Fox News host Tucker Carlson invited controversy yet again by calling Gen. Mark Milley, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer “a pig” and “stupid” after the general defended the teaching of critical race theory in the military.
At a congressional hearing, Milley said he thought it was important for members of the military to be open-minded and well-read, including on the subject of critical race theory. “I’ve read Mao Tse-tung. I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist,” Milley said. “So what is wrong with understanding? Having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?”
“Mark Milley is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,” the Carlson said on his show. “He didn’t get that job because he’s brilliant or because he’s brave, or because people who know him respect him. He is not, and they definitely don’t. Milley got the job because he is obsequious. He knows who to suck up to, and he’s more than happy to do it. Feed him a script and he will read it.”
After playing a clip of Milley’s comments at a House Armed Services Committee hearing, Carlson commented that he found it “hard to believe that man wears a uniform, he’s that unimpressive. He’s not just a pig, he’s stupid,” he added after played a second clip.
Milley, who has been in the Army for more than 40 years, served in Iraq
and Afghanistan and holds degrees from Princeton, Columbia and the Naval
War College.
It’s not even the first time this year that Carlson has insulted service members. In March, he earned rebukes from top defense leaders after he showed a pregnant woman in uniform and called it a “mockery of the U.S. military.”
Carlson faced a wave of backlash online following his comments. Critics included Rep. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat; Joe Walsh and Lincoln Project Executive Director Fred Wellman.
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