Welcome to "Full Frontal."
I'm Samantha Bee.
There are a few things any sensible human knows not to do.
Never lick a bus station door handle.
Never start a conversation with a man about "Infinite Jest."
And never go on a radio show hosted by a guy
named Bubba the Love Sponge.
Apparently Tucker Carlson is not a sensible human being.
TUCKER CARLSON: I'm not defending underage marriage.
I just don't think it's the same thing exactly
as pulling a child from a bus stop
and sexually assaulting that child.
The rapist, in this case, has made
a lifelong commitment to live and take care of the person.
I love women, but they're extremely primitive.
They're basic.
Well, I like you too.
And I mean that.
You always say, I mean that in a non [BLEEP] way,
but I actually mean it in a completely [BLEEP] way.
That is vile and disgusting, and
presumably the audition tape that got
him a job interview at Fox.
[LAUGHTER]
But it gets worse.
TUCKER CARLSON: If there were a Democrat
to come out in the 2008 election and say,
you know what the problem is?
It's these lunatic Muslims who are behaving like animals.
And I'm going to kill as many of them as I can if you elect me.
I'd vote for you if you said that.
Iraq is a crappy place filled with a bunch of, you know,
semiliterate, primitive monkeys.
Oh my god.
Tucker Carlson publicly advocated a genocide
while promoting his MSNBC show.
To quote Tucker Carlson's face, "Huh?"
[LAUGHTER]
After the release of these tapes,
Tucker issued a statement responding with all the grace
and humility you'd expect.
"Media Matters caught me saying something
naughty on a radio show.
I'm on television every weeknight live for an hour.
If you want to know what I think, you can watch."
Oh, you naughty little bad boy, advocating genocide.
Well, guess what, fuck-o?
We have been watching your show.
And we've found it's a revolting trash
heap of racist talking points.
Now, don't get me wrong.
I'm not saying Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist.
Oh, no, I'm sorry.
Yes, I am. But--
[LAUGHTER]
You don't have to--
you know.
I mean-- but you don't have to take my word for it.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[GASPS]
An all white rainbow.
How appropriate.
[LAUGHTER]
We have a moral obligation to admit the world's poor,
they tell us, even if it makes our own country poorer
and dirtier and more divided.
The speech says, look, our civilization is superior.
And we need to defend it.
What's wrong with saying that?
There are still lessons to draw from 9/11, ones
that we shouldn't forget.
There's this one maybe first among them.
Not all cultures are the same.
Not all cultures are equal.
Wait, that's the first lesson to draw from 9/11?
Leave it to Tucker to have a more batshit takeaway
from the attack than this guy.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Now I know that is so bad, but if you tune out the lyrics,
it's a real panty dropper.
[LAUGHTER]
In case anyone in Tucker's audience doesn't pick up
on his subtle messages, he sometimes
turns up that dog whistle.
Latin American countries are changing
election outcomes here by forcing demographic change
on this country.
Their political success does not depend on good policies,
but on demographic replacement.
And they'll do anything to make sure it happens.
I'm just for Americans.
And nobody cares about them.
It's like, shut up. You're dying.
We're going to replace you.
Ooh, that's weird.
Where have I heard sweaty white men yelling
about being replaced before?
So he's against white supremacy, but uses the catchphrase
of the Charlottesville mob.
That's like saying, I hate the movie "Borat,"
but you know who loves it?
My wife.
[LAUGHTER]
And none of this was hard to find.
The only in-depth research we did
was to determine that his name can be rearranged
to spell old cracker nuts.
[LAUGHTER]
[APPLAUSE]
You know who else thinks that Tucker is a white supremacist?
White supremacists.
Former KKK Grand Wizard and current plastic surgery
mannequin David Duke calls Tucker
his favorite commentator.
Meanwhile, the founder of the neo-Nazi website
The Daily Stormer says "Tucker Carlson Tonight"
is "basically Daily Stormer: The Show."
And he calls Tucker "literally our greatest ally."
Now, many of Tucker's defenders say,
you can't fault someone for who their fans are,
which is kind of true.
If you own a restaurant that neo-Nazis go to,
that doesn't make you a white supremacist.
But if neo-Nazis go there because you make the soup spell
out racist tropes, then yeah.
You might be a white supremacist.
Tucker doesn't worry about it though because it
barely even exists.
The American Nazi party and the KKK don't really
exist in a meaningful-- so they may
have an office or a website.
White supremacy is not ubiquitous in America.
It's not a crisis.
It's not even a meaningful category.
It is incredibly rare.
You could easily live your entire life in this country
without meeting a single person who
believes anything like that.
Most of us have lived lives like that.
I have.
You know who hasn't lived a life like that?
Anyone who has ever met you.
He acts like he won't stand for racism,
but he literally wouldn't even stand
on "Dancing with the Stars."
[MUSIC PLAYING]
(SINGING) Are you ready for a brand new beat?
[GROANING] Tragically, he was the first contestant voted off,
while Mario Lopez and Emmitt Smith made it to the finals,
further proof that a white man can't catch a break.
But that's--
[LAUGHTER]
--really how it works in Tucker's world.
I mean, sure, black people complain about discrimination.
But last he checked, they were all
getting chauffeured around by Viggo Mortensen,
so racism doesn't exist.
Now there is only one kind of prejudice in America.
Everybody gets a safe space except white men.
They are hated and despised.
You divide people on the basis of their skin color
and say this one group of people's lives--
everybody's life matters.
Yeah, it's so racist to say black lives matter,
just like it was so racist of Lincoln to free the slaves
because he didn't free a single white person.
[LAUGHTER]
Tucker has spent nearly 20 years getting
paid to be an angry white man on all three
cable news networks, only two of which have fired him so far.
Playing to white victimhood is his whole shtick,
yet he claims he doesn't know what he's doing.
TUCKER CARLSON: But this is insane.
That people have white nationalist--
Because the idea's--
I don't even know what white nationalist means.
That's OK, Tucker.
There's a show on Fox that can teach you all about it.
[LAUGHTER]
You should watch it sometime.
We'll be right back.
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