Tucker Carlson Mocks Lindsey Graham’s ‘Fundraising’ Fox Interviews, Says ‘It’s Political Televangelism’

Fox Information host Tucker Carlson ridiculed Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Thursday evening for avoiding his present, calling the Republican senator out for running to friendlier Fox programs to beg for money on his “unending fundraising tour.”

And within the course of, Carlson was maybe tweaking his Fox Information primetime colleague Sean Hannity, who has hosted Graham on his present no less than 35 times this year.

Over the previous few days, Carlson has devoted near-nightly segments to criticizing Graham over his document as a lawmaker. Final week, as an example, the Fox Information star spent the final few minutes of his show railing in opposition to the Senate Judiciary Committee member for not doing sufficient to dam President Joe Biden’s courtroom picks.

Following that anti-Graham monologue, during which the host referred to as the senator a coward for avoiding his present, a smirking Carlson tapped his papers on his desk and handed his showcase to Hannity, who claimed he didn’t hear him. Graham then appeared on Hannity’s present half-hour later.

Having already bashed Graham on Tuesday night for his hawkish help of the Afghanistan Battle—the senator once more appeared on Hannity’s present that night—Carlson expanded his criticism of Graham’s Afghanistan document on Wednesday evening.

Stating that one of many the explanation why Individuals had been shocked at how shortly Kabul fell is because of Washington leaders falsely portray a rosy image of the state of affairs in Afghanistan, Carlson mentioned Graham was “one of many principal mouthpieces for these lies.”

He then highlighted a sequence of Graham’s feedback by the years, together with the senator expressing help for the 2009 troop surge and claiming in 2011 that America was “on the verge” of successful the battle in Afghanistan so long as we didn’t speed up the withdrawal of troops from the area.

“We’ve got a sport plan in Afghanistan that I feel justifies the expenditures of blood and treasure that’s about to come back,” Graham additionally mentioned in 2009, prompting Carlson to reply rhetorically.

“So now’s the second to ask, actually, Lindsey Graham? What precisely was that ‘sport plan’?” Carlson puzzled aloud. “And at what level did you understand that it wasn’t working? Nicely, if Graham ever knew that his plans had been failing, one way or the other he forgot to say it to the remainder of the nation.”

Carlson wrapped up his commentary by once more slamming Graham for steering away from his present. He additionally introduced up the South Carolina lawmaker’s willingness to debase himself for marketing campaign money throughout his different Fox interviews.

“We’d like to know what Lindsey Graham thinks about that,” Carlson declared. “You see him on tv fairly a bit—on a regular basis—on his unending fundraising tour. ‘I’m a conservative, ship me cash!’ It’s political televangelism.”

He concluded: “However weirdly, Lindsey Graham gained’t come on this present, and that’s a disgrace as a result of it could be a worthwhile dialog for everybody. The invitation stays open.”

Following the printed of his present, Carlson’s official Twitter account posted a video clip of the monologue in its entirety. It was the second evening in a row that the Fox Information star tweeted out considered one of his anti-Graham segments.

Graham, no less than for one evening, didn’t pop up on Hannity.