Tucker Carlson Blasts Obama’s ‘Bitterly Partisan’ Speech: His Recurring Theme is ‘Republican Racism’

Tucker Carlson kicked off his show Friday night by criticizing President Barack Obama‘s speech on the campaign trail ahead of the 2018 midterms.

Carlson began by marking Obama’s return to the public arena as a reminder of “why America elected Trump in the first place.”

“In a remarkable departure from tradition and decorum, Obama gave a bitterly partisan campaign speech at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in which he urged voters to support Democrats in the midterm election,” Carlson said. “Like virtually all Obama speeches the subtext was about the omnipresence of white racism which Obama needless to say blamed for the rise of Trump.”

The Fox News host also drew attention Obama’s sharp criticisms of the Republican Party for their “cozying up” with Russia, but accused the former president of having “the same foreign policy” on Russia as the current administration.

He then called Obama’s “recurring theme” of “Republican racism,” invoking the following portions from his speech.

Each time we painstakingly pull ourselves closer to our founding ideals that all of us are created equaled and endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, somebody somewhere just pushed back.

“In other words, Republicans just hate equal rights!” Carlson sarcastically reacted. “That’s why they elected Trump. They’re just like slaveholders.”

Carlson also stressed what he thought was an omission by Obama; the “death of the middle class.”

“That’s odd because it was only in 2015, seven years into Obama’s presidency when the middle class became a minority in this country for the first time in living memory. That was the pivotal event of the past several decades. It changed this country profoundly the cause of nearly all of our current political turmoil,” Carlson continued.

He added: “But to Obama, it simply never happened and of course seven years of his policies had literally nothing to do. Throughout Washington, establishment figures burst into applause when they heard that. They don’t want to talk about the dying middle class either, they’re not interested and they don’t want to be implicated. So much easier to blame racists under the bed.”

Watch the clip above, via Fox News.

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