Ever the racist with an audible dogwhistle in front of a bullhorn, Fox host and Donald Trump’s new bestie Tucker Carlson tries to denigrate newly reinstalled Tennessee state legislator Justin Pearson using claims that Pearson engages in code-switching to pretend to be whiter than his Black skin should portray–without evidence, Carlson claims this is how got into Maine’s Bowdoin College. Saying Pearson “[talks] like a sharecropper”… ’cause that ain’t racist. Also note how Carlson integrates the word “transition” into the screed, attempting to imply by word association that Pearson is somehow connected to the transgender movement.
Carlson may feel that he’s on solid ground now that he’s kissed Trump’s ring after debasing Trump in private messages, celebrating his belief that the network would be rid of the obese blowhard–Trump, not Hannity–after his 2020 election loss. Don’t be surprised to learn Trump demanded a full hour of primetime with Carlson subservient to him to make up for Carlson’s slander to avoid Trump denigrating Fox too much in his stump speeches, which would shuffle his cult to lower-tier conservative propaganda outlets and costing Fox revenue from its discount advertisers.