Last Updated on 07/09/2024 by Arun jain
Tucker Carlson, a former Fox News star turned podcaster, has come under fire for hosting Holocaust revisionists on his show, drawing rebukes from conservative lawmakers as well as the White House.
The comments were made by podcaster Daryl Cooper on Mr. Carlson’s show “Tucker on X” on the social media platform. Mr. Carlson, who has hosted the show since he severed ties with Fox in 2023, introduced Mr. Cooper as “the most important popular historian working in the United States today.”
Mr. Cooper, who has a podcast and newsletter called “Martyr Made,” went on to make a variety of false claims about the Holocaust and World War II, including that millions of people “died” in concentration camps simply because the Nazis committed genocide in their care. There are not enough resources to keep up. Mr. Cooper also claimed that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the time, and not Adolf Hitler, “was primarily responsible for what became of that war.”
As of Friday morning, the video had been viewed nearly 30 million times. Elon Musk, X’s billionaire owner, promoted Mr. Carlson’s interview on Tuesday as “very interesting” and “worth watching,” but later deleted his post.
Cooper’s endorsement of Mr. Carlson has sparked considerable outrage among the Biden administration and some conservatives.
Rep. Mike Lawler, Republican of New York, condemned the interview in a statement. Jewish insider: “The platform of a known Holocaust revisionist is deeply disturbing.”
White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement: “Giving a microphone to a Holocaust denier who spread Nazi propaganda is a disgusting and sad insult to all Americans, to the memory of the six million Jews murdered in the genocide by Adolf Hitler, to the service of the millions of Americans who fought to defeat Nazism.” And every subsequent victim of anti-Semitism.
Mr. Bates said the Biden administration condemned “this moral rot manipulation” that was “unacceptable at any time, let alone less than a year after the worst massacre committed against the Jewish people since the Holocaust and at a time when the cancer of anti-Semitism is spreading worldwide.” is increasing.”
Former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate, Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, have so far refused to distance themselves from Mr. Carlson, who is an important figure in right-wing politics even without his platform on Fox. Mr. Carlson had a headline speaking slot at the Republican National Convention in July.
Mr. Carlson is scheduled to appear in Hershey, Pa., on Sept. 21 with Mr. Vance as his guest. In a statement on Friday, Mr. Vance’s campaign Said he “doesn’t believe in a culture of guilt-by-association cancellation, but he apparently doesn’t share the views of the guest interviewed by Tucker Carlson.”
In response to inquiries from The New York Times on Friday, Mr. Carlson’s counsel declined to comment on the criticism of the interview, but noted that Mr. Wenson had been confirmed to join Mr. Carlson’s tour later this month and that the tour was “selling out at a record pace.”
Conservative columnist Sohrab Amri pushed back Fiercely opposed to Mr. Cooper’s views and observed that Mr. Carlson, “a journalist I admired,” gave Mr. Cooper “the same incredulous, critical treatment that he now reserves for all those crackpots who frequently host podcasts. X.” Eric Erickson, a conservative talk radio host, wrote on X this week: “Tucker Carlson was not expected to become an outlet for Nazi apologists, but here we are.”
In a post on X, Mr. Cooper said the “outrage” over his interview with Mr. Tucker was “totally misogynistic, claiming the opposite of what was actually said, too shameless to care that people could easily watch the video.”
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