Despite Fox News’s many complaints that supply chain issues (always Joe Biden’s fault, of course) have left starving Americans yowling at the sight of empty grocery store shelves, let it never be said that their star personality Tucker Carlson is at immediate risk of going hungry, himself. How could he be, when he has an entire roster of conservative figureheads to feast upon, in the sort of “eat their young” cannibalism available to only the uppermost echelons of far-right media figures?
Fresh off an appetizer of Cruz a l’orange, Carlson devoted precious airtime Thursday evening to his entrée: Supreme Court justice, credibly accused sexual abuser, and noted beer lover Brett Kavanaugh, whom Carlson lambasted as a “cringing little liberal.” And what, you ask, could the one-time darling of the Trumpian right have done to fall so far from Tucker’s good graces? Why, he had the unmitigated gall to, um, hang on ... lemme just check my notes here ...
