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>> Tucker: GOOD EVENING AND
WELCOME TO "TUCKER CARLSON
TONIGHT."
TONIGHT, THE TRUE MEASURE OF CHA
WISE MAN ONCE SAID IS NOT WHEN
YOU MAKE A MISTAKE.
ALL OF US DO.
BUT WHEN YOU LEARN FROM THAT
MISTAKE.
WITH THOSE WORDS IN MIND WE
WOULD LIKE TO BEGIN TONIGHT WITH
AN ADMISSION.
IT IS CONTRITION NIGHT ON
FOX NEWS, IT IS TIME TO REASSESS
OUR VIEW OF KAMALA HARRIS.
IF YOU WATCH THE SHOW YOU KNOW
FOR MORE THAN A YEAR WE’VE HAD
OUR PRETTY CONVENTIONAL
UNDERSTANDING OF OUR FIRST
BLACK/INDIAN/CANADIAN
VICE PRESIDENT WHO ALSO HAPPENS
TO IDENTIFY AS A WOMAN.
WE HAVE ASSUMED THAT
KAMALA HARRIS WAS HISTORICALLY
UNPOPULAR BECAUSE SHE IS
HISTORICALLY INCOMPETENT AND
FAKE.
WE ASSUME SHE EARNED HER LOW
APPROVAL NUMBERS AND WE ARE NOT
ALONE IN THAT PAIR LOTS OF OTHER
PEOPLE HAVE COME TO THE VERY
SAME CONCLUSION.
THERE IS CURRENTLY A DEBATE
AMONG SOFTWARE ENGINEERS ABOUT
WHETHER PARIS IS EVEN OF
BIOLOGICAL ORIGIN OR THE PRODUCT
OF A GOVERNMENTAL AI PROJECT
ONLINE.
WE DON’T UNDERSTAND THE ANSWER
BUT WE UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION,
SHE IS THAT SYNTHETIC.
AGAIN, UNTIL THE OTHER DAY WE
ASSUMED THAT PEOPLE DON’T LIKE
KAMALA HARRIS BECAUSE SHE IS
HIGHLY UNLIKABLE.
KEEP IN MIND THAT EVEN HER OWN
HUSBAND KISSES HER WITH A MASK
ON.
TO US, THAT SEEMED LIKE A PRETTY
CLEAR SIGN.
BUT WE ARE HERE TONIGHT TO TELL
YOU THAT ASSUMPTIONS CAN CHANGE.
EVEN ASSUMPTIONS ROOTED IN
OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE AND
OBSERVABLE REALITY.
SOMETIMES, AND THIS HAPPENS,
YOUR ENTIRE WORLDVIEW CAN FLIP
UPSIDE DOWN INSTANTLY, INVERT IN
A FLASH OF LIGHT.
OUR ROAD TO THIS EXPERIENCE CAME
WHEN WE SAW THIS CLIP FROM
JOY REID FROM MSNBC DOING A
DRIVE TIME RADIO SHOW.
WATCHING IT, WE REALIZED THE
PROBLEM ISN’T KAMALA HARRIS.
OF THE PROBLEM US.
SO TAKE A LOOK AT THIS.
OPEN YOUR MIND A LITTLE BIT AND
SEE IF YOU DON’T COME TO THOSE
SAME A LIFE-CHANGING CONCLUSION
THAT WE DID.
HERE’S JOY REID.
>> I THINK FOR KAMALA HARRIS,
SHE HAS HAD LIKE I’M OF THE
TRIPLE PROBLEM OF BEING A WOMAN,
SO PEOPLE NOT BEING ABLE TO
RESPECT HER THE WAY THEY WILL
RESPECT A MALE VICE PRESIDENT.
BEING BLACK, WE ALREADY KNOW
WHAT THAT CARRIES WITH IT, THE
ANTI-BLACKNESS COMES WITH THE
PACKAGE.
ALSO BEING VICE PRESIDENT AT A
TIME WHERE IT IS REALLY WITH A
DIFFICULT.
