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“The aroma of death has aroused Lindsay Graham”

Photo: Kevin Dietsch
Photo: Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images)

Look, I have to give credit where credit is due and, tbh, Tucker landed one hell of a good jab at withered GOP goon Lindsey Graham on Tuesday. During his unhinged diatribe on Ukraine, Carlson chastised Graham for a controversial remark about U.S. defense aide that the senator recently made during a meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Graham said that the war in Ukraine was the “best money” the U.S. had “ever spent”). Carlson lit into the senator for this comment, characterizing him as some sort of genocidal comic book villain who relishes the thought of war:

“He looks like a starving man contemplating a breakfast buffet. The aroma of death has aroused Lindsey Graham.”

Good job, Tucker. I can’t speak to the factual accuracy of this description, only its poetic heft and artistic craft. No, it doesn’t make up for the fact that you’re an opportunistic gargoyle who will yak about anything that seems to make your disgruntled audience’s eyeballs dilate with rage, but it certainly is a memorable rhetorical feat! Two points for Hufflepuff!