbent who held the seat didn&#8217;t deserve to be in Congress because he was the wrong race. By Election Day, her opponent was literally apologizing for his own skin color. When he accused Ocasio-Cortez of making the election about race, she didn&#8217;t run from it, &#8216;it is about race.&#8217;
Not so long ago a campaign like that would have been considered deeply immoral. The press would have hounded Ocasio-Cortez until she apologized her dropped out, but not anymore. A ruling class no longer recognizes universal standards of any kind, racism they&#8217;ve decided, cuts only one way. So they ignored Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s race baiting and she got elected.
Over time, like any untreated virus, her bigotry grew more inflamed. Here was Ocasio-Cortez just last week in a public hearing explaining that actually global climate change is the fault of a specific racial group.
The people that are producing climate change, that&#8217;s right, those people, the ones destroying the earth, driving entire species to extinction, killing children. Ever notice how all those people look alike? They&#8217;ve got something in common, don&#8217;t they? That&#8217;s right, they&#8217;re the same color. That&#8217;s what she&#8217;s saying.
For all the hysteria you hear about how the president is a racist, Donald Trump has never said  anything close to that. Nothing close to as bigoted and vicious as that. The people wrecking the world are all of one race? Who talks like that? In fact, it&#8217;s hard to think of anyone in American life saying anything that disgusting and foolish and dangerous.
This is an ominous development for this country, talk like this will destroy us.

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Tucker Carlson Goes Off On AOC: ‘An Unapologetic Bigot,’ ‘Spews Open Racism’

On Monday, author Sil Lai Abrams explained how her rape accusation against music mogul Russell Simmons and sexual assault charge against then &#8211; “Extra” host A.J. Calloway were allegedly killed off by NBC in 2018.
Abrams says Simmons, who has since moved to Bali, raped her in 1994. Mr. Calloway, who no longer works at &#8220;Extra&#8221; — which &#8220;airs in major markets on NBC owned-and-operated stations,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/russell-simmons-an-extra-host-nbc-news-a-sexual-assault-accusers-story-1123824">The Hollywood Reporter</a> — allegedly sexually assaulted the author in 2006. Both Simmons and Calloway have denied the allegations.
According to Abrams, her #MeToo claims were set to be covered by MSNBC host Joy Reid before the interview was killed off by NBC higher-ups in the same fashion journalist Ronan Farrow&#8217;s reporting on Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was apparently buried.
&#8220;I have been struck by the company’s (NBC) insistence that Ronan didn’t have the Harvey Weinstein story in the bag,&#8221; Abrams writes at <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-not-just-ronan-farrow-nbc-news-killed-my-rape-allegation-story-too?ref=scroll">The Daily Beast</a>. &#8220;I don’t believe a word of what it says because in 2018, the network killed my #MeToo story that was being reported by MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid. Incredibly, a year after NBC botched Farrow’s reporting on Harvey Weinstein, they had the audacity to do it again.&#8221;
Abrams says she was put through &#8220;a thorough vetting process” and an on-camera interview with Reid was taped on January 7, 2018, which was scheduled to air six days later. She assumed they would go forward with the taped interview and publish an accompanying #MeToo piece written by Reid for New York magazine. Neither, however, would hit the press. 
The day before the interview was set to air, Abrams was asked to contact Reid. 
&#8220;When we spoke a few hours later, she informed me that Russell Simmons&#8217; attorney had gone ballistic and NBC was not going to air the segment, and the New York magazine story was also on hold since they were paired,&#8221; Abrams said. &#8220;She assured me the story wasn’t dead, but that NBC simply needed more vetting done in order to feel comfortable with moving forward.&#8221;
&#8220;Over the next several months, NBC put me through an elaborate and bizarre vetting process,&#8221; Abrams continues. &#8220;I provided legal documentation, hospital bills, and over a dozen corroborating witnesses. Still, they stonewalled. I asked Joy repeatedly if NBC was going to do to her what it did to Ronan, and she said that she didn’t think so.&#8221;
In mid-February, Reid allegedly emailed Abrams:
<blockquote>“So basically the story got caught up in a couple of vices: the struggle to get comments from the principles (now mostly alleviated), threats from Russell’s lawyer that spooked NBC,” Joy told me via email. “So now NBC… is demanding that I do all of this additional reporting to meet a legal and standards review.”</blockquote>
“Still not clear why NBC is demanding more corroboration regarding A.J. [arrest] &#8230; his lawyer already confirmed the case, but I know this isn’t about you,” Abrams replied to the MSNBC host. 
