{"id":1479699,"date":"2022-05-18T14:44:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T18:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479699"},"modified":"2022-05-18T14:44:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T18:44:45","slug":"tucker-carlson-blasts-schumer-coward-only-media-appearance-probably-in-history-hes-turned-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tucker-carlson-blasts-schumer-coward-only-media-appearance-probably-in-history-hes-turned-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson Blasts Schumer: \u2018Coward,\u2019 \u2018Only Media Appearance Probably In History He\u2019s Turned Down\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftucker-carlson-blasts-schumer-coward-only-media-appearance-probably-in-history-hes-turned-down%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479699&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/pjimage-3.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Fox News host Tucker Carlson fired back at Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), calling him a \u201ccoward\u201d after Schumer refused to appear on Carlson\u2019s show to discuss Schumer linking Carlson to the Buffalo massacre in which 10 people were killed.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Schumer sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianstelter\/status\/1526568386448306176\/photo\/1\">letter<\/a> to Fox News quoting The New York Times\u2019 claim regarding the \u201cGreat Replacement Theory\u201d that Carlson had, as Schumer wrote, \u201camplified this dangerous and unfounded theory in more than 400 episodes of his show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schumer had also vilified Carlson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/this-is-a-poison-chuck-schumer-uses-senate-floor-to-berate-fox-news-after-buffalo-shooting\">on the Senate floor<\/a> on Tuesday, ranting, \u201cEvery time MAGA Republicans or pundits vilify wrongly immigrants and call them invaders \u2026\u00a0Every time they falsely claim that millions of undocumented people cast ballots in our elections \u2026\u00a0Every time loud bigoted voices bemoan the disintegration of an imagined \u2018classic\u2019 America \u2026The subtext is clear: these hard-right MAGA Republicans argue that people of color and minority communities are somehow posing a threat \u2014 a threat \u2014 to the American way of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd let\u2019s be clear: it\u2019s a message that has also found a special home in several right-wing outlets, and on one cable news channel in particular: Fox News,\u201d he continued. \u201cIn a craven quest for viewers and ratings, organizations like Fox News have spent years perfecting the craft of stoking cultural grievance and political resentment that eerily mirrors the messages found in Replacement Theory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He quoted The New York Times claim targeting Carlson, saying, \u201cFour hundred times. This is a poison that is being spread by one of the largest news organizations in our country,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Schumer also fired off a tweet announcing he had declined an offer from Carlson to appear on his show:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TuckerCarlson<\/a> invited me on his show tonight to debate the letter I sent to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FoxNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m declining. Tucker Carlson needs to stop promoting the racist, dangerous \u2018Replacement Theory\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/1526623234132688896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That triggered Carlson to fire back, \u201cSchumer is sending a letter to our bosses here at Fox News blaming this show for the mass murder in Buffalo as well as several other mass shootings in recent years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to Chuck Schumer, this show spreads \u2018dangerous rhetoric\u2019 and needs to be pulled of the air immediately in the name of public safety. Now again, Chuck Schumer is a federal official; he is the leading Democrat in the United States Senate, and he is calling for media censorship,\u201d Carlson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow there was a time, like maybe 18 months ago, when that would be considered a direct violation of the First Amendment. Now we hear it every day: \u2018Let\u2019s throw them in jail,\u2019\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to hear more from Chuck Schumer about this; we invited him on the show tonight, as we always do, \u00a0and because he is a coward, this is the only media appearance probably in history he\u2019s turned down,\u201d Carlson stated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tucker Carlson blasts Chuck Schumer for calling for media censorship and then refusing an invitation to go on his show to discuss it:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because he is a coward, this is the only media appearance probably in history he has turned down.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1sNA0jUrpp\">pic.twitter.com\/1sNA0jUrpp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1526722297272406018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News host Tucker Carlson fired back at Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), calling him a \u201ccoward\u201d after Schumer refused to appear on Carlson\u2019s show to discuss Schumer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1483589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}