“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart on Thursday bluntly summed up his response to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s fiery conflict with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) over Iran.
“We’re in such a bizarro world, you’ve acquired me nodding my head to Tucker Carlson movies,” mentioned Stewart as he chuckled on his “Weekly Show” podcast.
“You bought Tucker Carlson going, ‘Why are we going to conflict with Iran once more?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, you inform him, brother!’ Like, that’s how fucking the wrong way up we discover ourselves on this second.”
Stewart famously clashed with Carlson on reside TV during a 2004 episode of CNN’s “Crossfire” with Paul Begala, a second that noticed the “Each day Present” host name Carlson a “dick.”
In 2021, Stewart jokingly addressed his previous phrases for Carlson as the previous Fox News host confronted criticism for insinuating that pregnant service members were a “mockery” to the U.S. army.
“I referred to as Tucker Carlson a dick on Nationwide tv. It’s excessive time I apologize…to dicks. By no means ought to have lumped you in with that horrible horrible particular person,” Stewart wrote on X, previously Twitter.
His newest remarks arrive simply days after Carlson — who has opposed U.S. involvement in Israel’s conflict with Iran — grilled Cruz over why he didn’t know the inhabitants of Iran, questioning how the Texas senator didn’t know such a determine of a rustic he seeks to “topple.”
President Donald Trump — who has attacked Carlson over his takes on the conflict — has since declared that he’ll take two weeks to mull whether or not the U.S. ought to strike Iran and has publicly dismissed Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s Senate testimony that Iran wasn’t constructing a nuclear weapon.
On “The Weekly Present,” Stewart prompt that the second he discovered himself cheering on Carlson was based mostly on “one distinct premise”: the “utter incompetence” of the Trump administration’s choices.
“We’re being led by somebody who doesn’t know what they’re doing and out of DOGE has a skeleton employees of utility infielders which might be simply on the market with eight completely different jobs every, and no one has any comply with by means of and wherewithal to get issues carried out,” Stewart mentioned.
“And if something does get carried out, it will likely be a contented accident, not due to the even handed plan that was put into place by a fifth-level Jedi chess grasp. That’s bullshit. And the chaos proper now on the world stage is a direct operate of that incompetence.”