“My team and I, my PA and senior producer helping me with the story met with the standards department rep today just to figure out what the heck’s going on,” Reid explained to Abrams in a phone call two weeks later. “I just have to get my company to have the guts to do the story. I’ve never done a story that has this much evidence before. I have more evidence than the LA Times and The New York Times stories combined. So the whole thing is, if my company will trust the evidence that I’ve shown them, which is substantial, they will do the story.”
When Abrams asked if the network was going to kill her story due to legal threats from Simmons&#8217; and Calloway’s attorneys, Reid allegedly told her: “We have enough that we have satisfied the standards side, but this is now in the hands of lawyers who have to determine the likelihood of a lawsuit by two people now, and what is the likelihood that we will prevail. … This has now gone up past the attorneys I deal with to the head of NBCUniversal’s lawyers. I’ve never been through anything like this.”
Abrams writes that the last time she spoke with Reid was on April 6, 2018, when Reid told her should take her story elsewhere. Senior management, Reid reportedly told her, had stopped responded to her inquiries about the story.
As reported last week by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-floats-real-reason-megyn-kelly-was-canned-from-nbc">The Daily Wire</a>, Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested that former NBC host Megyn Kelly was canned from the network because she called for an outside investigation into internal claims of sexual misconduct by former “Today” host Matt Lauer and the handling of Farrow’s reporting on Weinstein. 
“Last September, early September, you (Kelly) on your show, on the air on NBC, called for an independent investigation into these allegations,” Carlson said to Kelly, who appeared alongside the host on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Wednesday night. 
Carlson ran a clip of Kelly from September 2, 2018. “There is a question about whether or not there should be an outside investigator to take a hard look at this,” she said. “To me, as a lawyer, it’s just always better to just send it outside, and then people can have more faith in it and if there’s nothing to hide, you have no worries about it,” Kelly added. 
“People’s jaws hung open when you said that,” Carlson told Kelly. “There have been a couple of published accounts that say you were fired from NBC, a little more than a month later, for saying that.”
Kelly was ostensibly canned from NBC in October for discussing whether it’s “racist” or not for people to darken their faces for Halloween costumes.  
Carlson then pointed out that MSNBC host Chris Hayes similarly questioned NBC’s handling of such allegations and reporting. “He (Hayes) is saying essentially what you said, which is he doesn’t trust the management at NBC News,” he said to Kelly. “Given your experience, do you think he’s in jeopardy of being fired?”
Tellingly, Kelly responded: “No comment to that.” 
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On Wednesday night, Fox News&#8217; Tucker Carlson, citing published accounts, suggested the real reason Megyn Kelly was canned from her job at NBC last year was because she called for an outside investigation into the network over internal claims of sexual misconduct and the suspect handling of allegations into Democrat mega-donor Harvey Weinstein. 
&#8220;Last September, early September, you (Kelly) on your show, on the air on NBC, called for an independent investigation into these allegations,&#8221; Carlson said to Kelly, who appeared alongside the host on &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight.&#8221;
Carlson ran a clip of Kelly doing just that on September 2, 2018. &#8220;There is a question about whether or not there should be an outside investigator to take a hard look at this,&#8221; Kelly said, referring to allegations of sexual misconduct aimed at former “Today” host Matt Lauer and apparent stonewalling on Weinstein reporting of then-NBC journalist Ronan Farrow. “To me, as a lawyer, it&#8217;s just always better to just send it outside, and then people can have more faith in it and if there&#8217;s nothing to hide, you have no worries about it,” Kelly added. 
&#8220;People&#8217;s jaws hung open when you said that,&#8221; Carlson told Kelly. &#8220;There have been a couple of published accounts that say you were fired from NBC, a little more than a month later, for saying that.&#8221;
Kelly was ostensibly canned from NBC in October for discussing whether it’s “racist” or not for people to darken their faces for Halloween costumes. 
Carlson then pointed out that MSNBC host Chris Hayes similarly questioned NBC&#8217;s handling of such allegations and reporting. 
