Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News is not even a month old, but it’s already make waves on the cable news platform that’s been number one in primetime ratings for well over a decade.
In his most recent segment on Monday night, Carlson invited Gray Leonard, an American University student and most likely a part-time adult film star (look at that mustache), on his show to inquire why he believes a trustee to the university should be fired.
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The trustee, Gary Cohn, who’s the current president and CEO of Goldman Sachs, is under consideration to head up the Office of Management and Budget under the Trump administration. Leonard, in addition to holding a multitude of gripes with the investment banker as well as AU, believes Cohn should be fired for meeting with President-elect Donald Trump.
Carlson opened the segment by allowing Leonard to air his grievances and even shared some of his sentiment in that college tuition is really expensive.
However, that’s when he pounced.
“Your complaint in this case seems to be that he met with Donald Trump,” Carlson said. “I wonder if that’s a crime, and should it be?”
Leonard rebuked that notion, saying, “No, it’s not a crime to meet somebody, obviously.”
He went on to note that Trump’s meeting with Cohn is a “conflict of interest” that will be detrimental to college students, in the sense that tuitions will keep rising and graduates will carry lifelong student debt.
Carlson parsed his argument immediately. “Again, I agree with what you’re saying on the one hand. But on the other, tuitions have risen through eight years of the Obama administration. Trump isn’t even president yet, and I don’t think you would be protesting someone who met with Obama.”
The host went even further to point out Leonard’s hypocrisy. “It looks a little like McCarthyism — I don’t know if they teach you that in school. But that’s the idea that associating with someone is the same as sharing his views. Al Gore met today with Donald Trump, you’re not protesting Al Gore.”
Leonard, now in a precarious position, redirected the debate by accusing Carlson of “simplifying” the issue too much.
Watch the full segment below:
