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Fox News host Tucker Carlson spoke about Kanye West’s recent involvement in politics, as well as backlash he is now facing from both, the left and the media.
During a segment of his show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Carlson noted that West is the “most compelling voice against abortion.”
CARLSON: At this moment, the most compelling voice against abortion and Planned Parenthood is not a Republican. The most widely heard Christian evangelist in America is not ordained.
Instead, he is a rapper married to a Kardashian, who by the way, everyone says is crazy. Kanye West is running for President. But that’s not really the headline. The headline is that on core conservative issues, not political issues like legislation before the Congress, but on foundational questions about life and children, and what happens when you die. No one with a national platform has been more honest or sincere or effective than Kanye West has been, maybe in generations.
It’s all pretty shocking, really, talk about an unlikely messenger. But it’s real.
Check out West’s Twitter feed if you haven’t seen it. Not everything he says is conservative, far from it. Not everything he says is even intelligible.
But when West talks about his faith and about the gift of human life, you start to ask yourself, why aren’t there any elected Republicans who sound like that? They say they believe the same things. But if they actually do, why don’t they talk like Kanye West does? And the answer, of course, is because they’re afraid to.
But West is not afraid. He doesn’t have to be. He is too famous. He has made too much money. He sold something like 150 million albums over the past 20 years. And really, it’s hard to cancel a guy like that.
So what is the left do in response to Kanye West? How do you make Kanye West shut up? The short answer is you can’t. So you work to discredit him. You go ad hominem. You ignore what he’s saying. You attack him as a person. You don’t engage with his ideas, you know, you would lose if you tried that.
So instead, you try to keep people from listening to him. It’s an easier job when you’re dealing with less famous people. Thanks to our centrally controlled internet, the left can usually silence dissent in an instant with a press of a button.
But with prominent wrong thinkers like Kanye West, censorship requires a finer touch, more artistic flair.
When the author J.K. Rowling had the gall to note that biological sex is a physical reality, not just a state of mind, Google couldn’t simply wipe her off the internet. She’s J.K. Rowling. She created “Harry Potter.” So the left had to destroy her more methodically.
One British news site compared Rowling to the anti-Semite, Richard Wagner, and then dismissed her as quote, “deeply unpleasant.” So multiply that attack by hundreds of stories, and over time, they are confident, and maybe they’re right, that no one will ever listen to J.K. Rowling again.
In Kanye West’s case, they decided to attack him as mentally ill. You hear that a lot now, but it’s a relatively new tactic. It was just a little over four years ago that CNN published a piece about Kanye West. They highlighted his most famous moments like the time he interrupted Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards.
CNN described all these incidents as quote, “controversial,” but there was no mention of Kanye West being a danger to himself much less mentally ill. No, just controversial. Not a problem.
And then West appeared to say something positive about Donald Trump and everything changed in an instant. Kanye West became a babbling lunatic. The kind of guy who pulls imaginary insects out of the air and soils his own pants, a total nutcase.
CARLSON: He is defiling the memory of his mother. Sad. You’ll notice that this group of cable news mental health experts may be deeply concerned about Kanye West, and yet for all of their apparent medical training, somehow, they don’t appear to notice that Joe Biden can no longer speak English.
Joe is fine. He is not embarrassing anyone.
Kanye West, by contrast, is deeply embarrassing to them, mostly because he is embarrassing to the Democratic Party. Here is someone who should be a Democrat, calling out the most absurd lie that party tells. We care about black lives. That’s why we want more abortion clinics in black neighborhoods. That’s their position. It is insultingly stupid, and anyone who thinks about it knows that.
When you love your kids, you want them to grow up and have children of their own. It’s the main thing you want. But if your most consistent message to your children was please, end your pregnancy. They might start to wonder how you really felt about them. And Kanye West has started to wonder about that and things like that.
Last month on Twitter, West wrote that he had quote, “Cried at the thought of aborting my firstborn. I’m concerned for the world that feels you shouldn’t cry about this subject.” That’s for sure. It’s obvious.
But when Kanye West says it, people might actually listen to him, and that’s a massive problem for the left.
CARLSON: Oh, no wonder they hate him. Now, to be clear, Kanye West is not a normal person. And we’re not saying he is. He has said out loud. He sometimes suffers from something he calls a sprained brain. We’re not sure what that is. We’re not pretending to be mental health experts. And maybe Kanye West is crazy. We don’t know.
But it’s also true and wise people know this, that at a time like this, a lunatic time, sometimes it is only the crazy people who can see the world clearly.
More from Breitbart:
Friday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson opened his program outlining his understanding of Kanye West’s recent involvement in politics and the backlash he is facing from the left and the media.
Carlson offered West’s opposition to abortion as an example of West’s foray into civics.
