BUCK: It’s absurd, the attack they had on Tucker Carlson. Here is Joy Reid of MSNBC. I think that she saw the piece in the New York Times and thinks, “Well, I can do more of an attack on Tucker than that,” and she even brought in Rush, the greatest of all time, in this attack, ’cause they hate anyone who makes the case for the other side, and they don’t want to hear it and then try to fight against it. They just don’t want those people to be able to speak.

Here is MSNBC’s Joy Reid. Play 22.

REID: Fox News, you know, it’s really literally no different than what Rush Limbaugh used to do, to be honest with you. And I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh back when I was doing talk radio because he was sort of the — you know, sort of top of the craft, and so you wanted to listen and see what he does. I mean, it is a… It is a tactic.

If your audience is a 92% white audience — it’s an older audience. It’s the oldest audience in cable news out of the three cable news networks. If that’s who you’re talking to… What Rush used to do was, you know, his shows were on all these little rural stations all over the country. And he was constantly feeding that very white, largely rural audience constant nervousness, you know, constant a sense that you’re being besieged, that black people are coming for you, the brown people are coming for you, the immigrants are coming for you.

BUCK: I mean, none of this is true. But, hey, at least she admitted that Rush was at the absolute top of the profession, but that was obvious. But isn’t it fascinating to hear leftists making the argument that it is the right that suffers from anxiety and nervousness? These are the triple maskers, right? These are the people for whom it’s not even safe to be in a plane without a mask.

These are the people for whom being masked up in public parks, out on the street alone, has become a political identifier. They’re worried about our anxiety levels? I think we’re doing just fine. I also think that if we’re gonna talk about people being made anxious about what’s happening in the country, the left lives in a fantasyland.

And so — what we do here, what I do, what Clay does, what we do on this show — is present reality to people who are emotionally intellectually well-adjusted enough to handle it. The world’s not gonna end because of climate change, for example. That’s just crazy. Right? Socialism is bad. Communism — which is a close cousin of socialism — is even worse.

And there are some commies running around in this country, certainly a lot of socialists running around and at best their ideas are bad and harmful, right? Moral relativism doesn’t make for a happy, well-functioning society. It creates decay, anarchy, suffering, and misery. These are just… This is true. The left can try to spin this as much as they want.

But look at the results of their ideas. This is why part of the problem is that they’ve so separated themselves, they won’t even have me. I mean, can you imagine if they actually brought me on MSNBC to argue the issue of crime? Their prime-time hosts would look like morons. They know that. So it’ll never happen. I’d go on. If it’s just me and the host, though.

I’m not doing this. I never do this thing. You learn this the hard way where they go, you and another analyst and a host ’cause then it’s just a two on one and it’s a joke. That’s what CNN used to do. That’s what CNN perfected that art. I used to call it “The CNN Ambush.” They don’t have good arguments. I know I keep returning to this, but this is why they freak out about loss of control of Twitter.

This is why they freak out about the ability of people to speak their minds publicly. This is why they want to cancel really popular shows that do well. This is why they’re still, apparently, terrified about the legacy of talk radio and what it has done to this country. God forbid, somebody’s able to actually reach millions and millions of people who aren’t part of the lib-Democrat media apparatus. Oh, my gosh, what would that ever mean? Well, that’s what we’re doing here.