>> As we spoke about earlier, Michelle Obama
gave a fine speech during the DNC.
But even though she was calm throughout and
even though she said literally nothing that
can really be considered controversial, the
incredibly sensitive thin-skinned conservatives
over at Fox were offended by what she had
to say.
So let's start off with Tucker Carlson who
is a Swanson heir who earned his wealth initially
that way, and literally sits in an air conditioned
room spouting off his disgusting fascist ideology
and gets millions of dollars to do it.
So what does he have to say about Michelle
Obama?
Well, let's take a listen.
>> Last night, she delivered a taped address
from her $11 million estate on Martha's Vineyard.
Michelle Obama, it's fair to say, has done
pretty well for herself.
But what she wants you to know last night
was that she is still a victim, she and everyone
who looks like her.
So shut up and accept her dominion over you.
>> None of that happened.
0% of that happened.
She didn't present herself as a victim.
She talked about injustice in the country,
which is demonstrably true.
Various statistics bear that out whether it
has to do with the incarceration rate of black
people in this country, the number of black
men who are unarmed and get shot and killed
as they're running away from cops in this
country.
I mean, there's just multiple, multiple measures
to look at to show that this country is dealing
with a gross level of injustice.
And Tucker Carlson pushes forward on the show
on a nightly basis.
He knows it exists.
He's part of the problem.
He's part of the reason why it continues to
exist in this country.
But for him to get so offended at Michelle
Obama's speech, I think it's just, it's very
illuminating for me.
Because I guess my biggest issue, if you can
call it that with her speech, was that I felt
that it was too toned down.
And I think I have this, honestly, I had a
blind spot here.
Because even as a woman who gets told that
I need to stop being so aggressive, I also
forgot that it's a double whammy for her.
Because not only is she a woman, she's a black
woman and even if she speaks calmly, she gets
stereotyped like crazy.
And so my critique of her speech was a very
mild critique, by the way.
Really didn't take into account the fact that
had she spoken as aggressively as I like,
the feedback would have been far worse.
Especially since the feedback right now is
so negative from these disgusting right wingers
even when she gave such a calm, logical, rational
speech.
>> Yeah, I mean I can't imagine a world in
which she came out guns blazing but I also
don't know how different the response could
be.
They're losing their minds in the same way
that the nominee is Joe Biden and he's a radical
far left activist.
Okay, well, then what would you have said
if it was Bernie?
He's Thanos but socialist.
I don't know, like a certain point you've
capped out on your I'm offended meter.
And they do that all the time.
Yeah, and so that's why she she has to, I'm
sure whenever she speaks, be conscious of
the fact that she's gonna be stereotyped pretty
much no matter what the same way that Kamala
Harris is being referred to as an angry black
woman.
I've literally never seen her angry in my
entire life, even when she is doing her prosecutorial
hearing sort of vibe.
>> Cross-examinations, yes.
>> Yeah, it's not emotional, we little babies-
>> No, but that's the thing.
>> How can you look at that.
>> That's the thing.
It's funny because when I see her participate
in those hearings and ask the questions the
way she does, I mean that's where I'm always
endlessly impressed with her, right?
I love that, but again, I forget and I shouldn't
forget, because I get a lot of this as a woman.
And I know that it's far worse if you're a
black woman.
You're expected to behave a certain way, right?
So of course, that kind of strong presentation
really resonates with me.
I absolutely love it.
But I didn't really take into account the
balance that someone like Michelle Obama has
to strike when she gives speeches because
inevitably, she's gonna get these types of
comments.
But at the same time, I mean, if they're gonna
come at her when she's absolutely calm, absolutely
rational, then why not have a stronger message?
You know what I'm saying?
Tucker Carlson is gonna lie about her no matter
what.
Brit Hume, who we'll get to in just a minute,
is gonna lie about her and the delivery of
her speech no matter what.
Just like with AOC, AOC gave a powerful speech
and she was calm throughout her speech, right?
But the message there really resonated with
me.
Because it was a super strong message that
talked about how we really do need fundamental
systemic change in this country and how we
need to reimagine systems, including how we
go about with foreign policy.
But anyway, and it gets worse, it gets worse,
John.
If you think Tucker Carlson is done, you haven't
really heard anything yet, take a listen.
>> What you just heard was a total and complete
crock, a never-ending list of innocent people
of color continue to be murdered?
That's what Michelle Obama told us.
Well, no, so far this year, there have been
a total of eight unarmed black men killed
by police in this country, not a never-ending
list, eight.
>> Yeah, except that's not true, so let's
take a look at the actual statistics.
The rate of fatal police shootings among Black
Americans this year was actually much higher
than that of any other ethnicity, standing
at 31 fatal shootings per million of the population
as of July 2020.
And the number is not a total of eight black
people who were killed this year.
So far, unfortunately and tragically, 111
black people have died as a result of police
shootings.
And that's the number as of July 29th.
So we're in August now, I'm sure that number
is actually higher.
But that's what the actual statistics represent.
>> Yeah, and I love that it's up to Tucker
Carlson of whether the list is impressive
enough to merit a politician being concerned
about it.
How many interviews has he given to Texas
gym owners who are mad about quarantines?
They haven't died, certainly not even eight,
let alone over 100, but he's given them his
time.
And he's a passionate advocate for them.
It's just such BS but he has to say that.
You don't go to Tucker Carlson because you
wanna hear like a compassionate take on the
plight of black Americans.
That's not what you're going there for.
