Last Updated on 06/09/2024 by Arun jain
The Biden administration condemns Tucker Carlson For his two-hour interview with a “Holocaust denier who spreads Nazi propaganda”, the meeting was called “a disgusting and sad insult to all Americans”.
Earlier this week, Ex Fox News The anchor hosts podcaster Daryl Cooper on his show. Cooper suggested in the interview that the mass killing of Jews by Nazi Germany was an accident and that the millions who were systematically murdered simply “died” in concentration camps due to poor planning.
“Giving the microphone to a holocaust denier who spreads Nazi propaganda is a disgusting and sad insult to all Americans, to the memory of the more than 6 million Jews who were massacred by Adolf Hitler, to the service of millions of Americans who fought. Defeat Nazism, and every victim of its aftermath. Anti-Semitism“White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement. to CNN.
Bates refutes Cooper’s claim that Winston Churchill was the “main villain” of World War II. “Hitler was one of the most evil figures in human history and the ‘main villain’ of World War II, full stop,” Bates said.
He continued: “The Biden-Harris administration believes this manipulation of moral decay is unacceptable at any time, let alone less than a year after the worst massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust and at a time when anti-Semitism is a cancer. is growing all over the world.
Carlson, who said Cooper is “probably the best and most honest popular historian in the United States,” fired back at the White House on Thursday.
“The fact that these lunatics have used the Churchill myth to bring our country closer to nuclear war than at any other time in history disgusts me, and should frighten every American,” said the far-right conservative. in a text message to CNN. “They are warmonger freaks. They don’t get the moral high ground.”
However Elon Musk In a post on X that he called the interview “very interesting” and “worth watching,” which he later deleted, liberals and conservatives condemned Carlson for giving Cooper a platform.
“Tucker Carlson was not expected to become an outlet for Nazi apologists, but here we are,” said conservative analyst Eric Erickson. wrote On X.
“It’s not the best or the most honest,” Erickson wrote In a follow-up post. “He is a paradoxical moral cretin who has turned his contradictions into Nazi apologists.”
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