Tucker Carlson calls jailed insurrectionists "political prisoners"

[Soph0571]

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): I mean, if you are holding people in solitary confinement in DC jails for non-violent crimes at some point they become political prisoners. I try not to use that phrase, you know you don't want to hype anything or sensationalize. But, at what point does it become a political prosecution?

[link:https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-calls-jailed-insurrectionists-political-prisoners|

It was always going to be a matter of time before they started this spin. Political Martyrs to the cause of freedom for the male pale and confederate stale in 3...2...1...

[49jim]

1. The Russian media

has used those words to describe the insurrectionists as well.....

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. Tuckums needs to have QBacca on as a guest to describe

the hardship of not having access to tofu and kale smoothies whenever he wants. This could be another Gulag Archipelago, if they work it right.

[The Magistrate]

3. What A Silly Statement, Ma'am

The answer is simple. A person is a political prisoner when they are held and sentenced for no reason but the peaceable expression of a political view.

Insurrection is a political act, but is not a peaceable one, and persons charged with crimes committed while part of an insurrectionist mob are not and never can be political prisoners.

As unpleasant as solitary confinement may be, one suspects the persons complaining of it in this instance would not fare well in the general population of the jail they are held in.


"No one feels more keenly the rigors of our criminal justice system than a conservative white man of a certain age in its toils for the first time."

[Lovie777]

4. They are confirming what many already know. ...

it was a planned overthrow of the USA's government. Also, republicans are planning another one as well.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Non-violent? They intended to kill.

Tuck off, fucker. Your insurrectionists will rot in jail for their crimes.

[kentuck]

6. He is helping to create the narrative...

...that these criminals were actual heroes.

[Murphyb849]

7. Tuckems please just STFU. Please.

[marble falls]

9. He'd need to know which way the wind blows from the GOP first.

[MotorCityBeard]

10. "...you know you don't want to hype anything or sensationalize."

Not very self aware, is he?