Posted on 11/10/2018 1:40:44 PM PST by jazusamo
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Tucker Carlson responded to attorney Michael Avenatti's claim he was investigating the Fox News host "assaulted" a "gay Latino immigrant," last month, with Carlson explaining in a detailed statement that the man had called his teenage daughter a "whore" at a Virginia country club.
The response comes after Avenatti, who has clashed with Carlson before, tweeted a video that appeared to show Carlson telling someone "get the f**k out of here. But the video does not show Carlson assaulting anyone as alleged.
In an extended statement provided to The Hill, Carlson said the man who called his 19-year-old daughter a whore also called her another highly derogatory term, which prompted his college-aged son to throw a glass of wine in the man's face.
“On October 13, I had dinner with two of my children and some family friends at the Farmington Country Club in Charlottesville, Virginia," Carlson begins. "Toward the end of the meal, my 19-year-old daughter went to the bathroom with a friend. On their way back through the bar, a middle aged man stopped my daughter and asked if she was sitting with Tucker Carlson. My daughter had never seen the man before. She answered: ‘That’s my dad,’ and pointed to me. The man responded, ‘Are you Tucker’s whore?’ He then called her a ‘f*** c***.’
"My daughter returned to the table in tears," Carlson continues. "She soon left the table and the club. My son, who is also a student, went into the bar to confront the man. I followed. My son asked the man if he’d called his sister a ‘whore’ and a ‘c**t.’ The man admitted he had, and again become profane. My son threw a glass of red wine in the man’s face and told him to leave the bar, which he soon did."
"Immediately after the incident, I described these events to the management of the Farmington Country Club," Carlson explains. "The club spent more than three weeks investigating the incident. Last week, they revoked the man’s membership and threw him out of the club."
"I love my children," he adds. "It took enormous self-control not to beat the man with a chair, which is what I wanted to do. I think any father can understand the overwhelming rage and shock that I felt seeing my teenage daughter attacked by a stranger."
But I restrained myself. I did not assault this man, and neither did my son," Carlson concludes. "That is a lie. Nor did I know the man was gay or Latino, not that it would have mattered. What happened on October 13 has nothing to do with identity politics. It was a grotesque violation of decency. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.”
The incident going public on Saturday comes three days after a group associated with left-wing antifa activists converged on Carlson's home in Washington, D.C., while chanting "Racist scumbag, leave town!" and warning on social media Carlson and his family "were not safe."
"BREAKING. Activists ring doorbell, hold protest at the Washington D.C. area home of @TuckerCarlson, racist, sexist, bigoted FOX News personality. So far no one has opened the door," read a since-removed tweet by Smash Racism DC, which associates itself with antifa.
The tweet, which is no longer online after the group's Twitter account was suspended, included video of the chants being made outside Carlson's home.
“Tucker Carlson, we will fight! We know where you sleep at night!" it added.
"Every night you spread fear into our homes—fear of the other, fear of us, and fear of them. Each night you tell us we are not safe. Tonight you’re reminded that we have a voice," another tweet read. "Tonight, we remind you that you are not safe either."
I would not be a member of a club that would tolerate such a thing or have such a man as a member.
And Tucker is one of the most polite and nicest guys. Some jerk like O’Reilly yeah, they might incite this kind of crap but Tucker is one of the few who puts (to my frustration at times) liberals on the air to give both sides of the story. THe guy was way out of line, period, but he sure picked the wrong guy to insult.
Y’know, the real sad part is had the guy gotten a thrashing, unless he struck the first blow he’d get to walk away a free man and Tucker would be looking at charges.
I remember my father, born in 1920, telling me when he was a youngster it was common for men to come to blows. Heck, I was born in the early sixties and schoolyard fights were common, I was even in a few.
Nowadays if my kid hit another at school that’d be a no questions asked expulsion. The concept of letting a fight clear the air and satisfy honor is dead and gone.
I agree...It’s great that Tucker and his son confronted the idiot.
So far less than that hasn’t been effective.
Insult to slime balls. Try piece of rotting fecal material in bottom of French sewer!
