Tucker Carlson on McCain Media Coverage: They’re ‘Dictating What Emotions You Are Allowed to Feel’

Tucker Carlson tonight decried the media coverage of Senator John McCain‘s passing.

He praised McCain as a passionate man who always said how he felt, noting that both he and President Donald Trump “despised” each other.

Carlson did note that this weekend, after the news broke of McCain’s passing, “Trump at first could barely bring himself to mourn.”

But he moved on to the media coverage in particular, bringing up commentary from Brooke Baldwin and Katy Tur criticizing Trump for his lacking response before he eventually made a statement on McCain this afternoon.

After playing the clips, Carlson said, “There’s been a lot of this today, almost exclusively from the left.”

He first noted how “amusing” it is that the media is lauding McCain ten years after “call[ing] John McCain a racist for daring to run against the anointed one.”

But he went on to say this, drawing a connection between Baldwin’s commentary and McCain’s hatred of authoritarians:

“More troubling, though, more interesting too, is the claim you just heard that it’s ‘despicable’ not to mourn Senator McCain in a certain way. Not just impolite, but immoral and forbidden. When people in authority, people with TV shows, for example, decide that they can dictate what emotions you’re allowed to feel, you should worry. McCain knew that well. He spent five and a half years as a captive in a society just like that and he spent the rest of his life fighting against it. He hated authoritarians above all. John McCain was a complicated person but a great man. If you really want to honor his memory, you ought to let people make up their own minds about what they think.”

Watch above, via Fox News.

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