Fox News start anchor Tucker Carlson compared Dr. Anthony Fauci, who announced his retirement Monday, to Fidel Castro and “mental patients” for referring to himself in the third person.
Carlson played a montage of clips showing Fauci criticizing those who opposed his policy suggestions relating to Covid-19.
“So if they get up and criticize science, nobody’s gonna know what they’re talking about. But if they get up and really aim their bullets at Tony Fauci, well, people can recognize there’s a person there, so it’s easy to criticize,” Fauci in a clip from a CBS interview in November 2021. “But they’re really criticizing science because I represent science.”
“So if you are trying to, you know, get at me as a public health official and a scientist, you’re really attacking not only Dr. Anthony Fauci, you are attacking science,” he says in another, earlier interview on MSNBC in June 2021.
Carlson didn’t hold back.
“Ok, first of all, the only people who refer to themselves in public non-ironically in the third person are Fidel Castro and mental patients, ok?” he said. “So that should’ve been a tipoff right there. I am science? I’m the state, the state is me. Woah, settle down, megalomania man. This is nuts!”
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Sometimes for emphasis one speaks of himself in third person.
Does Tucker say anything about Trump’s frequent practice of referring to himself in the 3rd person?
@yaakov doe if you (like me) don’t wanna see Trump on the GOP ticket comes 2024, then you and those who think like you, need to stop your sickly obsession against him. Trump never referred to himself in the third person. He actually uses the word “we” a lot. Focus on the issues and leave the personal attacks to the dems.