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Weed, Women, and Video Games: Right-Wing Media Blames Just About Everything but Guns for Highland Park Shooting
Fox News hosts took a page from Reefer Madness, with Tucker Carlson also bemoaning women “lecturing” young men like the alleged gunmen.
In Tucker Carlson’s coverage of the rampage, the Fox News star revived Reefer Madness–esque arguments linking cannabis use to violence. “Like Crimo, (a lot of young men in America) inhabit a solitary fantasy world of social media, porn, and video games,” the host said. “They are high on government-endorsed weed. ‘Smoke some more! It’s good for you.’ They’re numbed by the endless psychotropic drugs that are handed out at every school in the country by crackpots posing as counselors.” Carlson then blamed women for the violent rage exhibited by young men like Crimo. “Of course they’re angry…. The authorities in their lives—mostly women—never stop lecturing them about their so-called privilege,” he continued. “Try to imagine an unhealthier, unhappier life than that. So a lot of young men in America are going nuts. Are you surprised?”
About two hours later, Laura Ingraham pushed the same talking points—or as she put it, “mounting scientific evidence” connecting violent behavior among young people to “sustained cannabis use”—to explain away the shooting without mentioning guns.
Others have attempted to take a simpler route to paint Crimo as a leftist, essentially arguing, Well, he’s tattooed his face, dyed his hair weird colors, and dressed as a woman to evade the police, so he must be antifa! “If you look at antifa, that’s how they look!” said Fox News host Greg Gutfeld. Newsmax’s Greg Kelly made similar claims on Tuesday. “Take a look at him…and quite frankly to me, I’ve seen (his) type before,” remarked Kelly. “He looks a little antifa-ish, doesn’t he?…You know he was caught wearing women’s clothing.” Kelly went on to add that “maybe, like leftists all over the place, [Crimo] liked wearing women’s clothes, even though he’s a he.” (In May, similar bogus assertions were made about Salvador Ramos, the Robb Elementary School shooter.
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