Fox News’ Tucker Carlson attacked Gen. Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Thursday night, calling him a “pig” and “stupid” after he defended teaching critical race theory to military officers during a House hearing on Wednesday.
During his monologue, Carlson played a section of Gen. Milley’s comments before the House Armed Services Committee in which he defended reading books with different ideas from Karl Marx and Lenin.
‘I’ve read Karl Marx, I’ve read Lenin, that doesn’t make me me a communist. What is wrong with having some situational understanding of the country which we are here to defend? It’s offensive that we are accusing our military, our general officers, our noncommissioned officers who are coming up, of being “Woke,”‘ Gen. Milley said.
Carlson laughed then said: “He’s not just a pig, he’s stupid.”
“So Mark Milley reads Mao to understand Maoism and he reads communists to understand communism, but it’s interesting that he doesn’t read white supremacists to understand white supremacy. Why not go to the source?,” Carlson continued. “Because Mark Milley would be fired instantly if he read those books. And getting fired is the one thing he doesn’t want. So he reads about white rage as if it’s totally real. It’s a medical condition. And by the way, since it’s a medical condition, at what age can you catch white rage?”
The Fox News host also told his viewers that Milley did not get to be the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs because he is respected or experienced. Carlson said he got the job because “he knows who to suck up to.”
“Mark Milley is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,” Carlson said. “He didn’t get that job because he’s brilliant or because he’s brave or because the people who know him respect him. He is not and they definitely don’t. Milley got the job because he is obsequious. He knows who to suck up to and he’s more than happy to do it. Feed him a script, and he will read it.”
