Tucker is a smarmy douchebag, but he often makes clever arguments supported by evidence and logic. Not this time. The idea that mispronouncing Kamala Harris’s name is “holding a public official to account” is risible, as is the claim that someone correcting his pronunciation is equivalent to insisting that Harris be immune from criticism.
I read the whole exchange as just Tucker being one of those people who can’t bear to be seen to be wrong about anything. He isn’t thinking anything in that exchange but “if I bluster enough I don’t have to admit that I was wrong”.
I’m personally thinking of a certain incident with a sharpie and a hurricane track that allowed someone to avoid saying, “I guess it’s not actually projected to hit Alabama, my bad”.
But desperately avoiding admitting to even the most trivial error is nevertheless a common affliction among weak people who are obsessed with looking tough. I’ve certainly seen hundreds of examples IRL (and thousands at least on the internet).
Biden immediatelycorrected himself - he used a slightly short “a” instead of an “ah” and immediately said it correctly. I have to stop myself when I say her name, as I have a friend with that name who pronounces it with a short “a”.
Please come back to this thread and finish this thought. Did you mean to add that he corrected himself and didn’t go on some bizarre rant about how it’s OK to mispronounce her name?
I don’t know. If I reply to a thread in one of the debate forums, it’s to add useful information along with the context about why it’s useful. You do you, I guess.