We know who he is.
We know what the show is designed to do.
That was a great example of it.
>> Yeah, and so look, one other thing, I mean,
this guy, is he really, he's throwing stones
when he's in this glass house of unearned
wealth, right?
He's acting as if he's like some working class
union leader.
No, homeboy, you inherited a ton of wealth
and you're literally getting paid millions
of dollars to spew your hatred at Fox News.
Michelle Obama, on the other hand, is completely
self-made, worked her way up, okay?
That is an American success story, whereas
Tucker Carlson is honestly an example of old
money, someone who was able to inherit and
get this giant head start over everyone else.
>> Yeah.
>> And the fact that he uses this populist
message and then immediately switches to the
racism and hatred should really clearly message
to everyone, including people on the left,
who I think sometimes can be a little gullible
what his real agenda is here.
His agenda isn't like, I feel really bad about
working Americans.
We need to fight for justice.
No, no, no, he uses that type of language,
much like Trump did, in order to immediately
pivot toward we need to end immigration.
We need to hate these groups of people, that
group of people.
That's who Tucker Carlson is.
So don't be fooled by his rhetoric.
He couldn't care less about people suffering,
couldn't care less about people living on
the streets.
If I remember correctly, he was one of these
clowns who was demonizing homeless people
not too long ago, So I'm just not buying any-
>> Yeah, no-
>> Of Tucker Carlson's ridiculous populism.
>> He has to do that.
I mean, Bernie Sanders is a populist so he
wants people to get paid more.
Tucker Carlson is a populist so that he can
get more people to be white supremacists.
That's really all it is.
And he is trying desperately to craft this
image that he's some sort of populist.
So what he does in this story, and in fact,
if we get to the second story about him, anytime
he disagrees with someone who happens to be
rich, even if it has nothing to do with the
disagreement, he calls them rich.
So that it sounds like he's a populist or
that he's not an elitist because, look, he's
sort of technically attacking a rich person.
But, okay, Michelle Obama's rich.
Is that the problem that you had with her
speech?
Or you don't like George Soros.
What does that have to do with income inequality
or in the Cardi B story that we're gonna talk
about?
He talks about how these record labels are
rich.
That doesn't have anything to do with the
lyrics of her song.
It's this weird wrapping paper of concern
about out of control elites that's supposed
to trick you into believing that he actually
has a populist policies that he wants to put
into effect.
He does it.
He supports Republican economic philosophy
100% of the time, but he is desperately trying
to build this brand.
And that is why you're gonna see more totally
substance-free attacks against one rich individual
or another on his show from now on.
>> And by the way, I mean, we all remember
what a big deal Republicans made about Benghazi.
And if Tucker Carlson's numbers were true
and only eight black men died because of police
shootings this year, that's two Benghazis.
And Republicans never shut their mouths about
Benghazi.
So it's just, it is kind of incredible how
numbers only matter when it comes to their
own political agenda.
But look, I'm actually gonna skip ahead now
cuz I've had enough of Tucker Carlson.
I wanna talk about Brit Hume because Brit
Hume relied on an incredibly old school racist
trope to share his expert commentary on Michelle
Obama.
This speech tonight by Joe Biden was tremendously
effective in the sense that it didn't have
the hard, angry edge that we heard last night
to a considerable extent from Michelle Obama.
And she highlighted things about Joe Biden's
character and temperament that were touched
on by others which are real.
>> So now I wanna go to Michelle Obama's speech.
This is just a snippet.
This was honestly the spiciest moment of her
speech and you judge for yourselves if she
comes across as angry in any way.
>> Let me be as honest and clear as I possibly
can.
Donald Trump is the wrong president for our
country.
He has had more than enough time to prove
that he can do the job but he is clearly in
over his head.
He cannot meet this moment.
He simply cannot be who we need him to be
for us.
It is what it is.
Now understand that my message won't be heard
by some people.
We live in a nation that is deeply divided
and I am a black woman speaking at the Democratic
Convention, but enough of you know me by now.
You know that I tell you exactly what I'm
feeling.
You know I hate politics.
But you also know that I care about this nation.
You know how much I care about all of our
children.
So if you take one thing from my words tonight,
it is this.
If you think things cannot possibly get worse,
trust me they can and they will if we don't
make a change in this election.
>> That's every political speech I've ever
heard in my life, not angry at all.
>> Has Brit Hume ever listened to a single
segment with Jeanine Pirro?
Just one, just one?
>> She said Trump-
>> Just one?
>> Is the wrong president for our country,
that's it.
That's nicer than anything Fox News is gonna
say about Joe Biden tonight by far, by far.
But it doesn't matter.
Brit Hume and all of them because Tucker Carlson
is as much an old-fashioned prude as him.
You'll see that in a story or two.
They want women to be docile and not rile
people up and just be polite and all of that.
Be lady-like, they seriously do.
That's all it is.
It doesn't matter who they are or how old
they are, they fundamentally do.
They want, if you're not white, you need to
be quiet.
If you're a woman, you need to be quiet.
Just honestly, just be quiet and just leave
us alone.
And we'll pretend that we will listen to your
concerns if you'll do that, but of course,
we won't.
What we want you to do is we want you to be
so easily ignored that we can just do it and
not even have to notice that we're doing it.
It's the approach to Michelle Obama when she's
speaking.
It's the approach to the civil rights protests
when they're going on.
They just want things to be nice and quiet
and for people to not fight back when they're
being crushed.
That's all it is.
