As Christmas approaches, Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson is a gift that keeps on giving ... material to comedians. Stephen Colbert took a whack on Wednesday's Late Show. "Carlson's already got a reputation for flirting with racism, but last week he took it to a racy new level," he began. "Tucker got a lot of heat" for calling immigrants dirty and diseased, "but he's nothing if not a little racist who could, and he came chugging back up that hill on Monday with a new reason he doesn't like immigrants: He just cares so darn much about the environment."
Colbert rolled his eyes at Carlson's gripe about migrants and garbage, "but despite the critics, Tucker is staying focused," he noted. "Yesterday, while every news outlet was covering some trivial story about the president's former national security adviser getting a federal prison sentence, Tucker was hitting the hard news," the war on Christmas cookies — at least at one coffee shop in Scotland where they no longer sell gingerbread men. "If we accept 'gingerbread people,' what's next?" Colbert asked in mock horror. "Ladyfingers becoming peoplefingers?"
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