Tucker Carlson tried to mansplain, condescend and demean guest Monica Klein as part of Fox’s recent hysteria over abortion. When Klein refused to be intimidated – and gave back as good as she got – Carlson couldn’t take it any more and ended the discussion.
Klein is my kind of Democratic strategist: one who smacks down Fox News bullies on the air. She had a simple message, was clearly prepared with what she wanted to say and she refused to be budged from it or put on the defensive. And she properly went on offense. The only thing I wish she had done was to specifically call out Carlson’s tactics of trying to ridicule and browbeat her as she tried to put forth her thoughts. And she could have demanded answers to her argument, which Carlson refused to provide.
Still, Klein deserves a round of applause for taking the bully by the horns. I have written many times that Carlson is often unable or unwilling to debate like a grownup. He resorts to haranguing and deviousness with the aim of discombobulating his guests who have differing opinions, usually without putting forth any serious thought of his own. Kudos to Klein for upending that scheme right off the bat. She also gets a cheer from me for pointing out the hypocrisy of Republican sanctimony when their policies are "tearing families apart at the border and allowing children to die in federal custody. So whose party is actually hurting children?"
Best moment? Klein's comeback to Carlson's attack, "This is obviously a pointless conversation, and I think less of you after, I have to say." Without skipping a beat, Klein responded, "I already think less of you."
Watch this very enjoyable woman get the best of Carlson below, from the January 30, 2019 Tucker Carlson Tonight.
The point should be the women who continually have sex and then say “oops” I don’t want this child should be forced to have to take birth control or for God sakes have a hystorectomy. Quit costing the taxpayers for your mistakes.
Also there are many out there who can’t have a child and would love to have one and others “like you” throwing them away Because maybe they will cramp your style, might have some issues (look at the wonderful down syndrome children) as an example? You throw that one away.
Abortion may only apply if the child is technically not able to be saved or possibly in a rape case but not in the later trimesters. That is a child no other way to look at it. Good for OH for passing the heartbeat legislations.
If only we could have legislation to stop idiotic mouthpieces like Monica Klein.
Judy Hampton
Trump’s repeatedly offensive comments on women after the Access Hollywood tapes provides a good argument for accusing the trolls of “selective outrage”.
it’s the rampant hypocrisy that gets my goat.
Witness the insurgence of illiterate troll activity on sites like this one.
At least three of the trolls below are sockpuppets. The others are shills, aka the unwitting accomplices of their Dear Leader’s followers.
Personally, I would guess that somewhere in deepest Oklahoma (or maybe the Phillipines, for cost-effectiveness), there is a warehouse full of relatively literate professional trolls writing letters 10 hours a day on behalf of cashed up RWNJ groups nationwide – kinda like the contract equivalent of the Russian troll farms pretending to be Americans on Fox Insider and other RWNJ echo chambers.
Catholics have been hung up on the subject for generations, but the fundamentalists only picked up an aversion to abortion in the seventies, when it suddenly became a useful tool for their Mind Controllers to lash the ungodly freedom seekers with. What a sad waste of human brain-power.
One more time, Monica Klein was aware of the obvious – that Tucker Carlson wasn’t interested in a conversation about women’s reproductive rights. He just wanted to try to “gotcha” her with his cherry-picking of out-of-context remarks that have already been debunked. Her point to Carlson was apparently lost on these posters: Namely, that we are aware of the games that angry Right Wingers are playing to portray reproductive rights laws as some kind of atrocity. And that’s not going to fly, period. Klein absolutely presented her position – that women are not going back to unsafe conditions in silence.
These are laws intended to deal with women and doctors handling medical emergencies without suddenly getting hit with uninformed Right Wing prosecutions from people like the Pence White House. Right Wingers trying to play games around this should be ashamed of themselves.
Governor Northam made comments about what could happen given a serious problem at the point of delivery and a baby that would either be unable to survive very long or would be undergoing serious medical complications. He wasn’t talking about delivering a baby and then killing the baby. His point was that if they delivered such an unviable infant, they would discuss the situation with the mother to see what the family wanted to do. There’s a HUGE difference between that scenario and the ridiculous one that pundits like Tucker Carlson would like to blow out of context. And Governor Northam’s answer to people like Tucker Carlson is instructive: He said this behavior by angry Right Wingers is “shameful and disgusting”.
Carlson’s intention here was to play a “gotcha” game with Monica Klein and she wasn’t having it. His constant attempts to make it sound like Governor Northam had somehow done something terrible were clearly intended to then smear any mother who needs to have a medical procedure late in their pregnancy, which then leads to smearing any mother who needs to have such a procedure, period.
Given that we are on the verge of the Kavanaugh Supreme Court gutting most of Roe v Wade as of next week if they deny a stay in June Medical Services v Gee, this is extremely apropos for Monica Klein to discuss, and that is the reason she took the approach she did here. Carlson’s inability to get her to fall into his trap clearly frustrated him, to the point that he began making snide comments, which she called him on immediately.
Carlson and his fellow Right Wingers should be ashamed of themselves for their conduct here. They do not have any moral high ground when they take actions like these.
Tucker did an excellent job of maintaining his composure and presenting himself as the professional he is. His “mom” should be proud.
Can’t help but wonder what Monica’s mother thinks?