Lawyers Go After Carlson For Calling Capitol Police Officer ‘Angry Left-Wing Political Activist’

Fox News host Tucker Carlson spent part of his Wednesday night show delegitimizing a Black Capitol Police officer who defended the building from the pro-Trump mob on January 6. 


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“Dunn will pretend to speak for the country’s law enforcement community, but it turns out Dunn has very little in common with your average cop,” Carlson said. “Dunn is an angry left-wing political activist.”
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Are we talking defamation lawsuit here?Tucker’s what we called in the rural country “a pecker head” fpr statements like that which are obviously wrong from the get go. If Dunn were an activist why haven’t we all heard of him before now?

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OT, but Nancy is getting ready to plunge the dagger even deeper into Qevin’s tiny little brain…

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The bar for proving someone is an “angry left-wing activist” is very low inside the noise machine. Proving it in a court of law is probably going to be more of a challenge.

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“Our client has served 13 years in law enforcement and on January 6, 2021, fought against an insurrectionist violent crowd – no doubt many of them Carlson’s supporters – to protect the lives of our elected officials, including Vice President Mike Pence.”

Tucker Carlson isn’t worthy to lick the bottom of Officer Dunn’s dog-doo covered shoe.

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“She objected to two,” Cheney told reporters. “One who may be a material witness to events that lead to that day, that led to January 6, the other who disqualified himself by his comments over the last 24 hours demonstrating he’s not taking this seriously.”

Somehow McCarthy has conflated his job as minority leader and his efforts to please Trump and the far-right benefactors back in his district. The result is kind of sad. Perhaps his confusion comes from the fact that he is also a material witness.

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But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t let him try.

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“Dunn is an angry left-wing political activist.”

Long ago, Fox replaced its writers with AI applications that just shuffle words.

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Fox News is a virulent cancer on the body politic. Tucker Carlson contributes to its virulence.

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I would like to see a subpoena for Tucker to testify at the committee. Let Fucker explain how this was nothing more than the love fest Trump said it was.

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You can stick a broadsword on McCarthy’s skull and it won’t reduce his capacity of thinking which is done with the ass.

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Carlson does understand that the libel rules are different for private citizens like Dunn than for public figures like Carlson, doesn’t he?

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Is it possible to to sue sentient mashed potatoes? Asking for a friend.

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But it doesn’t stop him…

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Mashed potatoes have a purpose. Trust Fund Baby Carlson not so much.

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I wonder how long it will be until Tucks and the other foxholes flip on the January 6th insurrection like they did with the vaccine. You know it’s coming.

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Tucker Carlson, who replaced disgraced former FOXer Bill O’Reilly, just proves that ignorant fat foul loud mouthed racist xenophobic misogynist flag waiving religious bigoted lying hypocrites are a dime a dozen.

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Republican always show thier lousy cards.
Here’s a window into their 2022 whiner’s election agenda;
“solely to malign conservatives and to justify the Left’s authoritarian agenda.”
They bring the whole disparate Grievance Family all together with that vapid bit of wordsmithing.
Considering he’s talking about an attack on our Capitol, the distance between their lie and reality seems a chasm of hopeless proportions.
When the Thin Blue Liars among them are tested, they have a hard time dancing around this hypocrisy.

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and its malignancy

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No really… How do these clowns think they are going to form their own commission? They jumped the shark poo-pooing the bipartisan commission. They don’t own the house or the senate.

Are they hosting this “very totally absolutely serious investigation into how BLM ruined American and made those poor patriots do this” in the porn shop, the crematorium, or the Trump hotel?

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