Mudline August 2, 2021
August 2, 2021
........Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Rep. Cori Bush: "Could never have a job in the real world because she's not smart enough for a real job...Wrecking the country she hates."....Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol on Carlson: "A very talented demagogue."....Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sen. Rand Paul: "You do not know what you are talking about, and I want to say that officially."....Rep. Madison Cawthorn on Fauci: "A pawn of the Chinese Communist Party...We want to prosecute this guy to the full ability of the law."....Rep. James Talarico on Fox's Pete Hegseth: "You have made a lot of money personally and you have enriched a lot of corporations with advertising by getting on here and spewing lies and conspiracy theories to folks who trust you."....Michelle Goldberg on Trumpers: "Followed Trump from rally to rally like authoritarian Deadheads."....former Trump Homeland Security official and "Anonymous" author Miles Taylor: "The number one national security threat I've ever seen in my life to this country's democracy is the party that I'm in, the Republican Party."....Rep. Ronny Jackson: "Today's Democrat Party is made up almost entirely of socialists, communists, and Marxists. ALL BAD!"....Sen. Ted Cruz: "The left hates America. Believe them when they tell you this."....Sen. Marco Rubio: "My office stands ready to help the leaders of the Black Lives Matter organization to emigrate to Cuba."....J.D. "Hillbilly Elegy" Vance on Dems: "A party of childless people."....Atlantic's Tom Nichols on Vance: "A contemptible and cringe-inducing clown."....Rep. Josh Hawley: "While violent crime soars, Joe Biden's priority is his domestic war on terror -- snooping and spying on normal, working Americans who have the 'wrong' political opinions."....GOP strategist Susan Del Percio: "Forget 'Trumpism.' It's neofascism. That's what the grassroots of the party looks like right now."....Tucker Carlson on Covid vaccine: "I hope that people will not comply, by any means necessary."....former Fox reporter Carl Cameron on Fox's vaccine coverage: "It's not news. It's gaslighting. It's propaganda."....Steve Silberman: "Just say it plainly: If the terrorists had been Black instead of MAGA, Trump would have called in tanks and snipers on 1/6, rivers of blood would have run down the Capitol steps, and Fox News would be celebrating the massacre."....John Dean: "The Trump family is obnoxious out of power and dangerous in power because of their corruption and incompetence (a lethal combo)."....Rep. Jamaal Bowman on Amazon: "They've created a plantation work environment."....Taliban spokesperson on demonstrations by armed Afghan women: "Women will never pick up guns against us. They are helpless and forced by the defeated enemy. They can't fight."....Michael Wolff on Trump: "He is deranged...Everybody knows there was no election fraud, except for Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani. It's like they're on some other planet."....Robert Reich: "Instead of asking his followers to get vaccinated, the former guy is claiming that people are not getting vaccinated because they don't trust the election results. Serious question: Is he the most loathsome human being ever to hold elected office in the US?"....former Trump chief of staff Mark Kelly on Trump: "The most flawed person I have ever met in my life."....Trump: "I was banned by sleazebags. I was banned by bad people."....
