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riversedge

(70,246 posts)
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 04:16 PM Mar 2021

Military leaders thrash Tucker Carlson after comments about female troops

Source: politico




“What we absolutely won’t do is take personnel advice from a talk show host,” said the Pentagon’s top spokesperson.





By QUINT FORGEY 03/11/2021 01:42 PM EST

Senior military officials are condemning Fox News host Tucker Carlson for saying this week that President Joe Biden is making a “mockery” of the armed forces through efforts to recruit and keep women in the service.

On Tuesday, Carlson complained during his prime-time program that while “China’s military becomes more masculine … our military needs to become, as Joe Biden says, more feminine.”

Carlson was referring to remarks Biden made at a White House ceremony on Monday, during which he announced the nominations of two female generals to become combatant commanders — putting them on track to potentially become only the second and third women to serve in those positions in U.S. history.

At that event, Biden said the military was undertaking “relatively straightforward work” to better reflect gender diversity within its ranks and retain female recruits, including “designing body armor that fits women properly, tailoring combat uniforms for women, creating maternity flight suits [and] updating requirements for their hairstyles.”.......................

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/11/military-tucker-carlson-female-troops-comments-475315







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Tucker Carlson complained during his prime-time program that while “China’s military becomes more masculine … our military needs to become, as Joe Biden says, more feminine.” | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images


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Military leaders thrash Tucker Carlson after comments about female troops (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2021 OP
Ok, who is the biggest dick Carlson or Morgan? nt mitch96 Mar 2021 #1
Please don't make us choose---can't they be tied in the douchebaggery sweepstakes? Comfortably_Numb Mar 2021 #8
Ok the general consensus is they are both "insufferable pompous corn laced turds".. mitch96 Mar 2021 #23
Sometimes I disgust myself.. I'm just out of gross descriptive terms to use Comfortably_Numb Mar 2021 #27
No worries...... I just love picturesque speech!!! Painting pictures with words.. nt mitch96 Mar 2021 #30
Don't allow Fox, so called news, be allowed on base TV's. tinymontgomery Mar 2021 #2
People say....Draft Dodger Carlson! machoneman Mar 2021 #3
Why does Tucker hate the troops? SledDriver Mar 2021 #4
Ha ha, Beclowned One. Baked Potato Mar 2021 #5
Regale us with the heroic tales of your time in our country's military uniform, Tucker. keithbvadu2 Mar 2021 #6
Tucker, do have over 4K flight hours in military aircraft? sarge43 Mar 2021 #16
Does a necktie make you look more masculine Tucker? More grown up? underpants Mar 2021 #7
Tucker, are you best described as a racist misogynist, or a misogynistic racist? FailureToCommunicate Mar 2021 #9
When is FOX going to say, "enough is enough"? TexasLefty29 Mar 2021 #10
Fox will never say enough is enough mdbl Mar 2021 #20
Oh boo-hoo, tucker. calimary Mar 2021 #11
Mommy didn't love him JenniferJuniper Mar 2021 #12
;-{) Goonch Mar 2021 #13
That stupid little bigoted rich boy would do well to get a life. NNadir Mar 2021 #14
I don't recall. When did this coward ever serve his country? olddad65 Mar 2021 #15
According to his wiki bio, no service sarge43 Mar 2021 #17
The US military is not so foolish as to take advice from a Fox News talking head TomSlick Mar 2021 #18
... Major Nikon Mar 2021 #19
The bag and the nozzle. Iggo Mar 2021 #31
Tucker is a sucker...and he is all licked up...He is done, over. This one will do it. Stuart G Mar 2021 #21
The bar for getting fired by Fox Miguelito Loveless Mar 2021 #22
I think if ol' Tucker had joined, he would single-handedly increased the femininity in his unit. BunnyMcGee Mar 2021 #24
what is Tucker's military service? Skittles Mar 2021 #25
did tucker carlson ever serve? AllaN01Bear Mar 2021 #26
Infamous picture of Tucker Carlson in Iraq (2004) DinahMoeHum Mar 2021 #28
Brent Turhune nails it (as usual) Grokenstein Mar 2021 #29

Comfortably_Numb

(3,809 posts)
8. Please don't make us choose---can't they be tied in the douchebaggery sweepstakes?
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 04:40 PM
Mar 2021

Piers is an insufferable pompous corn laced turd, and *ucker is.... well... a spoiled pompous corn laced turd....

