Speaker 1: All right.
Let's take a little bit of a dove into the deep end of the pool of hypocrisy.
I know hypocrisy doesn't matter on the American right anymore.
I know that they will say anything and then say the opposite if it becomes politically
convenient to make a different claim.
I know I'm very much aware of that, but this is sort of a new low.
Some of you may be familiar with Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw.
Dan Crenshaw is a military veteran and while he was in the military due to an injury, he
lost an eye and he wears an eye patch over one eye.
Dan Crenshaw's political ideas are absolutely terrible.
I find his views on almost every political issue disgusting.
But we don't make fun of him for having lost an eye.
That doesn't make any sense.
That's vile.
That's gross.
Well, this weekend I'm sorry, not this weekend.
Earlier this week.
No, it was this weekend.
Tucker Carlson referred to Congressman Dan Crenshaw as I patch McCain, ridiculing his
physical appearance as a result of the fact that he lost an eye through military service.
Military service.
Which Tucker Carlson, of course, has never done.
Notably, Tucker said this while he was interviewing former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who also
is a military veteran.
Listen to what Tucker Carlson had to say.
If you're watching, check out the sort of non reaction from Tulsi.
Speaker 4: The more I think about it, it takes a lot of gall for eye patch McCain to attack
moms who worry about baby formula as, quote, pro-Russia.
I mean, that's probably one of the most outrageous things I think I've ever heard.
Now that I'm thinking about it mean, why don't just answer the question why?
Why the attacks?
What does that tell you?
Speaker 1: Eye patch McCain.
Eye patch McCain.
Well, it turns out that this is not just generally a contradiction of Tucker's typical view of
we respect the military and people who have served the country and all this different
stuff.
Tucker has actually specifically attacked people in the past for making fun of Dan Crenshaw's
eye patch.
We have video of this.
The guys over at Midas Touch actually made it a side by side.
And on the left of your screen, you're going to see what Tucker had to say back in November
of 2018.
In November of 2018, comedian Pete Davidson kind of made fun of Dan Crenshaw's eye patch,
and Tucker attacked him.
And then on the right, you will again see what Tucker said over the weekend.
Take a look at this.
Speaker 4: Texas congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw lost an eye to an IED in Afghanistan
on Saturday.
Actor Pete Davidson mocked him as one of the, quote, really gross people running for office
this year.
Oh, my God.
He added, I'm sorry.
I know he lost his eye in war or whatever.
Speaker 1: Now understand that even in saying that Pete Davidson isn't even really making
fun of the eyepatch, Pete Davidson was saying Dan Crenshaw is a disgusting political candidate
and he's like, I know he lost an eye in war or whatever.
Sure, the war or whatever is callous, but he's not even really making fun of the fact
that he wears an eyepatch.
He's just saying.
Eye patch aside, I find him to be a disgusting candidate.
And Tucker thought that that was offensive and said it was inappropriate.
And then again, here's Tucker on.
It was indeed Monday night.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So that's their position.
And they're not hiding it anymore.
Useful for you to know?
The more I think about it, it takes a lot of gall for eye patch McCain to attack moms
who are worried about baby formula as, quote, pro-Russia.
I mean, what.
Speaker 1: A guy, huh?
What a guy.
It's actually much worse for Tucker to do this than Pete Davidson, to be perfectly frank,
aside from the point that Pete Davidson wasn't even really making fun of it, he was just
a little bit dismissive of, okay, I mean, he lost an eye in war or whatever, but he's
still a bad candidate.
Callous, but.
But not making fun of it.
It's worse for Tucker to do this because Tucker knows Dan Crenshaw story.
He knows Dan Crenshaw's biography.
He knows exactly how Dan Crenshaw lost his eye.
And I think at the time, at least, Pete Davidson had a very limited understanding of Dan Crenshaw
situation.
But I know you know, this pointing out hypocrisy no longer has an impact when we are up against
people whose view is win at all costs, attack the other side at all costs, even for things
that we do when that's their approach, when that's their perspective.
This type of hypocrisy doesn't actually matter.
Making fun of Dan Crenshaw's eye patch used to be a terrible sin when Pete Davidson did
it.
But now it's fine because Crenshaw said something Tucker Carlson didn't like.
And Tulsi Gabbard also didn't like what Dan Crenshaw said.
And again.
I'm not defending Crenshaw as a politician.
Crenshaw's horrible.
His policy ideas are terrible.
He spreads all sorts of disinformation about economics and what he believes socialism to
be.
We've done a ton, you know, maybe five or six different clips debunking the things Crenshaw
has said.
But these are the people that supposedly respect the troops, support the troops, honor military
service, eyepatch McCain.
And by the way, McCain, I can only assume that Tucker is maybe seeing Crenshaw as in
the line of the late Senator John McCain, which I can only imagine and infer is also
not great as far as Tucker is concerned.
I don't know.
We know that late in his life, John McCain had some kind of departures from some elements
of the Republican Party.
It's all vile.
It's all gross.
And his viewers will never, ever, ever hold him accountable
for it.