Tucker is obviously in between a rock and a hard place with these losers. Personally I don’t have daughters but if I did and someone called them a whore it should be legal to punch that idiot in the mouth. Surely in the time of #metoo men ought to be encouraged to defend the honor of a woman. But only if you’re a beta male Democrat I suppose.
bttt
I hear you and had same experiences growing up.
My Dad was 1 of 11 kids and born in 1912, my Granddad worked for the railroad.
"Immediately after the incident, I described these events to the management of the Farmington Country Club," Carlson explains. "The club spent more than three weeks investigating the incident. Last week, they revoked the man’s membership and threw him out of the club."
Evil Knevil became a Hero to the Public when he beat that reporter with a bat. To top it off he flaunted work release by hiring his cellmates and all going to work in his limo everyday.
The legal term “provocation” is when one party goats another to the point where any reasonable man would then physically assault the provocateur. The provocateur would be charged in the incident and the victim that threw the first punches would be exonerated in a justifiable assault case.
Please don’t take offense. I agree with you. There has to be a way our society will allow us to defend ourselves, legally.
Our legal system is unjust. Please see a case on Google or Wikipedia of a gun owner Mr. Theodore Wafer in MI who is now unjustly in prison for a long time.
After several news stories of teens creating a disturbance diversion at front door of houses, then other teens breaking rear or kitchen door glass and rushing in to hold gun in the homeowner’s face, Mr. Wafer was awakened at night by a screaming banshee 19 year old female incoherently demanding to be let into his house. Banging on the door and kicking it. He panicked when he couldn’t remember where he misplaced his cell phone to call 911. Teens had vandalized his car more than once. Were they breaking in to get him?
He got a shotgun and told her to leave. She kept screaming. He opened the door enough to look at her and saw she was wild eyed and out of her mind and still pushing to get in. The gun went off and shot her dead on the edge of the doorstep. He never left his home at any time but was imprisoned for shooting her.
In court he sobbed sincerely and said he felt so terrible to accidentally shoot her and that this ended an innocent life. He was overcome with guilt. Girl had been on drugs, had a car breakdown far away and walked for some reason a long distance across vacant fields to arrive at his house. Her gold digging vindictive relatives won a lawsuit for a fortune (must have been his house insurance paid it) and said they wished he could be executed.
Many times I think about this man and his terrible life having to go to prison.
A few seconds and a gunshot, then “was the man with his back to you?” “Why did you consider yourself in mortal danger””Did the man actually pull out a gun from his pocket?” “Could you have talked to him to warn him first?” “When he shot at you did you have a chance to run before you shot back?” With months of hostile questions figured out by shysters against you.
As I said, I am on your side. The laws are so picky and absurd and the prosecutors and lawyers are so vile and we are in the middle. During a Detroit WJR radio news show discussion a lawyer said “Remember, if an armed carjacker points a gun at you and steals your car, you are not allowed to shoot at him because in Michigan defense of property does not justify shooting someone.” “Even though the victim often is shot by the carjacker? “Yes.” “What kinds of laws are they passing in this state?”
Sick society.
I understand what you bring up and it’s sad.
MI and states like them need to do some serious changing of their laws.
Tucker should have slapped him and told him to bring his second, you’re wearing my second’s wine. Dawn on the First Tee. The club manager can read the rules and call the duel. If you fail to show I will hunt you down “forthwith”.
Some things are worth a night in jail. If a guy called my daughter a whore, I would have asked my wife to call my lawyer as they were leading me in cuffs past the man on the floor.
My best to you.
“Fighting words” is a figure of speech. Under the law, no insult justifies a violent response. Period. Of course if the words are a threat of imminent violence, that’s a different matter. Even so, the response must be proportional: if I threaten to throw a nerd ball at you, you can’t pull out a gun and shoot me. It’s the same principle: the law does not regard violence as proportional to insulting words
Yes, they changed the rules, let’s use them for our benefit. And, sorry to say, time to be sneaky. Civility and honor simply create more victims.
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