Tucker Carlson: “Nobody wanted to criticize Al Sharpton [publicly] because…”

“I never treated him like, you know, a lesser being, like a lot of white liberals do, like, oh, here's my little black friend, you know, like, you know, I just assessed him on his own terms and I … Nobody wanted to criticize Al Sharpton [publicly] because that would be betraying the team. … see that universally, like, Universally like, nobody wants, like, the one thing you can't do is betray your side. And first of all, that's a really divisive way to look at the world.” (15:09–15:19)

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