“Here’s Republican Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa telling you that protecting Ukraine’s sacred borders is much more important than, say, saving Americans in Des Moines from overdosing on drugs,” Fox host and human speculum Tucker Carlson bloviates. “Watch.”
I watched, and Ernst didn’t say anything about choosing to defend Ukraine over helping people in Iowa. In fact, Ernst was only asked about foreign policy, not domestic issues, in an interview on CNN, so Carlson must have imagined the other issue being discussed.
“Those are our leaders,” Carlson gripes as he reads from a teleprompter. “Totally ignorant. Just reading the script. [Carlson read that off the teleprompter.] It would be nice for someone in the press corps, ’cause it’s their job, to ask the obvious follow up, which would be, ‘Why exactly, Senator Ernst, would you believe it’s so vital to send more lethal aid to Ukraine and to, quote, go ahead and impose more sanctions on Russia? Why?’ How would she answer that question? We’ll never know the answer because no one in the media would ever ask her. Reporters are the most bovine of the herd animals. If the other kids say it’s a good idea, they say that it is.”