Tucker Carlson Cannot Get Stephen Colbert And His Puppet Off His Thoughts

Fox Information host Tucker Carlson largely ignored Tuesday’s explosive developments through the Jan. 6 Home choose committee hearings and as a substitute continued his assaults on late-night host Stephen Colbert.

Colbert’s group was arrested at a congressional workplace constructing on Thursday, and Carlson known as the antics “assault on democracy.”

Carlson, who stated the entry was an “rebel” and “precisely like what occurred on Jan. 6″ on Friday, requested why the “Late Present” crew did not see comparable penalties in comparison with these of the rioters who tried to overthrow the 2020 presidential election by attacking the US Capitol whereas Congress met to certify electoral votes.

CBS, in an announcement to The Hollywood Reporter final week, stated the seven-person crew a gaggle that included Robert Smigel, the voice of Triumph the Insult Comedian Canine was there for “licensed and pre-arranged” interviews and, after a last interview, had been within the halls to proceed filming earlier than their arrest.

Carlson, on an episode of his present Tuesday, claimed the crew’s goal was to “break into,” “harass lawmakers” and “disrupt” congressional enterprise within the constructing, Mediaite reported.

“All seven of them had been charged with illegal entry,” Carlson famous.

“That is the an identical cost that a whole lot of Jan. 6 defendants have been prosecuted for. However, not like Jan. 6 defendants, Colbert’s workers weren’t despatched to the DC jail for a 12 months and a half in solitary confinement. No, they had been launched after an evening behind bars, after which they fled again to New York. Why is that?”

Carlson additionally requested whether or not what Colbert’s crew did was “totally different” from what rioters did on Jan. 6, 2021.

His line of inquiry additionally dug into the comedic aspect of Colbert’s crew, particularly Smigel.

Carlson joked {that a} man who put his ft up on Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk was funnier than the voice behind the favored canine puppet.

“Be sincere, it is not even shut. The man at Pelosi’s desk is hilarious in comparison with the man with the speaking canine,” Carlson stated.

Colbert, throughout his Monday present, questioned individuals drawing comparisons between his crew and rioters.

He stated evaluating his staffers, together with a “cigar-chomping” canine’s actions, to the Capitol attackers is “a shameful and grotesque insult” to the individuals who died through the assault.

“And it obscenely trivializes the service and the braveness the Capitol Police confirmed on that horrible day.”

You’ll be able to hear Colbert talk about his crew’s arrest for “puppetry within the first diploma” under.