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" Biden actually said… https://t.co/Xx7KilERIj— nikki mccann ramírez (@nikki mccann ramírez) 1622592722.0
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://t.co/DZuT3dAQoi— emptywheel (@emptywheel) 1622627259.0
Obviously Tucker is always lying but wait do Republicans think ISIS is a threat because they’ve forgotten their ori… https://t.co/DCU2AUo4sW— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC) 1622601441.0
It doesn't surprise me that every time this man opens his mouth he's lying. https://t.co/PMzD25gVhC— Whitney Carson (@Whitney Carson) 1622620060.0
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://t.co/FnTZeOhVyR— @ijbailey (@@ijbailey) 1622645564.0
Look, I would love to mock this, but the fact that Tucker Carlson is insisting that white supremacy is code for whi… https://t.co/ShaHZnk4QQ— Joe Katz (@Joe Katz) 1622594195.0
They are so close to figuring it out. https://t.co/08No6cBMwK— Devon O'Brien (@Devon O'Brien) 1622626109.0
When Tuckums heard the phrase “white supremacist” and automatically assumed it meant “white Republican”.… https://t.co/RLEAH5cytZ— TR (@TR) 1622605796.0
In which Tucker Carlson equates “terrorism from white supremacy” with “white Republican men.” https://t.co/mDQEfQ1fJq— Parker Molloy (@Parker Molloy) 1622592848.0
It’s telling that he conflates the two https://t.co/Rw5Io9sgrv— Colonial B (@Colonial B) 1622611195.0
Yetnother lie goes uncorrected by the one who told it.