BY: Walker
Published 5 years ago
Another week, another Tucker Carlson controversy.
via: Forbes
Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson on Monday evening said wearing masks was “purely a sign of political obedience” and not a method of avoiding contracting or spreading the coronavirus.
The Tucker Carlson Tonight host used his opening monologue to dive into what he suggested should be the response to public mask-wearing outdoors, comparing it to “Kim Il-sung pins in Pyongyang—we wear them because we have to. The only people who wear masks voluntarily outside are zealots and neurotics.”
Carlson claimed that refusing to wear a mask in Washington, D.C. would lead “angry Biden voters will snort at you in judgment.”
Carlson then urged viewers to push back at mask-wearing people they encounter in public, describing mask-wearing as “repulsive—don’t do it around other people,” and—dismissing CDC guidelines that children ages 2 and up wear masks “in public settings and when around people who don’t live in their household”—said that anyone who sees a child wearing a mask outdoors should consider it a form of abuse. “Call the police immediately,” Carlson said. “Contact child protective services.”
If his intention was to spark outrage on social media, he was successful:
.@TuckerCarlson Let me make this clear: whether I choose to wear a mask, or have my kids wear a mask, is none of your business. None.pic.twitter.com/nrwMtdyQER
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) April 27, 2021
Tucker Carlson has lost his mind. https://t.co/AdqIvSIUHL
— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) April 27, 2021
It’s tough to imagine the hatred that goes into this. https://t.co/zOD4xIWeLM
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 27, 2021
Yeah, we can probably relax with the outdoor masks, but this is psychotic. Tucker and Fox claimed “freedom” was the reason one didn’t have to wear a mask, but now he’s telling people to get confrontational with those who choose to wear one? That it’s child abuse? https://t.co/DMveZrbIO4
— Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25) April 27, 2021
Tucker going to get somebody hurt, taking his advice.
