James Carville Slams Media For ‘Fair’ Coverage Of Trump’s Gun-Filled Fantasy About Liz Cheney

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville is slamming mainstream media outlets for being unnecessarily “fair” to Donald Trump, whose recent comments about how former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) would handle being shot at caused outrage from high-ranking Democrats.
“The people that I find most loathsome, and the wormiest, slimiest people in this, is what I call the truth-teller caucus,” Carville said Friday in a video for Politicon. “They’re the people … burdened with the obligation to ‘the truth’ — and you see these asswipes everywhere.”
Carville was referring to journalists who “talk about polling averages” and interview Pennsylvanian diners to “get some wisdom” about the presidential election — while equivocating Trump’s violent comments with minor gaffes or policy quibbles from his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.
Carville slammed this “centrist approach,” before delivering an extremely sarcastic hypothetical to argue his point.
“Let’s say Donald Trump wants a nine-person firing squad to execute Liz Cheney,” he said. “OK, is the middle position a four-person firing squad or a five-person firing squad? Now, it’s a very important question, because we got to take ideas from both parties and meld them together.”
Carville’s “nine-person firing squad” example was a reference to comments Trump made about Cheney during a Glendale, Arizona tour stop Thursday held by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
At the event, Trump denounced Cheney as a “war hawk” and suggested that she wouldn’t endorse using the U.S. military for foreign interventions if she had to face that danger herself.
“Let’s put her with a rifle, standing there, with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face,” Trump said.
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Harris called the comment “disqualifying” on Friday, while Cheney herself — who has joined Harris on the campaign trail in an effort to quell bipartisan strife in order to defeat Trump at the polls — said such remarks are precisely “how dictators destroy free nations.”
Carville, who accurately predicted President Joe Biden would exit the race to make way for a new Democratic nominee, previously confessed he’s “scared to death” about the presidential election — and warned that Trump will make good on his threats to arrest his political opponents.
Just days ahead of Tuesday’s election, Carville spoke directly to the media.
“I do hope the people supposedly telling us what’s going on in this country develop the intestinal fortitude, the background, the historical knowledge … [and] sense to know that everything is not fucking equal in this country,” he said, “and everybody’s opinion is not fucking equal.”
“Some people have better, more informed, more humane opinions than other people do,” he continued. “What he hell don’t you go out and fucking report that?”