{"id":70959,"date":"2021-06-26T18:27:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=70959"},"modified":"2021-06-26T18:27:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:27:50","slug":"tucker-carlson-calls-joint-chiefs-chairman-a-pig-stupid-obsequious-and-a-suck-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=70959","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson calls Joint Chiefs Chairman a &#8216;pig,&#8217; &#8216;stupid&#8217;, &#8216;obsequious&#8217; and a &#8216;suck up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tucker Carlson calls Joint Chiefs chairman a &#8216;pig,&#8217; &#8216;stupid&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->BY CAROLINE VAKIL<br \/>\nThe Hill<\/p>\n<p>Fox News host\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/tucker-carlson\" data-nid=\"440524\">Tucker Carlson<\/a><\/span>\u00a0sharply criticized the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Thursday, calling him a &#8220;pig&#8221; and &#8220;stupid&#8221; and saying he got his job because he was obsequious and told his superiors what they wanted to hear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3R3ZWV0X2VtYmVkX2NsaWNrYWJpbGl0eV8xMjEwMiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJjb250cm9sIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1408218429291700224&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fpolicy%2Fdefense%2F560209-tucker-carlson-lashes-out-at-milley-not-just-a-pig-hes-stupid&amp;sessionId=c40e090badc263a184466b4c21f0af4806ef54c8&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1408218429291700224\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The stark remarks came a day after Gen. Mark Milley offered a defense of reading about critical race theory in the military. Carlson has been a staunch critic of critical race theory, an area of academia that examines the intersection of race and law.<\/p>\n<div id=\"dfp-ad-incontent_desk_1-wrapper\" class=\"dfp-tag-wrapper wrapper\">\n<div id=\"dfp-ad-incontent_desk_1\" class=\"dfp-tag-wrapper\">ADVERTISEMENT<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>After playing a segment of Milley&#8217;s remarks to a House panel on Wednesday in which he defended reading a wide range of ideas, from Karl Marx on communism to critical race theory, Carlson laughed and said, &#8220;He&#8217;s not just a pig, he&#8217;s stupid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3R3ZWV0X2VtYmVkX2NsaWNrYWJpbGl0eV8xMjEwMiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJjb250cm9sIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1408216964674166786&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fpolicy%2Fdefense%2F560209-tucker-carlson-lashes-out-at-milley-not-just-a-pig-hes-stupid&amp;sessionId=c40e090badc263a184466b4c21f0af4806ef54c8&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1408216964674166786\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"dfp-ad-incontent_desk_2-wrapper\" class=\"dfp-tag-wrapper wrapper\">\n<div id=\"dfp-ad-incontent_desk_2\" class=\"dfp-tag-wrapper\">ADVERTISEMENT<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSo Mark Milley reads Mao to understand Maoism and he reads communists to understand communism, but it\u2019s interesting that he doesn\u2019t read white supremacists to understand white supremacy,\u201d Carlson continued.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson speculated that Milley would be fired if he was caught reading white supremacists and said \u201cgetting fired is the one thing he doesn\u2019t want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the segment, Carlson also claimed that Milley did not get the job because he deserved it, but because he was &#8220;he knows who to suck up to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mark Milley is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He didn&#8217;t get that job because he&#8217;s brilliant, or because he&#8217;s brave, or because the people who know him respect him,&#8221; Carlson said as a Fox News chyron read &#8220;Military leaders push their &#8216;woke&#8217; obsession.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is not, and they definitely don&#8217;t. Milley got the job because he is obsequious,&#8221; Carlson stated. &#8220;He knows who to suck up to, and he&#8217;s more than happy to do it. Feed him a script and he will read it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"dfp-ad-incontent_desk_3-wrapper\" class=\"dfp-tag-wrapper wrapper\">\n<div id=\"dfp-ad-incontent_desk_3\" class=\"dfp-tag-wrapper\">ADVERTISEMENT<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>During Wednesday&#8217;s House Armed Services Committee\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/560173-pentagon-punches-back-against-gop-culture-wars\">hearing<\/a>, two Florida Republicans\u00a0\u2014 Reps.\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/matthew-matt-gaetz\" data-nid=\"357232\">Matt Gaetz<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/michael-waltz\" data-nid=\"420281\">Michael Waltz<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u2014 cited a slide on \u201cwhite rage\u201d used in a voluntary lecture at West Point and a book titled \u201cCritical Race Theory: An Introduction\u201d that was found on the syllabus of one class.<\/p>\n<div class=\"incontent-plugin incontent-plugin-560209\">\n<div class=\"incontent_widgets es_recommended_content\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/560364-tucker-carlson-doubles-down-on-milley-criticism-disgusting?utm_source=thehill&amp;utm_medium=widgets&amp;utm_campaign=es_recommended_content\">Tucker Carlson doubles down on Milley criticism: &#8216;Disgusting&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/overnights\/560346-overnight-defense-intel-releases-highly-anticipated-ufo-report?utm_source=thehill&amp;utm_medium=widgets&amp;utm_campaign=es_recommended_content\">Overnight Defense: Intel releases highly anticipated UFO report |&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Milley later told the panel that he believed it was important \u201cfor those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to understand white rage, and I&#8217;m white,\u201d Milley said at one point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHard to believe that man wears a uniform. He\u2019s just that unimpressive,\u201d Carlson said, before adding \u201cNotice he never defined white rage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/560209-tucker-carlson-lashes-out-at-milley-not-just-a-pig-hes-stupid?rl=1\">https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/560209-tucker-carlson-lashes-out-at-milley-not-just-a-pig-hes-stupid?rl=1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucker Carlson calls Joint Chiefs chairman a &#8216;pig,&#8217; &#8216;stupid&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}