James Carville Goes to Bat for His ‘Good Friend’ Tucker Carlson

Democratic strategist James Carville defended MAGA firebrand Tucker Carlson as a “good friend” who he has known “very well” to be “consistent” in his isolationist stance for over 20 years, after the ex-Fox News host found himself under attack for criticizing the idea of going to war with Iran.

Carlson has become one of the most prominent supporters of President Donald Trump to emerge in opposition to the idea of U.S. involvement in the conflict between Israel and Iran.

In recent days he has slammed pro-interventionist voices within MAGA as “warmongers” urging Trump down a dangerous path toward war. Namedropping key figures in right-wing media like Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and Rupert Murdoch as key agitators, Carlson drew a sharp line between “peacemakers” and those who “casually encourage violence.” An viral interview with Iran hawk Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) saw the pair spar on the issue.

Carlson’s comments triggered a furious rebuke from Trump on Truth Social, calling him “kooky” while Levin fired back to mock him as “Chatsworth Qatarlson” and a “charlatan” in a dispute that has deepened divisions within the MAGA movement.

Appearing on NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo’s show on Wednesday, Carlson found unlikely advocacy from Carville, who defended the pundit as “consistent.”

There’s always been an isolationist strain in the Republican Party and particularly in the conservative movement in the United States. You can go all the way back to Charles Lindbergh if anybody wants to do that.

I knew Tucker Carlson very well at a time in my life. He was a very good friend of mine. I still consider Tucker to be a friend. What he was saying to Ted Cruz is consistent with what he was saying in the Green Room in 2002. He’s always pretty isolationist. He’s barely much of a pacifist when it comes to this, I’ll let Tucker defend his position. I’m not here to defend Tucker, but I am here to say that that is consistent with him. And a lot of people beat the war drums to death in the war with Iraq, which turned out to be honestly one of the great disasters in American foreign policy history.

So before we head headfirst into this, and I’m saying that it could be something we find as a justification, but we better get our ducks in a row and before we haul off and start a war with a nation of 92 million people we better know what we’re doing and what are the potential consequences.

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