Tucker Carlson, Fox,
et al on “Replacement Theory or Great Replacement” suddenly
gone silent after so much hype and now following the deadly mass murder in Buffalo.
Background: After Carlson was called out for promoting that theory
in April 2021, he said on his show: “I mean, everyone wants to make a
racial issue out of it. Oh, you know, the white replacement theory? No, no, no.
This is a voting right question.”
FYI: Carlson has mentioned
variations of the “replacement” idea in more than 400 episodes since 2016 of
his (Cite: NY
Times analysis).
Other Fox News hosts and Fox guests have picked up the same theme,
giving it a veneer of respectability, at least within the conservative media
ecosystem – for example:
1. Laura Ingraham, a Fox News host, told her viewers in 2018 “Democrats want to replace you, the American voters, with newly amnestied citizens and an ever-increasing number of chain migrants.”
And on her program last year, Ingraham called immigration an
“insurrection that seeks to overthrow everything we love about America by
defaming it, silencing it, and even prosecuting it. This is an organized mob
funded by billionaires, it’s supported by celebrities.”
2. Jeanine Pirro another Fox News host echoed the tenets of
the “replacement theory” idea on a syndicated radio program in 2019 saying: “Liberals
and Democrats were pursuing immigration policies that are a plot to remake
America, to replace American citizens with illegals who will vote for the
Democrats.”
3. Bill O’Reilly, before in Carlson’s spot told Hannity in
2020: “Undocumented immigration would cause traditional America to vanish.”
4. The late Rush Limbaugh in 2018 said: “Immigration from Central America is intended
to dilute and eventually eliminate or erase our distinct unique American
culture. This is why people call this an invasion.”
5. Ann Coulter wrote about the alleged threat to American
culture posed by immigrants in a book in 2015 titled: “Adios, America: The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country into aThird World Hellhole.”
6. Charlie Kirk, who leads conservative program “Turning Point USA” and appears on Carlson’s program defended Carlson’s replacement theory last year. After playing a clip of Carlson’s comments on Fox News, Kirk commented: “Nothing he said there is controversial. It’s factual and it’s true.” He later added that he was “so proud” of Carlson for promoting the theory.
Then last month, Kirk tweeted: “There is an undeniable War on White
People in The West.”
7. Matt Walsh, contributor to the Daily Wire, tacitly
endorsed the idea during a program he hosted last summer saying in a video: “So
we’re bringing in a flood of immigrants across the southern border, non-White. We’re
putting policies in place with the express purpose of having fewer White people
in universities and positions of power. And we’re celebrating the reduction in
the White population. I mean, it sounds like liberals want to replace White
people. So this is replacement, is it not? And you’re happy about it?”
8. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) via the Orlando Weekly on this same
issue congratulated Carlson for his reporting.
Other stories related
to this same topic:
1. Newsweek
(September 19, 2021.
2. The Daily Beast (September 23, 2021).
3. The
Washington Post (May 16, 2022): Carlson now says Buffalo shooting was not
political
4. Salon
(May 17, 2022).
5. MSNBC (various video clip updates).
My 2 cents: The above sites speak the facts on this now a very serious issue.
I will give the GOP credit for one
thing, however: They are great conspiracy spreaders but poor leaders and problem solvers.
I have always associated
this from the GOP handbook for their ill-informed base. It fits perfectly for the present time today:
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