Tucker Carlson calls on Burr to resign amid reports of stock selloff

[babylonsister]

Tucker Carlson calls on Burr to resign amid reports of stock selloff
By J. Edward Moreno - 03/19/20 11:05 PM EDT


Conservative Fox News host Tucker Carlson called on Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) to resign after reports that he sold off millions in personal stocks the week before the stock market began its steep dive amid fears of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, reportedly offloaded between $582,029 and $1.56 million of stock on Feb. 13 in almost 30 different transactions days after lawmakers on the intelligence committee were briefed on the virus.

“He didn’t give a prime time address, he didn’t go on television to sound the alarm,” Carlson said, pointing out that Burr wrote an op-ed days earlier with a much less dire message about the impact of the virus on U.S. life.

Carlson then called for Burr's resignation and prosecution for his actions.

“Maybe there’s an honest explanation for what he did; if there is, he should share it with the rest of us immediately,” Carlson said in a Thursday night segment on Fox News. “Otherwise, he must resign from the Senate and face prosecution for insider trading.”

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[mtngirl47]

2. Probably the only time I've agreed with Tucker Carlson.

Burr has pretended to be reasonable and honorable....but all along he's just a typical Republican thief.

I'm embarrassed about all the calls I've made to his office over the years asking him to do the right thing.

[certainot]

35. "reasonable and honorable" is why carlson attacked burr. see if he does same for all

the cons who might have done what burr did. carlson attacked burr because burr held up some of the most stupid (limbaugh, hannity, carlson, etc) RW calls to expose the whistleblowers, derail the mueller probe, investigate bidens and others, etc, after RW radio and fox pushed fevered spittle-flecked putin-induced defenses of trump's treasons and corruptions.

[BeckyDem]

3. An honest explanation woud run like this: I like my money, so.........

GOP are criminals.

[CaptYossarian]

42. I'm not sure I follow...

Are you referring to Burr's mommy or Mother Tucker?

[BeckyDem]

49. Tucker said, unless Burr gives an honest explanation.

That explanation, if honest would be imo: I like my money, so________.

You can fill in the blank to the excuse he'll use but the intent is to keep his money, the rationale is irrelevant to me. Should be irrelevant to Tucker too.

[azureblue]

50. up to a total of four now - Senate majority?

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/488593-four-senators-sold-stocks-before-coronavirus-threat-crashed-market

We may get out Senate majority this way -

[BeckyDem]

54. That is awful. ugh

[hlthe2b]

4. Broken clock phenomenon at work. Sounds like fear has overruled Carlson's natural urge to bamboozle

[atreides1]

5. Okay

What about Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), whose husband is the chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange...it appears that she sold off more then one million dollars in stock on Janauary 24, after attending a closed door Senate meeting!

https://nypost.com/2020/03/19/georgia-senator-dumped-stocks-after-private-meeting-on-coronavirus-report/

[CottonBear]

31. It took her less than a month as my KKKemp appointed senator to commit a crime.

Somehow, in my pandemic world, I didn’t know that her husband is chairman & CEO of NYSE.

No wonder KKKemp was so eager to get her appointed.

[jimfields33]

6. There are 6 that need to resign today!!!!

[NewJeffCT]

8. Who are the others?

I know Inhofe, Johnson, Burr and Loeffler?

[jimfields33]

10. Feinstein and one other republican

[NewJeffCT]

11. If feinstein resigns

Newsom should replace her with Katie Porter, Ted Lieu, Adam Schiff or Eric Garcetti

[jimfields33]

14. I'd go Katie or Adam.

Either one would be awesome.

[NewJeffCT]

19. Love both of them

but, my concern about Schiff is that he is so effective as the head of House Intel, that it would be a shame to put him in the Senate and have him in the minority (hopefully temporarily)

Porter is arguably the most effective member of the House class of 2018, but she is a newbie.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Feinstein's husband sold one stock at a multi-year low, then it went up. Not an issue, I think.

