Senior members of military call out Tucker Carlson for mocking women serving in armed forces:

[demmiblue]

Senior members of military call out Tucker Carlson for mocking women serving in armed forces: His words 'don't reflect our values'

New York (CNN Business)Senior members of the US military took to Twitter late Wednesday and Thursday to call out Fox News host Tucker Carlson for a sexist segment in which he mocked women serving in the armed forces.

Carlson, who is effectively the face of Fox and hosts the top show on the right-wing channel, ridiculed President Joe Biden Tuesday for saying that the US military had created uniforms to fit women properly, created maternity flight suits for those who are pregnant, and updated requirements for hairstyles.

"So we've got new hairstyles and maternity flight suits," Carlson snarked. "Pregnant women are going to fight our wars. It's a mockery of the U.S. Military."

The comment from Carlson has prompted severe backlash from some of the most senior members of the US military who have openly called him out for harmful rhetoric.

Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said the Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin shared the same "revulsion" that many military leaders have expressed about the sexist comments that Carlson made.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/11/media/tucker-carlson-mocks-military-women/index.html

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[Leghorn21]

1. Marvelous, thanks for putting this together, blue!!

[demmiblue]

3. You're welcome!

He is getting slammed hard on Twitter.

A few more:

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[Leghorn21]

4. Thank you, I'm sending these all around!!

Meanwhile, VoteVets would like a word:

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[demmiblue]

6. I don't know... that's a hard choice!

[not fooled]

22. Hahahahahahahahaha

That bowtied pissant should go eat a TV dinner and shut up.

[demmiblue]

29. Senator Duckworth's response to the whole mess:

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Lol... I'm dying!

[Leghorn21]

31. OMG, this just gets better and BETTER!!!

[Irish_Dem]

2. Hey Joint Chiefs: Get the damn Fox News Channel off of all military installation

TV sets. It is ridiculous for that station to be blaring out every time someone goes to the BX, Commissary, gym, etc.

[demmiblue]

5. +1

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[maxrandb]

9. Exactly!!!!

How Faux News and Hate Radio is interpreted as anything other than disgusting political propaganda, and an assault on Good Order and Discipline is beyond me.

[maxrandb]

7. Hey! Maybe Faux News and Hate Radio

Have no place on military installations and Armed Forces Radio!!!

You know Senior military leadership, if Tucker really offends you, there is a way to cut him off...

[GopherGal]

8. It says a lot about Tucker

if he thinks pregnant women in uniform make a "mockery" of our military.

Sounds like to him the military represents some sort of symbol of masculinity rather than competence and duty.

Competence and duty. No wonder Tucker doesn't recognize it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Once again Tucker Carlson sticks his foot in his mouth

He's quite the contortionist in more ways than one.

[Grokenstein]

34. Just emulating his hero

Rush "Pilonidal Cyst" Limbaugh garnered a lot of attention with "phony soldier" attacks. It stands to reason that Cowardly Little Tucker would follow suit.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/so-im-a-phony-soldier-rus_b_66175

https://imgur.com/a/9QGlSgN

[genxlib]

11. The thing that strikes me the most about this

Is that it is so completely unnecessary for him to make any statement at all about it. It is under the radar and uncontroversial. He had to go out of his way to even bring it up.

That just shows how big of a dick he is that he felt the need to bring it up and how arrogant he is that he thinks it was a winning argument.

[robbob]

27. Well, I guess the Potato Head scandal and the "cancelling" of Dr. Seuss

are yesterday’s outrage. Also Pepe LePewgate isn’t getting much traction. He’s GOT to be outraged about SOMETHING!!

[Grins]

12. Remind me again...

...what unit Carlson served in? I seem to have forgotten!

(He would have been age 22 during Op Desert Storm, so you can start there if you feel like searching.)

[kairos12]

13. As a Vet let me just say Tucker is a vile

individual who wouldn't let a service member through his front door. Backdoor for the help.

[demmiblue]

14. Brianna Keilar is about to take this on. n/t

[sarisataka]

15. Pregnant women are going to fight our wars

Well since it doesn't appear any members of the Carlson family are stepping up...

Thankfully there are women, pregnant or otherwise, that have courage and a sense of duty.

