The Conservative Fox talking head went strongly after the former President ….
Tucker Carlson described former President Obama as “one of the sleaziest and most dishonest figures in the history of American politics” after his eulogy at the funeral of civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) on Thursday.
Carlson also described the former president as “a greasy politician” for calling on Congress to pass a new Voting Rights Act and to eliminate the filibuster, which Obama described as a relic of the Jim Crow era that disenfranchised Black Americans, in order to do so.
“Barack Obama, one of the sleaziest and most dishonest figures in the history of American politics, used George Floyd’s death at a funeral to attack the police,” Carlson said before showing a segment of Obama’s remarks.
Obama gave lengthy remarks about Lewis at Thursday’s funeral, but the part that got the most attention was his vehement push for Congress to pass a new Voting Rights Act, which was an issue that Lewis had pursued. The Supreme Court in 2013 struck down the heart of the 1965 law, allowing nine states, mostly in the South, to change their voting laws without federal approval.
“Bull Connor may be gone. But today we witness with our own eyes police officers kneeling on the necks of Black Americans. George Wallace may be gone. But we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators,” Obama said.
Conner was the commissioner of public safety in Birmingham, Ala., and in the 1960s directed the use of fire hoses and attack dogs on people demonstrating for civil rights. He’s since become a symbol of that era’s most racist leaders.
Carlson cut off the clip at that point with his own commentary, decrying Obama for comparing today’s police officers to such a noxious historic figure.
“Bull Connor?” Carlson stated. “The country falling apart, riven by racial strife and tribalism, and one of the most respected people in the whole country decides to pour gasoline on that and compare the police to Bull Connor? As if America or Minneapolis is like Birmingham, Ala., in 1963? It’s insane. It’s reckless.”….
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Tucker Carlson is the biggest fraud around.Hes gone through several metamorphoses
What you see today is him playing mr tough guy ,crypto racial agitator , a role he assumed upon the demise of sexual harasser Bill OReilly
One of his favorite tactics is to have on his show some unknown Black professor and beat up on them for alledgedly “ radical” views related to slavery or some such.he givestgat silly “ concerned” look .He is well reading his audience who eat up that kind of racial garbage.
Flashback ten years or so and Carlson was playing a young William F Buckley with the bow tie, the calm ,reasonable veneer of a thoughtful conservative. Trouble was there were already people like that around( see George Will) and that shtick was getting him nowhere;
thus emerges this version.
He’s a fraud ,a fake and a media whore , a disgusting little twirp who nightly tries to arouse as much bigotry and hatred as he can into his Right wing audience.
Being the slut he is, who knows?In the future he may emerge as a left wing firebrand ,loudly denouncing racism and bigotry.
And he would deserve the same contempt he deserves today.
Slimeball.
You’re Soooooo Right Jack on this wing nut …
Tucker Carlson slammed Anthony Fauci as a “total fraud” after the top infectious disease expert’s Friday testimony on Capitol Hill, with the Fox News host asserting that “there is nothing” Fauci “won’t opine on as long as it doesn’t offend the popular and fashionable left.”
During a segment on his prime-time show Friday night, Carlson played a heated exchange between Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Fauci on Capitol Hill earlier in the day, with the two figures sparring over the possible spread of COVID-19 at mass protests…..
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And now, in the rôle of Rev, Al Sharpton … Tucker Carlson !!