In the eighth episode of his newest production, “Tucker on Twitter,” former Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson took aim at Admiral Rachel L. Levine, who currently serves as the 17th Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Ep. 8 Rick from Boston is telling us he wants to be known as female Admiral Rachel Levine. Accept his lie or pay the consequences, bigot. pic.twitter.com/otDl5EITYs
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 30, 2023
During his five-minute monologue released Friday afternoon, Carlson mocked Levine, who identifies as a woman, and asserted Levine’s “personal journey” is about becoming more powerful instead of empowering others.
Carlson played a video of Levine wishing the nation a “happy pride,” and going on to declare the entire summer as a “summer of pride,” to which the former Fox News host commented, “Rick Levine is so darn proud he’d like to tell you about it all summer, and possibly into the Fall. He’s got a-lot to be proud of. What specifically, you ask? Well strangely, he doesn’t say, nor does he mention his former wife or children. He doesn’t tell us whether they are proud too.”
Carlson went on to brand Rachel, formerly Rick, as a “fat guy in a Halloween costume who somehow became a federal health minister,” before describing Levine’s past as a “married pediatrician with kids lecturing about eating disorders at Penn State.”
“Now he’s emerged as a path-breaking lady admiral with medals on his chest,” Carlson said, adding, “What we have here is living proof that in this country, you really can be whatever you want to be.”
“The point of Rick Levine’s amazing transformation is not to free you from the inflexible husk that you were born in, so you can be more fully yourself, whatever you decide that is. No, that’s not the point,” Carlson said. “Rick Levine’s personal journey has nothing to do with you. It’s about him, it’s his journey. Your fantasies about becoming something totally new and different have not been approved yet. In fact, they’re weird.”
“Shut up and be proud of Admiral Rachel,” Carlson continued. “She’s the one who has smashed glass ceilings, and you’ve just got some kind of weird fetish. So actually, now that we’re saying this out loud, it’s pretty clear that Rick Levine has no interest in liberating you from anything. This is not about liberation, it’s just the opposite. It’s just another religious war, same as all the others. The people who think they’re God versus everybody else.”
“Rick Levine doesn’t worry about being punished by forces he can’t see – he knows he’s in charge. He makes the rules. He sets the limits. Reality is what he says it is,” Carlson added.
“For seven million years, human beings have believed one thing – presumably based on some evidence. Around 2015 they became convinced of something completely different. Are they right? Feels like we’re going to find out soon,” Carlson concluded.
As of press time, the latest installment of Carlson’s video podcast, posted at 5:31 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, had 5.5 million views. The eight episodes have been seen 383.4 million times on Twitter.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network.
Photo “Tucker Carlson” by Tucker Carlson.
