Democrats try a racism smear against Tucker Carlson, media piles on only to see it backfire bigtime

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It all started on Tuesday when Carlson mispronounced Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ name during an interview he did with former Hillary Clinton adviser Richard Goodstein. Heated words were exchanged after Goodstein took major issue with it, and with Carlson saying it was unintentional and that Goodstein’s real issue with him was that he had the audacity to criticize Harris.

As he does every night, Darcy was monitoring Carlson’s program and tweeted that “Tucker says this was unintentional, but he does often mispronounce the names of people he is critical of. It’s sort of a thing on his show. Seems pretty intentional!”

Darcy was so “concerned” about the matter that he included it in his Tuesday night newsletter. He characterized it as Carlson “mocking” Harris’ name. “He kept doing so after his guest corrected him,” CNN’s junior hall monitor noted, with the clear insination that racism was behind this.

Fast forward to Wednesday night, when Carlson made both CNN and Darcy a topic in one of his segments because in addition to Darcy, a panel of CNNers including “New Day” co-anchor John Berman also took a ding at Carlson over the mispronunciation, with one contributor, in particular, erupting in outrage – as Carlson shows in the clip.
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But it was towards the end of the segment where things got really hilarious. As Carlson pointed out that his critics were suggesting that merely mispronouncing her name was “racist”, he segued to a clip from earlier in the day of Biden introducing Harris as his running mate by … mispronouncing her name.
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Here’s a solo clip of Biden goofing when he announced her:

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PJ Media adds:

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Of course, the liberal media pounced. Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan dedicated nearly 700 words to the incident, accusing Carlson of having  “no interest” in respect “when it applies to Harris, who made history Tuesday as the first woman of color to be named to a presidential ticket.”

See what she did there? Tucker Carlson, she says, is racist and sexist!

An article at MarketWatch concluded that Tucker Carlson “doesn’t like being corrected when it comes to pronouncing ‘Kamala.’”

Deadline called Tucker “unrepentant.”

Mediaite also joined in on the pile-on. As did HuffPost.

Carlson wasn’t falling for the attempt to avoid his question, but, according to Goodstein, “Out of respect for somebody who’s going to be on the national ticket, pronouncing her name right is actually kind of a bare minimum.”

Oh, it’s a respect thing? That’s hilarious. How much respect did Trump get when he was running for president?

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This looks like a bad faith set up by the Democrats and the media to try to pat Carson on the defensive when he asks tough questions about Harris's previous comments about Biden.  The media pile on looks like a tell in the Democrat strategy to deal with her past positions.  Only, Old Joe used the same pronunciation as Tucker Carlson so the racism smear was a major fail.  Although, I beleive has accused Biden or racism in the past, I don;t think it had anything to do with his pronunciation of her name.

This is a good example of what we can expect from the Democrats and their media cohorts in this campaign