Tucker Carlson dismisses Brian Stelter as CNN’s ‘palace eunuch’

In a segment that would make most TV producers blush, Fox host Tucker Carlson compared Brian Stelter to a “palace eunuch” for slavishly spreading the Trump-Russia conspiracy narrative that his network, and the rest of the media, is obsessed with promoting.

Carlson compares CNN reporter to a “eunuch”

The Fox pundit was in the mood for a laugh Monday night when he quipped that CNN president Jeff Zucker is a puppet master controlling Stelter, who he said sycophantically stokes the media’s never-ending Russia hysteria.

“Over the weekend, speaking of television, CNN president Jeff Zucker declared that anybody who is not spreading fear of Russia is doing the bidding of Russia,” said Carlson. “He did not say that himself. He rarely speaks in public. Instead, he sent his marionette out, as he often does to deliver the message.”

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Carlson was referring to a conversation between Stelter and Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein on CNN, in which Stelter voiced concern that the media wasn’t doing enough to cover Russia-gate. The New York Times reported on Friday that the FBI launched a counter-intelligence investigation into Trump after he fired James Comey out of suspicion that he was “working for Russia.”

“I was watching ‘Good Morning America’ this weekend, and both mornings they led with snowstorms and scares at malls and other stories, and not this [the New York Times Russia] story,” Stelter said. “And I just keep wondering if the public is ill-served if we don’t make it really clear what the stakes of this story are. How — how can a morning show not lead with this drama, I guess is what I’m saying.”

“So the eunuch heads to the steps of the palace and reads the proclamation. Message received, thank you very much,” Carlson observed.

Carlson mocks media’s Russia obsession

Mocking the media’s absurd obsession with Russia is a recurring theme on Carlson’s show, and there’s no shortage of material there.

“But take three steps back. Is the media’s problem really that it does not talk about Russia enough? It does not seem like that is a problem,” Carlson said.

Tucker then played a montage of media networks frothing over the very story which Stelter complained the networks were not doing enough to lead with, as multiple newscasters read the Times headline aloud in robot-like unison, “F.B.I. opened inquiry into whether Trump was secretly working on behalf of Russia.” Carlson joked that the media has a single screenwriter — the Democrats — pushing a vacuous conspiracy narrative that has become so grating that it’s “like ‘Muzak’ in an elevator.”

“Does every show on cable news have the same writer?” he asked. “Well, yeah, it’s the DNC. You have heard the script so many times that it is like background noise, ‘Muzak’ in an elevator.”

Carlson went on to say that Trump has done the opposite of what a secret agent for Vladimir Putin would want, noting that Trump intends to pull out of “costly, expensive foreign wars” and has implemented policies that helped America become energy independent for the first time in decades, which works against Russia’s interest as an energy exporter.

“Their economy is dependent on energy. But Trump — and this is weird behavior for a Russian agent — has done the opposite of that. The United States, for the first time in my lifetime, is an energy exporter. In fact, it is the largest producer of oil and gas in the world. Is that good for Russia? No, it’s not.”

Carlson said that future generations would look back on the Russia conspiracy with “shame and confusion” at how “so many supposedly smart people went completely off the deep end.”