Ilhan Omar called Tucker Carlson a racist and asked for his advertisers to boycott him!
On Monday Tucker talked about how Omar and her attacks on America are dangerous, to include comments that she is “living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country,” and that she “is a living fire alarm. A warning to the rest of us that we better change our immigration. Or else.”
The next day she tweeted calling him a racist fool:
“Not gonna lie, it’s kinda fun watching a racist fool like this weeping about my presence in Congress,” she wrote Tuesday, reacting to another tweet calling Carlson’s segment an “absolutely stunning racist attack” against Omar, although the Fox News host never mentioned race in his comments.
“No lies will stamp out my love for this country or my resolve to make our union more perfect,” she added. “They will just have to get used to calling me Congresswoman!”
Not gonna lie, it’s kinda fun watching a racist fool like this weeping about my presence in Congress 🤣🤣
No lies will stamp out my love for this country or my resolve to make our union more perfect.
They will just have to get used to calling me Congresswoman! https://t.co/nRS13yWivK
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) July 10, 2019
She followed by saying, “Fox News is now giving a nightly platform to white supremacist rhetoric. It’s dangerous. Advertisers should not be underwriting hate speech.”
Fox News is now giving a nightly platform to white supremacist rhetoric. It’s dangerous.
Advertisers should not be underwriting hate speech. https://t.co/iQdMJ0heXR
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) July 10, 2019
Tucker responded by defending his remarks by saying:
(First watch teh short video and than you can read the full transcript below)
“Like many of you, we’ve been watching with amazement and alarm as the leaders of the Democratic Party, day after day, attack the country they say they want to govern,” he said.
“It’s a remarkable and very new development. Just a few years ago, even the most liberal Democrats in Congress felt obligated to say patriotic things about America. They may not have felt it, but they said it. Now, it’s routine to hear Democratic presidential candidates question the basic legitimacy of the United States.
“Even supposed moderates, like Joe Biden, join in,” Carlson said.
“That should worry about you. No country can survive being ruled by people who hate it. We deserve better. For all of our country’s flaws, this is still the best place in the world. Most immigrants know that and that is why they come here. It’s also why we’ve always been glad to have them here.
“Now there are signs that some people who move here from abroad don’t like this country at all. As we told you last night, one of those people now serves in our Congress. In fact, the United States is the kindest most open-minded place on the planet, the U.S. has done more for other people and receive less in return than any nation in history by far. Americans like to help, it makes us feel good. At some of our deepest satisfaction as a country comes from watching penniless immigrants arrive on our shores buy into our values and thrive, we called the American dream and nothing makes us prouder,” Carlson continued.
“Recall the American dream and nothing makes us prouder. It was in that spirit that a 1992, the United States welcomed 10-year-old Ilhan Omar and her family.
“Omar was born in Somalia, one of the world’s poorest countries, then ruled by Marx’s military dictatorship. When she was six, she and her parents and siblings fled a silverware and run up at a refugee camp in Kenya.
“They spent four years until America offered the family asylum here and let them settle in Minneapolis. Omar’s father drove a taxi then got a job at the post office working for the government.
“Omar, meanwhile, grew up free in the world’s richest country with all the bounty that implies. She became a citizen, and went to work for state university.
“’Instead, it was the country that had failed to live up to its founding ideals, a plane that has disappointed her and so many immigrants, refugees, and minorities like her.’”
“If anything, that is an understatement. Omar isn’t disappointed in America. She’s enraged by it. Virtually every public statement she makes accuses America of bigotry and racism. This is an amoral country, she says.
“She has undisguised contempt for the United States and for its people. That should worry you, and not just because Omar is now a sitting member of Congress. Ilhan Omar is living proof of the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country. A system designed to strengthen America is instead undermining it. Some of the very people we try hardest to help have come to hate us passionately.”
“A system designed to strengthen America is instead undermining it. Some of the very people we try hardest to help have come to hate us passionately.
“Maybe that is our fault for asking too little of our immigrants. We aren’t self-confident enough to make them assimilate so they never feel fully American.
“Or maybe the problem is deeper than that. Maybe we are importing people from places who are simply antithetical to ours. Who knows what the problem is but there is a problem and whatever that because this cannot continue. It’s not sustainable.
“No country can import large numbers of people who hate it and expect to survive. The Romans were the last to try that with predictable results.
“So be grateful for Ilhan Omar, annoying as she is. She’s a living fire alarm, a warning to the rest of us. We better change our immigration system immediately or else,” he said and Omar did not take it kindly.
“Not gonna lie, it’s kinda fun watching a racist fool like this weeping about my presence in Congress. No lies will stamp out my love for this country or my resolve to make our union more perfect. They will just have to get used to calling me Congresswoman!” she said.
