’B*tch, Are You In Charge?’ Tucker Carlson Blasts Bush’s Actions on 9/11 In Error-Filled Rant

Fired Fox News host Tucker Carlson launched an error-filled and expletive-laden attack against former President George W. Bush over his handling of the 9/11 terror attacks.

“You know, George W. Bush fled Washington on 9/11,” Carlson claimed at one point during a three-hour conversation with popular podcaster Lex Fridman. Famously, Bush was in a Sarasota, Florida classroom when the attacks took place on the morning of September 11th, 2001.

“I lived there with three kids, and he ran away to some Air Force base in South Dakota. And I thought that was cowardly,” Carlson continued, again flubbing the facts.

Bush spent the eight hours following the beginning of the terror attacks that day aboard Air Force One traversing the eastern United States. Air Force One eventually landed at Offut Air Force Base in Nebraska, where Bush and his senior staff were secured in a bunker.

Carlson continued, “And I said so at the time. And man was I attacked for saying that. And I wrote a column about it in New York Magazine, where I then had a column. Hard to believe.”

“I think the prerequisites of leadership are really basic. The first is caring about the people you lead. That’s number one. You know, deep in the way a father cares for his children or an officer cares for his troops. A president should care for his people. And that leads inexorably to the next requirement, which is bravery, physical courage,” Carlson continued, adding:

And I believe in that. And I’m not like some tough guy, but I think it’s obvious if you’re in charge. You know, I’m at my house and I feel like someone broke in, I’m not going to say to my wife, “Hey, baby, go, go deal with the home invasion.” I’m gonna deal with it because I’m dad. Okay?

So if you’re the president of a country and your capital city is attacked as ours was at the Pentagon, and you run away, “Oh the Secret Service told me to.”

“Bitch, are you in charge? Like, who’s daddy here? The Secret Service? Do you know what I mean? I found that totally contemptible,” Carlson concluded.

Much has been written in the years following 9/11 about the events of that day. Politico noted in September 2016 that while on Air Force One for those eight hours, “President Bush and his aides argued about two competing interests—the need to return to Washington and reassure a nation and the competing need to protect the commander in chief.”

“All the while, he and his staff grappled with the aftermath of the worst attack on American soil in their lifetimes, making crucial decisions with only flickering information about the attacks unfolding below. Bush struggled even to contact his family and to reach Vice President Dick Cheney in the White House bunker,” Politico added.

Bush has historically been hailed for his response to 9/11, having hit the highest approval rating in the history of the Gallup Poll in the weeks after.

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