Tucker Carlson has complete meltdown and ends segment when guest says Chauvin used excessive force

[highplainsdem]

Media Matters page with video of the entire segment:

https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-has-complete-meltdown-and-ends-segment-when-guest-says-convicted



Newsweek story here, but without video:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nope-done-tucker-carlson-shuts-down-interview-after-guest-said-chauvin-used-excessive-force/ar-BB1fSn2P

Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night ended an interview with a former New York City corrections officer after the guest criticized former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for using excessive force when he killed George Floyd.

-snip-

"Let's face it, what we saw in that video was pure savagery," the ex-corrections officer said. "I mean, the documentary evidence shows the police officer putting his knee on the perpetrator's neck while he was rear cuffed and his stomach was on the ground, causing positional asphyxia. I'd like to see more training for police. I'd like to see the police trained as EMTs, like in the Fire Department."

-snip-

"I just think that it was excessive and it shouldn't have happened. One more thing...," he said.

Carlson interrupted for a third time, saying, "Yeah but the guy that did it looks like he's going to spend the rest of his life in prison so I'm kind of more worried about the rest of the country, thanks to police inaction, in case you haven't noticed, is like boarded up. Ahahaha! That's more my concern. But I appreciate it, Gavin, thank you."

"Look, look," Gavin said, as he was cut off screen.

"Nope! Done. Thank you," said Carlson.

-snip-

[Earth-shine]

1. CNN interviewed Elie Honig earlier today he thinks Chauvin will serve about 12 years. nt

[GregariousGroundhog]

6. Yes, Minnesota's has presumptive sentences in their sentencing guidelines

Given no criminal history, the presumptive sentence for severity level 10 (which is what unintentional 2nd degree murder is) has a presumed sentence of 120-180 months with 2/3 of that imprisonment and 1/3 of it supervised release. The judge can depart upward or downward for aggravating or mitigating factors though.

[Jack from Charlotte]

17. Chauvin and wife still face 9 felony tax evasion charges.....

Federal charges you don't beat. And you serve 90% of the sentence.

[GregariousGroundhog]

18. The feds can also go after him on civil rights charges

I won't predict what will happen regarding future, trials. Right now, we only know for certain what Chauvin was convicted on yesterday, and what Minnesota sentencing guidelines say on presumptive sentencing.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. From the Hoarse Whisperer

Link to tweet

[TwilightZone]

9. If he's a "weak, unimportant" person, why does everyone cover everything he says?

Everything he does is analyzed by the left and his every move is reported on DU. I think half his ratings are liberals hate-watching him so they can complain about it.

If he's really weak and unimportant - and I would argue that he quite certainly should be - then we should ignore him en masse.

[karynnj]

16. "without his unearned power" is an important part of that sentence

It explains why liberals care what he says. I would suggest that his unearned power is not because of his wealth and privilege, but because he is an established fixture in the RW echo chamber. If for some reason, his power is ended, it may not help because another replacement "cog" in the RM media machine would take his place.

It is easy sitting in a liberal bubble - Burlington VT - or even former Republican stronghold Morris County, NJ to consider that these people and their outlandish ideas should be inconsequential, but they aren't. I just returned from driving to and from Northern Indiana where we saw my parents for the first time since the pandemic started. For most of the drive, we listened to podcasts or music, but on the return trip, we regularly searched the dial for information on the George Floyd trial when we were driving through rural areas desperately in need of internet service! What we found was mostly rw talk radio, Christian stations - many with a bizarre political version of religion.

My family in Lake County Indiana is reliably liberal/Democratic. A sister who had returned from the West coast to help support our parents spoke of how weird looking for a church there has been. Religion is important to her. At first I thought she was speaking of trying to choose while viewing them remotely due to covid, but she explained that many of the churches had decidedly right wing views and values she never thought a Christian church would accept.

The power that people like Carlson have is that they have a platform to spew hateful ideas, that ALL the right wing talk people seem to simultaneously, but in different ways, spew. This is the very definition of an echo chamber. Back in the early 1960s, I remember a teacher suggesting the way to form an opinion is to read multiple newspapers. I suspect that since the 1990s, many people THOUGHT they were doing a version of listening to multiple sources, when in fact, the various voices on the right were validating each other. Now, it may be even worse as, for many, it is not just the "news", but their religious leader, who they trust is on board with the same distortions.

Back in the 1960s, while the Chicago Tribune and the NYT rarely agreed in the editorials, the news articles, while sometimes emphasizing different things, at least described the same world -- and most people trusted Walter Cronkite. Now, there are two - or perhaps more, realities through which everything is filtered. So many people have spoken about how we need the same "facts" before we can even start to return to a less polarized country. What I can't imagine is how we can move in that direction.

[aggiesal]

30. I grew up in Hammond ...

So many people have spoken about how we need the same "facts" before we can even start to return to a less polarized country.

Get rid of Fox.

[karynnj]

45. I lived in Hammond too

My family followed the typical migration. I was born in Hammond, moved to "Sunnyside" in East Chicago, moved to start third grade in Hammond, moved in sixth grade to Highland, then my family moved to Schererville when I was at IU.

[aggiesal]

46. Born in East Chicago ...

Lived in Hammond (Irving area)
Graduated from Hammond High
Moved to New Mexico
Attended New Mexico State.

