{"id":37189,"date":"2018-03-02T08:38:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T16:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37189"},"modified":"2018-03-02T08:44:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T16:44:14","slug":"the-democratic-party-is-anti-american-deconstructing-tucker-carlsons-noxious-trump-fluffing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37189","title":{"rendered":"The Democratic Party is Anti-American: Deconstructing Tucker Carlson’s Noxious Trump-Fluffing"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are plenty of repugnant cretins on Fox News who devote themselves to distorting reality and misinforming their dimwitted audience. No one is more of a sycophantic disciple of Donald Trump than Sean Hannity. And Steve Doocy’s portrayal of an imbecile infatuated with the President is spot on. But Tucker Carlson has carved out his own domain as the master of indignant arrogance stewed in hypocrisy and logical dysfunction.<\/p>\n

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On Thursday’s program Carlson set out to express a rare disappointment with his hero in the White House. It stemmed from Trump’s boneheaded assertion that guns should be confiscated from certain individuals without due process of law. That’s a position that was quickly denounced by all sides of the gun reform debate, including most fiercely by the NRA. But Carlson’s lecture (video below) was especially convoluted and managed to make Democrats the villains for what Trump said. What follows is an annotated transcript of the highlights.<\/p>\n

“The alternatives to what we have now are scary and getting scarier. The Democratic Party is completely irresponsible and increasingly anti-American. They prefer illegal aliens to our middle-class. That’s true and it’s terrifying. Someone needs to defend the country from these people. Trump mostly does that.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Trump advocates violating the Constitution, but it’s Democrats who are anti-American? And Carlson’s deranged and insulting assertion that Democrats “prefer illegal aliens to our middle-class”<\/em> is baseless and purposefully inflammatory. What’s true and terrifying is Carlson’s anti-American suggestion that the country needs to be defended from people he disagrees with.<\/p>\n

“At one point the President said ‘The government should take the guns first, go through due process second.’ How honest do you want to be. Imagine if Barack Obama had said that. Just ignore due process and start confiscating guns. Obama would have been denounced as a dictator. We would have denounced him first. Trust me.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, to be fair, Carlson and Fox News did denounce Obama as a dictator with predictable frequency, but never with justification. But his point was that Trump’s proposal for gun confiscation should receive the same criticism. Let’s see how that went.<\/p>\n

“It’s important to remember that nobody should be tied to a person, but instead to principles. So with that in mind, do you think it’s worth just reminding the President – as we all need to be reminded sometimes – that there are deeper principles here?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How generous. Carlson won’t denounce Trump’s dictatorial raving, but politely remind him of the principles that he’s certain Trump has anyway. What happened to being the first to denounce dictatorship? That must not apply to your ideological crush with the long, flowing, golden locks (vainly covering his crusty bald spot). However, Carlson’s presumption of Trump’s true inner feelings were proven correct overnight as Trump tweeted that he’d made up with the NRA in an Oval Office tryst:<\/p>\n

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Good (Great) meeting in the Oval Office tonight with the NRA!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 2, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n