How many ways can one say that Tucker Carlson is a complete joke of a person? The man who tricked conservatives into believing he was a conservative wunderkind by wearing bowties (during a time when wearing bowties signified you were a royal prick) clawed his way into the Fox News big boy seat vacated by disgraced sexual harasser Bill O’Reilly. Tucker decided to have attorney Monique Pressley on to discuss all of this liberal hullabaloo surrounding President Trump’s attacks on professional black athletes. Tucker’s angle in this “debate” is that liberals are the real race baiters by “terrorizing” white people and scaring them with the sweeping accusations of racism against people like Tucker’s führer President Trump. If Tucker Carlson’s voice was a Crayon color, it would be called “Whiney Snowflake Baby Dickhead.” Ms. Pressley isn’t having this. At all.
Pressley: I'm not sure who they're designed to terrify and horrify, though I keep hearing you say that. And I heard in the intro, where you kept saying it's scary, it's terrifying; but the African Americans were already terrified. They're terrified of law enforcement. They're terrified that the very flag that we revere and adhere to, the very flag that symbolizes the best of freedom in this country, is the same symbol that's now being used to represent race superiority.
Tucker freaks out about that and passive aggressively calls that theory a “crackpot” theory. He proceeds to bring up a statement by filmmaker Spike Lee who said he believed that many of the NFL owners and people like Donald Trump look at black athletes in much the same way plantation owners looked at African slaves in the antebellum south. There’s no “evidence” of this claim says Tucker. Whaaa?
Pressley: He used an analogy and using an analogy that actually came to the minds of many people in African-American communities, and in Caucasian communities, and in Latino or brown communities. When our president—the president of this country—referred to African American citizens, taxpaying citizens, who are gainfully employed making good money in this country, in the NFL as professional athletes, when he referred to them in the manner he did as sons of bitches and said that the owners ought to get those sons of bitches out of there just drag them out of there, that language makes it seem like these owners have a proprietary interest in the bodies of these African Americans. To be dragged out of there for a peaceful protest the next time they get down on their knees in their peaceful protest.
Tucker is apoplectic at this point because he’s just had to face up to someone who is head and shoulders more intelligent than he could ever be. Tucker goes on to explain that he agrees with Trump that “attacking the flag” is a bad thing (oh brother), and that it’s offensive that people like Ms. Pressley say that Trump was insinuating a racial component into it. Pressley gets Tucker to admit that maybe Turmp shouldn’t have said “sons of bitches,” and then reminds Tucker that the kneeling protest was and has always been about racial injustice in our country.
At this point, Tucker is on his two-cent intellectual heels.
Tucker: You are inserting a racial angle where none necessarily exists and it's irresponsible.
Pressley: I'm inserting it because it's obvious to any eyes that aren't rose-colored.
Tucker, ever the petulant child, explains how the liberal media is race baiting by making things up. Yes, Ms. Pressley is able to stop herself from exploding in laughter. The finale you will have to watch in the clip below, but it includes Pressley very condescendingly comforting Carlson—who is somehow scared of Spike Lee—for being a “smidgen” as scared as black people are every day walking down the street.
Maybe Ms. Pressley’s previous work on comedian and alleged serial rapist Bill Cosby led Fox News producers and Tucker Carlson to believe she would be super nice to a new network known for treating women like cavemen—rapey cavemen.
You can also enjoy the full interview below: