Tucker's chaotic dance

By Creature

I've been trying figure out what exactly it is about Tucker Carlson that drives me absolutely ape-shit (beyond the "hurting America" obvious, of course). After last night's Tucker show I finally think I've got an example, if not an answer. Watch, well, read how Tucker frames the reasoning behind the new Democratic proposal out of the House of Representatives today for withdrawing American troops from Iraq.

TUCKER: Here's what Nancy Pelosi says is part of the reasoning beyond this new plan. She said, we need to get the troops out of Iraq by next year, quote "only then can we refocus our military efforts on Afghanistan to the extent we must." In other words, we're not pulling out the troops from Iraq because we don't care about the region,we care about the region so much, we're so worried about chaos in Afghanistan, we need those troops. I don't know if this makes sense, I mean if you're worried about chaos in the region aren't our strategic interests in Iraq rather than Afghanistan.

[guest speaks, Tucker ignores]

TUCKER: But if your worried, I mean their argument is, Afghanistan's in trouble, it's in chaos, it's falling apart, we need more troops in there to keep the place together. Well if you're worried about chaos in the region I mean the real problem right now, and I believe it's Bush's fault, but still, is Iraq. [the bold is my emphasis, the italic is Tucker's]

Tucker determines, to put it mildly, the reason Democrats want to focus on Afghanistan is "chaos." And, well, if stopping chaos is their goal then look how misguided the confused Democrat is. He frames the argument for the Democrats then he pounds it, and pounds it, as if he hadn't just twisted it to the point of lying. Democrats want to focus on Afghanistan because that's where the people who actually attacked us on 9/11 are. The Democrats want to focus on Afghanistan because the Taliban are regrouping and they are the ones who harbored al-Qaeda. The Democrats want to focus on Afghanistan because that's where the real central front of the so-called terror war is. In fairness, Tucker's guest did try to make this point, but in the meantime Tucker was able to make the Democrats look like chaotic, illogical fools.

(Cross-posted at State of the Day.)