Granted, we’re all used to seeing incredibly stupid remarks coming from Fox News. It’s kind of their trademark, but since most of their core audience isn’t very bright, they get away with it by and large.
But this morning on the Fox News show “Fox and Friends,” host Tucker Carlson said something so idiotic, insensitive, and batshit ridiculous that we simply have to take time and call him out for it.
The discussion, not surprisingly, was about gun control legislation after the massacre in Orlando last weekend which left 49 people dead and another 53 wounded. So Carlson declared that if we ban AR-15 assault rifles, we need to also ban crock pots because the Boston Marathon bombers used a crock pot to magnify the effect of the explosive they ignited:
“Well, a crock pot caused those killings at the Boston Marathon. I think we need to regulate those or ban them. There’s no reason you should be able to buy a crock pot at Walmart ever again.”
Oh good Lord! Really?! That’s the comparison you want to make, Tucker? OK, but let’s get the facts on the table before we get to the part where we make fun of you mercilessly:
- The Boston Marathon bomb was made up of a pressure cooker, not a crock pot, so there’s that tiny bit of information that Carlson missed in his haste to try and be clever, which he never has been and never will be.
- Three people were killed in Boston. Granted, that is a tragedy, as is any loss of life, but it sure as hell ain’t 49 dead.
- Lastly, and perhaps more importantly, a crock pot or a pressure cooker are not intended to kill people. A gun is. Especially a semi-automatic assault rifle that serves no other purpose than to snuff out the life of another human being.
And now for the making fun of part of our program: Tucker Carlson, you are a preening, know-nothing horse’s ass who is fortunate to be paid by anyone for any purpose other than collecting dog poop off the sidewalk. Thankfully for Carlson, Fox News is always hiring clueless jerkweeds.
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