Marilyn MonHoe 11,011 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 The rightwing Fox News host Tucker Carlson has defended the actions of a 17-year-old who was arrested and charged with murder after two people were killed in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as white vigilante agitators shot at Black Lives Matter protesters. Kyle Rittenhouse, from Antioch, Illinois, 20 miles south-west of Kenosha, had taken to the streets of Kenosha with a rifle after protesters marched demanding justice for Jacob Blake, a young Black father who was shot and gravely wounded by police on Sunday. On his TV show Carlson – who has a long record of making racist and inflammatory statements, triggering an advertising boycott – said that Rittenhouse’s actions were understandable given the violence and property damage in the city. “Kenosha has devolved into anarchy because the authorities in charge of the city abandoned it. People in charge from the governor of Wisconsin on down refused to enforce the law. They stood back and they watched Kenosha burn,” Carlson said. He then added: “So are we really surprised that looting and arson accelerated to murder? How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?” His words were met with instant condemnation on social media. “An innocent black guy is killed by police and Tucker Carlson calls him a thug. A guilty white guy murders two people and Tucker Carlson calls him a patriot,” tweeted CNN commentator Keith Boykins. “He just justified murder,” tweeted the New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. “If they don’t take action after this, every one of Fox News’s executives, directors and advertisers is complicit in Tucker Carlson’s racist, murderous rants,” said Robert Reich, a former secretary of labor under Bill Clinton. The comments are far from the only time Carlson has broadcast bigoted or extreme views, especially when it comes to race and immigration. Last August, Carlson announced a vacation after causing a rift with advertisers by calling white supremacy a “hoax” and a “conspiracy theory”. In another incident Carlson said that letting low-income people immigrate to America “makes our own country poor and dirtier”. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/aug/26/tucker-carlson-kenosha-shooting-teen-kyle-rittenhouse Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANVEEROY 65,227 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Trash defending trash. READ MY...BODY LANGUAGE! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
REALITY 80,162 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Honestly, I find him and the rest of Fox just as bad as Trump. They help to enable the racist, homophobic, sexist, transphobic, xenephobic, etc. mindsets that still garner Trump his support. 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔬𝔫𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔢 𝔞𝔴𝔞𝔶 𝔦𝔱𝔰 𝔪𝔞𝔰𝔨 𝔞𝔫𝔡...𝔦𝔱𝔰 𝔣𝔞𝔠𝔢 𝔴𝔞𝔰 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔢. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chromatography 10,186 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 i tried to find words and i just can't. what a horrific thing to say. so long as these people continue to exist and have voices, black lives will never matter and it's fvcking infuriating. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
weed 78,927 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 God I don’t like him Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GagaSine 7,464 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Honestly stuff like this makes me question why I bother staying alive Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarstruckIllusion 53,564 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 He’s literally human trash so we not surprised Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavyMetalLover 16 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Hmm I’ve heard similar sentiment before... I wonder if he has a GGD account. i don't remember ARTPOP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franch Toast 27,737 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 37 minutes ago, M Monstre said: Honestly, I find him and the rest of Fox just as bad as Trump. They help to enable the racist, homophobic, sexist, transphobic, xenephobic, etc. mindsets that still garner Trump his support. He and his cronies are worse than Trump in my opinion. The difference is, they lack Trump's executive power. She/Her/Hers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reginald 13,841 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 This is absolutely abhorrent and pretty much encourages a free pass for more children of brainwashed fox news viewers to go on killing sprees.I hate that America is normalizing this. Reflecting on how the country's reactions to these events have changed since I was a kid in the 90s, I'm absolutely terrified of how numb we have all become Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister G 10,512 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 2 minutes ago, Reginald said: This is absolutely abhorrent and pretty much encourages a free pass for more children of brainwashed fox news viewers to go on killing sprees.I hate that America is normalizing this. Reflecting on how the country's reactions to these events have changed since I was a kid in the 90s, I'm absolutely terrified of how numb we have all become Doesn’t help when the president has basically fueled these kind of people and given them presidential consent to go out and behave this way. He’s encouraged and enabled the vile behavior they’ve been wanting to act on for years; he gave them the platform and these crazies ran off with it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAG 7 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 The Fox team are some of the most despicable human beings. It's one thing to support Trump and try to defend his words/actions, and. But to get on live TV and try to justify a 17 year old driving from his home state to another with a rifle with the intent to kill is a new low. People like him shouldn't be allowed to live. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
audrey horne 1,180 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 It's an open invitation to commit racial murders. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SineFromHell 160 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 I don't understand how your political view can blind you from cruelty/hatred. This man is trash. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen 30,433 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Great vids if you have time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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