But Feinstein-haters here will trumpet it to the skies, feeding it into the Republicon propaganda machine.

[FailureToCommunicate]

32. Right, the time frame sounded fuzzy compaired to the Repubs. But, you know, BOTH

SIDES do it.

[jimfields33]

12. Perdue. Had to find it. But that's the six.

[NewJeffCT]

16. thanks

so, both Republicans running for re-election in GA

[jimfields33]

17. Yep! Good news for us.

Although at least one might lose the primary now.

[NewJeffCT]

23. Who is running on the Democratic side?

I know Jon Ossof, the guy who lost the special election to the seat that Lucy McBath eventually won

[superpatriotman]

7. Congress is okayed to insider trade

I believe they tried to put limits on it years ago and it was shot down

[NewJeffCT]

9. they passed a law by overwhelming margins in 2012

to ban it

[babylonsister]

13. No, it wasn't shot down. It passed.

The bill, aimed at prohibiting stock trading based on nonpublic information gleaned on Capitol Hill, overwhelmingly passed in the Senate by a 96-to-3 vote before being signed into law by President Barack Obama. Burr, one of the three senators to vote against the measure, described himself as a “brave soul” for going against the bill, according to a transcript of the radio interview posted to his Senate website.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/20/coronavirus-richard-burr-stock/

[OnDoutside]

29. It's Chris Collins who was convicted for Insider Trading, not Doug.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

30. Thanks. I was just catching up correcting myself. . . nt

[OnDoutside]

46. No worries...I haven't met a Collins i liked, including my grandmother ! ;)

[KY_EnviroGuy]

15. Tucker, how about calling for his resignation because he's a criminal.

GOP priorities.........

[Champp]

18. #DemandRepublicanResignations

now

Disgraceful

[liberalmuse]

20. I smell a rat.

Tucker Carlson and Fox News get their marching orders from Trump. Who does Trump want in Burr’s position? I feel weird about this. At the same time, I’m outraged at the thought someone would stand by and let Trump lie about a crisis and keep their mouth shut unless it’s to warn donors. I’m outraged at the Trump enabling by even semi-sane members of the GOP. BTW, DiFi didn’t do this, nor did she profit off of that briefing.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. Burr did not toe tRump's Russia-wuz-innocent line 100%. . . . nt

[liberalmuse]

26. Yep.

This is a hit job, but Burr has put himself in that position by staying silent to the general public on the pandemic along with curiously dumping stocks. If Carlson ever seems on the right side of an issue, something’s up. It’s an illusion.

[paleotn]

25. It's a mutual relationship...

they feed IQ45. IQ45 sometimes feeds them. But they're in no way subservient to the orange shit stain. He's just the useful idiot of the moment. I think Carlson sees, like anyone with more than 3 neurons in their head, that this just isn't spinnable. Not when Faux viewers have lost 20 to 30% of their investments. I think some Rethugs are going to be forced to fall on their swords. Maybe not Burr, since NC has a Democratic governor, but watch for others.

[samnsara]

27. these people confuse me

[OnDoutside]

28. Question : If Burr had given an interview at 3pm to say he is seriously concerned that this could

cause major problems for the US, medically and economically, and then at 3.05pm gave an instruction for those shares to be sold, would he have been ok now and not facing a prison sentence ?

[pwb]

33. Fucker must have lost money in the stock market and

is pissed Barr didn't tell him about death approaching .

[TNNurse]

36. Probably

[cstanleytech]

34. This forevermore will be known as "The Day Tucker Carlson Said Something For the Right Reason.".

[bucolic_frolic]

37. Tucker is involved in the cleansing

By election day you'll think Republicans were washed in Tide

[DFW]

38. This is amazing and raises a question

Is there some medication Carlson takes that he forgot to take, or did someone slip him some kind of truth serum that he normally would avoid contact with?

