Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas’ Second Congressional District is not popular around these here parts. There are many reasons for this, including the fact that he owes his position to some of the most tortured and racist gerrymandering in the country, and his inability to defend his inhumane and xenophobic positions, along with those of his political party. In general, he’s a run-of-the-mill right-wing “culture” warrior, worrying up storms about nonexistent issues like “wokeness.” On the other hand, he’s no Tucker Carlson.
On Monday night’s show, Tucker had that famously “left-wing” former presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard on his show to talk about baby formula and Russia and nuclear war. Carlson and Gabbard are attempting to create an imaginary link between our country’s willingness to send billions in foreign aid to Ukraine while allegedly spending nothing on the myriad domestic issues we face coming out of the GOP’s bungled pandemic. At this time it is needless to point out that the Republican Party has unified on voting against any and all bills that would help funnel federal money back into helping Americans.
But you know who is at least supporting sending money to Ukraine while voting against things like the Build Back Better bill? Rep. Dan Crenshaw. It is this singular consistency in ideology that has the doublespeak crew of MAGA-monsters up in arms. On Monday, Tucker Carlson focused his ire on Crenshaw’s attack on the baby-formula talking point being parroted by people like Tulsi Gabbard and Tucker Carlson.
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During an appearance on Fox News with Trey Gowdy earlier in the day, Rep. Crenshaw had the gall to say: "The arguments that our side is making is very depressing and they are almost pro-Russia. People are saying, ‘We can't put baby formula on our shelves but we are sending money to Ukrainians?' My response to that is, do you know how much baby formula you can buy with $40 billion? None, because it is not a money issue, it is a manufacturing issue."
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This flies in the face of the hypocritical isolationism that Carlson and Gabbard are peddling right now, and no one is more vicious when attacking than conservatives. To create just a little more context here, you may or may not remember that a little over two years ago, Tucker made a big stink about Saturday Night Live’s Pete Davidson making fun of Dan Crenshaw’s appearance during a “Weekend Update” segment where they showed a picture of Crenshaw and Davidson said he was “surprised he’s a congressional candidate from Texas and not a hitman in a porno movie.” The stink Tucker made about the eye patch part of the joke led to Davidson publicly apologizing to Crenshaw.
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Back to Monday night, when Tulsi Gabbard and Tucker Carlson stressed about conservatives who aren’t focused enough on starving brown babies as the winning issue of the day. In fact, Crenshaw not only didn’t agree with the connection being made between baby formula supply issues and foreign aid to Ukraine, he called it a “very depressing” message from his political party. I bring you this full quote from Tucker Carlson:
“The more I think about it, it takes a lot of gall for Eyepatch McCain to attack moms who are worried about baby formula as quote ‘pro-Russia,’ I mean that’s probably one of the most outrageous things I’ve ever heard … now that I’m thinking about it. I mean why not just answer the question? Why, why the attacks? What does that tell you?”
It doesn’t really matter what former American politician and U.S. Army Reserve officer Tulsi Gabbard has to say about much of anything, but one thing is clear: She doesn’t bat an eye at vaudeville patrician Carlson’s disrespectful slander of not one but two conservative military veterans. Gabbard went on to say Russia wasn’t a threat, and that’s pretty much the entirety of her position. No solutions to the foreign policy issue, and definitely nothing to add about what can and cannot be done concerning domestic supply problems facing Americans. Weird. It’s almost like she doesn’t really have any integrity as a person?
Tulsi’s number one job these days, like everybody that goes on Fox News, is to promote herself. The way one promotes oneself on shows like Tucker Carlson’s is to listen to the leading statement/question from Tucker, nod in agreement, and add your spin on what Tucker just said.
Maybe that’s why she and Glenn Greenwald consider Tucky something of a “socialist” these days?
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