Tucker Carlson calls the Confederate battle flag "the flag" in broadcast last night.

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Tucker Carlson's revealing slip of the tongue stuns observers: 'Every day he becomes more and more explicit'

Cody Fenwick, AlterNet
April 15, 2021

On Wednesday evening, Fox News host Tucker Carlson let slip a fleeting but surprising turn of phrase that promptly stunned many of his critics.

While discussing the treatment of a man charged as a part of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, Carlson tried to draw a comparison to the case of Bree Newsome, a filmmaker and activist who tore down the Confederate battle flag at the South Carolina statehouse in 2015, leading to her arrest.

But when Carlson described the incident, he didn't describe her tearing down the "Confederate flag," but simply "the flag" — a phrase that in American English typically refers to the American flag.

It was noteworthy for at least two reasons. First, Carlson seemed to be downplaying the commendable political motivations behind Newsome's act of protest. And second, it seemed to suggest his sympathy for and alliance with the Confederacy.

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So he's either trying to mislead his vile fans by slandering Newsome, implying that she tore down the American flag or he's trying to lock up the white supremacist vote for his 2024 presidential run. Probably both.

[LakeArenal]

1. Or he's just a vile, stupid piece of shit that other piles like.

[Miguelito Loveless]

2. Whiney losers

[mwooldri]

3. The flag of a failed state.

A state that shares the same state of being as Monty Python's dead parrot. Seems though that *ucker Carlson is still pining for the fjords of the Confederacy....

[wnylib]

4. Flag of traitors, past and present.

[COL Mustard]

5. I Grew Up In The South And Used To Believe All Of The States' Rights BS

In my defense, I was a preteen and a teenager. If someone wants to fly the Confederate flag, unless they're reenactors (and I know several...play Army once in a while), you don't get my business. Your choice, but actions have consequences.

I see a big one displayed alongside the Chesapeake Expressway right by the EZ Pass toll booth, but it's on private property. There's another display near where I-64 and I-295 join near Richmond. I just saw that one for the first time and assume it's also on private property.

Support losing traitors all you want, but don't ask for my business or my vote.

[wnylib]

6. I grew up in northwestern Pennsylvania,

on Lake Erie. I live in western NY now. As you might guess, that flag has never been a common sight in my life. But I despise all that it stands for.

[COL Mustard]

7. I Could Understand The Private Soldiers Who Enlisted In The Confederate Army

They didn't know better, and would have done what they were told was the right thing to do. The officers, especially the senior officers, many of whom were West Point graduates? Traitors. No other word for it. They had gotten an outstanding education at taxpayer expense, and they had taken an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The oath of office, by the way, hasn't changed significantly over its life. The oath I've taken several times reads the same.

[Hortensis]

8. I believe these people who go way too far to retreat to safety

have no intention of doing any such thing. Their safety lies in victory as part of, or allied with, a new authoritarian ruling cabal. This is sedition rallying.

[Politicub]

9. Fox News is hosting someone pushing the same "replacement" theory advanced by

the Nazis that marched in Charlottesville.

Cable systems need to drop Fox until Tucker is fired. This cannot stand without a response from the people hosting the channel.