Or, less likely, but not completely to be excluded, has someone at Fix Noise seen some writing on some wall that the rest of the radical right wing media hasn't yet seen?

Or, more likely, did some smart programmer at Fox Noise slip this in, thinking, "let's say something sensible, and REALLY keep the lefties off balance?"

[Major Nikon]

40. I think the answer is much simpler

Tucker was balls deep in the Faux COVID-19 whitewashing, particularly the part where he blamed Democrats for sensationalizing the whole thing.

Faux has already sent one of their bobbleheads packing over this garbage and when people start dying wholesale, which isn't that far off, even wingnuts are going to want to know who was behind the fuckery that delayed the response. Tucker's excuse will be that he was bamboozled by right wing talking points and his duplicitous defense will be that he immediately started going after those responsible.

Make no mistake, Tucker is never going to go after any Republican unless there's something in it for him and right now he's in cover his own ass mode. The difference between him and Hannity is he's slightly smarter and is more vulnerable when Faux breaks out the chopping block.

[DFW]

41. I think your vulnerability argument is a valid one

Without his Fox Noise salary, he'd be starting up his own Young Turks style video blog begging for contributions to keep him from working at a car wash.

[Major Nikon]

43. He already has that

He runs the Daily Caller hack site where he employs no-shit white supremacists to write his garbage. After the SPLC called him out for it, he immediately started attacking them on his show. Had more people noticed, Faux would have fired him for that alone, and I'm sure it still leaves a bad taste in their mouth. I think Tucker is just one more fuckup short of being out the door, and when he goes he'll be lucky to get airtime on the OAN straight up propaganda network.

[DFW]

48. How nice

I don't get US TV here, and am not familiar with his website.

I figure there is ALWAYS something better to do than look at the website of someone like him. Like take a nap, or some such urgent business.

[azureblue]

51. I bet Tucker was tipped off

too. So he is deflecting. If you follow the news and then watch what he does, this is what the does when the heat gets too close.

[Major Nikon]

56. Nobody really had to even be tipped off. The real news was out there.

I pulled out of the stock market on Feb 13th. Anyone who didn't buy into Trump's utter bullshit could have seen the writing on the wall. For the next week or two virtually every Faux pundit was telling everyone to stay in. Faux business network was even parroting out that nonsense. Just stay in the market. It will all be OK. Don't listen to the "liberal media".

The problem dipshits like Tucker have is they were repeating the bullshit and telling everyone this was all no big deal. As a result, Faux news watching wingnuts stayed in the market and lost their shorts. At some point some of them are going to wake up and realize they were taken for a ride by clowns like Tucker and Hannity, both of whom almost certainly pulled out of the market early themselves.

[dreamland]

39. What?! They forgot to tip off Tucker??

POS wasn't good enough to be in the money raft. Treated like the turd he is.

[geardaddy]

44. Tucker's just pissed that he didn't get the memo

about the virus so he could sell off his stocks.

[marble falls]

45. When Tucker Carlson's tie starts spinning on a Republican you know its time to dictate ...

a letter of resignation.

[mwb970]

47. Tucker Carlson for president!

[geardaddy]

57. Did you forget the sarcasm smilie?

[mwb970]

58. I thought it was obvious.

[geardaddy]

59. OK, I thought so.

Just checking.

[Thomas Hurt]

52. but...but...It's okay if you are a Republican

[MarianJack]

53. Good point, Tucker,...

...but then again, even a stopped clock is right for two minutes a day.

RESIST!

[WyattKansas]

55. Is Fucker Carlson butt hurt over losing his ass with his glorious financial portfolio?

Is the whiny little bitch pissed that he wasn't included in the confab to immediately dump everything?

Yes, subhumans like him deserve to go broke and be tossed on the street to survive out of dumpsters with COVID-19 waste...
After all, he thinks that it is perfectly fair for those below him in his Republican Rules of Acquisition pyramid scheme.