Every day, after Tucker Carlson delivers his latest screed on Fox News, you will find Twitter and Facebook, The Washington Post, and even the Daily Kos Community and staff tearing apart his ridiculous arguments. I’ve written about Tucker more than once. He certainly makes himself a punching bag. The way he spreads lies and complete nonsense to his listeners comes just barely short of being Earl Pitts yelling “Wake up, Amerikuh!” in the morning.
In his latest tirade, Tucker takes swipes at Catholicism, vaccination, religion (as a whole), and people who vote in down-ballot races. That’s a lot of ways to start taking on the public, but if anyone can do it, Tucker can and will!
I could be outraged about how Tucker misleads his audience, about how he lies with facts and figures, makes things up, and offers only shades of the truth (also known as “lies of omission”). But I think we all know who Tucker is. The fact he continues to yell and scream tells me only one thing: He’s losing, and he knows it. That he knows he is losing? Well, I’m OK with that.
Let’s just count in a second how many things are wrong within the short clip above. “No one voted for her as Governor.” They voted for her as Lt. Governor, which is assumed to fill the role should the governor leave. This is like saying “No one voted for the Vice President” when a Vice President assumes the role of a President who is in surgery or incapacitated.
He goes on: “It is typical for a faith leader,” comparing Hochul’s office to the position of Jim Jones, the leader of an infamous cult—not a faith. He uses “faith” and “cult” interchangeably. He refers to a diocese, a Christian way of marking a district, and to Hochul as a bishop. While he’s referred to her as unelected, in many Christian faith a bishop is, in fact, elected by peers in conferences, through ratification, and some through confirmation votes.
This follows him showing a graph that makes it appear as though America has become staunchly anti-Christian, or something near it.
Tucker spends his program crying about how the vaccinated are taking over, and that this has somehow converted 2/3 of America’s religious right. In 2009 there was no pandemic, and no vaccine for the virus that has caused the pandemic. So if the drop were caused by vaccines, wouldn’t a figure from 2019 have been a better choice? I tend to think that people who get the vaccine do not stop being Christians. I may think that because of the statements of some religious leaders.
I mean, Pope Francis doesn’t think getting vaccinated means you leave the church or violate the tenets of Catholic faith, it seems.
Pope Francis on Wednesday encouraged people to get vaccinated against COVID-19, saying that he was confused about why so many people refused to do so.
He has urged people to get vaccinated many times throughout the pandemic, both for their own health and for the common good, according to Reuters.
“[Vaccine hesitancy] is a bit strange because humanity has a history of friendship with vaccines,” he told reporters aboard the papal plane, returning to Rome from a trip to Slovakia.
For Tucker, though, there is a mysterious bond that ties it all together: Get vaccinated and you … reject faith? Are no longer Christian? Or something.
Tucker is losing faith in, well, faith. He finds that people don’t view religion the same way he does, and that is bad. Those promoting vaccination, well, they are bad, so they must not read the Bible.