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Rep. Lauren Boebert leaked a photo of Clinton to an influencer, forcing the questioning to pause.

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https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/white-nationalists-and-far-right-personalities-are-celebrating-tucker-carlsons

White nationalists and far-right personalities are celebrating Tucker Carlson's latest racist “great replacement” monologue

“This week alone both Tucker Carlson and Charlie Kirk addressed and acknowledged the Great Replacement. That was unthinkable even six months ago.”

WRITTEN BY NIKKI MCCANN RAMIREZ

RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM KELLIE LEVINE & ALEX KAPLAN

PUBLISHED 09/24/21 9:58 AM EDT

For the past year, Tucker Carlson has embarked on a dedicated campaign to insert the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, a core belief of white nationalist ideology, into mainstream Republican discourse. During the September 23 broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson explicitly referenced the term “great replacement” using a deceptively presented outake of remarks then-Vice President Joe Biden made in 2015 to accuse him of believing that “non-white DNA is … the source of our strength.” Carlson told viewers Biden had invoked “the language of eugenics,” indicating an effort to replace “legacy Americans” and “change the racial mix of the country” in order to gain political power.

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CitationFrom the September 22, 2021, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): You've got to ask yourself, as you watch the historic tragedy that is Joe Biden's immigration policy, what's the point of this?

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Nothing about it is an accident, obviously. It's intentional. Joe Biden did it on purpose, but why? Why would a president do this to his own country? No sane first-world nation opens its borders to the world. 

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Promising the poorest people on the planet that they can have endless free taxpayer funded services if they show up and break your laws? That's not just stupid, it's suicidal. 

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For generations, middle-class Americans have hadaccess to the best healthcare in the world, but not anymore. That's over for good. Our system cannot handle this many destitute newcomers, period. Imagine what hospitals are going to look like a year from now. How about schools?

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What Joe Biden is doing now will change this country forever. So again, why is he doing it? There's only one plausible answer. You're not allowed to say it out loud, CNN will attack you if you do. The social media companies will shut you down. The Southern Poverty Law Center will call you dangerous, you could lose your bank account. The left has become completely unhinged and hysterical and that's how you know it's true. They only censor the true things.

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An unrelenting stream of immigration. But why? Well, Joe Biden just said it, tochange the racial mix of the country. That's the reason,to reduce the political power of people whose ancestors lived here, and dramatically increase the proportion of Americans newly-arrived from the third world. And then Biden went further, he said that non-white DNA is the quote, "the source of our strength." Imagine saying that. This is the language of eugenics, it's horrifying. But there's a reason Biden said it.

In political terms, this policy is called "the great replacement," the replacement of legacy Americanswith more obedient people from far-away countries. They brag about it all the time, but if you dare to say it's happening they will scream at you with maximum hysteria.

Following the monologue, the Anti-Defamation League reiterated its call for Fox to fire Carlson from the network. Carlson’s toxic combination of conspiracy-mongering and racist commentary has been bolstered by Fox Corp. and the Murdoch family’s all but explicit approval of his caustic programming, and it has resulted in a sharp increase in the instances of fearmongering about white replacement, genocide, and race war on Tucker Carlson Tonight.

Carlson’s long history of endorsing, repackaging, and broadcasting white nationalist principles for layperson cable viewers has made him a favorite among extremist cohorts. The white supremacist website Daily Stormer has called Carlson “literally our greatest ally,” and white nationalists and far-right personalities were quick to make their approval known of Carlson’s most recent tirade.

On 4chan’s /pol/ board, users celebrated Carlson as the “only person calling out this Haitian migration surge for what it is, white replacement,” and “literally naming ‘the great replacement’ on cable TV.”

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White supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes cheered Carlson’s comments, lauding his use of “groyper” rhetoric. Fuentes also praised TurningPoint USA founder Charlie Kirk’s “rhetoric” who the next afternoon had called for Texas to “deputize a citizen force, put them on the border” in order to protect “white demographics in America.”

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Vincent James Foxx, a far-right video blogger affiliated with the white nationalist street-fighting group the Rise Above Movement,highlighted that Carlson had shared the great replacement theory with his millions of Fox viewers and encouraged his followers to share the clip.

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Reacting to Carlson’s monologue, Joseph Jordan, known by his online pseudonym “Eric Striker” criticized the possibility that Republicans would simply refuse to act as Democrats ran out “the white biological clock.” Jordan reiterated Carlson’s call for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to intervene directly at the southern border.

