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Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson once again found himself in the sights of the left’s “outrage machine”, as he called it, for “naughty” comments he made over 10 years ago while speaking with shock jock, Bubba the Love Sponge. In response, he kicked off Monday’s edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight with an over six-minute-long monologue unloading on the left and the liberal media for trying to destroy lives and careers in their political “war”.
The comments were unearthed by a radical left-wing political organization and were immediately pounced on by liberal hacks, such as CNN’s media team. “They read you snippets from a press release written by Democratic Party operatives. They demand to know how you could possibly have said something so awful and offensive. Do you have a statement on how immoral you are,” he quipped.
Carlson explained that the “outrage machine” didn’t care about the tone, tenor, or context of the comments, you just had to pay their price:
There’s really not that much you can do to respond, it's pointless to try to explain how words were spoken in jest, or taken out of context, or in any case bear no resemblance to what you actually think or would want for the country. None of that matters, nobody cares. You know the role you're required to play. You are a sinner begging the forgiveness of Twitter.
As an example: towards the end of CNN’s Prime Time later that night, host Chris Cuomo put on a show, acting like a tough guy by taunting and demanding Carlson repeat his words since he meant them.
“And yet, no matter how bad it gets, no matter how despised and humiliated you may be, there is one thing you could never do, one thing that is absolutely not allowed: You can never acknowledge the comic absurdity of the whole thing. You can never laugh in the face of the mob,” Carlson went on to deduce.
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