Tucker Carlson: Iran deserves to be annihilated

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http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/02/22/430302/tucker-carlson-iran-annihilated/



As the “drumbeat to war” with Iran, as Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) warns of, grows louder, a number of journalists have begun to compare the hawkish rhetoric from pundits with the calls for military action against Iraq in 2002. Scott Shane, writing on the frontpage of today’s New York Times, observed, “Echoes of the period leading up to the Iraq war in 2003 are unmistakable, igniting a familiar debate over whether journalists are overstating Iran’s progress toward a bomb.” Indeed, the ombudsman of The Washington Post and the public editor of The New York Times criticized their own journalists for overstating the evidence of Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program.

Over the past week, journalists have raised the alarm about the increasing carelessness of the mainstream media in hyping the calls for war with Iran. But Fox News commentator and The Daily Caller editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson openly called for war against Iran and argued for the full-scale annihilation of the Islamic Republic during an appearance on Fox News’s late-night show Red Eye. Carlson responded to a question about U.S. military action:

CARLSON: I think we are the only country with the moral authority [...] sufficient to do that. [The U.S. is] the only country that doesn’t seek hegemony in the world. I do think, I’m sure I’m the lone voice in saying this, that Iran deserves to be annihilated. I think they’re lunatics. I think they’re evil.

Carlson, having called for the annihilation of Iran — a country with a population of over 74 million people — went on to acknowledge that “we should assess what will happen to the price of energy were we to do that.” Watch the clip:

[rfranklin]

1. Isn't genocide a war crime?

I guess it doesn't count when we do it.

[ananda]

2. Cucker Tarlson deserves to be...

... whipped with a wet noodle until that smirk disappears.

[stlsaxman]

3. "we are the only country that doesn't seek hegemony in the world..."????

uh, Tucker- maybe we don't "seek" it- because WE ARE AN HEGEMONY???

[WinkyDink]

5. OMG. That is a truly insane remark, built upon his criminally insane one about Iran.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

20. Right. The mighty empires of Andorra and Luxembourg are, even now, plotting world conquest.

[JoePhilly]

4. Those 2 are Irony Deficient. nt

Only the US has the Moral Authority to wipe out another country preemptively.....??

Wow are they stupid.

[get the red out]

6. Risk

The GOP talking heads make me think back to playing the "Risk" boardgame when I was in Junior High School. But they see human lives as no more important than pieces of plastic laid out on a map.

[exboyfil]

7. The guy is an idiot

"the only country that doesn’t seek hegemony in the world"??????????????

The U.S. is only one of a select few that could be characterized in this way (perhaps China??, the Soviet Union is gone so they don't count, U.K. maybe in the 19th century, France not really since Dien Bien Phu and probably earlier (think Napoleon), Germany not since WWII, Japan also not since WWII).

Is it conceivable that we could go to war with Iran under a democratic president. That has the potential of destroying the democratic party.

[peace frog]

8. Get a clue-by-four, Bowtie Boy

Nobody cares what you think, say or do. YOU'RE A CIPHER.

[trumad]

9. Squack Squack says the ChickenHawk.

[Iggo]

10. Tucker Carlson: Look at me! Please!

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[Fuzz]

11. Moral authority? We lost that when we invaded Iraq, tortured people and put them in jail without

trial.

[Loudmxr]

12. I agree! Tuck go fight them yourself.

And take your friends Hannity and Rush with you.

You got money and so do they.

Really there are lots of weapons on the open market. Your fans in the Red states will sign up ...I think.

You guys can defeat the entire Persian empire all by yourself and then get the oil.

Just don't involve the USA.

This is an investment opportunity that would be insane to pass up.

Good luck!!

[Mr Dixon]

13. SMH

So says the man that will not be serving in the military, or even a embedded reporter

[gordianot]

14. Poor Tucker strangled himself and now is brain damaged from all those years he wore a bow tie. n/t

[Are_grits_groceries]

15. So does North Korea by that assumption.

As for evil, FoxNooze would lead that list by miles. They may not have nukes, but they spread some dangerous shite.

[CanonRay]

16. You first, Tuck

Put on that uniform and head on over there.

[Javaman]

17. Stirring up teh stupid for ratings.

this is what we have become.

[The Wizard]

18. No one cares what

Republicans have to say unless it's under oath, and no one believes them even when they are under oath.
That Tucker Carlson has a job, any job, is a black mark against humanity.
It's time for Tucker to lay off the moonshine.

[Hugabear]

19. You first, asshole.

Another grandiose statement made by a professional chickenhawk.

[MattBaggins]

21. We don't seek hegemony?

Did he really say that with a straight face?

[lpbk2713]

22. When did that little twit start wearing long neckties?

I guess he might be thinking it makes him appear more grown up?


[font color="red" size="6"] WRONG! [/font]

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

24. Ever since Jon Stewart publicly humiliated him on CNN. nt

[Proud Liberal Dem]

23. "Deserves"?

There are reasons to be at least a little concerned about Iran but they've done nothing that makes them deserving of annihilation.

[bhikkhu]

25. Didn't the Nazis call for the eradication of the Jews

...on equally shaky grounds?

- to get right to the closest similar example.