Tucker Carlson made a movie to prove he's not a white nationalist

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Philip Bump
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The insane and muddled trailer that Tucker Carlson promoted last night really brings into focus a central motive for him: telling Republicans that the left sees them all as racists to rationalize his own flirtations with white nationalism.

Analysis | Tucker Carlson made a movie to prove he’s not a white nationalist
Fearmonger mongers fear.
washingtonpost.com
7:00 AM · Oct 28, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/28/tucker-carlson-movie-white-nationalist/

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The trailer starts with a militaristic tattoo on a snare drum. A shot of the Capitol in daylight and then at night, with riot police in the foreground. Then a familiar clip: Officer Michael Byrd’s arms extending from a doorway inside the Capitol building, both hands steadying his firearm. An overdubbed gun shot echoes; we see Ashli Babbitt fall from the window she was climbing through.

On top of this scene, large block text a la Wes Anderson: “The War on Terror,” it reads, and then, over Babbitt’s falling body, “2.0.”

So begins the trailer for what Fox News’s Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night described as a “three-part series” he produced that will be released next month that will run on Fox Nation, the right-wing broadcaster’s streaming service. But it does seem clear what the intent is. Carlson wants to elevate the idea — the surreal idea, the deranged idea — that the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was fomented in whole or in part by the government so that it could crack down on the political right.

He has been cobbling this theory together on his show for months. Soon after President Biden was inaugurated, Carlson interpreted Biden’s inaugural speech comments about targeting white nationalists and domestic extremists as somehow revealing a plan to cast the entirety of the political right as targets of the federal government. Never mind that the Department of Homeland Security had elevated the threat posed by those groups even during the Trump administration; this was somehow Biden trying to use Jan. 6 as a way to imprison his foes.

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[TDale313]

1. If the Jackboot fits...

[underpants]

2. It's a Nazi duck

That’s all I’m saying.

[MurrayDelph]

4. If it walks like a duck

And talks like a duck,
But steps like a goose...

[underpants]

6. There you go. !

[frogmarch]

3. I just saw it on

Keith Olbermann's Twitter page.

Tucker Carlson is a disgusting piece of shit.

[themaguffin]

5. Saw the promo for it. Holy shit, it's seriously awful propaganda