On MSNBC’s The Sunday Present, host Jonathan Capehart invited Howard Dean to touch upon the information that Speaker Kevin McCarthy has given hundreds of hours of January 6 video footage to Tucker Carlson.

When Capehart requested Dean for his ideas on “Fox Information getting access to all that footage,” the ever-exasperated Dean replied: 

The actual fact we’re even speaking about this proper now’s an issue . . . You do it since you assume it is outrageous and it should bump your rankings and make folks offended. The issue is, you are additionally spreading it. Tucker Carlson is a bomb-throwing whack job. Why are we even speaking about Tucker Carlson on a good information group? Sure, he has attain. Sure, he is outrageous. I simply assume that a part of this downside is us! We spend an excessive amount of time with bomb-throwing nut jobs.

After which it appeared Dean may need suffered an issue of mistaken id:

When Tucker Carlson says one thing, it is Rupert Murdoch being provocative and undoing a rustic he by no means appreciated within the first place. And why the hell he wished to be a citizen aside from to generate income, I don’t know.”

For a second there, you may need thought Dean was speaking about Ilhan Omar!

After which there was Dean’s unintentional humor in calling MSNBC “a good information group.” MSNBC—with its assortment of untamed and wacky hosts like Pleasure Reid, Joe Scarborough, et. al, and which consistently affords airtime to a parade of far-left wackos—a “respectable information group?” To cite an excitable former presidential candidate: yea-h-h-h-h!!!

It ought to be famous that Capehart clearly has a sure grudging respect for Carlson. Pushing again in opposition to Dean’s suggestion that the liberal media should not cowl Carlson, Capehart stated that in some ways, Carlson “has extra energy” than Speaker McCarthy. Capehart additionally warned that it’s important to take Carlson significantly as a result of—like Donald Trump in 2016—whom the liberal media actually laughed off, Carlson “might get elected president.”

On Jonathan Capehart’s MSNBC present, Howard Dean calling Tucker Carlson a “bomb-throwing whack job” that “respectable information organizations” like MSNBC should not cowl, was sponsored partially by Verizon, Samsung, USPS, and Abbott, maker of FreeStyle Libre.

The transcript is beneath. Click on “increase” to learn: 

MSNBC’s The Sunday Present With Jonathan Capehart
2/26/23
9:45 am ET

JONATHAN CAPEHART: Chairman Dean, because you introduced up Fox Information, Eugene, I acquired to have you ever hearken to what Tucker Carlson needed to say on Monday about getting access to January 6 materials from Speaker McCarthy. Watch this.

TUCKER CARLSON: Our producers, a few of our smartest producers, have been there, taking a look at these items, and making an attempt to determine what it means, and the way it contradicts, or not, the story that we have been instructed for greater than two years. We predict. already, that in some methods, it does contradict that story.

CAPEHART: He sounds so grave in his tone. However your view on Fox Information getting access to all that footage?

HOWARD DEAN: So here is the issue, Jonathan. And I am unsure find out how to repair this, as a result of you already know we’re, there are information retailers on the center-left are simply as problematic. The truth is–

The truth that we’re even speaking about this proper now’s an issue. Are you able to think about ten years in the past, folks masking Rush Limbaugh like this, and repeating and repeating and repeating? And on the left, repeating Rush Limbaugh? You do it since you assume it is outrageous and it should bump your rankings and make folks offended. The issue, is you are additionally spreading it. 

Tucker Carlson is a bomb-throwing whack job. Why are we even speaking about Tucker Carlson on a good information group? Sure, he has attain, sure he is outrageous. I simply assume that a part of this downside is us! We spend an excessive amount of time with bomb throwing nut jobs. 

When McCarthy says one thing, it issues. He is the Speaker. When Tucker Carlson says one thing, it is Rupert Murdoch being provocative, and undoing a rustic he by no means appreciated within the first place. And why the hell he wished to be a citizen aside from to generate income, I don’t know.

CAPEHART: Okay, properly Chairman Dean, I hear you on all these factors. However, in a variety of methods, Tucker Carlson has extra energy than the Speaker, since his viewers, for the reason that people in that constructing over there reside in nice concern of the individuals who watch Fox Information. 

And in addition, one factor I discovered throughout Trump’s run for the presidency, when everybody wasn’t taking him significantly, I took him significantly. As a result of when folks speak like that, it’s important to take them significantly. Since you by no means know, they may get elected President.