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Controversial Fox News presenter Tucker Carlton blasphemed female soldiers on his show. The combative reactions are not long in coming.
- Tucker Carlton, Moderator des Senders Fox News, describes female soldiers as “ridicule of US military“.
- Im Pentagon, the Ministry of Defense of USA, one reacts with a clear attitude.
- On Twitter make soldiers of the US-Armee her anger at the Donald Trump-Pendant Air.
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Washington D.C. – Der Fox News-Moderator Tucker Carlton made his show about soldiers in the earlier this week US-Armee funny. Among conservatives and Trumpisten it was well received – the US Department of Defense im Pentagon saw it quite differently and not only positioned itself with a large article on their website. The controversial moderator encountered even stronger headwinds Twitter, after which he called the women soldiers “ridicule of US military“Had designated.
Im Pentagon one reacted immediately to the hostilities of the moderator: On the website of the US-Armee An entire article is published, quoting from a morning address given by Press Secretary John Kirby on Thursday. In this one, Kirby holds the US-Armee high – especially because it is more diverse than any other in the world. “It’s one of our greatest strengths,” said Kirby. And a job that is considered a male job in conservative circles also includes women.
US Military Press Secretary John Kirby during a 2019 radio interview.
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USA: Pentagon defends US Army women against Fox News host and Trump fan
That’s why it was to the statement of Pentagons also a photo published, which shows more than 30 African American women in New York at a Military academy be formed. A provocation for the Fox-News-Moderator who associates strength exclusively with masculinity and also stands out with his racist tendencies. “We’re not going to take staff advice from a talk show host,” Kirby clarified in his speech.
Tucker Carlson is a popular – and equally controversial – presenter for the right-wing national-conservative broadcaster Fox News has a popular politics show on prime time. There and on Twitter he often worried about the politics of the USA and his Pro-Trump stance for headlines.
The Fox News presenter and Trump fan Tucker Carlson often causes controversy with his opinion
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About the transmitter Fox News there are generally controversial opinions. In recent years he had very explicitly sided with Donald Trump posed as President of the United States – what at Trump and met with approval from his followers. With the foreseeable end of the term of office and the 2020 US election distanced himself Fox News but something and sometimes also reported critically. About the future direction of the station should be under Fox News employees a dispute broke out: at Trumps Former favorite broadcaster, there are numerous employees who are still passionate supporters of the former present. You want the transmitter to be at his Pro-Trump-Kurswhich even goes too far for many Republicans.
Fox News: The presenter has often caused a scandal, now he insulted women soldiers in the US military
To this Pro-Trump-Employees of Fox-News – and thus to the critics of the current government under the democratic president Joe Biden – also counts Tucker Carlson. The 51-year-old, who has been with the station since 2009 Fox News works, has often caused controversy in the past with polarizing statements. The became famous Fox-News Last moderator when he was the 2020 US election elected president Joe Biden in his show “as a remote-controlled puppet of the rich and the tech industry who want to bring America into line and turn it into an oligarchy”. Another case that makes Carlson’s position abundantly clear came in the spring of 2020 when a 17-year-old in Wisconsin took two Black-Lives-Matter-Demonstrierende shot – and the Fox-News-Moderator justified the act by saying that the perpetrator had thereby ensured law and order because the authorities had failed.
This Trump supporter wears a Tucker Carlson photo t-shirt and holds a “Stop the Steal” sign.
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USA: For International Women’s Day, the Pentagon developed uniforms for pregnant women soldiers
This time his attack hit the US-Armee and their female soldiers, more precisely: the pregnant women female soldiers. The presenter described this in his prime-time broadcast as the “mockery of the US military” Military. The occasion was a photo of a female soldier posing with a baby bump in her matching army uniform. This clothing was dated Pentagon newly acquired. The uniforms for women during the pregnancy were on the occasion of this year’s International Women’s Day presented for the first time on March 8th.
Fox News presenter describes pregnant women soldiers as a weakness for the US military
„Pregnant women Women will fight our wars, ”complained the presenter on his show Fox News – and saw that as an indictment of the country that military and the USA under the government of Joe Biden. He compared the situation of the US-Armee with photos of the Chinese military, which is the world’s largest army and is “becoming more masculine”.
Against hostility, criticism and attempts at exposure by the Fox-News-Moderator was published in Pentagon, the seat of US military, the statement on the website – and also makes its position clear by adding the US-Armee take part in a “Womens History Month” – the month of women in history. But not only that Pentagon did not let the hostilities sit on him, even numerous people in the USA, especially soldiers, felt called to like Tucker Carlton on the Internet and social networks Twitter to show that they do not share his opinion at all.
US soldiers defend themselves on Twitter against the hostility of the Fox News presenter
So did a leading commander in the Space Marines Twitter voiced in a video. In it he criticizes “Drama TV” programs from Fox News, praises the work of women in the event of a pregnancy would of course be used taking medical aspects into account, but still important work for that military and the USA Afford. He also stresses that Tucker Carlton has never been with the US-Armee served.
Sergent Michal A. Grinston tweeted that in the past there have been many women with character troops US-Armee and will continue to do so in the future for that military will do. General John B. Richardson also added to the discussion about the broadcast Fox News on Thursday added his point of view and wrote down Twitter: “Mothers in uniform fight and win our country’s wars.” Fathers do the same for them USA. “Soldier: in” is not a term that refers to a specific gender.
She knows what she’s talking about: Former soldier and now Senator Tammy Duckworth speaking at the U.S. Capitol in November 2020.
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Even a Canadian military station in the USA is stationed, responded to Carlson’s testimony Fox News. She jokingly commented on one of Tucker’s posts with the words: Just cut our bangs. Illinois Senator and noted former soldier Tammy Duckworth vented her anger. She wrote in one Twitter-Post: “While Tucker Carlson was rehearsing his performance, female American fighters prove the strength of American women in the fight against Al-Qaeda.” Fox-News-Moderatordoing dance moves in front of cameras. “Happy International Women’s Day to everyone – just not for Tucker. Even I can dance better than him. ”Democrat Duckworth fought for them in the Iraq war US-Armee and lost a leg in 2004. (Sophie Vorgrimler)
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