mitch96

(13,912 posts)
23. Ok the general consensus is they are both "insufferable pompous corn laced turds"..
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 09:44 PM
Mar 2021

Ok I can agree with that...
m

Comfortably_Numb

(3,809 posts)
27. Sometimes I disgust myself.. I'm just out of gross descriptive terms to use
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 10:11 PM
Mar 2021

to describe these reprehensible pieces of _____....

tinymontgomery

(2,584 posts)
2. Don't allow Fox, so called news, be allowed on base TV's.
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 04:24 PM
Mar 2021

Don’t allow Fox, so called news, be allowed on base TV’s.

Maybe he should enlist and serve his country.

keithbvadu2

(36,829 posts)
6. Regale us with the heroic tales of your time in our country's military uniform, Tucker.
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 04:33 PM
Mar 2021

Regale us with the heroic tales of your time in our country's military uniform, Tucker.

sarge43

(28,941 posts)
16. Tucker, do have over 4K flight hours in military aircraft?
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 06:44 PM
Mar 2021

Serve in any combat zones? Command a major air command? You know, like General Jacqueline Van Ovost?

Or like General Laura Richardson, can you fly a Black Hawk chopper, did you serve in two combat zones, command two major Army commands? She's married to a Army lieutenant general and they have a daughter. Amazing how women can multi-task.

You're way out of date, Tuck. The mandatory pregnancy discharge was dropped in the mid-seventies. Followed very soon after by pregnancy uniforms. Do try to keep up.

A couple more questions: You want all servicemen who have a temporary medical deferment discharged because that's all pregnancy is? Do you all men who claim minor children as dependents discharged or banned from military service? Good luck with that one.

In closing, from a retired woman senior noncom, piss off A-hole.

FailureToCommunicate

(14,014 posts)
9. Tucker, are you best described as a racist misogynist, or a misogynistic racist?
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 04:40 PM
Mar 2021

What a waste of air and space he is.

Too bad he's all over the airwaves on FOX at military bases...

TexasLefty29

(190 posts)
10. When is FOX going to say, "enough is enough"?
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 04:52 PM
Mar 2021

Do they hide behind the fact that Tucker is an hour of opinion and not news? He’s a commentator, basically - not an anchor. If the marketing is prime time, can we argue that his program is technically “fake news”....?

mdbl

(4,973 posts)
20. Fox will never say enough is enough
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 09:16 PM
Mar 2021

they will hire the biggest ass-clown lying sack of shit they can find as long as he/she calls himself/herself a repuglican and brings some ratings. This is why that whole shitty network was created. Not to inform, but to propagandize.

calimary

(81,332 posts)
11. Oh boo-hoo, tucker.
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 05:00 PM
Mar 2021

Yeah. Like we should take ANY advice from a fucking talk show host - especially a hate-radio talk show host.

JenniferJuniper

(4,512 posts)
12. Mommy didn't love him
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 05:03 PM
Mar 2021

First she named him Tucker. And then she left.

And now damaged lil Tuck hates all women.

TomSlick

(11,100 posts)
18. The US military is not so foolish as to take advice from a Fox News talking head
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 08:41 PM
Mar 2021

who has never served his country in any capacity and has no basis for an opinion about what the military does and does not need.

The US military could not - and should not try - to operate without woman serving.

Before offering inane opinions about the military, Tucker boy would do well to ask someone with military experience.

Stuart G

(38,436 posts)
21. Tucker is a sucker...and he is all licked up...He is done, over. This one will do it.
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 09:23 PM
Mar 2021

...We always felt that Tucker would shoot himself in the head, well he did....and..............

Tucker is much too stupid to know what he did....Good by Tucker the Fuc**r...

My guess is Tucker will take a long vacation....then gone is the song!!!
Big mistake to take on the ...military...but ....STUPID IS STUPID... &

..............................................TUCKER IS VERY STUPID...!!!!

Miguelito Loveless

(4,465 posts)
22. The bar for getting fired by Fox
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 09:37 PM
Mar 2021

is now so high that Carlson can have blood sacrifices on his show, and skate.

BunnyMcGee

(463 posts)
24. I think if ol' Tucker had joined, he would single-handedly increased the femininity in his unit.
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 09:46 PM
Mar 2021

If he actually made it through boot camp / basic training.

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