As a far-right Fox News host and the most famous racist to lose Dancing with the Stars, Tucker Carlson devotes much of his nightly broadcast to peddling white supremacist conspiracy theories like "The Great Replacement" to millions of viewers, and has even employed avowed white nationalists as his writers.
So it doesn't come as a surprise that Carlson leapt to dismiss recent comments by President Joe Biden regarding the threat white supremacy poses to the United States.
In remarks commemorating the 1921 Black Wall Street massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Biden said:
"As I said in my address to the joint session of Congress, according to the intelligence community, terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today, not Isis, not Al-Qaeda, white supremacists."
Citing this speech, Tucker claimed Biden was calling white Republican men "more dangerous than ISIS."
Watch below.
Tucker Carlson falsely claims Joe Biden called white Republican men "more dangerous than ISIS"\n\nBiden actually said: "Terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today -- not ISIS, not al-Qaida, white supremacists."pic.twitter.com/Z8gaoC54J3— nikki mccann ram\u00edrez (@nikki mccann ram\u00edrez) 1622592722
Carlson sarcastically said:
"You're not surprised. It's always the same people, isn't it? Those white Republican men, the very ones that, just today, Joe Biden warned us are more dangerous than ISIS."
Of course, Carlson's characterization of the comments was wildly off.
As Biden noted in his Tulsa remarks, it's the Intelligence Community that said white supremacist terrorism is the most urgent threat to the United States.
What's more, it was former President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security who reported in its October 2020 Homeland Threat Assessment:
"Among [domestic violent extremists], racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists—specifically white supremacist extremists (WSEs)—will remain the most persistent and lethal threat in the Homeland."
Carlson was accused of lying to promote Republican hysteria.
This is an appeal to tribalism to get Fox's white male viewers to reflexively support pro-Trump terrorism.https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1399881458001580032\u00a0\u2026— emptywheel (@emptywheel) 1622627259
Obviously Tucker is always lying but wait do Republicans think ISIS is a threat because they\u2019ve forgotten their original lie that Donald Trump single-handedly defeated them by squashing them with his rock-solid 12-pack abs while greased up and wearing super tight soldier jeanshttps://twitter.com/nikkimcr/status/1399881458001580032\u00a0\u2026— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC) 1622601441
It doesn't surprise me that every time this man opens his mouth he's lying.https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1399881458001580032\u00a0\u2026— Whitney Carson (@Whitney Carson) 1622620060
But people noticed that when Biden said "white supremacists," Tucker Carlson heard "white Republican men."
Does @TuckerCarlson realize he - not Joe Biden - just called white Republican men white supremacists?https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1399881458001580032\u00a0\u2026— @ijbailey (@@ijbailey) 1622645564
Look, I would love to mock this, but the fact that Tucker Carlson is insisting that white supremacy is code for white Republican men is the kind of thing that'll have really not good long term consequences.https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1399881458001580032\u00a0\u2026— Joe Katz (@Joe Katz) 1622594195
They are so close to figuring it out.https://twitter.com/nikkimcr/status/1399881458001580032\u00a0\u2026— Devon O'Brien (@Devon O'Brien) 1622626109
When Tuckums heard the phrase \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d and automatically assumed it meant \u201cwhite Republican\u201d. https://twitter.com/nikkimcr/status/1399881458001580032\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/trTCPROhu9— TR (@TR) 1622605796
In which Tucker Carlson equates \u201cterrorism from white supremacy\u201d with \u201cwhite Republican men.\u201dhttps://twitter.com/nikkimcr/status/1399881458001580032\u00a0\u2026— Parker Molloy (@Parker Molloy) 1622592848
It\u2019s telling that he conflates the twohttps://twitter.com/nikkimcr/status/1399881458001580032\u00a0\u2026— Colonial B (@Colonial B) 1622611195
Yetnother lie goes uncorrected by the one who told it.
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