Is he being honest about his prior statements?
Tucker Carlson has issued a mea culpa, but not the one he needs to issue. The Clash Report reported Thursday that the newly antisemitic news personality “publicly disavowed his previous hostile statements regarding Islam and issued a sharp critique of Donald Trump’s foreign policy record.” Yet what Carlson actually offered was a parade of straw men. He misrepresented his own previous comments, and then went on to misrepresent the U.S. conflict with Iran and the state of Israel as well. Carlson clearly thinks that there is nothing he can say or do that will result in him losing his massive audience.
“Many times I said on television,” Carlson said Thursday, “‘The problem is Islam. The problem is Muslims. They all want to kill us. They’re all crazy. They’re all in this lunatic suicide cult created by Muhammad in the 7th century.’ And I believed that. I was hysterical. I believed that. No, that’s not true. Nothing about that is true, but I believed it.”
I can’t say that I’ve seen more than a handful of Tucker Carlson’s shows, at best, but I can nevertheless state categorically and with one-hundred percent certainty that Tucker Carlson never actually said “The problem is Islam. The problem is Muslims. They all want to kill us. They’re all crazy. They’re all in this lunatic suicide cult created by Muhammad in the 7th century.”
Tucker Carlson is committing the all too common fallacy of conflating Islam and Muslims. In reality, to say that there are problems with Islam, or even that “the problem is Islam,” doesn’t say anything about “all Muslims,” because there are degrees of knowledge of the religion and commitment to it among Muslims, just as there are among adherents of all religions. No serious analyst ever says “all Muslims want to kill us,” or that all the members of any group want to do anything.
If Tucker Carlson had ever said on his Fox show or anywhere else that “all Muslims want to kill us,” he would have been the object of screaming headlines, excoriating him for his “Islamophobia” and demanding that he retract, apologize, end his show, and do various forms of public penance such as visiting a mosque or chatting with officials of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). None of that ever happened, because Tucker never said this.
Also, those of us who did dare to point out that Islam had doctrines of warfare against unbelievers were smeared, defamed, marginalized, deplatformed, and silenced. If Tucker Carlson had said this, which we were accused of saying but that none of us ever actually said, he would never have been allowed to continue to occupy his massive platform.
Compounding Tucker Carlson’s dishonesty here is the fact that he is also making claims about Islam and dismissing those claims as “hysterical,” and will never allow anyone who believes that there is a problem with Islam, or that the problem is Islam, onto his show to discuss it with him. He is, of course, free to feature anyone he wants, but his is not exactly a platform for open and honest discussion of the relevant issues that will allow for opinions that differ from those that Tucker Carlson holds. That also is his right, but when he makes sweeping claims that are false, as he does here, he does his audience an even greater disservice than usual. What about the Qur’an’s violent teachings? What about Islam’s doctrines of conquest and subjugation? Do they simply not exist now because Tucker Carlson says they’re hysterical? --->READ MORE HERE
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Texas Senator Ted Cruz warned there is a 'cancer on the right' that is 'spreading' as he points the blame at former Trump ally-turned foe, Tucker Carlson
Ted Cruz has claimed that antisemitism on the right is "spreading like a cancer" as he pointed the blame at Tucker Carlson, branding the former Fox News host "the most dangerous demagogue in America."
"We are seeing on the right, a cancer on the right, and it is rising antisemitism on the right," the Texas senator said at a town hall on Capitol Hill on Thursday. "Here's the scary thing: I've seen more antisemitism on the right over the last 18 months than any time in my life. And it is spreading like a cancer," he added.
Cruz went on to hit out at Carlson, a once staunch Trump ally who recently denounced the Republican Party. "Tucker Carlson is the most dangerous demagogue in America," Cruz said. It comes after Barron Trump called dad Donald in 'distress' to break some devastating news.
Carlson, who has amassed a large following on his own podcast since being fired from Fox News in 2023, has repeatedly criticized Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran in February.
The longtime conservative commentator, who endorsed Trump in 2024, apologized for doing so after the war was launched.He’s repeatedly criticized the war as being at the behest of Israel at the expense of Americans, and attacked the party for failing to represent its own voters, citizens and nation. --->READ MORE HERE
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