‘Gross and Dishonest’: Fox Contributor Slams Tucker Carlson’s Odd, Personal Attack On Lindsey Graham

Fox News contributor and Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen pulled no punches in hitting back at Tucker Carlson for telling Glenn Beck on Tuesday that people who support Ukraine fending off the brutal Russian invasion of their country do so because they “have creepy personal lives.”

“I’ve noticed that a lot of the most passionate sort of advocates for this idea that, you know, the only problems are abroad, and we need to spend all of our money on those problems. Our people with very weird and hollow personal lives,” Carlson told Beck.

“I don’t want be mean. I’m just being honest. Very dishonest, personalized, creepy, personal lives unsettled inside. Like a normal person in this and all countries wants like, I want to have dinner with my wife and play with my dogs and see my kids grow up and have grandchildren. And I want my neighborhood to be safe. And I want my friends to be happy,” Carlson continued, adding:

Like, those are the kind of human concerns for most people. It really takes someone like Lindsey Graham, who doesn’t have children, to be like, no, the most important thing is Karkov [sic] or someone from Europe. Like, honestly, what does that have to do with El Paso or my kids? Nothing. It’s a it’s a syndrome kind of.

Carlson’s bizarre claim that people – the vast majority of Americans according to polls – who want to stop Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine do not care about domestic U.S. politics was met with scorn from critics.

“This is just gross and dishonest. I know plenty of people with lovely happy families who think helping Ukraine is important. Indeed 74% of Americans do. Do they all have ‘weird and hollow and creepy personal lives’?” Thiessen wrote on X in response to the clip. He added:

And no one believes that “all our problems are abroad and we have to spend all our money on those problems.” Pathetic straw man argument.

Such a disgusting thing to say. You can disagree on Ukraine without insulting those who don’t share your minority view.

Carlson has come under fire in recent weeks for his recent visit to Russia and his softball interview with Putin, which even the Russian president later criticized for lacking tough questions. While in Moscow, Carlson also filmed clips touring a subway stop and a grocery store and boasted about how much “better” Moscow is than any American city, saying it has “radicalized” him against American leaders.

After leaving Moscow, Carlson was asked why he didn’t ask Putin about imprisoning Russian opposition figure Alexie Navalny, to which Carlson replied other journalists ask Putin about human rights and he believes “every leader kills people” so it wasn’t a particularly interesting question. Navalny was murdered days later in a Siberian gulag.

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