[Jon King]

16. I wish a female MMA fighter would knock him around...

Its about enough of these fake tough guys. A female MMA fighter needs to challenge him, make it a huge deal, make it a ton of pressure where he is a total wimp for not accepting. All for charity.

And let her humiliate him on national TV. These big mouth total cowards get on my last nerve.

[Baked Potato]

17. Why do Republicans hate our military and our country?

When is *ucker Carlson going to stop being a Commie?

[NCjack]

18. People like *ucker Carlson stand aside so women can occupy the available positions

in the military. Then, he insults them.

He is damaged goods -- no decency.

*ucker should stay home during the evenings for the next several years. For his personal safety.

[meadowlander]

19. Too bad Tucker "missed" his chance to enlist.

I guess he was too busy "winning the war of ideas at home" during the first Gulf War.

If anything is embarrassing to our country it's the amount of airtime given to misogynist chicken hawks who don't have a fraction of a fraction of the character of the people they are attacking.

[Fritz Walter]

32. Agreed!

After reading the post, I was going to ask whether or not “Tuck and Run” Qarlson had ever worn the uniform, held a (real) weapon, and stood a post, let alone engaged in real combat. Thank you for answering that question.

He wouldn’t last a day of basic training. Almost like his idol Bitch McConnell (discharged for poor eyesight, or was it for “shitty vision?”). The list of GQP #ChickenHawks is WAY too long for this message. But I think the point is made.

If this entitled POS wasn’t spewing his oral dysentery nightly on FQX, he’d be trying to sell timeshares in Orlando, auto extended warranties, or reverse mortgages to vulnerable seniors.

And, I’ll go out on a limb here: is it wise to give this attention-whore even more exposure than he deserves? Unless, of course, its purpose is to let his advertisers know how offensive he is to patriotic and loyal service members, veterans, their families and survivors; and that a boycott of their products/services is underway.




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(Army Brat, (Ret.))

[meadowlander]

33. As per Wikipedia, he applied to work for the CIA and was rejected.

Can you imagine if he'd actually gotten in?

[lindysalsagal]

20. Um, Tucker? Welcome to 2021. Modern warfare is no longer conducted with swords and spears.

It's a little thing called technology.

Asshat.

[Evolve Dammit]

21. Tucker is such a smarmy, entitled little prick. And a racist.

[monkeyman1]

23. military

tucker might think about keeping yap shut before these female personal pay him a visit ! food for thought wimp !

[Tribetime]

24. Im sure Tucker was brave enough to serve right

[iluvtennis]

25. Tucker Carlson is a jackass and has never served a day in the military. He needs to stay in his lane

[TygrBright]

28. The primary concern of senior military leadership is FORCE EFFECTIVENESS.

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Do not try to Foxsplain to them anything about that topic, they literally write books about it.

Once the military embraced (excruciatingly slowly, more or less in order...) people of color, women, gay people, and transgender people, THOSE PEOPLE BECAME PART OF THEIR FORCES.

There may be half-assed, half-measures at lower levels in various branches of the armed services working against that integration-- in fact, there definitely are (yeah, looking at YOU, USAF "prayer breakfasters" - you know who you are)-- but the top-level military leadership has no time and no f*cks to give for that bullshit. They have a job to do, and a force to do it with, and they WILL optimize the effectiveness of that force.

It is no small task.

But along the way somewhere they realized with each increment- especially women- that damn, they have massively expanded the recruiting pool and the available quality for officer and enlisted corps by adding all those people. And in an all-volunteer force that's a Big Deal. So, yeah, the senior leadership is fully on board and they have the backs of their diverse servicemembers ON THE POLICY LEVEL.

It's still going to be a long, shitty struggle to get the racists and the misogynists and the homophobes and the rabid Evangelical Christian-only dickheads to stop subverting the process, and to keep more of them out of the forces. But the military is above all pragmatic. They will keep at it, given the support of their civilian CinC and the civilian elected officials charged with upholding the Constitution of the United States to which they gave their oaths.

appreciatively,
Bright

[Baked Potato]

35. Very well said! You covered many important points. Thanks.

[dalton99a]

30. Kick

[PatrickforB]

36. That Marine Master Sergeant sure gave Tucker

a scorching reply.