Jordan has reportedly been affiliated with the neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn,is a prolific contributor of antisemitic articles at The Daily Stormer, and hosts the antisemitic YouTube show The People’s Square.

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Far-right social media account The Columbia Bugle tweeted about Carlson “exposing” Biden’s immigration policy.

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Tommy Robinson News, an account dedicated to following Tommy Robinson (birth name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon), boosted The Columbia Bugle’s language in a tweet. Carlson interviewed Robinson in 2018 when he was released from prison pending another trial for contempt of court charges. Robinson is the former leader of the English Defense League, an anti-Muslim extremist group.

https://www.mediamatters.org/white-nationalism/list-tucker-carlson-guests-who-have-links-white-nationalism

On December 6, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson hosted Pete D’Abrosca, a blogger with ties to white nationalist movements, to promote his run for Congress. This is not the first time the Fox host, who has a long history of promoting white supremacy, has brought on a guest who associates with far-right extremism or has promoted narratives championed by the movement.

Here’s a noncomprehensive list of past guests on Tucker Carlson Tonight who have connections to far-right extremism:

Scott Greer

Carlson hosted Greer to promote his book No Campus for White Men in February 2017. Greer, who at the time of his appearance on Fox was a columnist at The Daily Caller, was outed in July 2018 by The Atlantic as having written for the white supremacist journal Radix under a pseudonym. This wasn’t the first time The Daily Caller, a website co-founded by Carlson, has published a white nationalist.

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson

In August 2018, Carlson hosted far-right British activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who goes by the name Tommy Robinson, after he was released from prison pending trial for contempt of court charges. Robinson is the former leader of the English Defense League, an anti-Muslim extremist group.

Katie Hopkins

Hopkins has appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight 15 times in 2017 and 2018 according to Media Matters’ internal database. Hopkins is a far-right British commentator, (thought she appears to have left her employer) who has built a media grift around being virulently xenophobic. Her racist comments include calling for a “final solution” following a terror attack in the U.K., labeling refugees as “cockroaches,” and calling for London police to profile young Black men. Hopkins has also promoted a conspiracy theory about “white genocide” in South Africa circulated by white nationalists (she shares this position with Carlson). She has numerous ties to far-right figures, including Robinson, Infowars’ Alex Jones, white nationalist and “Pizzagate” conspiracy theorist Brittany Pettibone, and white nationalist Lauren Southern.

Ernst Roets

Carlson hosted apartheid apologist Ernst Roets of AfriForum in May 2018 to fearmonger about the South African government’s effort to correct unequal distribution of land ownership that occurred during apartheid. AfriForum is the South African Afrikaners’ rights group pushing the white nationalist conspiracy theory that a land reform proposal in South Africa is part of a plot for “white genocide.” Roets was on a tour of America promoting the conspiracy theory with his AfriForum colleague Kallie Kriel, who is also an apartheid apologist. Roets has appeared on white nationalist Stefan Molyneux’s YouTube talk show and gave an interview to The New American, the magazine founded by the conspiratorial far-right group the John Birch Society. When Carlson held a subsequent segment on the conspiracy theory a few months later, President Donald Trump asked the secretary of state to look into the issue.

Rep. Steve King (R-IA)

Carlson has hosted white supremacist Rep. Steve King (R-IA) seven times since 2017. One of these appearances included a cleanup interview after King tweeted that Americans “can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies” (which echoes the white nationalist “great replacement” conspiracy theory). During the interview, Carlson defended the congressman’s racist comments, saying, “Everything you said I think is defensible and probably right.” After King expressed explicit support for white nationalists and white supremacy in an interview with The New York Times, Carlson first ignored the interview except to attack the media and then deflected when pressed, saying, “Steve King, whatever he said, he didn’t call for an ethnostate.” King’s racist views have been known for years.

Andrew Torba

In September 2017, Carlson hosted Andrew Torba, the founder of Gab, an alternative social media platform dubbed a “haven for white nationalists” and a “magnet for the alt-right,” after it was removed from the Apple and Google app stores for violating hate speech rules. A little over a year later, Torba and Gab were in the news again after one of the site’s users posted a message there before murdering 11 Jewish people during a worship service at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill, Pennsylvania. The site has since almost completely fallen apart.

Joey Gibson

Carlsonhas four timeshosted Joey Gibson, leader of the Portland, Oregon-based far-right group Patriot Prayer, which has been involved in violent street fights. Gibson is currently facing criminal and civil charges related to a fight that broke out at a bar this past May in which a woman was knocked unconscious. The group is also closely connected to the violent far-right extremist group the Proud Boys. In 2015, Carlson gave an interview to Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes in which Carlson defended statutory rape. He also posed for a picture with members of the group in 2018.

