Tucker Carlson Tells Republicans To Start Making Fun Of Lindsey Graham

Fox News host Tucker Carlson is offering some free advice to Republican candidates in the midterms: Start making fun of Lindsey Graham. Typically we'd be 100% on board with making fun of Graham until our voices were hoarse, but the reason that Carlson wants Graham mocked by GOP candidates is because he doesn't want Russia attacking Ukraine - something Carlson appears to support wholeheartedly. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Tucker Carlson has some advice for his audience. Advice that, to be honest, I'm, I'm inclined to take here is what Tucker Carlson late last Friday told his audience your job is to make fun of Lindsay Graham and to disavow Lindsay Graham. Okay, stop right there. Because right off the bat, a hundred percent on board, right? Our job is to make fun of Lindsay Graham to disavow Lindsay Graham. I am right there with you, Tucker. This is the one time I will actually agree with you. If you stop reading the statement right there, because it turns out Tucker Carlson, doesn't just want people to make fun of Lindsay Graham, because it's Foner because it's easy. He wants people to make fun of Lindsay Graham, because gosh, darnit Lindsay Graham isn't on Russia's side right now. So he continues. Your job is not to emulate Lindsay Graham and steal his talking points.

And if you do emulate Lindsay Graham and steal those talking points, you will lose. And the losing candidates did just that. And then of course, he talked about a, uh, a election in New York where the Republican candidate was a pro Ukraine Republican candidate. And he lost his election. That, that he was gonna lose regardless of where he stood on Russia, Ukraine, by the way. But Carlson pointed to that as aha. Lindsay Graham has also expressed his support for Ukraine. And now this other guy in New York did it months ago. And would you look at that? He lost his election. So do not emulate Lindsay Graham make fun of him and dang dangit Tucker. You had me for a minute. You really did. I, I, I thought you were really giving me permission to just go out there and just beat the hell outta Lindsay Graham every day, verbally, of course.

But you had to throw in your pro Russia, B S you know, even before, like in the run up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, because that's what it is. It's an invasion. Russian state media started running Tucker Carlson's monologues on their networks, right? The Kremlin controlled propaganda network said, Tucker Carlson is doing such a good job of selling this for us. Let's just air his monologues. We'll translate him to Russian, not that hard considering he's basically spouting Russian propaganda anyway, and that's what they did now. I don't know if they're still doing this or not. I haven't been paying close attention to Russian state media, but Carlson has consistently, you know, every now and then he'll say something sympathetic towards Ukraine, but then he'll, you know, call for them to surrender. Just give Putin what he wants. And this will all be over. Tucker Carlson is a pro Putin. Fascist is what he is. It, it just still blows my

Mind by the way that anybody can look at this situation unfolding over there in Eastern Europe and say, well, I think Russia's, uh, Russia's got the right idea. Like you have to be a complete brain dead stooge to look at that objectively and say, oh no, Ukraine, Ukraine brought it on themselves. No, they didn't. I, I, I'm not in favor of any conflict at all between these two countries, but I'm also not gonna sit here and act like Russia. Isn't the aggressor. I'm not gonna say that. It's totally fine. That the United States is sending over billions of dollars. Every couple of months, selling them billions of dollars worth of weapons. That's also not good. We shouldn't be doing that anymore, but we also can't let this tyrant over there in Russia, push people around and act like, Hey, your land is now mine. So what is the solution?

I don't know. And by the way, neither do the other people who do what I do for a living. Nobody has a clear firm answer of how this thing could and should work. We all have our separate ideas, some, a lot worse than others, but the one idea I will stand behind is making fun of Lindsay Graham for anything and everything other than, of course, the fact that he doesn't want Russia to win. But that doesn't mean by the way that Lindsay Graham is still on the right side of this because Lindsay Graham is all in favor of sending more and more and more weapons over to Ukraine and basically building up to what could potentially be world war II. So Graham is still wrong. So we should mock him for that.