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Tucker Carlson Suggests Obama Disarm The Secret Service If He Supports Gun Control

Posted by Ellen -7835.60pc on June 21, 2015 · Flag

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Fox’s Tucker Carlson had the nerve to suggest that President Obama should disarm his Secret Service protection in order to avoid being a hypocrite on gun control. While he was attacking Obama for politicizing the Charleston shooting.

Host Carlson started off a discussion on the subject by smearing the president: “He immediately jumps in as demagogues do,” he said to guest Eric Guster, “to use this tragedy as a justification for his pre-existing political strategy. Isn’t that unattractive at best?”

Guster didn’t object to Carlson’s offhand reference to the president as a “demagogue.” Instead, Guster went right along with the Fox meme. He didn’t point out how Fox has politicized the tragedy, even though he was on the network the night before when a Fox regular blamed black liberals for the shooting.

“This is one of the few times I disagree with President Obama,” Guster began, thus legitimizing Carlson’s smear by treating it as acceptable commentary. “And this was not a case about gun control. …This is about a racist, terrorist act and that’s what it is.”

Actually, President Obama wasn’t saying otherwise. He said that we would have fewer mass shootings if the country were not “awash with easily accessible guns.” Somehow, that point was lost on Guster.

“What we have to concentrate on are the nine families that have been impacted by this and start grieving for them instead of making it a political football,” Guster continued. He so neatly ignored how Fox has made Charleston a political football that you have to wonder if he’s angling for a contract.

Even worse, Guster did not object when Carlson made his jaw-dropping comments about the Secret Service.

CARLSON: There’s nobody in the world surrounded by more armed people than President Obama himself. I notice he’s not suggesting that the people around him disarm. He wants to remain protected, but the rest of us have to go without means of self-protection. Do you see any kind of hypocrisy there?

Democrat Jehmu Greene, the other guest and a Fox News contributor, challenged the question. “To say that the protection of the president of the United States is hypocritical because he has people with guns around him, Tucker, that is beneath this discussion,” she said. “That is beneath the situation that we are dealing with.”

Carlson got testy. “Why don’t you address the question for a moment… “

Greene continued, “To try to compare 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 – is that literally where we are as a country? To compare that he shouldn’t have protection?” She shook her head. “That’s sad.”

“No, no, what we’re saying is, The president’s position is that guns cause violence, guns are inherently bad and dangerous,” Carlson opined. “The rest of us need to disarm and not protect ourselves. And he’s exempt from that?”

Greene correctly pointed out that President Obama was not saying anything of the sort but that “we have had this conversation too many times and there is something that we can do about it.”

Carlson turned back to Guster with another disreputable question. “Is the president’s contention that preventing tragedies like is as simple as passing gun control agenda - do we know that? Is that backed by social science? That does seem like an overstatement.”

Again, President Obama clearly said he didn’t think gun control would prevent all tragedies like this but that some lives would be saved. But Guster did not challenge the falsehood.

Watch it below, from the June 20 Fox & Friends, via Raw Story.

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Jeffrey Schein commented 2015-07-04 12:40:21 -0400 · Flag
Carlson, you moron. The President isn’t walking around armed. The Secret Service are essentially a police force tasked with protecting the President. Gun control doesn’t mean disarming the police, you idiot.
Steve St John commented 2015-06-22 16:16:01 -0400 · Flag
What Carlson said is idiotic, and he knows it. It’s just part of the Fox war on Obama (which sadly, unlike the war on Christmas, is real).
scooter commented 2015-06-22 12:18:21 -0400 · Flag
Tuck, do you have to work hard at being such an ignorant arrogant asshole? Or do you come by it naturally?
Eyes On Fox commented 2015-06-22 11:54:14 -0400 · Flag
So deep thinking Tucker Carlson has no problem with every breaking ISIS story being exploited by Fox News to line up clearly unbiased militarily analysts to pile on Obama for not involving the U.S. military far more. When Obama makes an argument between another mass shooting and some weak tea gun control measure clearly unbiased Fox News does a diaper fill outraged it’s inappropriate to connect the to without waiting some unspecified time (measured in centuries?).

And to talk gun control isn’t the same as ‘gun grabbing’ bans the paranoid right-wing crazies always go into apoplexy over. The Secret Service already is under reasonable gun control policies with personnel going through extensive background checks plus continual and extensive training/certification.
Erich Pomfret commented 2015-06-22 11:41:56 -0400 · Flag
I didn’t think the gun nuts could sink any lower after NRA Board Member Charles Cotton said that the shootings could have been prevented if only Rev. Pinckney (in his role as a State Legislator) had voted to allow closed carry in public buildings. THEN, he said, an armed member of the prayer group could have stopped the carnage. These people make me sick.
mj - the same one commented 2015-06-21 23:17:14 -0400 · Flag
@w d: “Y’see, security is a weakness when Democrats are in office.”

“Security is essential when republicans are in office.”

Remember after the shooting at Newtown?

The wingers were all lathered about teachers and staff carrying guns in schools, to the point where they screamed that either EVERY child should go to school with Secret Service protection, or NONE should — including the President’s daughters.

Rightwingnut ignorance and hatred: it’s a shame we can’t harness it for energy use; it’s like a constantly renewing resource . . .

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mj - the same one commented 2015-06-21 23:09:07 -0400 · Flag
I almost feel sorry for the [email protected]$$ idiot (Carlson.)

From the moment the attack hit the news, he and his fellow rightwingnut noisemakers have fallen all over themselves trying to do two things:

- characterize it as an attack on Christians, on South Carolinians, the work of someone mentally deranged . . . ANYTHING except what it was, a racist hate crime

- find SOME way to connect the tragedy to President Obama/make it his fault

Bowtie’s suggestion that a federal law enforcement agency be unarmed is simply the latest and most ridiculous of these attempts . . .

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truman commented 2015-06-21 22:26:13 -0400 · Flag
Worthless fTucker (the “t” is silent).
NewsHounds posted about Tucker Carlson Suggests Obama Disarm The Secret Service If He Supports Gun Control on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2015-06-21 21:25:24 -0400
Even worse, only one of the guests challenged Carlson's hideous suggestion.
w d commented 2015-06-21 21:25:23 -0400 · Flag
“Tucker calls for Obama to have Secret Service to put down their guns —”

Tucker was also one of the first people to lambaste Clinton when he put cement barriers up in front of the White House.

Y’see, security is a weakness when Democrats are in office.

Security is essential when republicans are in office.

Any other questions…?








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