Tucker Carlson was so eager to promote his new Black and Black-attacking BFF, he devoted nearly two full shows to West’s MAGA and “White Lives Matter” rhetoric. Before airing the first part, Carlson gushed, “we've rarely heard a man speak so honestly and so movingly about what he believes.”
In an awkward development for Carlson, West, now known as “Ye,” went on anti-Semitic rants on Instagram and Twitter and was restricted from both platforms not long after the Carlson lovefest.
Now, even more awkwardly for Tucky, Vice’s Motherboard has gotten hold of interview clips that he tried to hide from viewers in order to make his Black Friend look better.
An excerpt from Vice:
In his interview with Carlson, Ye said that Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, a “known eugenics,” as he put it, created Planned Parenthood with the KKK “to control the Jew population.”
When I say Jew, I mean the 12 lost tribes of Judah, the blood of Christ, who the people known as the race Black really are,” Ye added. “This is who our people are. The blood of Christ. This, as a Christian, is my belief.”
The statement mashes up a few different claims. Sanger was indeed a racist and eugenicist, a stance the organization has since denounced; claims that Planned Parenthood exists to kill Black infants in the womb are common across several different conspiratorial spaces. Ye was also referring to the claim, unsupported by historical evidence, that Black people are the “real” Jewish race, which is often used to promote antisemitism. (The Southern Poverty Law Center has a broader explanation of this particular tangled claim, which is often, but not always, associated with the Black Hebrew Israelites, a movement that originated in the 19th century; some Black Hebrew Israelite sects believe that non-Black Jews are impostors or usurpers of “true” Jewish identity.)
Carlson also edited out West’s announcement that he has been vaccinated (which contradicts some of Carlson's pet propaganda) and West’s bizarre claim about “fake children” being placed in his house:
“I mean, like actors, professional actors, placed into my house to sexualize my kids,” he told Carlson. He referred to the “so-called son” of an associate, seemingly to imply the child was fake. “We don't, we didn’t even believe that this person was her son because he was way smarter than her, right?”
Media Matters’ Matt Gertz notes that the deceptive editing highlights “how much leeway the Fox host thinks he has from the network brass, as well as the deceitful way he handles his show.”
In other words, this again demonstrates that Carlson is a political charlatan. And the Murdochs appear to be just fine with that.
