“You’re a trust fund baby, are you not?” the host asked. “Oh completely, I’ve never needed to work, yeah,” Carlson said. “I mean it’s all just — the whole cable news thing … it was just like a phase I was going through.” Carlson joked about growing up in a castle, saying that one thing you learn when you “look out across the moat every day at the hungry peasants in the village” is that “you don’t wanna stoke envy among the proletariat.” “But see, I’m an out-of-the-closet elitist, I don’t run around pretending to be a man of the people; I’m absolutely not a man of the people, at all.”
He also doesn't think child marriage is all that bad or comparable to child rape. He defended Warren Jeff's twice in 2 years.
“Now this guy may be . . . may be a child rapist,” Carlson said. “I’m just telling you that arranging a marriage between a 16-year-old and a 27-year-old is not the same as pulling a stranger off the street and raping her.” (2006)
Tucker doesn't think that a child raised in a fundamentalist cult to believe that they were intended by God to be given to an older man when they were a teenager is being raped. Full stop.
"Hold on a second. The rapist, in this case, has made a lifelong commitment to live and take care of the person, so it is a little different. I mean, let's be honest about it," Carlson said. (2009)
In that same interview, he doubled down:
In that same show, Carlson continued to argue on behalf of Jeffs, saying he was in prison “because he’s weird and unpopular and he has a different lifestyle that other people find creepy.”
At the time, as the show’s co-host noted, Jeffs had already been convicted of being an accomplice to rape for his role in arranging a marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin.
“What do you mean an accessory?” Carlson asked when Jeffs’s conviction was brought up. “He’s like got some weird religious cult where he thinks it’s okay to, you know, marry underaged girls, but he didn’t do it. Why wouldn’t the guy who actually did it, who has sex with an underaged girl, he should be the one who’s doing life.”
He's got some very interesting views about minors having sex with adults, to say the least. On a teacher who slept with her student:
So my point is that teachers like this, not necessarily this one in particular, but they are doing a service to all 13-year-old girls by taking the pressure off. They are a pressure-relief valve, like the kind you have on your furnace.
He went on to say if he was in charge, Michael Vick would have been executed and Warren Jeffs would have never been convicted.
More of Tucker's Greatest Hits:
“I love women, but they’re extremely primitive, they’re basic, they’re not that hard to understand.” In another appearance, he implied that women like being instructed by men to “just be quiet and kind of do what you’re told.”
wee_froggy on July 10th, 2021 at 12:59 UTC »
I am not, nor have I ever claimed to be, a cable news station.
sheepsleepdeep on July 10th, 2021 at 13:21 UTC »
He actually said this, too:
On being a down to earth regular guy (2008):
He also doesn't think child marriage is all that bad or comparable to child rape. He defended Warren Jeff's twice in 2 years.
Tucker doesn't think that a child raised in a fundamentalist cult to believe that they were intended by God to be given to an older man when they were a teenager is being raped. Full stop.
In that same interview, he doubled down:
He's got some very interesting views about minors having sex with adults, to say the least. On a teacher who slept with her student:
He went on to say if he was in charge, Michael Vick would have been executed and Warren Jeffs would have never been convicted.
More of Tucker's Greatest Hits:
Edit: Aaaand sourced, courtesy of /u/ChefBoyAreWeFucked - cheers mate!
Here's the first one.
Second one.
Third one.
I assume the fourth one is in that same segment, but I can try to find it elsewhere if not.
Fifth one.
This is where the fifth one comes from. It probably has all of them, actually.
Sixth one. Missed it first time around.
I'll continue to edit this comment. fin
Sir-Osis-of-Liver on July 10th, 2021 at 14:52 UTC »
Jerry, just remember, it's not a lie if you believe it - George Costanza