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Since the early days of his tenure as a Fox prime-time host, Tucker Carlsons unabashed championing of white grievances earned him the accolades of neo-Nazis, who praised him as a one man gas chamber and complimented the way he lampshad[ed] Jews on national television. While Carlson claims to have nothing in common with neo-Nazis and white supremacists, he constantly echoes their talking points on his show and was very reluctant to condemn white supremacists following their deadly 2017 demonstration in Charlottesville, VA. In fact, Carlsons racist roots can be traced back more than a decade.
Heres a timeline of the public devolution of Tucker Carlsons thinly veiled racism into full-throated white supremacy (this list will be continually updated):
July 6, 2007: Carlson said President Barack Obama sounds like a pothead. During his tenure as a host on MSNBC, Carlson discussed a speech then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) gave during his first presidential campaign, asking, How high is this guy? and if he always talks between bong hits.
August 24, 2007: Carlson called the NAACP "a sad joke that should be shut down. Carlson discussed former NFL player Michael Vicks guilty plea to dogfighting charges and asserted that the NAACP was defending Vick. Carlson called the organization a sad joke that should be shut down, I think, immediately for the sake of everybody.
This post was originally posted on October 28, 2018; it was last updated on May 21, 2019.
https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlsons-descent-white-supremacy-timeline
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)the tRump offspring. He would be unemployed if not for Mommy's wealth. The tRump's have big fat daddy to thank for theirs. Lardass Don the Con squandered his father's money, but got by on pretense of wealth (plus Russian rubles) for years. Carlson has NEVER lived in the real world, he has been protected his entire pampered life. Faux should be shut down, they spread propaganda daily, inciting violence. Remind me again when is Hannity going to show us that waterboarding is not harmful?
Celerity
(43,588 posts)Carlson was born in San Francisco, California, and later lived on Laurel Terrace Drive in Studio City until the first grade in elementary school. He is the elder son of Richard Warner Carlson, a former Los Angeles news anchor and U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles who was also president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and director of Voice of America. Carlson's father had been born Richard Boynton and was adopted by the Carlsons at age three. Carlson's mother is Lisa McNear (Lombardi); she left the family when Carlson was 6 years old, wanting to pursue a bohemian lifestyle. She eventually moved to France and had little contact with any of the family after that.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)a scion of the Swanson Frozen Food dynasty? I read that TV dinners were the source of Tucker's inheritance.
Celerity
(43,588 posts)In 1979, when Tucker was 10 years old, his father married Patricia Caroline Swanson. An heiress to the Swanson frozen-food fortune, Swanson is the daughter of Gilbert Carl Swanson, as well as the granddaughter of Carl A. Swanson and the niece of Senator J. William Fulbright.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,026 posts)or a Republican, or a racist white supremisist, or a pedophile, but in Tucker's case, well, it most certainly helps.
He is one sick, evil, clueless, infected boil of an errand boy.
There are plenty like him in Congress.
He just shouldn't have a media voice where he spews his hatred out to America.
Cut off his mike!
FakeNoose
(32,823 posts)Nobody else would hire him, but he suits their purposes just fine.
his bowtie wearing, geeky libertarian schtick ran its course fairly quickly at MSNBC and CNN, and he eagerly veered into hard right/white supremist mode to get a toe hold at Faux, and then luckily slide into O'Reilly's role as the co-anchor of their evening hate programing.
irisblue
(33,036 posts)Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) Tweeted:
"Tucker Carlson is literally our greatest ally." -- Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, The Daily Stormer.
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BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)uponit7771
(90,367 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)either. That movement of a racist toward far more overt and frequent acting out parallels the same behaviors of the hard-right, white racist, male culture that's taken over the Republican Party. He's both effect and cause.
Pointing out the similarities between Nazi supporters and positions advocated by Carlson has become a subgenre of DC media. The most thorough examination was by Carlos Maza, a journalist for Vox, who recently broke down the ways in which Carlsons talking points resonate with professional racists. ...
My god, Im not a racist. I hate racism."
https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/tucker-carlson.php
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/7/21/16008190/strikethrough-white-supremacists-love-tucker-carlson
mia
(8,363 posts)He has helped to inspire American terrorism, much to the pleasure of the KKK and the NRA. Many in his audience are well-armed and ready for action.
Thanks for this article and the video it contains.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)That segment at the end about western cultural supremacy was very revealing of one severe intellectual perversion underlying his white nationalism.
Carlson argued not for advanced western culture as he insisted but against. In casting the world in us-versus-them, white superiority terms, he's pushing the genetically-wired fearful, suspicious attitudes toward "people on the other side of the river" that ruled all the way back to the times we descended from trees.
In the Europe he identifies with, enlightened thinking and culture advanced far beyond rule by fear reactions toward "others" centuries ago. But he's apparently one of many born left behind and is actually fighting to de-advance the dominant culture of our western liberal democracy. But never admit it.
No wonder what comes out of their mouths is such a hostile, irrational, and profoundly dishonest mess.
Yavin4
(35,450 posts)Who still buys spots on his show? We need to know now.