Here’s a put-down you may not have heard before.
On Friday, Tucker Carlson gave National Security Advisor John Bolton a severe tongue-lashing, calling the official a “bureaucratic tapeworm.”
How’s that for original.
Tucker was excoriating John for, in his view, pushing from within the administration for a war with Iran.
The comment came in the aftermath of a tense sequence of events — Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shot down a U.S. spy drone over the Strait of Hormuz Thursday. Subsequently, the President eyed an attack, ultimately pulling back due to the projected casualties (here).
Trump expressed his preference for something more “proportionate.”
Tucker played a clip highlighting the above, capping it wth the wish that “our leaders contemplating war” would ask that “most basic of all questions.”
“The whole thing, in the end, offended his sense of decency,” Tucker praised. But, he asserted, “Policymakers in Washington crave a war with Iran”
The host cut to “CNN’s 36-year-old national security analyst attack the President yesterday.”
And then:
“Only in foreign policy circles do people say things that stupid. In fact, last night was a high point in the Trump presidency. … Ill-advised wars are like doing cocaine: The initial rush rises your poll numbers, but the crash is inevitable and in this case, it would be horrible.
How’d we get so close to war with Iran?
According to Carlson, in so many words, a bunch of people don’t care about its cost.
Tucker profiled “Left-wing New York Times columnist Bret Stephens” who “took a break from attacking Donald Trump” to celebrate “neocon” John Bolton’s hiring in April of 2018. “Stevens assured MSNBC viewers that John Bolton was a great choice because he would push the president toward war.”
Next, the host played war-friendly (harsh and hilarious) clips of Bolton, followed by this:
“John Bolton is a kind of bureaucratic tapeworm. Try as you might, you can’t expel him. He seems to live forever in the bowels of the federal agencies, periodically reemerging to cause pain and suffering — but critically somehow never suffering himself.
“His life really is Washington in a nutshell: Blunder into obvious catastrophes again and again, refuse to admit blame, and then demand more of the same. That’s the John Bolton life cycle. In between administration jobs, there are always cushy think-tank posts, paid speaking gigs, cable news contracts. War may be a disaster for America, but for John Bolton and his fellow neocons, it is always good business.”
Wow.
Watch the video above. And never get into an insult match with Tucker Carlson.
-ALEX
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