>> I THOUGHT ABOUT THIS ALL THE
TIME, MADAM VICE PRESIDENT, SHE
WENT TO HOWARD, AND WHEN SHE
TALKS TO YOU, --
>> SHE’S A REGULAR.
>> SHE IS REGULAR AND SOCIABLE
AND IT’S UNFORTUNATE THAT MORE
PEOPLE DON’T SEE THAT PAIR THERE
IS ALSO THE DUMBING DOWN OF THE
AMERICAN ELECTORATE.
PEOPLE DON’T UNDERSTAND CIVICS,
THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND POLITICS,
THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW THINGS
WORK.
>> Tucker: DID YOU HEAR THAT?
HAVE YOU INTERNALIZED IT?
HAVE YOU BROUGHT IT DEEP INSIDE
AND LET IT MARINADE A LITTLE
BIT?
PEOPLE WHO DON’T LIKE, HERE IS
OUR SEXIST OBVIOUSLY, LIKE
ADMIRAL RACHEL LEVINE, SHE
IDENTIFIES AS A WOMAN TOO APPEAR
THEY ARE ALSO RACIST BECAUSE SHE
IS THE DAUGHTER OF A JAMAICAN
COLLEGE PROFESSOR.
THEY ARE ALSO STUPID BY
DEFINITION.
THEY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT CIVICS
OR AMERICAN POLITICS.
THIS IS THE DUMBING DOWN OF
AMERICA.
UNLIKE KAMALA HARRIS, YOU DON’T
"UNDERSTAND HOW THINGS WORK."
SO THE TAKEAWAYS, HERE IS ISN’T
UNPOPULAR BECAUSE SHE IS A BAD
PERSON, SHE IS UNPOPULAR BECAUSE
YOU ARE A BAD PERSON.
YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.
YOUR RACISM IS HURTING
KAMALA HARRIS’ POLITICAL CAREER.
THEN WE REALIZED, HOW ABOUT THIS
FOR MIND-BENDING, JOY REID IS
TALKING ABOUT US.
THEN WE BROKE DOWN AND SHED THE
BITTER TEARS OF SELF-AWARENESS
IN OUR JOURNEY OF EDUCATION
BEGAN.
WE WANTED TO KNOW MORE.
WE FOUND AN INTERVIEW WITH A
BLACK SUPREMACIST WEBSITE CALLED
A BREW THAT IS NOW A PERMANENT
FIXTURE IN OUR FAVORITES TAB.
SHE’S THE CHILD OF WELL-EDUCATED
AFRICAN AMERICANS AND WENT TO
HARVARD.
NATURALLY SHE HAS A GUT LEVEL
EXPERIENCE OF BEING BLACK IN
AMERICA THAT WE DO WHEN YOU ARE
FROM DENVER AND YOU WENT TO
HARVARD, IT IS PART OF YOU.
LIKE KAMALA HARRIS GROWING UP IN
MONTREAL.
AS JOY REID PUT IT, KAMALA IS
JUST A REGULAR SISTER IN THE WAY
THAT PEOPLE SAY MICHELLE OBAMA’S
LIKE YOUR SISTER IF YOUR COUSIN
BECAME FIRST LADY.
KAMALA HARRIS IS LIKE IF YOUR
COUSIN BECAME VICE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES.
I DON’T THINK SHE GETS TO SHOW
THAT PERSONALITY OFTEN ENOUGH SO
PEOPLE DON’T GET A CHANCE TO
KNOW HER.
ARE YOU FOLLOWING THIS CUSTOMER
KAMALA HARRIS IS LIKE YOUR
SISTER IN THE SAME WAY THAT
MICHELLE OBAMA WOULD BE YOUR
SISTER IF YOUR SISTER WAS YOUR
COUSIN AND ALSO MARRIED TO THE
PRESIDENT.
WHY HAVEN’T WE REALIZED THAT
BEFORE.
AS JOY REID POINTED OUT, MOST OF
THE MEDIA IS STILL WHITE AND
MALE.
THOSE DAMN WHITE MALES ALWAYS
HIDING THE SISTER-COUSIN
CONNECTION.
