He might be gone from Fox News Channel and his hit, 8 pm “Tucker Carlson Tonight” show, but Tucker Carlson isn’t off of Twitter and so he’s still treating fans to excellent content that the MSM would never want to produce or distribute.
Recently, that took the form of an interview with rapper Ice Cube, with whom he spoke about many things, such as whether BLM ended up doing anything to help run-down neighborhoods (spoiler: he said the money was embezzled rather than used to help the needy) and about LA politics and the disaster that leftist “leadership” of the city has been.
Ice Cube also gave his take on cancel culture and how to fight back against it, saying that the real answer to the cancel culture cancer on the American body politic is to just not let them silence you and instead fight back by speaking out and not apologizing. So, since he came out in support of free speech instead of cancel culture, expect the usual sort of “black white supremacist” articles to follow.
During the latest part of the interview between the two that was released, Ice Cube also commented on how he got banned from ABC’s “The View,” telling Tucker that he tried to go on the show but was cut because he was disliked by certain hosts of the show for his worldview and politics. Watch the interview here (The View conversation around the 2:00 mark):
Ep. 11 Ice Cube X Tucker: the studio interview pic.twitter.com/fcSkF76l3a
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) July 27, 2023
Introducing the topic when asked what he had been banned from for his views and for speaking freely rather than self-censoring, he said, “You know, I tried to go on, I tried to go on The View. They didn’t have me on The View.”
When Tucker asked why he didn’t end up on the ABC show, he said that it was because a few of the hosts disliked him, saying, “Um, well, a few of the guests just really didn’t like, where I was coming from….a few of the hosts, I mean, so that’s what I was told by the producers.”
Then, explaining what might have been going on in the background, he said, “You know, I don’t know if the producers just copping out and using some of their hosts to not have me come on and explain myself, but…I’ve been on there before. You know, it’s just when I’ve became an independent thinker. When I’ve, you know, I’m not, you know, I don’t, I don’t follow their, their brand of politics, I guess.”
Tucker knew just what question to ask, saying, “But if you can’t think for yourself, then you’re not really free are you?” Ice Cube agreed: “No, you’re not. You’re not, but I’ve been excluded. I’ve been excluded on Oprah, you know, Oprah. Yeah. I’ve been excluded,” he said.
Tucker noted that Ice Cube’s life and career would have made him the seemingly perfect guest for the show, saying, “I would think you’d be the person Oprah would want to promote. I mean, you grew up in South Central, you were successful at a young age. You have dignity, you say what you think, like, I thought that was the goal.”
Indeed. But free thinkers aren’t invited to participate in the entertainment industry: “Me too, you know, I don’t know what it is. But, you know, several of my, you know, I had a movie called Barbershop. And…I wasn’t invited to participate with the cast. I’ll produce the show called Black, White. And it was, it was very controversial show. And, once again, I had to hold castling. But I wasn’t invited [on Oprah].“
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