Tucker Carlson: ‘Is White Supremacy Liking White People Too Much?’

Tonight — amid reports that Fox News accused him of breaching his contract after airing the first episode of his new Twitter show — Tucker Carlson released episode 2 of Tucker on Twitter. Carlson, who is apparently still trapped in someone’s tool shed, spent the second episode downplaying the threat of white supremacy and asked if it just meant “liking white people too much.”

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Tucker Carlson’s Twitter Show Was A Sad, Low Energy Affair

Updated | Today former Fox News host Tucker Carlson finally made good on his threat to bring his new show to Twitter, and the results were underwhelming. Filming from what appears to be his neighbor’s woodshed, Carlson put out a ten minute monologue in which he denounced Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and defended Vladimir Putin.

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Right-Wing Extremists Promoted By Tucker Carlson Mourn His Firing

On April 24, 2023, Fox News host Tucker Carlson was unceremoniously let go from the network, leaving a sneering, white supremacist hole in our media landscape. News that cable TV’s most popular demagogue had been fired after 14 years — half of which he spent hosting Tucker Carlson Tonight — sent shockwaves throughout the conservative movement.

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The 40 Most Rotten People Of 2021

I remember breathing a sigh of relief at the end of 2020. After all, a COVID vaccine was just around the corner and Trump was voted out of office. I mean, how bad could it possibly get, right? But now it’s over 380,000 COVID deaths and one attempted coup d’état later and I realize just how fucking naïve I was. So, in the spirit of another godawful year almost gone, I’d like to raise a glass and say “Fuck you” to everyone who made it so bad.

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White Nationalists Celebrate As More Republicans Parrot Their Rhetoric

On Aug. 11, 2017 a crowd of torch-wielding white nationalists marched across the University of Virginia campus, chanting slogans like “blood and soil” and “you will not replace us,” before attacking a small group of counter-demonstrators. While the organizers of that march and the next day’s “Unite the Right” rally were recently made to pay for their racist violence, the beliefs that animated them are now being spread by conservative pundits.

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‘Our Ideas Are Spreading’: White Nationalist Praises Tucker Carlson’s 1/6 Truther Special

Last week Fox News host Tucker Carlson released a trailer for Patriot Purge — a pseudodocumentary which casts the Jan. 6 insurrection as a false flag aimed at stripping away the constitutional rights of conservative patriots. The multi-part special, already criticized for spreading falsehoods, stars far-right propagandists like “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander and BlazeTV host Elijah Schaffer.

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