{"id":1480069,"date":"2022-05-18T18:59:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T22:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1480069"},"modified":"2022-05-18T18:59:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T22:59:43","slug":"crenshaw-blasts-gross-human-tucker-carlson-after-eyepatch-mccain-jab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crenshaw-blasts-gross-human-tucker-carlson-after-eyepatch-mccain-jab\/","title":{"rendered":"Crenshaw Blasts \u2018Gross Human\u2019 Tucker Carlson After \u2018Eyepatch McCain\u2019 Jab"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fcrenshaw-blasts-gross-human-tucker-carlson-after-eyepatch-mccain-jab%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=1480069&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\/GettyImages-1208911715.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Texas Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/dan-crenshaw\">Dan Crenshaw<\/a> struck back at Fox News\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/tucker-carlson\">Tucker Carlson<\/a>, calling the cable news host who branded him \u201cEyepatch McCain\u201d a \u201cgross human being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crenshaw, a\u00a0former Navy SEAL who lost his right eye while serving in Afghanistan and wears a patch over it, got his dig in while actually defending Carlson. While many on the left are blaming the host for Saturday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/buffalo-mass-shooting-suspect-had-been-flagged-as-troubled-a-year-ago-report\">racially charged shooting<\/a> that let left 10 dead at a Buffalo, New York, market, Crenshaw said the white supremacist gunman bears all the blame for his actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike, I hate Tucker Carlson. I despise him. But he didn\u2019t cause this, right?\u201d Crenshaw told <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/news\/house\/3493001-republicans-dismiss-white-supremacy-charge-but-show-unease-about-rhetoric\/\">The Hill<\/a>. \u201cLike, I think he\u2019s a gross human being. Doesn\u2019t mean that his rhetoric caused it. This was caused by a legitimately crazy person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If that sounds like a tepid defense, recall that Carlson mocked Crenshaw on his show Monday night, likening him to late Republican Sen. John McCain, who Carlson considered a neoconservative who supported U.S. intervention around the world. Crenshaw had spoken earlier on Fox News in support of a $40 billion military and humanitarian aid package to Ukraine, and rejected the idea that it was at cross purposes with fixing the baby formula shortage plaguing the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cDo you know how much b<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">aby<\/span>\u00a0f<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">ormula<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> $40 billion can buy? None,\u201d Crenshaw told Fox News guest host and former Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Carlson, who has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tucker-carlson-tells-daily-wire-why-he-decided-to-pose-as-liberal-elite-snob\">adamant in his opposition to the Ukraine aid package<\/a>, later voiced his disagreement \u2013 and coined a new nickname for Crenshaw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more I think about it, it takes a lot of gall for eyepatch McCain to attack moms who are worried about baby formula as pro-Russia,\u201d Carlson later told guest Tulsi Gabbard.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TUCKER: Dan Crenshaw is \u201cEyepatch McCain\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hh979Zm29J\">pic.twitter.com\/hh979Zm29J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Election Wizard \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ElectionWiz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElectionWiz\/status\/1526360439524925440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Crenshaw initially took Carlson\u2019s insult in stride.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou hurl juvenile insults when you know you\u2019ve lost the debate\u2026I stand by every word I said,\u201d Crenshaw said.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson fans embraced the new moniker with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MostlyPeacefull\/status\/1526393086707761152?s=20&#038;t=NLbnhJxujkOGWiOOzWJjPQ\">memes<\/a> and tweets, while many others in the media and on both sides of the political spectrum condemned the remark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guy gave an eye in service to our country,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrBertha_PhD\/status\/1526363862349582338?s=20&#038;t=NLbnhJxujkOGWiOOzWJjPQ\">tweeted @Dr.Bertha_PhD<\/a>. \u201cLove you, Tucker, but this was out of line. Do better (even if you\u2019re right).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crenshaw was mocked in 2018 by \u201cSaturday Night Live\u2019s\u201d Pete Davidson, who said he looked like\u00a0a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ukbtA3df8BI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hitman in a porno movie<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d Davidson continued as the studio audience laughed. \u201cI know he lost his eye in war or whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davidson later apologized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Republican Dan Crenshaw struck back at Fox News\u2019 Tucker Carlson, calling the cable news host who branded him \u201cEyepatch McCain\u201d a \u201cgross human being.\u201dCrenshaw, a\u00a0former Navy SEAL who lost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1483633,"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-1480069","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\/1480069","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\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}