AND FOR THE FIRST TIME WE CAN
SEE THAT OUR RACISM HAD BLINDED
US FOR SO LONG AND THE TRUTH
HURT, IT WAS SO PAINFUL THAT
FOUR DAYS WE HAD TO WEAR
SUNGLASSES EVEN INDOORS BEER BUT
WAS WORTH IT, BECAUSE
AT THAT POINT, WE BEGAN A JOURNE
OF CONTRITION AND SELF-DISCOVERY
THAT WAS HONESTLY WELL OVERDUE.
LIKE ADAM KINZINGER WE FINALLY
FACED THE TRUTH ABOUT OURSELVES
AND WERE MOVED TO WEEPING BY
WHAT WE SOW.
HOW COULD WE BE SO DARN RACIST?
THAT IS WHAT WE ARE ASKING
OURSELVES IN THE FADING LIGHT OF
THIS YEAR’S JUNETEENTH
OBSERVANCE FOR THAT WAS THE OLD
US.
WE SHUT IT LIKE A SNAKE SKIN.
IT’S TIME TO CHANGE, IT’S TIME
TO DO BETTER, IT’S TIME TO THINK
A NEW TONIGHT WE THOUGHT WE KNEW
ABOUT KAMALA HARRIS.
SO WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A LOOK
AT SOME OF THE SOUND BITES WE
HAVE MOCKED ON THE SHOW OF THE
LAST YEAR TO HAVE AN BOY,
DOESN’T IT FEEL GOOD JUST TO
ADMIT FAULT?
IF YOU SAY TO THE WORLD, YES, WE
ARE NOT PERFECT, WE GET IT WRONG
SOMETIMES BUT NOT ANYMORE.
WE HAVE FRESH EYES, AND WITH
THOSE EYES WE ARE GOING TO
ASSESS THIS FOOTAGE IN A
BRAND-NEW WAY.
HERE’S TAPE OF HARRY IS
REPEATING THE VERY SAME LINE
ABOUT "SPEAKING TRUTH."
WE USED TO MAKE FUN OF THIS.
NOT ANYMORE.
>> ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
VALUES I THINK WE MUST FIGHT FOR
IS TO SPEAK TRUTH.
>> AND WE WILL SPEAK TRUTH ABOUT
THE INJUSTICE.
WE WILL SPEAK TRUTH ABOUT THE
INEQUITY.
WE WILL SPEAK TRUTH ABOUT THE
UNFAIRNESS.
>> AND LET’S SPEAK TRUTH.
LET’S SPEAK TRUTH.
>> SO LET’S SPEAK SOME TRUTH.
>> AND WE MUST SPEAK TRUTH NO
MATTER HOW UNCOMFORTABLE IT MAY
BE TO HEAR.
WE NEED TO SPEAK TRUTH.
>> WE’VE GOT TO SPEAK TRUTH.
ONE MUST SPEAK THE TRUTH.
>> AND THAT WE SPEAK TRUTH.
>> AND WE MUST HAVE THE COURAGE
TO SPEAK TRUTH.
>> SOMEONE WHO HAS THE COURAGE
TO SPEAK TRUTH.
>> LET’S SPEAK THE BIGGEST
TRUTH, THE BIGGEST TRUTH OF ALL.
>> Tucker: SO OUR ASSUMPTION
FOR DECADES WAS THAT POLITICIANS
WHO MAKE A HABIT OF USING THE
WORD "TRUTH" ARE PROBABLY REALLY
BY DEFINITION LYING.
AT THAT IS WHY THEY SAY "TRUTH"
SO OFTEN.
I’M NOT CHEATING, I PROMISE!
BUT WHAT REALLY STRUCK US, THE
OLD US IS THE FACT THAT KAMALA,
OR KAMALA -- IT DOESN’T MATTER
HOW YOU PRONOUNCE HER NAME.
IT DOESN’T MATTER, THAT IS WHAT
WE REALIZED.
BUT WHAT STRUCK US IS THAT SHE
REPEATS THE SAME LINE AGAIN AND
AGAIN AND AGAIN.
OUR OLD REACTION WAS DERISION.
