{"id":6597,"date":"2019-03-20T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6597"},"modified":"2019-04-12T17:50:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T00:50:33","slug":"the-republican-mongo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6597","title":{"rendered":"The Republican Mongo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tucker Carlson, &#8216;journalist&#8217; at Fox News, a.k.a. The Republican Propaganda Network and man with a perpetual brain fart. recently got himself in a lot of hot water. It seems that&#8230;brace yourselves&#8230;the Tuckwad is a bit of a white nationalist. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/research\/2019\/03\/11\/unearthed-audio-shows-tucker-carlson-using-white-nationalist-rhetoric-and-making-racist-remarks\/223105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Media Matters uncovered audio of Tucktard&#8217;s appearance on the Bubba the Love Sponge show (you can&#8217;t make this stuff up)<\/a> and ol&#8217; Tucknuts let loose with a torrent of misogynistic and racist gems. What&#8217;s more, in true Trumpian fashion, he has refused to apologize for them. Of course, this isn&#8217;t shocking to anybody who&#8217;s been paying attention since 2004. We&#8217;ve made note of his &#8216;journalistic integrity&#8217; before (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5342\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re old-timers here at the Bucket and we remember another thinking impaired person from Mel Brooks&#8217; classic comedy <em>Blazing Saddles<\/em>, the town simpleton Mongo. Yes, Tucker Carlson could easily be mistaken for him with the befuddled, eternally constipated look on his face. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SKRma7PDW10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mongo&#8217;s famous mantra<\/a> could even be updated for the former bow-tie wearing douchebag: <strong>&#8220;Tucker only pawn in game of white nationalism and conservative Republican propaganda.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6600\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tuckercarlsonmongoseparatedatbirth.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News 'journalist' and man with a perpetual brain fart, Tucker Carlson, bears a striking resemblance to another thinking impaired simpleton, Mongo from the 1970s Mel Brooks classic movie, Blazing Saddles and has even updated his famous mantra: &quot;Tucker only pawn in game of white nationalism and conservative Republican propaganda&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tuckercarlsonmongoseparatedatbirth.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tuckercarlsonmongoseparatedatbirth-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tuckercarlsonmongoseparatedatbirth-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fox News &#8216;journalist&#8217; and man with a perpetual brain fart, Tucker Carlson, bears a striking resemblance to another thinking impaired simpleton, Mongo from the 1970s Mel Brooks classic movie, Blazing Saddles and has even updated his famous mantra: &#8220;Tucker only pawn in game of white nationalism and conservative Republican propaganda.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucker Carlson, &#8216;journalist&#8217; at Fox News, a.k.a. The Republican Propaganda Network and man with a perpetual brain fart. recently got himself in a lot of hot water. It seems that&#8230;brace yourselves&#8230;the Tuckwad is a bit of a white nationalist. Media Matters uncovered audio of Tucktard&#8217;s appearance on the Bubba the Love Sponge show (you can&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6597\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Republican Mongo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,85,963,3,1762,198],"tags":[1575,74,73,22,20,389,27,4,9,199,1886,1887,1225,1600,21,98,596,235,296,19,47,48,1528,79,1130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6597"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6597"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6647,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6597\/revisions\/6647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}