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Conservative media was out in full force on Monday reacting to Sunday night’s Primetime Emmy Awards, but rather than expressing delight that their old pal Sean Spicer was treated to such a warm and forgiving welcome by a liberal elite like Stephen Colbert, Fox News’s Tucker Carlson instead took exception to a red-carpet comment from Insecure star Issa Rae, who, when asked by a Variety reporter who she was rooting for, quipped, “Everybody black.”
Carlson, in his trademark faux-folksy fashion, expressed ignorance towards Rae — calling her “an actress called Issa Rae” and mispronouncing her name — before calling her comments “open race hostility,” and then attempting to pivot to the claim that Hollywood elites hate regular people and that liberal politics are ruining art. Truly, art has no better advocate that Tucker Carlson.
Carlson’s rant then meandered around for a bit — he complained about the “wooden stupidity of The Handmaid’s Tale” winning Outstanding Drama — before returning to Rae’s comments during his discussion with Johns Hopkins professor Wendy Osefo. At which point Carlson characterized Rae rooting for black people to win as a kind of reverse racism. “I think looking at the world like that,” Carlson mused, “gets you to Civil War, actually.”
No word yet on whether anybody has since informed Tucker Carlson on what actually got us into a Civil War.
