Fox News host Tucker Carlson bashed MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace this week.
Carlson called out Wallace, who previously claimed to be a Republican, on her cavalier attitude toward civil liberties.
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On Wednesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, he said:
Look around on cable news, and you won’t find anybody explaining what’s actually going on. Instead you’ll find people like Nicole Wallace barking about how people who don’t agree with her don’t agree with her don’t deserve civil liberties. We almost never use her name on the air.
Nicole Wallace is the physical embodiment of virtually everything that is wrong with this country. She is, in a word, loathsome, but let’s be completely honest. If the federal government ever decided — and then declared publicly — that Nicolle Wallace was a terrorist for her political opinions, we would unhesitatingly leap to her defense with maximum vehemence.
We would do it instantly. And we wouldn’t stop, because we believe in civil liberties.
Would she do the same for us? Of course not. If the entire staff of this show was arrested tomorrow for our beliefs, Nicole Wallace would celebrate. And that’s the difference.
We believe in civil liberties, and they don’t.
Then, he specified:
How can you tell?
Has Nicole Wallace or anyone else at MSNBC said a single word about the federal government spying on people’s Google searches. That’s happening.
Accidentally, the feds just unsealed court documents showing that the DOJ under Joe Biden has been obtaining sensitive, private information from any American who typed in certain keywords into a Google search.
Ouch!
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He’s made similar criticisms of Wallace before.
Earlier this year, Wallace compared former President Donald Trump’s supporters to radical Islamic terrorists, and Carlson took issue.
Wallace said on MSNBC in February, “There is, until the end of April, a persistent threat of domestic extremism, domestic terrorism.” She was referring to a news bulletin from Homeland Security. “All of those ideologies pushed by Donald Trump.”
She turned to her panel and asked:
My question for you is around incitement. We had a policy, and it was very controversial, it was carried out under the Bush years, and under the Obama years, of attacking terrorism at its root. Of going after and killing, and in the case of Anwar Awlaki, an American, a Yemeni-American, with a drone strike for the crime of inciting violence, inciting terrorism.
Mitch McConnell was in the Senate then. He was in the Senate after 9/11, too.
How does Mitch McConnell — who understands that the way you root out terrorism, is to take on, in the case of Islamic terrorism, kill those who incite it — how does he not vote to convict someone that he said, on the floor of the Senate, incited an insurrection?
Eventually, McConnell explained his rationale for voting to acquit Trump. McConnell wanted to keep the Senate from overreaching.
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“Impeachment was never meant to be the final forum for American justice,” he said on the Senate floor in February. “We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former Presidents are not immune from being held accountable by either one.”
In other words, McConnell answered Wallace’s question.
Later that month, Carlson jumped on Wallace’s comparison between Anwar Awlaki and Donald Trump.
“A prominent news anchor is now suggesting drone strikes against American citizens who have the wrong politics,” he said on Fox in February.
Evidently, he’s returned to this criticism of Wallace.
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Wallace achieved national attention as the White House Communications Director for former President George W. Bush. Later, she worked as an adviser on John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2008.
Since 2015, she’s hosted MSNBC’s Deadline: White House, and she’s outspokenly criticized former President Donald Trump. In April, she told CBS, “I think I’ve moved into ‘self-loathing former Republican.'”
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