What’s the Matter with Tucker Carlson? – Administrator

As President Trump gave his inaugural address in Washington, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who now has his own podcast after having been fired by Fox News, chose to remain seated while all around him stood up when the President — while mentioning that the Israeli hostages are “coming back home to their families”— pointed to family members of hostages, and hostages who had previously been released, standing near the podium. No one should have been surprised at seeing Carlson remain seated, for he has a long history of anti-Israel animus. He has criticized Christian leaders in the United States, arguing that they are “not being more critical of the destruction in Gaza.”

Here is one of Carlson’s tweets on Israel:

The IDF has not been “blowing up churches” in Gaza nor has it been “killing Christians.” It’s a made-up charge.

Carlson has invited as guests on his podcast a series of flagrant antisemites. He had a “Holocaust distortionist” on his show, one Darryl Cooper, a “podcast historian” whom Carlson has described as “the best and most honest popular historian in the United States.” He allotted a full two hours for Darryl Cooper to spread his venom. Carlson declined to take issue with any of the false claims made by Cooper during their conversation, and even now he continue to refuse to criticize Cooper’s views or apologize for having given him such a platform. Cooper claimed that “millions of prisoners of war” had “ended up dead” in concentration camps, implying that Jews should not be regarded as the victims of genocide, but rather as POWs (Jews being “at war” with the Nazis), and millions of them were not deliberately murdered by the Nazis, but had died of disease or malnutrition because the Nazis were “unprepared” for the war, and thus had not been able to properly house, to clothe, or to feed such prisoners taken in the war. According to Cooper, World War II was caused by Winston Churchill, whom he called the “chief villain” of that war. Most of those in Nazi custody died, Cooper maintains, from typhus and other diseases.

More on Tucker Carlson can be found here: “Tucker Carlson remains seated during standing ovation for hostages in Trump’s inaugural address,” by Haley Cohen, Jewish Insider, January 20, 2025:

Right-wing talk show host Tucker Carlson appeared to remain seated as President Donald Trump said that “the hostages in the Middle East are coming back home to their families” during his inauguration speech on Monday, a comment that drew a wide and bipartisan standing ovation from a majority of attendees at the Capitol Rotunda ceremony.

Carlson’s telling decision to remain seated while everyone else in the audience stood up when Donald Trump, during his inauguration speech on Monday, while pointing to the line of hostage families who had been invited to the inauguration, said that “the hostages in the Middle East are coming back home to their families” has received widespread comment, none of it favorable. Trump’s remark about the hostages drew a wide and bipartisan standing ovation from a majority of attendees at the Capitol Rotunda ceremony. But Tucker Carlson did not join in; he remained stony-faced and seated.

Carlson, who received one of the most sought-after seats in Washington to attend the inauguration in the rotunda — which has a limited capacity of about 600 people — drew unusually fierce criticism from several Republican lawmakers over his decision last September to host Darryl Cooper, a Holocaust distortionist who called Winston Churchill the “chief villain” of World War II, on his show.

Three months later, Carlson held another controversial interview with Jeffrey Sachs, the Columbia University professor who, in a lengthy discussion with Carlson, espoused a litany of conspiracy theories about Israel and the broader Middle East…

Jeffrey Sachs was once taken seriously as an economist, but in recent years has become an obsessive exponent of conspiracy theories, including his belief that Israel runs American foreign policy. Sachs claims that the fall of Syria’s dictator Assad — whom Sachs apparently thought well of — was not the result of Assad’s countrymen rising up to topple him, but was, rather, the culmination of a decades-long plot led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to oppose any Middle Eastern government supporting the creation of a Palestinian state. “The United States goes to war on his behalf,” he said of Netanyahu, arguing that “Israel has driven so many American wars.” Sachs also claimed that the U.S. “gave over Middle East foreign policy to Israel a long time ago, not to U.S. interest, but to Israel’s interest. That is the Israel lobby, and we don’t hear questioning of this at all.” Carlson seemed to agree.

via Jihad Watch

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