Tucker Carlson (1969- ), a talking head on Fox News, is currently the foremost racist on US cable television news – no mean feat. Dressed in a suit and tie on what seems to be a news show that debates the issues, he spreads lies, hatred, and fear, repeating White nationalist talking points, like replacement theory (White genocide).
- Viewers: about 3 million
- Viewpoint: White nationalist (since the rise of Trump).
- Fact checking: He will flat-out lie. He clearly does not expect his audience to read or watch anything beyond the Republican Bubble.
What fans say:
The Daily Stormer, the world’s foremost neo-Nazi website, said on August 24th 2018:
“Tucker Carlson is basically ‘Daily Stormer: The Show’.
“Other than the language used, he is covering all of out talking points.”
Richard Spencer, a leading neo-Nazi, said on October 2nd 2018:
“Tucker has become a major public figure, not simply for his talents and good humor, but because he has raised the specter of nationalism, national disintegration, and anti-white hatred – often implicitly and increasingly explicitly.”
David Duke, a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, is also a fan. Last week when Carlson said that White supremacy is a “hoax”, “a conspiracy theory”, just days after the El Paso Massacre, David Duke agreed:
“Tucker is RIGHT! White Supremacy is a ZioMedia Conspiracy Theory! The term is itself a lie. Millions of White activists are NOT ‘supremacists’ We seek NOT to oppress or destroy any race! Human Rights for all – EVEN FOR WHITE PEOPLE! Stop antiWhite racism!”
Dream come true: Carlson gives White nationalist ideas a reach and respectability that people like Richard Spencer could only dream of before the Trump Era.
The wilderness: But then last Wednesday (August 7th) Carlson suddenly said he was leaving for the “wilderness” to go fishing with his son. This came as half his advertisers pulled their ads. It seems his rant about White supremacy being a hoax was too much even for them.
Divide and conquer: Like Trump, Carlson is a rich White man who divides the working class by whipping up the racism of rednecks. Both Trump and Carlson present themselves as the champions of ordinary Americans (by which they mean working-class White men) – and yet favour stuff like huge tax cuts for the rich or the undoing of banking rules meant to prevent another Great Recession.
Millionaire: Carlson himself is the stepson of Patricia Swanson, the heiress to the Swanson frozen-food fortune, built in part on selling hundreds of millions of TV dinners.
Funded by billionaires: Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian, in an interview Carlson would not show, told Carlson he was:
“a millionaire funded by billionaires”
Bregman said Carlson used to work for the Cato Insitute, which is funded the billionaire Koch Brothers. And he now works for Rupert Murdoch, also a billionaire.
Carlson lives in Kent, in north-western Washington, DC, in a house worth $4 million:
“We have wonderful neighbors, and we love it. And what’s not to love? Our neighborhood looks exactly like it did in 1955.”
– Abagond, 2019.
See also:
- Republican Bubble
- Tucker Carlson:
- Ten Days of Tucker Carlson: a news diet
- Tucker Carlson on Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Tucker Carlson on Ilhan Omar
- Tammy Duckworth
- The Hispanic Invasion – a trope pushed by Carlson, acted on by Patrick Crusius, the El Paso shooter
- White genocide
- Blake Neff – his top writer from 2017 to 2020
- US cable news
- Fox News
- White nationalism
- The Southern strategy – that divide-and-conquer thing
- Donald Trump
- billionaire
- Koch brothers
- Rupert Murdoch
- Donald Trump
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White entitled bigot. Carlson is white America.
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White Supremacist mayo-eating Cave rat, YUCK!
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A dusty half-baked dog-haired smelly troglodyte!
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Oh look who it is…Tucker. Wonder if the aluminum in those TV dinners bought on the brain drain. Interesting to know about his rotten roots, thanks Abagond.
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“The term is itself a lie. Millions of White activists are NOT ‘supremacists’ We seek NOT to oppress or destroy any race! Human Rights for all – EVEN FOR WHITE PEOPLE! Stop antiWhite racism!”
So when faced with the teensiest bit of public criticism, diehard White supremacists run to don the “victim” cloak. “Human Rights for all – EVEN FOR WHITE PEOPLE!” Puhleeze! They would melt like Wizard of Oz witches if they had to experience just one day as Black people. LOL!
They don’t have to ‘seek’ to oppress or destroy any race, they have already destroyed numerous groups of people across the globe (aka genocide). Currently, they are kicking their heels up in an oppression hootenanny on a daily basis on Carlson’s show, hate radio and violent extremists websites.
“White activists”, indeed. Even their terminology is ripped off from the people they oppress with such glee.
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Been wondering what makes the white nationalist tick? I suppose this is what happens when identity politics falls into sinister hands.
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cherryboy is channeling tbt/diary
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Hahaha! You all are going off on this guy like you’re PR team trying to boost his popularity right before contract renegotiation. This guy is not representative of working class whites. Nowhere close. Did y’all just read the parts that you like?
This guy is a connected 1%er. He doesn’t even have to worry about what he says as he’s making white guys look like A-holes.
Anderson cooper is the same kind of connected. He’s a Vanderbilt. Tons of old money in that family. They make him look all nice, and caring because he’s gay. What’s a bigger agenda item than lgbt making Christian white males into monsters? Not much. Neither of these guys are white America. They’re spoiled rich guys that have never worked a tuff day in their lives. I mean come on. Anyone or any show that is still using David Duke for quotes, and sound bytes is just trying to piss everybody off at whites. Period. You need to get out more, and see for yourself. That’s not who we are.
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@ Drew Blood
I thought I made it pretty clear that he is rich asshole who does not represent the views of ordinary White Americans. For example:
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abagond: propagator of groupthink, a term of which I disapprove as it implies the possibility of intellectual articulation. Groupthink appears facilitated by a hunger for approval, and zero burdensome evidentiary requirements.
Robespierre turned it into a career. Multiple U.S. Congresspeople currently mimic him.
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jake Jacobs: another tiresome White driveby troll.
yawn
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Afrofem: another race-baiting underachiever who can’t resist a cheap shot.
Groupthink has an advantage: it’s easy.
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@ jake Jacobs
If you think it is easy dealing with driveby bigots who come to this site to heckle Black people and others, use your noggin and make it hard.
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@ jake Jacobs
So how do your comments about groupthink apply to this post on Tucker Carlson?
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GroupthinkTucker Carlson appears facilitated by a hunger for approval, and zero burdensome evidentiary requirements.Lol. Fixed that for you.
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In a defamation lawsuit brought against Tucker Carlson’s show, Fox News Channel’s own lawyers argued that no one takes the show seriously enough for it to effectively defame anyone. Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, a Trump appointee, agreed. Heather Cox Richardson:
Actually, there is evidence his viewers do take him seriously, at least when it comes to the pandemic, critical race theory (ask Trump) or the nature of the Democratic Party (ask biff).
(https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-24-2020)
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