FINALLY, A FOX HOST GETS IT RIGHT!
…Tucker
Carlson gets some earned applause
It was a first for the Network that supports Donald
Trump
Anyone that has followed my writings knows what I think about Fox News and most of their hosts. But I must say, that the way Fox’s Tucker Carlson, in an interview on Fox, he took on the Texas Senator, Ted Cruz, and this time, he was excellent.
Carlson went directly after Cruz for his comment, that he has repeated for months, saying that, “the assault on the U.S. Capitol was a violent terrorist attack.” Carlson, a host of a network that seldom criticizes any of the GOP’s supporters, he laid into the senator and he called Cruz “a liar”, more than once.
When the senator tried to back away from his comments about the rioters being “terrorists”, (the same comment that he has voiced multiple times since January 6th). He tried to say he had been wrong by him saying, “The way I phrased things…. it was sloppy, and it was, frankly, dumb.”
But Carlson cut him off, and he said he didn’t believe Cruz. He said that Cruz was a highly trained lawyer that couldn’t possibly have been so sloppy with his choice of words.
“I don’t buy that,” Carlson said. “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I don’t buy that.”
As expected, even after his backing down from his comments in the Carlson interview, the very next day, on the evening of the anniversary of Jan. 6th, the senator again called the riot “a despicable act of terrorism”.
The truth is, that Tucker Carlson shouldn’t ever have bought the Cruz comment. As it was hardly the first time that Cruz has called the January attack a “terrorist attack”. In fact, in a January 8th Tweet right after the riot, and in a local news interview, also published on Jan. 8th, he said the same thing.
And four months after the riot, while voting against the creation of a bipartisan Jan. 6 commission, Cruz was still using that “terrorist” word. “The January 6 terrorist attack on the Capitol was a dark moment in our nation’s history,” Cruz’s May 28th statement began.
It appears that the senator appeared on Carlson’s show, just to back down a bit, take his medicine, and move on.
But his effort did not go quite so well. It did however, provide an extremely clear picture of the current state of the post-Jan. 6th GOP position, on the evening of the anniversary of Jan. 6, no less.
It is interesting that Cruz continued trying to save the Carlson interview.
He said he wasn’t talking about Trump supporters or the peaceful protesters of Jan. 6. Of course, no one had said that Cruz was talking about anyone other than those engaging in violence. Carlson, whatever anyone thinks of him, he rightfully cut in and said Cruz’s explanations just didn’t make sense.
Cruz proceeded to say that he has long labeled those who attack police officers as “terrorists” and that’s merely what he was doing here.
Carlson was again unimpressed and argued validly, that people who attack police officers should be put in jail, but that doesn’t make them terrorists.
The end result was a U.S. senator who knows how to choose his words carefully and he should have been well familiar with how such words could be misunderstood including in this set of circumstances. Cruz was groveling Carlson, and hoping to get a pass. But that pass never arrived.
So, if you had tried to script an interview that epitomized the GOP’s post-Jan. 6th position, its more extreme elements, and its rewriting of its own narrative of the Capitol riot, you’d struggle to do better than Senator Ted Cruz’s interview with Tucker Carlson.
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