NOT EXACT THE SOCRATES, THAT WAS
THE PHRASE TO USE.
BUT THAT REACTION, WE NOW SEE,
COMES FROM A PLACE OF PRIVILEGE.
DECONSTRUCT YOUR UNCONSCIOUS
BIAS AND ASK YOURSELF, WHAT A BE
CAPABLE OF REPEATING THE SAME
CANNED PHRASE DOZENS OF TIMES
WITH THIS KIND OF PRECISION
WITHOUT CHANGING A SINGLE FACIAL
EXPRESSION?
OH, NO!
A TRY THAT AT HOME, YOU CAN’T DO
IT. YOU ARE SO DUMB IT
TOO SELF-AWARE.
BUT NOT KAMALA HARRIS, SHE HAS
WHAT IT TAKES TO REPEAT HERSELF
IN VERBATIM FOR DAYS AT A TIME,
BEHAVING AS IF EACH TIME IS THE
FIRST TIME.
WE STAND CORRECTED, AND WE STAND
IN AWE.
HERE SHE WAS IN MAY TELLING US
ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF, AND WE
ARE QUOTING, WORKING TOGETHER.
>> WE WILL WORK TOGETHER AND
CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER TO
ADDRESS THESE ISSUES, TO TACKLE
THESE CHALLENGES, AND WORK
TOGETHER, OPERATING FROM THE NEW
NORMS, RULES AND AGREEMENTS THAT
WE WILL CONVENE TO WORK TOGETHER
ON.
>> Tucker: AGAIN, WE LAUGHED
AT THAT CLIFF, WE’VE DONE IT
MORE THAN ONCE.
IT FEELS GOOD TO ADMIT IT.
AT THE TIME WE ASSUMED
KAMALA HARRIS JUST GOT LOST IN
THE MIDDLE OF A SENTENCE, SHE
COULDN’T FIND HER WAY OUT.
TOGETHER, WORKING TOGETHER, HOW
TO MAKE IT OUT OF THE SENTENCE?
TOGETHER.
NOW WE SEE WHAT IS REALLY
HAPPENING HERE.
KAMALA HARRIS FULLY UNDERSTANDS
THE IMPORTANCE OF WORKING
TOGETHER.
NOT JUST WORKING, BUT TOGETHER.
WORKING TOGETHER.
THAT IS NOT SOMETHING WE SHOULD
NOT, THAT IS BRILLIANT AND
SCIENCE HAS PROVEN ITS
BRILLIANCE.
TEN YEARS AGO RESEARCHERS AT
TRINITY COLLEGE IN DUBLIN,
IRELAND, FOUNDED WE ARE QUOTING,
PROOF THAT EVOLUTION OF
INTELLIGENCE AND LARGER BRAIN
SIZES CAN BE DRIVEN BY -- OR DO
YOU KNOW WHAT BY, AND WE ARE
QUOTING -- COOPERATION AND
TEAMWORK.
ANOTHERIN OTHER WORDS, WORKING
TOGETHER.
SO WHEN KAMALA HARRIS TELLS US
AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN THAT
WE NEED TO WORK TOGETHER, SHE IS
NOT SIMPLY REPEATING SOME VAPID,
CANDID SOUND BITE SHE’S BEEN
HANDED BY HER HANDLERS.
NO, SHE IS LITERALLY, LITERALLY
MOVING HUMAN EVOLUTION FORWARD.
SHE IS MAKING THE SPECIES BETTER
ON A CELLULAR LEVEL.
HOW LONG UNTIL WE CAN FLY?
IF KAMALA HARRIS KEEPS IT UP,
NOT LONG.
SHE DOES THIS ALL THE TIME.
SHE MAKES US BETTER.
AND AS SHE DOES, SHE DOES HER
HOMEWORK.
AS JOY REID TOLD US, IT IS THE
DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA, THE
DUMMIES HERE CAN’T SEE IT, BUT,,
HERE IS CAN BECAUSE SHE’S DONE
THE WORK.
HERE SHE IS TALKING TO KIDS AT
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF
HISTORY.
