Tucker Carlson mocked his CNN rival Don Lemon for having a black face cookie jar in his $4.3 million Hamptons residence.
Carlson took goal at CNN host Don Lemon Monday night, accusing him of hypocrisy after latest feedback in which he referred to as America racist, and in explicit for having the in the offensive decoration seen in his Sag Harbor residence.
He stated: ‘You’ve heard from the White House and the President himself that white supremacy is a lurking risk and also you won’t see it however it’s all the time there like Russian spies, white supremacists, in the darkish of evening and essentially the most stunning kind.
‘We’re not calling it to be a white supremacist right here however it’s a must to ask your self – and we’re placing it on the display screen now. What is this? The image of hate? Symbol of hate posing as a cookie jar doing in Don Lemon’s kitchen?
‘You see that? That proper there, girls and gents, is a white supremacist QAnon cookie jar. We aren’t calling for the Department of Justice to look extra deeply into this and that is not our place and we’re cable information present not a legislation enforcement company.
‘But let’s put it this fashion if you end up with a black face cookie jar in your kitchen, it is time to mirror. That means you, Don Lemon.’
Fox News host Tucker Carlson hit out on Don Lemon Monday night, saying his life-style, and in explicit, a chef cookie jar in black face indicated the CNN host’s hypocrisy after latest feedback he made about racism in America
The Fox News host seemed to be making a sarcastic dig at CNN’s repeated requires probes into QAnon supporters, home terrorists and white supremacism, which has seen the community accused of sacrificing editorial integrity to lecture its viewers.
Carlson additionally referred to a latest interview with the Washington Post in which Lemon stated the Trump presidency proved the racism in America, and that, ‘We’re residing in two totally different realities as black and white individuals,’ whereas selling his ebook This is the Fire.
‘It’s fascinating we learn that and here is a man who makes tens of millions of {dollars} a year from presiding over a present that is failing, and that looks as if a reasonably whole lot,’ Carlson stated, ‘But like so many, is additionally a sufferer a profitable sufferer.’
Lemon’s black face cookie jar was noticed in the background of a snap taken in his $4.3 million Sag Harbor residence
Lemon, who is black, makes $4milllion as host of ‘Don Lemon Tonight’ and lives in a $4.3million, 2,750-square-foot four-bedroom cottage in the predominantly white space of Sag Harbor, New York, together with his fiancé Tim Malone.
Carlson stated the 55-year-old’s life-style indicated a unfastened dedication to variety.
‘He lectures America about variety. What he didn’t inform The Washington Post is that in his free time he runs away from variety. His actuality is that he does not like variety in any respect. None of them do.’
In reality, Sag Harbor has seven occasions extra white residents than some other race or ethnicity, in keeping with Data USA.
Lemon, who is black, lives in a $4.3 million four-bedroom cottage in Sag Harbor, New York state the place 80% of the inhabitants are white and simply 3% black together with his fiance Tim Malone (pictured collectively in entrance of their residence)
In 2018, 80 p.c of the inhabitants had been white, whereas simply 3 p.c had been black or African-American.
Lemon spoke to the Post about racism in America, following the discharge of his ebook ‘This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism’ in March.
‘There’s additionally this false actuality that we’re residing in a post-racial world after the election of Barack Obama,’ Lemon stated.
Don Lemon (pictured on CNN) – stated black and white Americans are ‘residing in two totally different realities’ whereas selling his ebook in a latest interview with the Washington Post
‘That was all bulls**. It was a wake-up name to white individuals who thought we had been residing in a nonracist world.’
He added: ‘We’re residing in two totally different realities as black and white individuals.
‘We knew, as black individuals, what was lurking beneath the floor. I nonetheless imagine that [Trump] was the required wake-up for America to comprehend simply how racist it is.’