[DSandra]

25. This is one of the biggest things that fuel the Republicans. They are losers and they know it.

They can’t stand the idea of a fair society because they are losers and could never compete with competent, smart, good people. They are a bunch of undeserving cheaters that have sold off America to big corporations to get unearned perks, status and power.

[gratuitous]

3. Carlson's cackle

If you see the clip, you'll hear Carlson cackling about something or other. I think he's cracking up.

[demmiblue]

4. Yeah, that was bizarre.

Link to tweet

[highplainsdem]

5. The laugh does sound demented. I looked for the video after seeing the

Newsweek article because I wanted to actually hear it. Newsweek's "Ahahaha!" transcription doesn't begin to convey how crazy it sounds.

[SoCalDavidS]

12. Works With The Morans In His Base Though

Playing to the lowest common denominator. Of which he is one.

[underpants]

20. I was thinking how hard it is to transcribe that laugh

or whatever it was. Bizarre. I hope the internets has fun with it.

[nuxvomica]

14. That cackle was a iittle scary

It came out of nowhere when he was saying the whole country is "boarded up" then he immediately returns to his usual constipated-infant look. If I saw someone doing that IRL I'd think they needed a mental-health checkup.

[joshcryer]

44. He went full on freaking hyde there.

Holy crap.

[kysrsoze]

7. Just what you'd expect from TuKKKer KKKarlson.

[GoneOffShore]

19. Schmuckkker KKKarlson

[Traildogbob]

23. Wow!

All the K’s used in his name. That is brilliant. Well done. May I adopt that? Could not be more accurate for that little prick. Is there a single face on Fox and in GQP congress that is NOT so welcoming of being punchable?

[dianaredwing]

26. Do they make a Tucker Carlson punching bag?

I'd buy one. I could use the exercise. That is a product that is really pre-sold.

[Traildogbob]

28. Agree

How about a bag with ALL the Fox mugs on it. It would be temping to use a ball bat on it. So, it would have to be extremely durable.

[-misanthroptimist]

8. So many Republican men are weak, whiny boy-children.

They attempt to hide that fact with obnoxious bravado, imitating movie tough guys. They actually think that fools anyone other than themselves.

[Probatim]

29. I think most of them aren't over the fact they didn't get laid in high school.

[C_U_L8R]

10. Tucker, cutting the mic is not the same as winning the argument.

In fact, you not only lost it... you went down in flaming diaper poutrage.

[highplainsdem]

11. +1,000,000

[SoCalDavidS]

13. Unfortunately His Viewers Will EAT IT ALL UP!

They were probably watching and cheering him on.

"YEAH! You tell 'em tucker!! Police are all perfect, and what about all those protests, let's talk about that even though it has little to do with the topic at hand."

[Goonch]

15. Tucker Carlson's Spirit Animal

[underpants]

21. That's hilarious

[ShazzieB]

40. It is hilarious, but

What have guinea pigs ever done to deserve being compared to Fukkker KKKarlson?

I mean, guinea pigs are sweet, harmless, cute little animals. KKKarlson is an animal, but he's not sweet, harmless, OR cute.

[Jetheels]

22. I rarely bother and can't stand watching bow tie boi, but

Omg what a nutto. The officer calls what Chauvin did “complete savagery” and tuckie switches the conversation to Macy’s then to the “whole country is boarded up”.
Fox News is like they put cameras in a mental institution, and the residents put on suits and ties sit at a desk and yap away on camera.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. He's a sniveling little weasel

[Ohioboy]

27. This interview proves Tucker Carlson is not someone you can talk reason to

He should be fired for being an idiot.

[infullview]

32. idiot may be too mild, how about jackass?

[Ohioboy]

34. Can't disagree with you there

He's both.

[peppertree]

31. Cocaine, and being a pompous brat, have never mixed well

[world wide wally]

33. How is Old Mother Tucker so sure he won't be under a cop's knee one day?

If only....

[MarcA]

36. Or have his home "mistakenly" invaded on a no-knock warrant

like in much of the "rest of the country".

[snort]

35. He's so right, people.

"The country is like boarded up".



What a fucking putz.

[lindysalsagal]

37. I was never convinced limpaugh believed the talking points he spewed for money

But I'm beginning to think this dimwit actually believes everything he whines.

[BobTheSubgenius]

38. Upcoming guests should read and/or watch this segment, because forewarned is forarmed.

That is assuming he ever has another guest that doesn't toe "his" party line.

[yardwork]

39. Lol! That didn't go as planned.

[ShazzieB]

41. What a jerk.

He knew he wasn't going to win that argument (which HE started), so he hits the kill button.

No wonder he likes Trump. They're both childish bullies. Two peas in a pod.

[pressbox69]

42. Remember this

incident from a few years ago?

There's nothing sadder than a right wing control freak who goes out of control when he loses control of the situation. My take is that he's been rattled ever since the Matt Gaetz interview.What if he's called in to testify and they ask him if he and his wife suspected anything criminal when Matt Gaetz showed up with a teenage date? Not saying that Gaetz daddy won't squash the investigation like he has in other previous Matt scandals but sex trafficking is a serious crime. No wonder Tucker is worried. Grab a box of popcorn and stay tuned.

[burrowowl]

43. Kick