Tucker Carlson in one of his recent
shows called for
gunning down protesting members of
black lives matter.
Now before we get to that portion
of his commentary,
I think it's worth noting that he
mocks the idea that black people
are more likely to be shot and
killed by police in America because
there's an abundance of data
proving him wrong.
But nonetheless here's his
argument.
>> So they told us that the cop
shot Jacob Blake in the back for
no apparent reason.
And by the way Jacob Blake was
unarmed.
He was helpless, they just pulled
him out of a lineup and
shot him because that's what
America is like.
Kamala Harris then jumped in and
said she was proud of Jacob Blake.
Like he was a civil rights hero,
like he was shot for being
the wrong color as so often happens
in the systemically racist country.
>> So he was being sarcastic, but
it certainly does happen in this
systemically racist policing
system.
In fact, why don't we actually
look at the data,
It's readily available.
Tucker Carlson works at Fox news,
they have way more resources
than we have.
Maybe producer on that, right?
If you actually genuinely care
about getting facts to people, but
of course he doesn't.
So look at this graph.
This graph specifically looks at
the rate of police shootings in
the United States between 2015
to October of 2021 and
its per capita based on per million
of the population.
The first bar in the graph
represents black people getting
shot and killed by cops.
And it's 37 out of one million
black people.
Then you go to the second highest
bar and it's Hispanic.
What a shocker.
28 out of a million white is
only 15.
Now I want to get to a point where
we minimize police shootings across
the board regardless of race,
right?
We want justice for all.
We want people to have their day in
court even if they're suspected of
a crime.
But clearly the numbers per capita
prove that African Americans,
black people are disproportionately
shot and killed by cops in America.
So I just wanted to provide that
context since Tucker Carlson
couldn't be bothered to look for
that and
provide that in his analysis.
Now with that said, let's go to his
disgusting comment regarding what
should be done with protesters.
So this is what Kenosha looked like
the night that
Kyle Rittenhouse arrived to help
defend local businesses.
Yeah, well,
that's not a civil
rights protest.
That's not people fighting back
against depression,
systemic racism.
That's just people destroying
things they didn't build.
That's people wrecking our
civilization.
In no normal country would that be
allowed to be put down immediately
with force?
That's why we have police.
You can't allow that because if you
do allow that people get killed as
they did.
>> They should be put down
immediately by force.
Let's remember that quote,
I want to come back to it.
But first John.
>> Yeah, I don't know where
you start every second
of that is an issue.
It's all the dog whistles of,
they're destroying things they
didn't build.
They're doing it to our
civilization, our people like
Tucker and his audience.
Look his entire stick and he is
exactly, I know he's supposed to be
some sort of independent thinker.
He's a different sort of
conservative that could have just
been an O Reilly sketch from like
10 years ago.
It's exactly the same thing.
He is denying the truth of a thing
that they know to be true and
like being true.
That's what they do.
They protect.
It's a systemic racism.
Like they know that the system has
been set up to benefit certain
types of people and
go after others.
They know that.
They like that.
They spend all of their time trying
to get people to be supportive of
that by terrifying them.
Tucker Carlson himself has
spent a year and
a half doing that continually
talking about how mobs are going to
come through this weeks.
Talking about how mobs
are going to come for
you and you're not, there's nothing
you're going to be able to do
when the mob comes to your door.
They're trying to instill and
strengthen race based fears and
hatreds.
That's what they do and
then pretend that it even exists.
Now listen, I'm empathetic to
anyone who sees a video like that
and thinks, hey, what those people
are doing in the video.
That's wrong, right?
I disagree with it.
They shouldn't be starting fires,
they shouldn't be breaking into
businesses.
But I also think that
it's important to be consistent and
that we don't see that consistency
with people like Tucker Carlson.
So just imagine, imagine for
a second,
I'm going to help you imagine
going to help you visualize.
What a fair Tucker Carlson would be
like.
A Tucker Carlson who on one hand
condemns violence if it's
carried out by the left wing, but
also does the same if the violence
is carried out by the right wing.
Because we know that violence
certainly is carried out by
the right wing in this country?
So let's reimagine a Tucker Carlson
segment where he's actually fair,
let's watch.
>> So this is what Kenosha looked
like the night that
Kyle Rittenhouse arrived to help
defend local businesses.
[NOISE] They broke through
the police line and
people are going in.
The doors are open.
[NOISE] Well, that's not
a civil rights protest.
That's not people fighting back
against depression.
That's just people destroying
things they didn't build.
That's people wrecking our
civilization.
In no normal country,
would that be allowed to be put
down immediately with force.
You can't allow that because if you
do allow that people get killed
as they did.
>> Now of course.
>> [APPLAUSE] I mean,
that's just too good.
>> Tucker Carlson would never be
consistent.
Tucker Carlson has gone out of his
way to blame the capitol riots on
Antifa.
Then he turned around and
said no, it was meant to set
up the right wing.
I mean like he's
changed his narrative.
>> Its so clear.
>> Yeah, it's all clear.
>> Political prisoners.
>> The capital riots happened and
these are trump supporters who
are incited by the right wing to
try to overturn the results of our
democratic process because they
didn't like the results.
These are people who are chanting,
hang Mike Pence.
I mean, so.
>> Why weren't they shot?
Why aren't they gunned down?
>> And let me be clear.
I don't think that those people
should have been put down
immediately.
I believe in justice.
They should have their day in court
and many of them have had their day
in court.
But for Tucker Carlson, hey, if
you're protesting police violence
and some people take advantage of
that situation to riot, everyone
should be put down, unacceptable.
But if there are riots in the
nation's capital, that's totally
fine as long as I agree with them.
That's what Tucker Carlson saying.
He's not consistent at all.
>> And in fact,
he will spend the entire year
since January six defending them.
Putting together whole info wars
style documentaries about how great
these people are and
how they've been set up and
it's not fair to the end of
the list of the dog whistles
by the way you put down animals if
that wasn't clear enough.
So weird,
total slip of the tongue that he
said that even though the script,
it was put on teleprompter any very
specifically chose those words.
No, we we know what he's there for.
We know what it's become I
guess a bit blasé now to just point
out that he is a fascist,
that's what it is.
There are hierarchies in society
that he supports.
H hierarchies, political
hierarchies, religious hierarchies,
gender and racial and
religious hierarchies that should
be enforced by the state.
That's it.
It doesn't mean that they genuinely
love soldiers or love cops.
They'll beat a cop to death if they
stand against conservatives, but
they're there to
protect conservatives,
that's what they're there for.
And so no, there's no there's no
consistency will flip flop anyway,
as long as it results in people
like him maintaining power.
That's what he's there for.
That's why he has an audience.
>> Exactly, right.