Roger Stone

Since 2017, Tucker Carlson has hosted racist conspiracy theorist Roger Stone eight times. Stone has been an Infowars regular, has close connections to the violent street gang the Proud Boys, and has a long legacy of violent, racist, and sexist comments. Carlson has repeatedly used his show to lobby President Trump to pardon Stone, who in November 2019 was found guilty on charges related to his September 2017 testimony to the House Intelligence Committee. Carlson has also appeared in adocumentary on Stone's life and wrote an introduction to one of his books.

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https://www.alternet.org/heres-why-mainstream-media-should-stop-giving-extreme-views-platform

In recent weeks, a number of quite astounding articles have appeared in the British press. These have included among others, a Times columnopining the benefit to Britain in the current climate of having a political leader like Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin or Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; referred to as “strongmen”. In the Daily Telegraph, a similarly toned piece contemplated the reinstatement of the death penalty after Brexit.

Somewhat appealing to the lowest common denominator, these and similar articles prompt questions about the extent to which Britain’s mainstream media is shifting towards the right of the political spectrum. Even more worrying is the extent to which it is “normalising” extreme right-wing ideas and ideologies.

I guess timid Neville Chamberlain should have learned from strongmen like Franco, Mussolini and Hitler. At least they got things done.

Shocking fascist apologia from @ClareFoges of @thetimes. pic.twitter.com/NPzg7901Xp

SEAN  (@esseeeayeenn) July 24, 2018

A recent Sunday Times article by Andrew Gilligan referred to “hipster fascists” with their penchant for New Balance trainers and skinny jeans. So their views might be out where the buses don’t run, but at least they have a decent dress code.

It’s not just the print media. Mainstream broadcasters have been giving significant airtime to various prominent far-right identities. These have included the former Breitbart London editor Raheem Kassam appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme to discuss the release of Tommy Robinson, the former leader of the anti-Islam English Defence League, on bail after winning an appeal against a contempt of court conviction. Meanwhile Ezra Levant, Robinson’s former employer at the Canadian far-right website Rebel Media, appeared on BBC 5 Live’s Breakfast Show.

Steve Bannon, the former executive chairman of Breitbart News and Donald Trump’s former strategy guru, was invited onto LBC and told Nigel Farage: “I don’t think Robinson’s a bad guy. I think he’s a solid guy and I think he’s got to be released from prison.” This followed an extensive interview with BBC Newsnight in May.

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worth noting that prior to his conviction, Robinson himself was something of a darling of the mainstream media. He has been a guest on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, BBC Radio 4’s Today, BBC2’s Newsnight and BBC1’s The Big Questions, among others.

Supporter of former EDL leader Tommy Robinson, @RaheemKassam, denies that he and Steve Bannon are building far-right support in Europe but calls it a "legitimate, serious organisation doing things legally" to "unite patriotic, populist, nationalist parties" around Europe #r4todaypic.twitter.com/7PMNSsTj5AGiven the recurrence of Robinson’s appearances in the mainstream media, it can be argued that not only has this played down the highly divisive and dangerous views and ideologies he has espoused but so too has it legitimised his claim to be voice of the people. That has the potential to have quite dangerous and dire consequences.

— BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) August 2, 2018

A ‘new normal’

Indeed, one of the goals of right-wing extremists has always been to appear “normal”. In recent years, the British National Party (BNP) was transformed under the leadership of Nick Griffin. By trying to look more like mainstream politicians, Griffin believed that the BNP would become more electable. Despite the outward change, its nationalist agenda remained constant.

While the BNP achieved relative success in local and European elections, Griffin’s appearance on BBC1’s Question Time pretty much destroyed his credibility both inside and outside the BNP. Describing the treatment he received as being akin to a “lynch mob” highlights the stark difference between then and now.

Working-class heroes?If seen to be complicit in the process of “normalisation” then – through playing down or trivialising the very real and detrimental impact bigotry and hate can have on the lives of individuals, communities and wider society – the mainstream media could be accused of conferring acceptability on some of these views.

Focusing upon the style, clothes or brands worn by far-right activists or having debates about the extent to which they might be a “working-class hero” fails to acknowledge the highly politicised agendas and ideologies those being focused on seek to disseminate. It also has the potential to embolden and strengthen their supporters and act as a recruiting tool – making them appear as the “true voice” of certain communities, groups or constituencies.

