Daily Beast: “Fox News host Tucker Carlson kicked off his broadcast Wednesday night by calling Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) a modern-day Robert Byrd, suggesting the Illinois senator’s call for more diversity in the Biden administration was akin to being a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Earlier this week, and following the mass shooting in Atlanta that left six Asian women dead, Duckworth and Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) – both women of Asian American Pacific Islander descent – threatened to vote against any of President Joe Biden’s nominees who aren’t minorities. Duckworth, specifically, said she was angry that the White House had brushed off her concerns that Biden’s Cabinet lacked any Asian American representation.”

“While both Hirono and Duckworth have since backed off their ultimatum after the White House pledged to add a senior AAPI staffer, Carlson claimed that the two Democratic senators had ‘opposed the entire foundation of American civil rights law and then proceeded to attack the core principle—the main principle of our country.’ After grumbling that the back-and-forth between the senators and White House didn’t get enough media attention, the Fox News star – who Fox lawyers have successfully argued shouldn’t be taken seriously – then took pointed and personal shots at both lawmakers’ intelligence. ‘Here you have two actual U.S. senators announcing in public they will deny jobs to people who have the wrong skin color. That’s not news? Oh, yes, it is news,’ he snarked. ‘Though Mazie Hirono and Tammy Duckworth may not realize it’s news.’ The conservative host added: ‘In their defense, Hirono and Duckworth are well-known as the dimmest politicians in Washington. Neither one can carry a dinner conversation.'”