&#8220;He (Hayes) is saying essentially what you said, which is he doesn&#8217;t trust the management at NBC News,&#8221; Carlson said to Kelly. &#8220;Given your experience, do you think he&#8217;s in jeopardy of being fired?”
&#8220;No comment on that,&#8221; Kelly tellingly responded. “I will say, the question is open as to whether [NBC] put dollars ahead of decency.” 
“There needs to be an outside investigation into this company,” she continued. “They investigated themselves, that doesn&#8217;t work. Fox News had an outside investigator, CBS News had an outside investigator, NPR, the NFL, this is how it’s done. You get somebody on the outside who can be trusted.” 
As outlined by Tiana Lowe earlier this week, it’s become increasingly clear that Kelly was likely fired for questioning NBC management, rather than the “blackface” comments, in light of reporting from Farrow&#8217;s new book &#8220;Catch and Kill.&#8221;
“Ronan Farrow&#8217;s explosive reporting on the lengths NBC went to shut down his investigation into Harvey Weinstein grants further credence to an unpalatable, sexist, and abhorrent rationale for Kelly&#8217;s firing: NBC wanted to silence Kelly&#8217;s coverage of their former anchor, Matt Lauer,” Lowe posted at <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/nbc-probably-fired-megyn-kelly-for-her-matt-lauer-coverage">The Washington Examiner</a>. 
“In the weeks before the blackface nothingburger, Kelly spent ample amounts of time on her talk show reporting on the numerous sexual assault and harassment allegations plaguing Lauer. Unlike many of her fellow daytime hosts, Kelly had covered the #MeToo beat in scrupulous and, at times, necessarily unsavory detail: conducting explosive interviews with multiple Weinstein victims, and when the Lauer story broke and his termination from NBC came shortly thereafter, Kelly covered it with the same righteous indignation,” she continued. “On live television, Kelly called on her own employers to allow an external team to investigate the network&#8217;s handling of the entire Lauer affair, and she went so far as to interview one of Lauer&#8217;s accuser on air.”
“It&#8217;s a massive gamble to criticize the ethics of your own employer on national television, but Kelly rightly made that bet. And NBC fired her for it,&#8221; Lowe claimed. &#8220;We can be more confident thanks to new reporting by Farrow.&#8221;
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The Democratic Party has now gone all-in on the impeachment inquiry of President Trump, even though a majority of Americans oppose such an action.
&#8220;A new <a href="https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=3641" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">poll</a> showed a majority of Americans oppose the impeachment and removal of the president from office,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/poll-impeachment-trump-carlson-hannity-ingraham">Fox News</a>. &#8220;The new poll from <a href="https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=3641" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Quinnipiac University</a> found that 37 percent of the public supports the impeachment and removal of the president, while 57 percent oppose it.&#8221;
The poll was conducted just days before Nancy Pelosi pledged to launch a formal inquiry based on the testimony of a whistleblower who alleged that President Trump pressured the Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden using his influence to have a prosecutor fired for investigating his son&#8217;s business dealings in the country. Days later, President Trump released a transcript of the July phone call from when this alleged threat took place.
Both Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity said on Tuesday that impeachment will likely divide the country even more and waste precious time.
&#8220;The most sickening thing about the phase … that we’re about to enter is that House Democrats – they know impeachment, a whole inquiry – is futile.  The Senate Republican majority is not going to vote to convict the president and the country overwhelmingly doesn’t want impeachment,&#8221; said Ingraham.
&#8220;What is happening is dangerous to this country.  It is grossly political, will forever alter how any president in the future &#8212; in his constitutional role as commander-in-chief &#8212; will be able to communicate freely with other world leaders. The world is less safe and secure tonight, as a result of yet the latest partisan witch hunt,&#8221; Hannity said. &#8220;[M]ake no mistake this has nothing to do with Ukraine, this has nothing to do with collusion, this has nothing to do with high crimes and misdemeanors because there are none. This has very to do with the Left’s unyielding, unhealthy, what is an obsessive-compulsive hatred of President Trump. They can’t accept that he won … And I think they even doubt that they can beat him at the ballot box, which is why they are trying to do this now … It is a sickness but now it is officially hurting the country.&#8221;
Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, a Democrat who opposed the Mueller probe into the 2016 election, told Stuart Varney of Fox Business that an impeachment inquiry will backfire badly on the Democrats.
