{"id":50962,"date":"2021-10-15T12:34:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T19:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50962"},"modified":"2021-10-15T17:02:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T00:02:27","slug":"tucker-carlson-attacks-white-house-parental-leave-policy-which-fox-news-also-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50962","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson Attacks White House Parental Leave Policy, Which Fox News Also Offers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to the Fox News Senior Hate Monger, Tucker Carlson, to find a way to malign fatherhood, while viciously insulting LGBTQ people, and simultaneously displaying rank hypocrisy, all with the smirk of an elitist, trust fund baby, shielded from consequences by his right-wing employer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/carlson-fox-sick-3.jpg\" alt=\"Tucker Carlson Fox News\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33056\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday evening Carlson was compelled to assault the institution of the family, an ironic position for the network that pretends to be the defenders of family values. Carlson&#8217;s tirade was triggered by the audacity of Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, availing himself of the parental leave provided to all federal employees. But Carlson is apparently ignorant of the family leave policies of his own employer. This was revealed in a video contrasting Carlson&#8217;s homophobic mockery of Buttigieg, with a clip of Fox and Friends co-host Todd Piro:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Carlson:<\/strong> Pete Buttigieg has been on leave from his job since August after adopting a child. Paternity leave, they call it. Trying to figure out how to breastfeed. No word on how that went.<br \/>\n<strong>Piro:<\/strong> Fox is amazing. It&#8217;s a great organization. Really a family friendly organization. They give us six weeks as dads for paternity. I&#8217;m taking that six weeks. I can&#8217;t wait to bond with my little one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hmm wonder why Tucker Carlson makes fun of Pete Buttigieg for taking paternity leave while other Fox News hosts celebrate their own company policy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zlA3pRm8zX\">pic.twitter.com\/zlA3pRm8zX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1449040468377997325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Carlson&#8217;s crack about <em>&#8220;breastfeeding&#8221;<\/em> demeans all fathers who love their newborns enough to take some time off of work to care for them and their wives. That includes his colleague Piro, as well as Jesse Watters who, after the birth of his child with his second wife (a Fox News producer with whom he was cheating on his first wife), <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianstelter\/status\/1381729267093008385\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said that<\/a><\/strong> <em>&#8220;Now I am pro-paternity [leave]. I used to mock people for taking paternity.&#8221;<\/em> That&#8217;s the same brand of family <em>&#8220;values&#8221;<\/em> practiced by Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>So Carlson deliberately neglects to mention that Fox News has a family leave policy that gives fathers six weeks off after the birth of a child. Even worse he criticizes Buttigieg for taking leave in the most insulting and infantile manner possible.<\/p>\n<p>This, however, isn&#8217;t the first time that Carlson as lambasted a Biden administration policy that mirrors those of Fox News. Carlson also <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50886\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">attacked Biden&#8217;s vaccine mandate policy<\/a><\/strong>. He characterized Biden&#8217;s efforts to get more people vaccinated, thus saving lives, as tyrannical and as waging a war on the American people. Never mind that Fox News has a similar policy that is even stricter than Biden&#8217;s, and which Carlson is abiding by.<\/p>\n<p>How many other Fox News directives does Carlson oppose, but is too dishonest and cowardly to say so? Who knows? What we do know is that Carlson is a weaselly hypocrite who will suck up to whoever he needs to in order to benefit himself. After all, before he was rescued by Fox News, Carlson was fired from PBS, CNN, and MSNBC. He also <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=33052\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had a run in with Fox before they hired him<\/a><\/strong> that resulted in him calling them <em>&#8220;a mean, sick group of people.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now Carlson happily toils in Fox&#8217;s lie-mining caves like a good supplicant. He furthers their ultra-rightist agenda by embracing and dispensing their hate, lies, and conspiracy theories. All while maintaining his hallmark smirk and confused (constipated?) expression.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Mayor Pete responds saying that Carlson <em>&#8220;doesn&#8217;t understand the concept of bottle feeding, let alone the concept of paternity leave.<\/em> [&#8230;and that&#8230;] <em>This attack is coming from a guy who has yet to explain his apparent approval for the assassination of Harvey Milk.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sec. Pete Buttigieg calls out Tucker Carlson for the attack on his parental leave, &quot;This attack is coming from a guy who has yet to explain his apparent approval for the assassination of Harvey Milk, &quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DsyQgCyUNO\">pic.twitter.com\/DsyQgCyUNO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoliticusSarah\/status\/1449135376338145282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. Also, Be sure to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit and follow News Corpse on Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong> Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to the Fox News Senior Hate Monger, Tucker Carlson, to find a way to malign fatherhood, while viciously insulting LGBTQ people, and simultaneously displaying rank hypocrisy, all with the smirk of an elitist, trust fund baby, shielded from consequences by his right-wing employer. On Thursday evening Carlson was compelled to assault the institution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,684,1200,16],"tags":[879,33,227,377,1369,25],"class_list":["post-50962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-wankery","tag-fox-friends","tag-fox-news","tag-jesse-watters","tag-joe-biden","tag-pete-buttigieg","tag-tucker-carlson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/carlson-fox-sick-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-dfY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56752,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56752","url_meta":{"origin":50962,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Senior Racist, Tucker Carlson, is Terrified that Black Voters Will &#8216;Flood the Suburbs&#8217;","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/23\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"For several years now, Tucker Carlson has used his Fox News platform to propagate the blatantly racist theory of \"white replacement.\" The gist of the argument is that Democrats, liberals, and others committed to equality, are plotting to dilute the votes of white bigots by importing people of color into\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Civil Rights&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Civil Rights","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=448"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fox News, Tucker Carlson, Klan Hat","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-carlson-klan-hat.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-carlson-klan-hat.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-carlson-klan-hat.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":56756,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56756","url_meta":{"origin":50962,"position":1},"title":"A Post-Mortem on Tucker Carlson Following His Unusually Abrupt Departure From Fox News","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/24\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The recent settlement of the defamation lawsuit against Fox News by Dominion Voting systems may have had its second casualty. 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