Senior military officials and the Department of Defense rebuked the Fox News presenter for part of his show poking fun at women who serve their country.
Carlson addressed the controversy on his Thursday night show, complaining about the “hostile” treatment he had received.
Today, the Department of Defense launched a major and coordinated public relations offensive against this show, he claimed.
Pentagon brass made hostile statements, people in uniform sent videos on social media. The DOD even issued a press release attacking us. “
The right-wing TV presenter had ridiculed Joe Biden for saying the US military had made uniforms to fit women properly and flight suits for pregnant women.
So we have new hairstyles and maternity flight suits. Pregnant women are going to fight our wars. It’s a mockery of the US military, ”said Carlson earlier this week.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin shared the same “dislike” expressed by many military leaders towards the comments.
The senior enlisted chief at the US Space Command, Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sgt Scott Stalker, posted a video to social media calling Carlson’s show “ drama TV, ” saying the journalist’s opinion was “ based on basically zero days of service in the armed forces. “
Carlson insisted on Thursday’s show that he had “no hateful bias towards pregnant women flying military planes.”
And he added, “We are pro-pregnancy, as we often say, we are also open-minded.
Maybe pregnant women are the best pilots? The Department of Defense measures everything, so extensive research needs to be done on this question.
“If the Pentagon can show that pregnant pilots are the best, we will be the first to demand an entire Air Force of pregnant pilots.”