Tucker Carlson Declares the ‘Whole Purpose’ of Bari Weiss’s Career Is to Lay the Groundwork for ‘War With Iran’
LEFT: Tucker Carlson (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) RIGHT: Bari Weiss (Gilberto Tadday/TED)
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson argued that the “whole point” of Bari Weiss’s “career” and publication, The Free Press, is to lay the groundwork for war with Iran in a recent video promoted by his own media company.
“So all of a sudden Bari Weiss, who’s a leftist, becomes a conservative because she’s against trannyism or something. Every normal person is against that,” began Carlson in a clip shared by the Tucker Carlson Network. “It’s pretty obvious that the whole purpose of her organization, the Free Press and her career in journalism is to kind of soften up the right for war with Iran and to attack anybody-, and she’s got this constellation of people around, you know, Niall Ferguson and all these kind of people who add weight to the project, but who really are all kind of paid to flack for war with Iran and attack anyone who’s not with the program.”
“I felt the sting of this, so I didn’t really understand how this worked. And all of a sudden you’re like, wow, you know, people are calling you anti-American,” he continued. “All of a sudden all these new people, and you’re like, ‘Oh, Bari Weiss, are you really conservative?’ Not at all! Then what are you doing here? Oh, you’re trying to convince me that I’m not allowed to oppose a war with Iran or I’m going to be written out of the conservative movement or something.”
Carlson also criticized Weiss for arguing that President Donald Trump had made a mistake by taking John Bolton and Mike Pompeo’s security details away from them. Both of the former Trump administration officials have had credible threats against their lives made by Iran.
In a piece last fall, Weiss criticized Carlson over his infamous interview with Darryl Cooper in which Cooper told a starstruck Carlson that Winston Churchill was a “psychopath” and the “chief villain” of World War II. Cooper also mischaracterized the Holocaust as being caused a logistical issue, rather than an ideological animus toward Jews.