&#8220;I did not see an impeachable crime or any indictable crime,&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmtwT1mqb1Q">said Dershowitz</a>. &#8220;What I saw is some pretty rough politics. And the answer to that is let the other side play rough politics. In the end, this will be a political tie. It will dirty the Biden camp a little bit. There will be some Americans who will say maybe the president shouldn’t have made that call. It’s not a crime. High or otherwise &#8230; I think it backfires on the Democrats.&#8221;
Tucker Carlson simultaneously lamented how Democrats have focused all of their efforts on impeaching Trump instead of dealing with America&#8217;s problems.
<blockquote>[Democrats] have a lot of energy.  Too bad none of it is focused on the country’s real problems … our national debt is exploding … we have a War in Afghanistan that we can’t seem to win or end, our towns outside the big cities are being decimated and desiccated by opioids and suicide… we have basically an open border with Mexico, tech companies trying to control our freedom of speech … in many ways, the country is on the wrong track and people know it … But instead of trying to fix any of that Democrats want to spend the next year explaining – and they plan to – explaining why it was perfectly fair for Joe Biden’s ne’er-do-well son to get $600,000 a year from Ukrainian oligarchs … but it’s somehow criminal for Donald Trump to ask about that.</blockquote>
Hours after President Trump dropped the transcript, he and Zelensky <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-bashes-obama-on-crimea-first-meeting-with-ukraine-zelensky-2019-9">held a press conference</a>, during which the Ukraine leader denied that Trump ever pressured or threatened him to investigate Joe Biden.

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U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Dr. Ben Carson has defended his promoted policy of barring transgender men from lodging at battered women&#8217;s shelters.
Last week, Democrats unilaterally blasted Ben Carson when HUD staffers revealed he said during a private meeting that &#8220;transgender people should get the same rights as everyone else, but they don’t get to change things for everybody else.&#8221; Carson also said that shelter leaders and women&#8217;s groups said they do not want &#8220;big, hairy men&#8221; staying at the shelters. Democrats were so incensed by Carson&#8217;s comments that they immediately began calling for him to be removed as HUD secretary.
&#8220;Shameful. These derogatory comments by Secretary Carson are part of a long pattern that shows his disregard for the transgender community. It’s simply unacceptable,&#8221; said Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA).
Speaking to Tucker Carlson on his Fox News program Friday night, Carson said that he never meant to imply that transgender men have no rights — only that they do not get special rights.
&#8220;I simply pointed out the fact that, you know, we have to have policies that take into consideration everybody’s rights,&#8221; Carson said, as reported by <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/nobody-gets-extra-rights-carson-defends-protecting-women-in-shelters-from-gender-confused-men">LifeSiteNews</a>. &#8220;I say everybody has equal rights; nobody gets extra rights.&#8221;
Carson added that his assertions were in line with some women&#8217;s groups that have expressed concern with having transgender men lodge in those shelters.
&#8220;I talked about some of the women&#8217;s groups who have come to me, and I’ve had many in my office, and they say they are uncomfortable with the policy in existence, which says you must accept a person&#8217;s designation of their gender regardless of their physical characteristics,&#8221; Carson continued. &#8220;What we&#8217;ve decided to do, first of all we’ve upheld the 2012 equal access law; we have no intention of changing that, but in terms of that broad definition of gender being whatever you say it is, we said we&#8217;re going to leave that to the local jurisdictions.&#8221;
The Obama administration originally put in place the policy that says battered women&#8217;s shelters must accept transgender men without regard to appearance, anatomy, or the &#8220;complaints of other shelter residents.&#8221; Carson told Carlson on Friday that the federal government has no business telling people who run shelters for battered women how to conduct themselves.
