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John Oliver rips Tucker Carlson’s Fox Show for using ‘white supremacist talking points’
John Oliver chose to call out host Tucker Carlson on Sunday night as he warned that the Fox News star is ‘the most prominent vessel in America for white supremacist talking points.’
Sunday night’s episode of Last Week Tonight spent a large portion of time focused on the controversial commentator’s style of reporting on his right-wing network.
John began by stating how he ‘would like nothing more than to not play into his wildly offensive shtick meaning young people are watching him as well as the normal Fox audience of retirees and their sad, imprisoned pets’.
After showing the way Tucker labelled Black Lives Matter protesters ‘criminal mobs’ but claimed US Capitol rioters were mere concerned citizens.
John quipped: ‘Well that’s quite a different tone!’
In another clip, Carlson stated in a conversation with a guest: ‘Maybe I don’t want to live in a country that looks nothing like the one I grew up in. Is that bigoted?’
Oliver responded: ‘Uh, yeah. Yeah, it is. That’s like saying I’ve got 10 fingers and toes, a pointy face with a little pink rosebud mouth, a cat-sized body, a long, weird tail and I eat garbage.
‘Does that make me a possum? Yes. Yes it does. That’s the literal definition of the thing you just described.’
The 43-year-old then told viewers: ‘He is scared of a country that “looks nothing like the one he grew up in” because diversity “isn’t our strength,” immigrants make our country “poorer, dirtier, and more divided,” and any attempt to change that culture is an attack on Western civilization. ‘
‘All of which is really just a long way of saying that when Tucker asks, “What is white supremacy?” the answer is: basically that,’ John added about Carlson’s own words. ‘It’s a belief that in a country where white people are dominant, that’s all down to their natural and innate abilities, and any effort to change that is an affront to the natural order of things.’
He warned that Carlson’s rise on Fox should be ‘seriously alarming, because of all the things that Tucker is – a conspiracy theorist, a misogynist, Islamophobe, a troll – one of the most dangerous is that he is the most prominent vessel in America for white supremacist talking points.’
Tucker is yet to respond to John’s segment about his work and reporting style.
Metro.co.uk has reached out to Fox News for comment.
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