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Sometimes, the worst guy you know is a great point.
Tucker Carlson used the opening monologue of his program on Wednesday to reject stridently against the Trump administration attack against freedom of expression, even calling the attorney general Pam Bondi for using Charlie Kirk’s death as a pretext.
“Charlie was a champion of freedom of expression,” said Carlson. “Absolutely it was. And I pray for that to be his legacy.”
Then he equated freedom of expression with freedom of conscience and “the right of other people to decide on the basic questions of what is right or wrong.”
Silence by force that is similar to telling people that they are “meat puppets,” said Carlson.
“If you do not recognize the right of other people to do that, and if you take measures to prevent them from doing that, what are you saying really? You are really saying: ‘I do not think you have a soul,’ I think you are a puppet of meat that I can control, I think you are an animal, maybe sub-animal. You are a slave, you are a person to whom I can dictate belief.”
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“It’s dark,” Carlson emphasized. “There is nothing darker than that.”
The host of Podcast of the right then cut a Bondi clip reflecting on the “hate speech” following Kirk’s death.
“There is freedom of expression and then there is a hate speech,” said Bondi, “and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society.”
Carlson gave Bondi the benefit of the doubt in his answer, but warned that justified civil disobedience would continue if the Trump administration tried to criminalize the speech:
You expect that within a year, the agitation we are seeing after your murder will not be used to bring hate discourse to this country. And trust me, if so, if that happens, there is never a more justified moment for civil disobedience than that, and there will never. Because if they can tell you what to say, they are telling you what to think, there is nothing that they cannot do because they do not consider you human.
President Donald Trump said Monday that “he is not so safe” about the rights of the first amendment of Americans, and threatened to present extortion charges against left groups whose messages he does not agree.
Bondi, in turn, promised an offensive on what the administration considers the “hate speech.”
He asked Tuesday by Jonathan Karl of ABC if he could clarify the difference between hate speech and freedom of expression, Trump attacked Karl himself.
“What are you doing about Pam Bondi saying that he will go after the hate speech? I mean, many of your allies say that hate speech is freedom of expression,” Karl asked.
“[I] I should probably go after people like you, because you treat me unfairly, “Trump replied.” You have a lot of hate in your heart. Maybe they come after ABC. “
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A day later, ABC threw “Jimmy Kimmel Live”, for a long time a critic of the Trump administration, of the air “indefinitely”, after Kimmel criticized the response to Kirk’s murder of the people to the right.