Tucker Carlson Humiliates Ted Cruz Over Iran
On his Tuesday podcast, Tucker Carlson utterly humiliated Sen. Ted Cruz for not knowing much of anything about Iran, the country he wants to bomb into Kingdom Come.
Carlson is not a fan of attacking Iran, and Cruz fell into a simple trap of his own making. It takes five seconds to know the most basic aspects of any country.
CARLSON: How many people live in Iran, by the way?
CARLSON: I don't know the population.
CARLSON: At all?
CARLSON: No, I don't know the population.
CARLSON: You don't know the population of the country you seek to topple?
CRUZ: How many people live in Iran?
CARLSON: 92 million.
CRUZ: Okay.
Yeah, I...
CARLSON: How could you not know that?
CRUZ: I don't sit around memorizing population tables.
CARLSON: Well, it's kind of relevant because you're calling for the overthrow of the government.
CRUZ: Why is it relevant, whether it's 90 million, or 80 million, or 100 million, why is that relevant?
CARLSON: Well, because if you don't know anything about the country...
CRUZ: I didn't say I don't know anything about the country.
CARLSON: Okay, what's the ethnic mix of Iran?
CRUZ: They are Persians and predominantly Shia.
CARLSON You don't know anything about Iran. So actually the country...
CRUZ: Okay, I am not the Tucker Carlson expert on Iran who says...