Fox News’ resident homophobe Tucker Carlson blasted Washington Post columnist Erik Wemple on his show last night. The scathing remarks initially seemed random and to come out of nowhere… Until now.
In the closing segment of Tuesday evening’s show, Carlson accused Wemple, who he has long butted heads with, of contacting “quite a few old college classmates” and digging for dirt.
“Jeff Bezos had one of his minions, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged man called Erik Wemple, pull our dusty college yearbook and call around and see if we’d done anything naughty at the age of 19,” Carlson said, referring to the Amazon CEO, who also owns the newspaper. “Let us know if you hear any good stories.”
#Tucker Carlson ends his show by resurrecting his long-running feud with The Washington Post's Erik Wemple ahead of a piece involving his school yearbook: "Jeff Bezos had one of his minions, a mentally unbalanced middle-age man called Erik Wemple, pull our dusty college yearbook" pic.twitter.com/mPT5mYkjta
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 21, 2021
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According to a newly unearthed page from Carlson’s Trinity College yearbook, the 51-year-old Fox News host used to be a proud member of the “Dan White Society” in his younger years. Dan White, you may recall, is the homophobic maniac who murdered Harvey Milk.
Welp. https://t.co/Ekn7d7WxXF
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) April 21, 2021
Suddenly, it aaaaall makes sense.
Is any of this surprising, however? Not really.
Carlson has a long history of attacking LGBTQ people on his show and once bragged about committing an antigay hate crime against a gay man who “bothered” him.
“I went back with someone I knew and grabbed the guy by the–you know–and grabbed him and hit him against the stall with his head, actually,” he recalled back in 2017.
Then there was the time in 2018 when Carlson was caught on video verbally assaulting a gay man at a country club after Carlson’s son threw a glass of wine in the man’s face.
Afterwards, the Fox News host said it took “enormous self-control” for him not to beat the guy up with his chair which “is what I wanted to do.”
Tucker Carlson Tonight is one the highest-rated programs in cable news. According to a recent Fox News press release, the show “finished the month of March as the top-rated program in cable news in all categories, delivering 3.2 million viewers and 521,000 in the key 25-54 demo and 331,000 with the younger 18-49 demo. The program also dominated several broadcast entertainment and news shows in viewership for the first quarter.”
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Heywood Jablowme
Dan White’s “defense” at trial was how he was addicted to Twinkies and it affected his brain. (Not kidding, you can look it up.) Well I guess Twinkies are the whitest food there is, except for mayonnaise?
Fname Optional Lname
OMG that’s right! I forgot all about that. It was referred to as the “junk food” defense!
Erik
It was called the “Twinkie defense”.
Mister P
Tucker likes to be on the wrong side of everything. Then he whines about free speech when in reality he’s just a dick.
Dymension
He looks so unnaturally red. Kind of like Trump…
blackhook
What parents in their right mind would name a child ‘Tucker’? No wonder he turned out like he did…Sad!
Fname Optional Lname
Tucker is the name you give to your child if you take one look at him and know he will have a career in DRAG!
Fahd
A special place in hell is reserved for him.
Dymension
So sad. He was a cutie back in college. Why do they go bad? Maybe they were born bad.
Cam
No surprise that someone who is a racist and a bigot now was a racist and a bigot then.
James26
I wasn’t alive then but I understand that there are a LOT of people like Carlson who were in college in the 80s who engaged in virulent, unfiltered homophobia. As in open celebrations of violence and death. I have read about some of these incidents. There was a sorority which held a party to celebrate the death of Rock Hudson and another sorority which created a float in a frat/sorority parade which mocked his death. There was a targeted terror campaign against gay students at the University of Chicago, and one of the suspects was the son of a Maryland politician. There were frat guys at Dartmouth who expelled an outed gay member and then physically threw him into the dirt. Lots of stories like this but no interest in the gay media in following up on any of these stories to find out where these people are today.
Cam
Translation: The right wing troll account is desperately trying to normalize Tucker Carlson’s bigotry.
mailliw110
Be careful what you wish for……
Kangol2
There’s something clearly off with little racist homophobe Tucker. He’s gotten very far very fast with so little going on in that empty, Swanson TV dinner heir head of his, but such is how privilege and entitlement work. Can you imagine if his first-choice employer, the CIA, had hired him? Sheesh!