Many Super Bowl viewers enjoyed the rendition of “America the Beautiful" by Renee Elise Goldsberry, Phillipa Soo, and Jasmine Cephas Jones, who played the Schulyer sisters in the hit musical Hamilton. If you missed it, here it is:
Beautiful, right? Inspirational, right? Just awesome, right?
Well, not really. Yesterday Tucker Carlson helpfully clarified matters:
Tucker Carlson [...] was quick to jump on the three women for adding two words to the patriotic anthem.
“When this happened, my three daughters came in the room with tears in their eyes said, ‘We finally feel empowered as Americans!’” Carlson joked, at the expense of his children. “There is sort of an endless series of symbolic issues like this, and you sort of wonder, what is the point?”
(Those poor Carlson girls. Do they really deserve to be embarrassed on nationwide TV?)
Tucker continued:
“I'm as pro-sisterhood as anybody, more than most women, probably, actually,” he added, laughably. “But what’s the point? The point is to make the person who says it feel virtuous, and I guess maybe it's comforting to them, but what does it add up to? Not a lot. And the rest of us just like to be entertained and hear the songs I grew up with without political statements in them, but we don’t get to do that anymore.”
Speak for yourself, Tucker. Then again, as usual, it’s all about Tucker.
Co-host Ainsley Earhardt said she had not been bothered by it, so co-host Brian Kilmeade patiently laid out the reasons why she should have been:
“Ainsley, if you are hanging out with your posse, Kimberly and everybody else,” Kilmeade said, referring to Fox’s Kimberly Guilfoyle, “I might say, ‘Hey, what are you guys up to?’ It doesn't mean I think you are guys. It's an expression. When I think brotherhood, I think the same thing.”
Shhh. Don’t tell Brian that the lyrics to “America the Beautiful” were penned by a woman. He might just feel empowered to fly off into a whole new self-righteous rant about women changing a woman’s lyric!