ELn Sunday night, after the opening end of Allen vs. Farrow, John Oliver devoted most of his Last week tonight program to your favorite target: Tucker Carlson.
Last week, Carlson was put on fire to discuss the new flight suits that fit women in the U.S. military and said, “It’s a mockery of the U.S. military. that China’s military becomes more masculine as they become the world’s largest navy, our military must be, as Joe Biden says, more feminine, all that means “feminine,” since they no longer exist. men and women “.
This infuriated the HBO host, whose wife is an Iraq war veteran who received the Distinguished Combat Medic for courage under fire. “What are you talking about, an outraged and performative wedge salad?” exclaimed Oliver. “Now, it’s packed a lot, from transphobia, to exalting the masculinity of the Chinese navy, to their totally wrong outrage against Joe Biden for those flight suits, which were part of an initiative that began when Trump was president, and he also included the demonstration that body armor really fits women who use the service, which is obviously a good idea. ”
The main focus of Oliver’s piece aimed at Carlson, however, was about how the Fox News host has become “America’s most prominent ship for white supremacist talk points.”
And it is strange that Carlson has become the voice of the complaints of the white working class, since, as Oliver explained, “his father married a heiress to the fortune of Swanson’s TV dinner.” making Carlson, who used to wear a bow everywhere, an heir — and who “was sent to a boarding school where he quickly did two things: stop impressing a large number of prestigious universities and start dating the principal’s daughter, a principal who, in return, arranged for her admission to Trinity College. “
If all this privilege and bottom-up failure weren’t enough, Carlson’s television career began when, in the 1990s, Dan Rather’s CBS program “called the magazine where Tucker worked looking for someone to talk about the OJ trial.” and the receptionist said [Carlson], ‘Everyone keeps eating. Can you do that? ‘”
Since then, Carlson has canceled several shows on various networks due to low scores, but has gotten his big Fox News show Tucker Carlson tonight in 2016 after pivoting toward full white nationalism.
There was a time a few years ago, when Carlson lost a lot of advertisers after claiming that immigrants made our country “poorer and dirtier and more divided” and then complained that he was a victim of ‘a defamation campaign. Or when Rep. Ilhan Omar said we needed to “dismantle the systems of oppression” that held back the poorest and minority people in the United States, prompting Carlson to withdraw and proclaim “we must preserve our heritage and our culture “against people like Omar. Carlson also downplayed the actions of the Capitol insurgents, while accusing Black Lives Matter protesters of being “criminal mobs” who “lived by themselves” and “do not contribute to the common good.” In addition, he constantly argues that “Western civilization” is being attacked by immigrants and said that diversity is “a threat to our existence as a cohesive country.”
He even appeared on the radio show The Bubba the Love Sponge Show, where he launched racist claims such as, “Iraq is a shitty place full of a bunch of semi-literate primitive monkeys,” and “I just have no sympathy for its people or its culture. A culture where the people just don’t use toilet paper or forks. ”Oh, and he’s the favorite neo-Nazi television expert, including former KKK leader David Duke, who provides almost daily recaps of Carlson’s show on his podcast and that Carlson was Trump’s vice president.
“When you put it all together, the pattern is clear,” Oliver explained, in Carlson’s words. “He is afraid of a country that ‘bears no resemblance to what it grew up’ because diversity ‘is not our strength,’ immigrants make our country ‘poorer, dirtier and more divided’ and any attempt to change this culture is an attack on Western civilization.All of this is really a long way to go to say that when Tucker asks, “What is white supremacy?” the answer is: basically that.It is believed that in a country where people white is dominant, it depends on her natural and innate abilities and any effort to change this is an affront to the natural order of things. “