Tucker Carlson, the most well-liked TV host on Fox News, insisted on his program Monday night time that he’s not in opposition to vaccines. In reality, Carlson stated he’s by no means attacked vaccines on his program. The solely drawback, in fact, is that Carlson is a really vocal anti-vaxxer and there’s hours of tape from his present in the course of the previous six months to show it.

“They don’t trust you anymore and they don’t trust the drugs that you say they must take. And that’s a shame. We’re not attacking the vaccine. Never have,” Carlson stated Monday in what can solely be described as a bald-faced lie.

Carlson made his assertion that he wasn’t anti-vaccine whereas discussing Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, a Republican and distinguished supporter of vaccines. Kinzinger thinks that his fellow Republicans have been taking part in a harmful sport in the course of the covid-19 pandemic however Carlson attacked Kinzinger as a simpleton who lacks the correct skepticism of the medical institution.

“What is the harm rate from the vaccine? Why can’t we ask? What’s the answer when you attack people rather than answer their questions?” Carlson stated Monday night time whereas referring to Kinzinger.

The Fox News host even known as Kinzinger “low IQ” for denouncing fellow Republicans who questioned the protection and efficacy of the covid-19 vaccines. In reality, Carlson was spouting anti-vaccine speaking factors final night time on the identical present that he insisted he wasn’t anti-vaccine. Carlson even in contrast the U.S. to Communist-controlled East Germany throughout a phase on covid-19 vaccines being made necessary within the U.S. navy.

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“It’s very clear the government is purging the military, spying on its own citizens because of a virus that isn’t killing very many people anymore,” Carlson stated, regardless of a whole bunch of deaths from covid-19 within the U.S. every day, virtually completely in unvaccinated people.

“And keep in mind, vaccination isn’t like voting. They don’t trust you to do it yourself at home and mail the results. They’re keeping track. Just how East German is this country becoming?” Carlson continued.

Carlson was then in a position to tie the entire difficulty again to his different pet challenge: Insisting that the true discrimination occurring in America was in opposition to white folks and any efforts to counter white supremacist extremism had been truly threats in opposition to all white folks.

“The FBI just announced in a tweet that it’s encouraging Americans to snitch on family members who exhibit signs of extremism. The federal government, the Biden administration is encouraging your family to snitch on each other. Does extremism apply to people who have questions about the vaccine? Of course it does,” Carlson stated.

You don’t even have to quote Carlson’s phrases on to know the sport he’s taking part in. Just have a look at the chyrons and graphics that had been showing subsequent to Carlson throughout final night time’s present:

• Medicine Should Never be Forced on Anyone
• Dems Are Turning Vaccines Into a Political Test
• Vaccine Coercion
• Dems: Bring on the Vaccine Mandates
• No Vaccine, No Entry
• Vaccine Coercion by the Govt is About Power
• There is Almost No Resistance to What is Happening
• Army Now Forcing Vaccine on Soldiers

And that’s all only one episode of Carlson’s present. He’s been doing this for months and he’s drilling it into the heads of his viewers that there’s one thing nefarious afoot with the worldwide covid-19 vaccine rollout.

It’s no coincidence that Tucker Carlson is making an attempt such an apparent tactic—claiming doesn’t maintain a specific view, solely to spout the speaking factors of that worldview merely seconds later. Carlson does this on a regular basis with white nationalist speaking factors.

Carlson, who’s beforehand described Iraqis as “semi-literate primitive monkeys,” is loved nightly by a number of the most vile neo-Nazis on the web. And he repeatedly repeats white nationalist myths, such because the Great Replacement concept that international elites try to “replace” the populations of predominantly white nations with racial minorities. Notably, the Great Replacement Theory was distinguished within the Christchurch terrorist’s manifesto, written earlier than he slaughtered 51 folks in New Zealand.

Racists on TV used to function with a sort of believable deniability, deploying code phrases and canine whistles to wink on the viewers about what they had been actually discussing. But that’s grow to be more and more troublesome in a post-Trump period. Subtext is gone, and Trump viewers are rabid for plain and unvarnished hate.

Why don’t extra journalists name out Carlson’s blatant anti-vaccine bullshit and white supremacist speaking factors? Because so long as Carlson continues to say he’s not an anti-vaxxer or a racist, mainstream media is meant to take him at his phrase. Those are the principles of the sport and even essentially the most vile racists in historical past have stated they’re not racist.

Even notorious segregationist George Wallace went on Face the Nation on July 21, 1968 to say that he wasn’t a racist.

“I don’t regard myself as a racist,” Wallace stated. “And I think the biggest racists in the world are those who call other folks racist. I think the biggest bigots in the world are those who call other people bigots.”

Pretty a lot says all of it.