>> TODAY IS THE DAY TO CELEBRATE FREEDOM.
AND THINK ABOUT IT IN TERMS OF
THE CONTEXT OF YEAR HISTORY,
KNOWING THAT BLACK PEOPLE IN
AMERICA WERE NOT FREE FOR 400 YEARS OF SLAVERY.
>> Tucker: OKAY, AGAIN, THERE
ARE A COUPLE DIFFERENT WAYS TO
ASSESS THAT COIN.
THE OLD US, BEFORE WE WERE
REBORN, AND SINCE WE ARE DEALING
WITH CLICHES WE ARE GOING TO
COMPARE OURSELVES TO A PHOENIX,
BEFORE WE ROSE FROM THE ASHES OF
A NEW COME OF THE OLD US
WOULD’VE SAID, WAIT A SECOND,
KAMALA HARRIS, AFRICAN AMERICANS
WEREN’T ACTUALLY ENSLAVED
FOR
400 YEARS IN THIS COUNTRY.
THAT’S NOT TRUE.
BUT WE WOULD’VE MISSED THE
POINT.
IF SO WOULD HAVE BEEN HERE’S THE
KAMALA HARRIS BEFORE HER TALK
GOOGLED HOW LONG WAS THERE
SLAVERY IN AMERICA AND SHE
SOUGHT HAS BEEN 400 YEARS SINCE
SLAVERY BEGAN IN AMERICA, WHICH
IS TRUE.
BUT SHE FORGOT TO SUBTRACT THE
YEARS SINCE THE EMANCIPATION
PROCLAMATION.
IT’S ACTUALLY FEWER THAN 400.
ABOUT 150 YEARS FEWER THAN 400,
WHICH WOULD PUT US AROUND 250.
BUT WHATEVER.
THAT IS NOT HER FAULT, IT IS
GOOGLE’S FAULT FOR NOT DOING THE
SUBTRACTION FOR HER.
TALK ABOUT A FALLING SHORT OF
THE PROMISE OF THE INTERNET.
YOU KNOW WHO RUNS GOOGLE?
JOY REID, ANYONE?
WHITE MEN.
GOOGLE HAS ALREADY ADMITTED.
NOT CONVINCED YET?
THEN YOU ARE JUST A BAD PERSON
AND YOU ARE ALSO JEALOUS.
YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE JEALOUS OF
ABOVE ALL?
NOT JUST THE BRILLIANCE, NOT
JUST THE TENACITY, YOU ARE
JEALOUS OF KAMALA, OR KAMALA,
DOESN’T MATTER.
YOU ARE JEALOUS OF HER JOY.
>> WHAT DID YOU THINK WHEN YOU
WATCH THAT HEARING? >> I WILL TELL YOU, JOY.
>> I WILL TELL YOU, JOY.
I EXPERIENCED GREAT JOY WHEN I WATCHED THIS BRILLIANT,
WATCHED THIS BRILLIANT,
PHENOMENAL BLACK WOMAN JURIST BE
SO SMART, AND I WATCHED THAT
WITH INCREDIBLE JOY.
BECAUSE IT WAS JUST BRILLIANCE
BEING DISPLAYED FOR THE ENTIRE
COUNTRY TO SEE.
AND I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE -- THAT
WILL ONLY BE MATCHED BY THE JOY THAT I EXPERIENCE WHEN I SEE HER
THAT I EXPERIENCE WHEN I SEE HER
TAKE THE OATH TO BE THE NEXT
JUSTICE ON THE UNITED STATES
SUPREME COURT.
>> Tucker: NOT JUST BRILLIANT,
BUT ALSO PHENOMENAL.
SO ASK YOURSELF, AND BE TOTALLY
HONEST AND PUT THE THESAURUS
AWAY.
HOW MANY SYNONYMS COULD YOU COME
UP WITH IN A ROW
EXTEMPORANEOUSLY?
JUST, TOP OF YOUR HEAD.
NOT JUST BRILLIANT, BUT
PHENOMENAL?
COULD YOU DO THAT?
NO, YOU COULDN’T.
BY THE WAY, YOU DON’T HAVE HER