Posted on 06/14/2025 6:51:34 AM PDT by RandFan
Political pundit Tucker Carlson doubled down on his criticism of Israel’s strikes against Iran, rebuking several media figures, including his former colleagues at Fox News, over what he described as their push for President Trump to engage in the region.
“Who are the warmongers? They would include anyone who’s calling Donald Trump today to demand air strikes and other direct US military involvement in a war with Iran,” Carlson wrote in a post on the social media platform X.
“On that list: Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Rupert Murdoch, Ike Perlmutter and Miriam Adelson. At some point they will all have to answer for this, but you should know their names now,” he continued.
Hannity and Levin both work for Fox News, which is owned by Murdoch. Perlmutter is the former CEO of Marvel, and Adelson is a well-endowed GOP donor who co-hosted a January reception with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in honor of Trump’s campaign win.
Carlson said on Friday that the right is divided between those who encourage Trump to wage war and those who do not.
“The real divide isn’t between people who support Israel and people who support Iran or the Palestinians. The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence, and those who seek to prevent it — between warmongers and peacemakers,” Carlson, who left Fox in 2022, outlined in the post.
Levin, a radio host, has railed against Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, since early May when he accused the official of negotiating a nuclear deal with a “warmonger Iranian terrorist regime.”
Politco reported earlier this week that Levin ramped up his criticism of Iran alongside GOP insiders, including Perlmutter, who urged Trump to support Israel’s attack during a private lunch at the White House.
On Friday, Levin responded to Carlson, denying that he advised Trump to “bomb” Iran.
“You’re a reckless and deceitful propagandist, and that’s the best I can say,” he wrote on X. “You promote antisemitism and conspiracy nuts.”
Iran lost three top military leaders, six nuclear scientists and dozens of senior commanders as a result of Israel’s attack on their nation late Thursday.
Iran responded with a round of ballistic missiles sent toward Israel after Trump said the U.S. would increase the pressure on Iran if a nuclear deal wasn’t soon reached.
He speaks for a lot of conservatives though many on here cheer on war sadly (still) Tucker is right.
Tucker Carlson slams ‘warmongers’ Sean Hannity, Rupert Murdoch amid Israel-Iran strikes
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Good! He needs to keep doing it. The chickenhawk cheerleaders are startin’ to get uppity again.
Tucker has jumped the shark too many times now.
He speaks for some of us albeit a minority maybe on here and in the wider community
The Paleocon neo isolationist is a detriment to America
It really is but they’re getting their wish it seems.
Sorry I misread that post
Tucker speaks for a strand conservatism like it or not
In before the chickenhawk (chcikens**t) couch-commandos, crypto-internationalists and foreign mystery-meat.
Oh wait, they’re running in as I type this - drooling and demanding more death, destabilization and bankruptcy.
They’re in every thread. Tiresome
If they want a war it looks like they will have it
America has always been burdened by myopic isolationists beginning with George Washington who worried about the very foreign entanglements that allowed him to defeat General Cornwallis at Yorktown
We’ve just moved a front in the Russia-NATO/West war from Ukraine to Israel / Iran and the mideast.
*Tucker has jumped the shark too many times now.*
Bingo! He has this need to stay relevant. Since his firing he’s outside looking in. The bloom is off the rose. Saw the same pattern with O’reilly and Savage.
Another 50 billion dollars a year? They sure know how to rinse the US Taxpayer.
But look who you’re siding with Bert (Lindsey Graham etc) I thought better of you and misread it initially but if you want to stand with these characters, fine
There will he np war unless Iran choses one.War is never something to celibrate.
By any measure, George Washington was one of the most accomplished men in the history of the human race. Why don’t you post your professional profile here so we can see how you stack up against him?
Tucker is wrong. And so are you.
I am wondering when it suddenly became a bad thing for terrorists to be taken out.
Iran is ground zero for world terrorist groups. So far, the west has (thankfully) wiped out Al Queda, ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, Houtis, and maybe more. This wasn’t called war mongering - it was applauded.
So Israel goes to take out the head of the snake, a snake which was coiled and ready to completely remove Israel from the face of the earth, and suddently it’s a bad thing.
Not only would Israel be doing the world a huge favour by toppling the crazy mullahs in Iran, they’d be freeing up the good people of Iran to take back their country and live the way they did before Carter caused their downfall.
To be anti-war is the absolute best position. This, however, does not mean that you refuse to go to war when it’s necessary. To support a small country, miles away, who is stepping up to take out such a vile enemy, is the least the west can do.
Tucker Carlson has become a fool, just like Candace Owens and Dave Smith and the rest of those who seem to hate Jews.
What an idiot.
It's better to kill the people determined to kill you.
No direct US involvement in foreign wars.
That’s what was on the ballot.
Not my kids. Not yours.
Send money, sell weapons? That’s the debate for a representative government to have.
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