It feels safe to say that Tucker Carlson doesn’t respect the work of CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss.
During an appeace on This Past Week w/ Theo Von, Carlson delivered attacks on Weiss, arguing that she didn’t earn her way to her position.
He said that Weiss’s relationship with billionaire Bill Ackman set her up where she is today.
“If you pay close enough attention and you realize that the people running everything are stupid, then you think, ‘Well, actually, the system is truly rigged on behalf of people who do not deserve these positions at all.’ It’s not just that I disagree with Bari Weiss or she’s calling me names or I’ll call her names or whatever. In no meritocracy would Bari Weiss rise above secretary,” said Carlson.
“And I mean that. I’ve been in this business my whole life. I’ve been in this business since Bari Weiss was breastfeeding. There’s no world in which Bari Weiss rises to the top of a news network except a rigged world. That’s it. Does that make sense? It’s shocking to me.”
Carlson continued by pointing out that Weiss didn’t know who Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was when she criticized Tulsi Gabbard for meeting with him in 2017.
“She’s an idiot — and we’re gonna put her in charge of CBS News just to show that individual merit, energy, creativity — which is the most important thing — is what a healthy society rewards because we are designed to create things,” he added.
“Bari Weiss, the single least creative human being, the single most robotic — what are the talking points, then repeating them — that person winds up at the top of the pyramid. That is what offends me. It’s not that she loves Israel. I don’t give a (expletive) what she thinks of Israel. It’s not that she criticizes me. Obviously, I don’t really care.”
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