Jim Acosta: Tucker Carlson Is 'Fox's Ayatollah of Paranoia'
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CNN's Jim Acosta slammed Tucker Carlson as "Fox's Ayatollah of Paranoia" in response to the Fox News host's comments that the United States faced being "invaded" by "millions" of Afghan refugees.
"The pictures of Afghans clinging to military planes are not what Riles up the fox audience," said Acosta. "It's these images — of Afghans loaded onto those planes."
The CNN Newsroom host then queued up several clips of Fox News personalities discussing Afghan refugees, including Laura Ingraham, who asked, "Is it really our responsibility to welcome thousands of potentially unvetted refugees from Afghanistan?All day we've heard phrases like we promised them — well, who did? Did you?"
"And leave it to Tucker Carlson, Fox's Ayatollah of Paranoia," said Acosta, "to take it one step too far."
"If history is any guide," said Carlson in the clip, "and it's always a guide, we will see many refugees from Afghanistan resettle in our country in the coming months, probably in your neighborhood. Over the next decade, that number may swell to the millions. So first we invade and then we're invaded."
Acosta then showed a tweet from Newsmax host Steve Cortes (who he identified as "another pro-Trump propagandist"), in which he shared a photo of the Afghan refugees crowded onto a U.S. military plane and wrote, "Raise your hand if you want this plane landing in your town."
"I can think of somebody raising her hand," Acosta remarked, referring to the Statue of Liberty. "Anybody ever heard the line, 'give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?'"
"America has long and proud history of welcoming refugees from war-torn countries," he continued, and the Statue of Liberty has "always symbolized that beacon of hope to the world."
These Afghans, said Acosta, came to our aid, and "we can't leave them behind."
"The images out of Afghanistan are hard to look at," he concluded. "There's no question about it. Perhaps that's to be expected when you try to end what's been called the forever war. But if we want to end that forever war, if we really want to get home from Afghanistan, I know one light showing us the way."
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"Conservative" commentators are going out of their way to belittle the Afghan "partners" who helped the Americans for 20 years during that war. What the hell is up with that?
Hey Acosta, can you tell us how many of those are vetted Afghans or how many might be sleepers from the Taliban? Oh, and how many are you welcoming into YOUR home? I'm sure as a well paid CNN talking head, you have a spectacular home with ample room for a few.
So you agree with the extremists on Newsmax and Fox News when they try to scare people about the Afghans. Got it.
When was the last time you were there and how many do you know Mr. Russell? I did work there for about four months over the years of 2011 and 2012 working with the contractor doing work on the Embassy. My son, daughter-in-law and wife are getting text messages from Americans, allied nationals as well as Afghanis trying to get out.
So I'll pit my personal experience and theirs against yours any minute of any day.
NOW you "got it".
If the Afghans are not worthy of coming to the US, why are we trying to get them out?
You like to paint with a very large brush stroke. Not all Afghans aided us. Not all Afghans like us. Not all Afghans are sorry to see us go.
The situation around Karzai Airport is FUBAR. They can't separate the ones with VISAS and the ones w/o. US citizens have been told by the state department not to go to the airport as their safety can't be guaranteed. Just watch any of the news videos. There are Taliban feet away from the US Marines. There are Afghans everywhere in between the two trying anything to get in. There have now been two separate instances of Afghans trampling people to death in a frantic stampede. Think everyone on board those planes are who they say they are? There is no Afghan government to check with. The Taliban and Al Qaeda damn well aren't going to tell us who their sleepers/terrorists are.
I haven't heard one damn person say that Afghans that aided us shouldn't be allowed to come to the US. Prove that every last one of those Afghans on board those planes are ones that aided us. Haven't heard one damn US government official make that claim; which is the reason they are sending all of the Afghan refugees; and even US citizens to another country first to be held and vetted.
Or are you calling Biden paranoid?
So in your opinion thousands of Taliban, or maybe just hundreds, want to come to the US where they would be powerless to exert or enforce their harsh religious and cultural beliefs , instead of staying in Afghanistan where they just achieved the goal of taking over control of the country and doing pretty much whatever they want.
You do know that doesnt make any sense, dont you?
We may never know seeing that Stephen Miller shut down the SIV issue by devastating the system at DHS & State.
Which completely excuses the Biden administration for failing the VISA application process as well. That is right Biden was in charge for 7 months; and nothing was done with it.
The amount of spin and deflection that Biden apologists are willing to go to is beyond belief.
Can you write a sentence without Biden being mentioned?
Unfortunately that's a "feature" of our highly partisan politics these days...
And with a nod to JR (cuz I know he hates the phrase) both sides do it..
Do you think they're just going to unload them at Andrews or Dover and then tell them....stay safe!
I very much doubt that. I see them going to some kind of detention facility where they will be given medical exams, asked a whole bunch of questions about who they are, where they came from, and what do you plan to do now?
He's hardly one to talk. Acosta is like the Empress of Drama.
Why do these talking heads always feel the need to make other talking heads the subject of their news stories? Seems lazy and comes off as very "high school." I don't typically watch these shows, but if I do, nothing makes me want to change the channel more than news stories about other TV news people.
Ehhh, maybe. You could make that argument, at any rate. You start dropping bombs on a place - even with good reason - and yeah, I'd say you might bear some moral responsibility for the fates of the people who live there.
I doubt they would be unvetted. We have a process for that sort of thing.
Yeah, no. It's not going to be millions. There's no reason to think it would be "millions." Good grief.
Refugees who can get out won't necessarily be able to - or even want to - come to America. We have international rules that control where refugees go, and most would probably prefer to settle someplace nearer to home in the hope that they might, some day, go back. Not every refugee on the planet goes to America.