The View Attacks Tucker Carlson as a Russian Agent

BUCK: I’m glad The View exists, ’cause if it didn’t, we’d have to make it up.

CLAY: What if they played our clips on The View?

BUCK: (doing impression) “Some horrible thing called the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show…” The tears that would flow just from having to read our names aloud.

CLAY: I would love if we got a real feud going where The View would take clips from our show and they’d be like these are the two dumbest people on the planet.

BUCK: “Clay Travis once referred to his love of the First Amendment and boobs!”

CLAY: Oh.

BUCK: Oh. Good heavens. So here they are, though —

CLAY: Clutching the pearls.

BUCK: They actually want — at least one of them, wants — a full federal government investigation, it seems, of our buddy Tucker Carlson, ’cause Tucker says things that they don’t like, so sick the government on him. Play it.

BUCK: Just so everyone understands, that’s Ana Navarro, who I will say — and I don’t say this to be unkind, I say this to observe accurately — among the dumbest political analysts you will ever hear from in your entire life, and I know ’cause I actually sat on some panels with her at CNN. Here she is saying that the federal government should investigate — this on TV; there are a couple million people, unfortunately, watching this. The federal government should investigate Tucker Carlson for being a Russian propagandist.

Now, normally, Clay, we could ignore this. “Oh, they’re so dumb. They’re so…” Does this sound like something Jen Psaki would say? Does it sound like it? The Biden administration was pushing and is pushing — we didn’t even talk about this — for more covid misinformation data to be handed over to them from the social media companies. That’s a real assault.

CLAY: The surgeon general for sure, and we talked about this when Facebook inexplicably decided, “Hey, you can now root for the death of Russians and also call for their assassinations on Facebook.” So we have tech oligarchs, basically, making decisions about what First Amendment rights we have on these major platforms in terms of the marketplace of ideas.

And you would think that maybe people at The View would be a little bit more in favor of the First Amendment, considering that Whoopi Goldberg just got suspended two weeks on a show called The View for having such a stupid view of the Holocaust. And now they’re demanding that Tucker Carlson be investigated by the federal government for what he’s saying on television?

BUCK: Sometimes I feel like kid in class and I’m like, “Wait, wait, wait. There’s one more thing.” Did you see this guy McFaul who was U.S. ambassador to Russia was like, “Well, Putin’s…” I’m paraphrasing here.

CLAY: Oh, yeah, they had to pull it off MSNBC. Like, they shared the clip, right?

BUCK: This guy, who was the U.S. ambassador to Russia and is a huge lib who hates Trump, just for the record. I’ve had a couple little spats with him online before, Twitter. He’s an idiot. I don’t care that he was an ambassador. A lot of ambassadors are morons. I knew plenty of them in my day. And he says that “unlike Hitler, Putin…” This is him, now —

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: “Hitler didn’t kill ethnic Germans who speak German. Putin is killing ethnic Russians who speak Russian.”

CLAY: He’s arguing Putin is worse than Hitler.

BUCK: Yes. Yes.

CLAY: He tried to argue. Straight up. Not, like, tiptoeing it. That was his MSNBC argument.

BUCK: Clay, this is a high government official under the Obama administration. I think he might have even been for part of the Trump administration. He was saying — ’cause he was at State Department — that Hitler didn’t kill ethnic Germans who spoke German. How is someone so stupid who was in charge of U.S. diplomacy with a nuclear armed country? I’m just wondering.

CLAY: As a general rule, comparing people to Hitler is a bad idea. Arguing someone is worse than Hitler in the modern era even worse of an idea. That’s what he did on MSNBC, and they had to pull it off of their clip because they were getting criticized for it.