Tucker Carlson: Obama’s Secret Service detail should lose guns first if he wants gun control

[kpete]

On Saturday’s edition of Fox & Friends, Carlson suggested that the president had used the recent massacre at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston to advance a “political” agenda against guns.

“The president has said a number of times guns are the problem, guns cause violence,” Carlson complained. “There’s nobody in the world surrounded by more armed people than President Obama himself. I notice he’s not suggesting the people around him disarm. He wants to remain protected, but the rest of us have to go without means to self-protection.”

Left-leaning Fox News contributor Jehmu Greene found Carlson’s remarks offense.

“To say that the president of the United States is hypocritical because he has people with guns around him, Tucker, that is beneath this discussion,” Green explained. “You are trying to compared Secret Service armed people to someone who walks into a church and kills nine people.”

“And to say the president doesn’t have a right to talk about gun control because people with him have guns?” she continued. “Is that literally where we are as a country, to compare that he shouldn’t have protection?”



http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/tucker-carlson-obamas-secret-service-detail-should-lose-guns-first-if-he-wants-gun-control/

[malaise]

1. Fucker Carlson is among my top ten

of vile, despicable human beings.

Fuck him - any which way!!

[onecaliberal]

11. ^^that^^.

I call him the same thing. Epic piece of absolute shit.

[City Lights]

2. Go fuck yourself, Tucker.

He is one of the biggest wankers in the GOPee.

[onehandle]

3. That's where gun trolls go to first. It has been suggested at DU.

The mentality of lunatics.

[Maeve]

4. The President's life is threatened on a far-too-regular basis

That is NOT so true for the rest of us, for the most part. Or is he thinking more people of color (except the President) should be armed and dangerous??

[Spazito]

5. Carlson is a vile piece of shit n/t

[BlueJazz]

6. Tucker Carlson's comments are about as logical as a screen door in a submarine.

[JaneyVee]

7. Perhaps if rightwingers ever stop threatening his life.

[Octafish]

8. I like Jehmu Greene.

From a couple years' back:

As you may recall, on last Thursday’s edition of America Live, Fox News contributor Jehmu Greene called the Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson a “bow-tying white boy” in response to Carlson’s criticism of Elizabeth Warren‘s qualifications.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/fox-news-decision-not-to-fire-jehmu-greene-angers-the-right/

As for Carlson, the only thing Gore Vidal found of interest:

"What's a 'Tucker'?"

[rurallib]

9. be nice if the Secret Service took that as a threat to Obama and investigated old Tuckee

[merrily]

10. Tucker Carlson's only talent was being born into a family that is rich and well-connected.

[Botany]

12. + 1

n/t

[djean111]

13. I suspect Little Tucker gets a little stiffie whenever he thinks about stuff like this.

[kimbutgar]

14. He probably could have won that contest of the smallest weenie in Brooklyn recently!

[Paladin]

15. I'm glad that Carlson got a hard, verbal, on-air slapping for this stupid remark.

The same goes for any of the rest of you out there who think that this U.S. President ought to do without armed Secret Service protection. Funny, I never saw that sort of asinine suggestion turn up, until we had a black President in the White House. Tucker Carlson is a drooling moron---but I bet he has all the guns he wants, given his white, wealthy and connected status.

[Baitball Blogger]

16. How does this idiotic logic even make it on the air?

Does he even understand what a public figure is? And how that raises the stakes for an individual? Is Tucker too stupid to understand that there are people out there that shoot public figures just to get attention? i.e. His beloved Ronnie got shot by someone who wanted to impress Jodie Foster.

I am so tired at the level of stupidity that pundits are allowed to get away with.

[spanone]

17. why does an asshole like mr carlson appear on television spewing such horseshit?

[B Calm]

18. Sounds like he is trying to incite right-wing gun nuts to assassinate the president.