- Fox News host Tucker Carlson was furious on Tuesday after a guest corrected his statement of Sen. Kamala Harris’ name.
- Richard Goodstein, an adviser to former Democratic presidential campaigns, stopped Carlson and corrected his statement.
- Carlson paused and said, “OK, what then?”
- Goodstein said declaring her name was the ‘bare minimum’ of respect, to which Carlson objected.
- “So it starts: You may not criticize Kamala Harris, or Kamala Harris, or whatever,” Carlson said.
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson was furious after a guest on Tuesday made his statement. Kamala Harris’ corrected on air.
Earlier Tuesday, Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, announced that Harris was running for vice president. Harris is the first woman of color and the first person of Indian descent to be nominated for national office by a major political party.
One of Carlson’s guests was Richard Goodstein, an adviser to former Democratic presidential campaigns.
But Goodstein corrected Carlson’s pronunciation of her name.
“Tucker, can I say just one quick thing?” he said.
“Of course,” Carlson replied.
“Because this is something that you and your fellow hosts will serve on Fox: Their name is pronounced ‘comma’ – like the punctuation mark – ‘la.’ “Come on,” said Goodstein.
“Seriously, I’ve heard all kinds of bastardization from her -” he said, before Carlson interrupted, “OK, what then?”
You can see the moment here:
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Carlson tried to keep going – but while Carlson laughed, Goodstein said, “Out of respect, for someone who goes on the national ticket, pronouncing her name on the right is actually kind of a bare minimum.”
“OK,” Carlson said, “so I respect her by inadvertently pronouncing her name. So it starts: You may not criticize Kamala Harris, or Kamala Harris, or whatever.”
Goodstein shook his head and turned to laugh. “No, it’s not something,” he said.
Carlson then implied that Goodstein had said Harris could not be criticized.
“I like the idea that she’s immune to criticism,” Carlson said. “That leaves me re-questioning. Because on this show, no one in power is immune to criticism. Our political leaders need to be held accountable.”
