The Government Needs to Shut Up Tucker Carlson
By: Walter Rhein
Tags: Equality, Social Media, Women, Sexism, Politics

The Government Needs to Shut Up Tucker Carlson

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Tucker Carlson is a national embarrassment. Our nation has many national embarrassments and they’re all firmly entrenched on the far right. They’ve been trotting out of the swamp like a horde of undead marauders, flapping their maggot ridden mouths and spewing a steady stream of lies and ignorance into the hearts and mind of our populace for far too long.

The problem with lunatics is that they know they can double down on their insanity until they eventually achieve a level of begrudging tolerance. But it’s not tolerance really, rational people just begin to understand it’s not worth arguing anymore. At some point, people with real obligations and important responsibilities have to go back to their jobs. Meanwhile, guys like Tucker Carlson have all the time in the world to sit around with a look on their faces that resembles something between pseudo-sincerity and painful constipation.

I’ve only ever seen Carlson on the fifteen second internet clips that flood the media when he says something offensive and nonsensical. There is no logic or reason to his mental process. He seems like little more than a defiant, angry, and pathetic 13 year old who can’t comprehend why every dog he buys would rather throw itself in the river rather than be his friend. Most recently, Carlson has set his sights on Dr. Jill Biden. This is just to distract the nation from the fact that his pet president is attempting to stage a coup right before our very eyes, and Carlson is just fine with that.

Another invented scandal

What the hell is wrong with these people? PhD stands for ‘Doctor of Philosophy.’ The level of stupid it takes to object to a person who is a Doctor of Philosophy calling himself or herself a ‘doctor’ sets the bar at a new low.

Of course, the extreme right is furious about this. It reminds me of the last clip I saw from Carlson when he started frothing at the mouth because somebody politely asked him to correctly pronounce Kamala Harris’s name. I got drawn into a number of battles with ignorant Trump fanatics over this issue. Just show the decency to pronounce a person’s name correctly, okay?

Whenever Carlson talks, you should really look in the other direction and try to figure out what crime he’s trying to distract us from. We need to investigate the possibility that Carlson is intentionally running subterfuge to assist in efforts to overthrow our government. The guy’s actions are appallingly consistent with aiding and abetting efforts to commit treason. This kind of thing can’t be allowed to stand.

An insult to hardworking people

Anyone who makes a living as a writer knows how difficult it is to get your work featured in places where it might actually make you some money. Yet for some reason, Carlson has been given this tremendous platform to spread his drivel to millions and millions of ignorant stooges. They must be getting all the free government money because the quality of their product is absolute trash.

The level of discourse witnessed on his program is simply appalling. In one clip, he describes a scenario where a person suffers a heart attack on vacation. As I was watching, I thought maybe he’d go into the fact that when you have a health emergency out of your insurance coverage area, you’re likely to go bankrupt. That at least is an important and relevant concern of rational, intelligent people.

Instead, Carlson details an absurd hypothetical scenario in which an injured person goes into a hospital only to receive medical treatment from Dr. Jill Biden. The fact that professional writers who receive regular paychecks would produce something so abysmally stupid and then take the further step of broadcasting it on their airwaves is beyond belief. You can see how idiotic the clip is for yourself here:

Is everyone at Fox News a completely ignorant twit? Do they really not understand that a PhD is different than an MD? One of them stands for Doctor of Philosophy. One of them stands for Doctor of Medicine. See the difference Tucker Carlson you blithering idiot? Now, should I help you put the square shape through the square hole? Are you having any trouble with colors?

This kind of person shouldn’t be trusted with a fork, much less be allowed to pontificate on national television. He should be constrained to a padded chair and fed a regular diet of applesauce and prune juice. Maybe that would help him with his all-consuming constipation.

Why does he lie about errors?

The comical thing is that Carlson goes on to claim Dr. Jill Biden is illiterate. I really don’t understand this one because the entire Trump base takes such pride in their own illiteracy that you’d think Tucker labeling Dr. Jill Biden as such would actually endear her to them.

“Dr. Jill needs reading glasses,” he said. “Either that or she’s borderline illiterate. There are typos everywhere including in the first graph of the introduction. Dr. Jill can’t write. She can’t really think clearly either.” — Reported in TheHill.com

I assume he means “paragraph” when he says “graph” in his rant about typos. I think he’s probably secure in his knowledge that all of his dedicated followers will just take his word for it rather than look up the first paragraph of the introduction on their own. In case you’re wondering, here it is:

Delaware Technical and Community College serves a highly diverse student body in terms of age, gender, race, and socio-economic status. The needs of the student population are often undeserved, resulting in a student drop-out rate of almost one third. This Executive Position Paper (EPP) will look at the needs of students in order to ensure a higher rate of student retention. — Dr. Jill Biden

What specifically in that paragraph does Carlson object to? Have you ever noticed how right wing, Incel, perpetually furious males always make ridiculous accusations without ever providing any evidence whatsoever?

I suppose it’s embarrassing to scream, “It’s full of errors!” Only to have somebody say, “Point one out!” Only to discover that you can’t produce any. Also, I don’t believe for one second that Carlson has read the document in its entirety. He’s a moron and a liar.

I don’t believe Carlson should call himself “Mr.”

The title of “Mr.” should be reserved for men. Tucker Carlson, through his pathetic, weak, ignorant, and hateful attitude is not a man and therefore shouldn’t ever be referred to as “Mr.”

“Mr.” should be reserved for people who treat women with respect and dignity. In fact, nobody on the political right should be allowed to refer to themselves as “Mr.” ever again.

The Fairness Doctrine

Our country needs to be protected from monsters like Tucker Carlson. He’s one of the most prominent figure heads of an odious and anti-American propaganda machine. There was a time when we had a thing called the Fairness Doctrine to protect us from villains like him.

[T]he fairness doctrine attempted to ensure that broadcast stations’ coverage of controversial issues was balanced and fair. However, many journalists opposed the policy as a violation of the First Amendment rights of free speech and press — Audrey Perry

It’s ironic that the phrase ‘balanced and fair’ is used to describe the Fairness Doctrine, yet entertainment channels like Fox News, which use ‘fair and balanced’ as a tagline, represent the exact group that opposed this kind of official regulation.

You see, they’re a bunch of liars. They don’t want ‘fair and balanced’ or ‘balanced and fair,’ they feel entitled to spread lies and propaganda. In 1987, the Fairness Doctrine was removed and the American public has been subjected to Tucker Carlson’s style of low-brow aggression and ignorance ever since. Let’s bring back the Fairness Doctrine and shut these people up once and for all.