Tucker Slams Colbert’s Absurd Excuses for His Staff Breaking Into Captiol

Lower than twenty-four hours since pseudo comic Stephen Colbert tried to make gentle of his workers breaking into the USA Capitol constructing in a hypocritical try and movie a “comedy” skit attacking Republicans for the January 6 riots, Fox Information host Tucker Carlson slammed Colbert for his hypocrisy. 

“So how is what Stephen Colbert did totally different from what the protesters on January 6 have been convicted of doing?” Carlson rhetorically requested. “His conclusion effectively, in contrast to Trump voters, Stephen Colbert’s an excellent individual, due to this fact, any comparability to Trump voters is just not merely ridiculous, it’s a ethical crime.”

Carlson then aired Colbert making excuses for his workers’s unlawful conduct and tried to deflect: 

Now, it is predictable why these TV talkers are speaking like this on the TV. They wish to speak about one thing apart from the January 6 hearings on the precise seditionist revolt that led to the deaths of a number of folks and the damage of over 140 law enforcement officials. However drawing any equivalence between rioters storming our capitol to stop the counting of electoral ballots and a cigar-chomping toy doing is a shameful and grotesque insult to the reminiscence of everybody who died. And it obscenely trivializes the service and the braveness the Capitol Hill Police confirmed on that horrible day.

“Yeah. It was a toy canine. It is shameful” Carlson stated sarcastically.  

“In different phrases” Carlson continued. “While you criticize me you are actually criticizing the courageous Capitol Hill Cops who arrested the individuals who work for me, those who dedicated the crimes I requested them to commit and I, for one, is not going to stand for that.” 

Carlson famous that Colbert’s deflections and blameshifting is a “masters class on whiny wealthy liberal self-righteousness. It’s a distillation of a worldview that’s so concise and so excellent it is sure to be studied by cultural historians of the long run searching for to grasp how our civilization collapsed.” 

Persevering with to interpret Colbert’s feedback into actuality, Carlson proclaimed “not solely am I not sorry, you are the prison for bringing it up. Cease hitting me he screams as he punches you within the face.” 

In a while within the section, Carlson requested rhetorically if Colbert is mostly a comic. And after taking part in a montage of his supposed comedy skits, he concluded what Colbert does “is not comedy, it is a very unhappy midlife disaster however greater than that it is data conflict being waged towards tv viewers on behalf of the Democratic Celebration.” 

To learn the related transcript of the June 21, 2022, Tucker Carlson Tonight section click on “increase”: 

FNC’s Tucker Carlson Tonight
6/21/2022
8:03:47 p.m. Japanese

TUCKER CARLSON: So how is what Stephen Colbert did totally different from what the protesters on January 6 have been convicted of doing? That is an excellent query and it is a query Colbert himself spent the weekend serious about. His conclusion effectively, in contrast to Trump voters, Stephen Colbert’s an excellent individual, due to this fact, any comparability to Trump voters is just not merely ridiculous, it’s a ethical crime. Watch. 

[cuts to tape]

STEPHEN COLBERT: Now, it is predictable why these TV talkers are speaking like this on the TV. They wish to speak about one thing apart from the January 6 hearings on the precise seditionist revolt that led to the deaths of a number of folks and the damage of over 140 law enforcement officials. However drawing any equivalence between rioters storming our capitol to stop the counting of electoral ballots and a cigar-chomping toy doing is a shameful and grotesque insult to the reminiscence of everybody who died. And it obscenely trivializes the service and the braveness the Capitol Hill Police confirmed on that horrible day. 

[cuts back to live]

CARLSON: Yeah. It was a toy canine. It is shameful. In different phrases, whenever you criticize me you are actually criticizing the courageous Capitol Hill Cops who arrested the individuals who work for me, those who dedicated the crimes I requested them to commit and I, for one, is not going to stand for that. That is what he simply stated. Now what you’ve gotten there’s not a lot of an evidence, in reality, it does not clarify something. As a substitute, it’s a grasp’s class on whiny wealthy liberal self-righteousness. It’s a distillation of a worldview that’s so concise and so excellent it is sure to be studied by cultural historians of the long run searching for to grasp how our civilization collapsed. Not solely am I not sorry, you are the prison for bringing it up. Cease hitting me he screams as he punches you within the face. 

That’s passive aggression taken to the extent of artwork. And anyway Colbert says shut up, I am a comic with a toy canine, you possibly can’t criticize me. So the query actually is, is Stephen Colbert a comic? Properly, should you’re one of many comparatively few individuals who nonetheless watches Stephen Colbert’s present on CBS, you’ll should admit it’s exhausting to inform. Most nights Stephen Colbert sounds just like the notably unfunny Karine Jean-Pierre. He appears like a Biden flack delivering no matter speaking factors the White Home tells him to repeat. And should you doubt that, here is what it appears like. 

[cuts to video]

COLBERT: Women and gents, Joe Biden did it. 

[Cheers and applause]. 

He is our subsequent President! 

The largest story continues to be the one you have been serious about whenever you weren’t sleeping final night time. And it is the one occurring throughout America, the protests in wake of the homicide of George Floyd. And please do not buy the false narrative that these are lawless mobs. The overwhelming majority of those protests have been peaceable.

There’s a easy if extraordinarily tough resolution. Cut back the variety of weapons. We have achieved it earlier than and it labored. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a humanitarian disaster but in addition it’s a triumph of humanity. 

Take that Putin! 

Okay. So I may need probably the most privilege of any white individual you have ever met. How do I establish that in my very own life? If I’ve white privilege I need to have the ability to establish it. Give me some hints as to my white privilege.

♪♪♪♪ vaccine! ♪♪ 

[cuts back to live]

CARLSON: Get the vax peasants, give up your weapons, assist Ukraine and keep in mind it is known as Kyiv now. This is not comedy, it is a very unhappy midlife disaster however greater than that it is data conflict being waged towards tv viewers on behalf of the Democratic Celebration. At the very least when the White Home press secretary does it she admits what she’s doing. Colbert hides behind his former job as a comic. It was all a joke. When folks I don’t like break into the capitol it is revolt once we do it it is sketch comedy.