&#8220;If you have a women&#8217;s shelter and you’ve been operating well, you get to decide how you&#8217;re going to run it, the federal government doesn&#8217;t need to be telling people who is a man and who is a woman,&#8221; said Carson. &#8220;That&#8217;s a decision they can make by themselves.&#8221;
&#8220;And I quoted a group that came to me, and they were very upset, and they said, you know, a big hairy man came in here and he says he’s a woman, and that upsets us because many of us are trying to escape that,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But the political correctness says you have to say what we want you to say, and that will destroy freedom of speech. And I’ve offered transgender groups the opportunity to let me know what their solution would be so that everybody’s rights are observed. I haven’t heard one peep.&#8221;

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While most conservatives were dismayed to hear of National Security Advisor John Bolton&#8217;s exit from the White House, Tucker Carlson of Fox News has a different take: He was a &#8220;man of the Left&#8221; and should have been fired.
&#8220;It is great news for America. Especially for the large number of young people who would have been killed in pointless wars if Bolton had stayed on the job,&#8221; said Carlson, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-hails-firing-of-john-bolton-he-was-fundamentally-a-man-of-the-left">Fox News</a>. &#8220;They may not be celebrating tonight, but they should be.&#8221;
The Fox News host noted that oil prices apparently dropped upon Bolton&#8217;s firing because global investors &#8220;knew for certain that Bolton planned on launching another Middle Eastern conflict that would inevitably spike energy prices.&#8221;
Carlson then recalled a previous interview he did with Bolton, arguing that he did not understand the consequences of &#8220;regime change&#8221; in the Middle East. He also noted many Democrats were actually critical of Bolton&#8217;s ouster, going on to accuse him of even &#8220;promoting Obama loyalists within the National Security Council.&#8221;
&#8220;If you are wondering why so many progressives are mourning Bolton’s firing tonight, it&#8217;s because Bolton himself fundamentally was a man of the Left,&#8221; Carlson said. &#8220;There was not a human problem John Bolton wasn’t totally convinced could be solved with the brute force of government. That’s an assumption of the Left, not the Right. Don’t let the mustache fool you.&#8221;
&#8220;In some ways, the story isn&#8217;t simply about John Bolton, it&#8217;s about the countless John Boltons who currently staff the federal bureaucracy: Deeply mediocre lifers, drunk on hubris, protected by bulletproof job security,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;They&#8217;re more likely to die on the job than be fired and they know it. As a group, these people have done a lot to make this country poorer and sadder and more divided.&#8221;
Most conservatives, such as Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer, have argued otherwise. In an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51610/hammer-bad-trump-presidents-dismissal-john-bolton-josh-hammer">op-ed</a> on Tuesday, Hammer said the Bolton firing was a capitulation to Iran:
<blockquote>Today, President Donald Trump, in what can only be described as a woefully myopic move straight out of the Barack Obama-John Kerry-Ben Rhodes axis of capitulation playbook, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51591/breaking-trump-boots-national-security-adviser-ryan-saavedra">effectively fired</a> longtime Iran hawk John Bolton from his lofty perch of national security advisor. The boneheaded move, which closely follows the fallout of the president&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51504/trump-reveals-secret-meeting-planned-taliban-heres-ryan-saavedra">aborted Camp David dalliance</a> with Taliban jihadist thugs, comes at a time when the Trump administration has been publicly doubling down in its alleged commitment to the goal of <a href="https://www.apnews.com/e6bd6334ff4148f2985de059f93dc390">&#8220;maximum pressure&#8221;</a> on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43339/hammer-iranian-revolution-forty-years-old-stand-josh-hammer">terrorist</a> Iranian regime. Evincing the message discipline of a woebegone high-schooler, though, the president has combined such purported commitment to &#8220;maximum pressure&#8221; with his <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/08/28/if-trump-wants-meet-irans-rouhani-both-allies-enemies-will-stand-his-way/">ceaseless</a> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-trump/trump-says-he-could-meet-with-iranian-president-rouhani-idUSKCN1VU25N">sycophancy</a> toward and expressed desire to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
Bolton, who is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49313/hammer-inter-agency-fight-white-house-closes-door-josh-hammer">infamously hawkish</a> on the issue of jihadism and radical Islamic terror, strongly opposed the president&#8217;s dovish overtures on the Taliban and Rouhani alike. Such opposition, even amidst the purported &#8220;maximum pressure&#8221; campaign, appears to have cost Bolton his job.</blockquote>
In response to news that Trump fired him, Bolton said in a tweet that the president did not immediately accept his resignation. &#8220;I offered to resign last night and President Trump said, &#8216;Let&#8217;s talk about it tomorrow,'&#8221; he tweeted.

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