The Quote Below—More Misinformation from the Media
“In the years since, Mr. Carlson has constructed what may be the most racist show in the history of cable news — and also, by some measures, the most successful. Though he frequently declares himself an enemy of prejudice — “We don’t judge them by group, and we don’t judge them on their race,” Mr. Carlson explained to an interviewer a few weeks before accusing impoverished immigrants of making America dirty — his show teaches loathing and fear. Night after night, hour by hour, Mr. Carlson warns his viewers that they inhabit a civilization under siege — by violent Black Lives Matter protesters in American cities, by diseased migrants from south of the border, by refugees importing alien cultures, and by tech companies and cultural elites who will silence them, or label them racist, if they complain. When refugees from Africa, numbering in the hundreds, began crossing into Texas from Mexico during the Trump administration, he warned that the continent’s high birthrates meant the new arrivals might soon “overwhelm our country and change it completely and forever.”. . .
“Alchemizing media power into political influence, Mr. Carlson stands in a nativist American tradition that runs from Father Coughlin to Patrick J. Buchanan. Now Mr. Carlson’s on-air technique — gleefully courting blowback, then fashioning himself as his aggrieved viewers’ partner in victimhood. . .. At a moment when white backlash is the jet fuel of a Republican Party striving to return to power in Washington, he has become the pre-eminent champion of Americans who feel most threatened by the rising power of [nonwhite] citizens. To channel their fear into ratings, Mr. Carlson has adopted the rhetorical tropes and exotic fixations of white nationalists. . .. Mr. Carlson sometimes refers to “legacy Americans,” a dog-whistle term that, before he began using it on his show last fall . . . “Last April, Mr. Carlson set off yet another uproar, borrowing from a racist conspiracy theory known as “the great replacement” to argue that Democrats were deliberately importing “more obedient voters from the third world” to “replace” the current electorate and keep themselves in power. . . .
“But if Mr. Carlson has not always been truthful, he has been remarkably consistent. Almost from the beginning, “Tucker Carlson Tonight” has presented a dominant narrative. . . The ruling class uses fentanyl and other opioids to addict and kill legacy Americans, anti-white racism to cast them as bigots, feminism to degrade their self-esteem, immigration to erode their political power. . . . The United States, Mr. Carlson tells his viewers, is “ruled by mercenaries who feel no long-term obligation to the people they rule.”– How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable, Nicholas Confessore, New York Times, 4/30/22. [Link]
Fact Check of Above Quote: Tucker Carlson is a rarity in the media, an individual with the courage and integrity to challenge the dogmatic pieties of America’s governing classes, most particularly on immigration. Not surprisingly, they loathe him with a passion. This hit-piece in The New York Times expresses their wrath in most predictable ways.
First, it calls Carlson a “racist,” the pejorative our elites routinely slap on any Caucasian they wish to defame and silence. It doesn’t matter that Carlson has repeatedly denounced racial prejudice. If they call him a “racist,” that’s proof he is one. The second predictable tactic in the article is the “fear smear.” It is the suggestion that any objection to politically correct dogmas is invalid because it derives from fear. This smear fails to distinguish between inappropriate and legitimate fear. The latter can be most helpful—when, for example. it prompts someone to jump out of the surf when he sees a shark’s fin.
Is the prospect of our country being overrun and changed forever a baseless fear? Hardly. The record surge of illegal aliens across our southern border is only one of many indicators that it is a legitimate concern.
Also, white Americans may have reasonable misgivings about an immigration policy which will make them a minority in twenty years or so. This is not a conspiracy theory, but an accurate demographic projection. It’s an outcome that President Joe Biden described as “a good thing.” Really? As a minority, whites may face more discrimination via affirmative action, and the anti-white animus expressed in the pervasive Critical Race Theory may grow even more intense. Furthermore, it is no conspiracy theory that many Democrats view mass immigration as a means for their party to dominate American politics. Robert Creamer, a leading Democratic strategist, even admitted this political game plan.
America’s ruling elites consistently show distain for middle-class and working-class Americans of all races. Carlson renders a splendid service by mocking their arrogance and exposing their lies.