You could argue that the mainstream media did much the same with the unprecedented platform afforded to the now-imprisoned Islamist extremist, Anjem Choudary. Not only did he reinforce negative stereotypes about Muslims and Islam in the wider community – but the mainstream media’s endorsement of him as a key Muslim leader caused consternation among the vast majority of British Muslims for whom his views were extreme and not in the least representative of them.

Hail strongmen

The same can be said by the “strongman” article by Clare Foges, a former speechwriter for David Cameron. Her article massively plays down the more unpalatable policies of leaders such as Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and Turkish president Erdoğan. Foges in fact praises them, as well as Trump and Putin, for getting things done.

But it also overlooks the very real fact that under their leadership, values that are held dear by democracies including the UK – among them democracy, free speech and justice – have at times been restricted, constrained or completely removed.

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https://www.alternet.org/donald-trumps-ambassador-religious-freedom-lobbied-behalf-anti-islam-activist?src=newsletter1094336

an ambassador representing President Donald Trump lobbied the United Kingdom on behalf of jailed activist Tommy Robinson, the founder of the far-right English Defence League. According to Reuters, the U.S. ambassador inquired about Robinson's safety during a meeting with Britain's ambassador in Washington, D.C.

The discussion about Robinson, who gained worldwide notoriety for his anti-Islam rhetoric, was peculiar considering it was brought up by Sam Brownback, the U.S. ambassador of international religious freedom. Why an ambassador of religious freedom would speak on behalf of a religious persecutor has not yet been explained by the Trump administration.

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was arrested in May after broadcasting a Facebook live video outside a courthouse during a child-molestation trial. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison for contempt of court and an additional three more months for breaking the terms of a previous suspended sentence, the Guardian reported.

Robinson has become a figurehead of the alt-right at home and abroad, including the U.S. He has stylized himself as a journalist who covers Islamic issues. In 2009, he founded the English Defence League, a far-right, counter-jihadist group that harasses Muslims.

Robinson's cause has attracted solidarity in America. On Friday, Turning Point U.S.A. founder and staunch Trump supporter Charlie Kirk referenced Robinson in a tweet that attacked the mayor of London.

“Sadiq Khan is trying to lecture the world on ‘free speech’ while Tommy Robinson is locked in a London prison for speaking his mind,” the tweet said.

Robinson's jailing has generated mass protests in Britain. On Saturday, demonstrators campaigning for the release of Robinson incited a riot in central London by blockading a bus being driven by a woman in a headscarf, the Independent reported.

Dozens of protestors reportedly surrounded the bus as it entered Trafalgar Square. The group displayed “Britain Loves Trump” signs as they shoved them on the bus' windows.

Those protestors would be happy to learn that Brownback shared their concerns about Robinson's safety. The failed former governor of Kansas told Kim Darroch, the British ambassador to the U.S., that the U.K. would need to show Robinson more sympathy, otherwise Trump may feel compelled to speak out against the case, Reuters reported.

Brownback's interference on behalf of Robinson represents another situation in which a member of the Trump administration acted counterintuitively to his or her supposed role. Like former EPA chief Scott Pruitt, who rolled back regulations that were designed to protect the environment, Brownback's lobbying efforts could not be justified as an attempt to restore religious freedom. If anything, his lobbying furthered the marginalization of Muslims

Jones blamed a terror attack on Muslims; it was inspired by one of his regular guests

On June 19, 2017, a van plowed into a group of people leaving a mosque in London. One person was killed and many more were injured. Immediately as news of this attack broke, Infowars' Alex Jones and Mike Cernovich blamed Muslims. The driver is now on trial, where he admitted that, in addition to people outside the mosque, he hoped to also kill the mayor of London Sadiq Khan, and the head of the British Labor Party, Jeremy Corbyn. It also came out in the trial that the driver was radicalized by a frequent guest of Jones, Tommy Robinson. Robinson is the head of an anti-Muslim hate group in the U.K. called "the English Defence League." In an appearance with Jones just 13 days before the London attack, Robinson said the time was coming for English men to take matters into their own hands.

More: It's not just Jones. There are deep connections between Robinson and right-wing media. Robinson is an employee at Rebel Media, a Canadian "alt-right" website which has published things like "Ten Things I Hate About Jews." Rebel Media just hired Sebastian Gorka, former top aide to Donald Trump and current Fox News contributor (who also has apparent connections to a Hungarian Nazi-allied group). Rebel Media also recently hired Katie Hopkins, a former Daily Mail columnist who during an appearance on Fox News called for putting Muslims in internment camps.