Many news outlets and various other Left-leaning voices have tried to tie Tucker Carlson, a well known Fox News personality, as a cause for the horrible incident that took place in Buffalo on Saturday, despite there being absolutely zero evidence the shooter was a fan or even partook in the watching of the conservative cable news hosts highly popular show.
The Times made reference to the gunman’s alleged positive stand for the so-called “replacement theory, ” which is a heavily anti-semitic conspiracy theory that makes the claim that Jews are taking strides to import minority groups in order to throw off the country’s racial breakdown. Many have conflated that theory with the claims that Democrats seem to, on average, stand in favor of amnesty for all illegal immigrants in order to shift the voting demographics throughout the country, which Carlson has stated before.
“No public figure has promoted replacement theory more loudly or relentlessly than the Fox host Tucker Carlson, who has made elite-led demographic change a central theme of his show since joining Fox’s prime-time lineup in 2016,” stated a report by the Times.
The suspect in the incident was allegedly radicalized online and overly immersed himself in “replacement theory and other kinds of racist and anti-semitic content,” claimed The Times, seemingly relying on a discovered 180-page manifesto thought to have been put online by the suspect himself. In said manifesto, the author characterizes himself entirely as “authoritarian left wing.”
“Someone like Carlson can introduce viewers to ideas that they then explore more fully online, searches that lead them into far-right spaces that either reinforce their existing views or radicalize them,” claimed one historian from Columbia University to the Times for an article.
The Times does not seem to be standing alone on this hill of linking Carlson to the massacre, in which 10 people were murdered along with another three wounded.
Adam Schiff, a well known Far-left representative of California who quite infamously made the claim to have had evidence that former President Trump had colluded with Russia in order to take a win in the 2016 presidential elections, threw accusations at the Fox News host of creating a “call to arms” for all right-wing lunatics.
“Tucker Carlson is many things — but he’s not stupid,” stated Schiff in a tweet. “When he pushes racist conspiracies like ‘the great replacement,’ he knows the risks. He knows some view his vile hate as a call to arms.”
Tucker Carlson is many things — but he’s not stupid.
When he pushes racist conspiracies like “the great replacement,” he knows the risks.
He knows some view his vile hate as a call to arms.
The problem is Tucker just doesn’t give a damn about anyone but himself.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) May 15, 2022
“More blood on the hands of @tuckercarlson and @foxnews this killer used their racist talking points to justify killing 10 people. Carlson won’t stop because as he explained to the NY Times, it’s good for ratings. Lives be damned. As Carlson will be at judgement day,” claimed Joe Lockhart, a former White House Press Secretary, who served in the role under former President Bill Clinton, exclaimed.
More blood on the hands of @tuckercarlson and @foxnews this killer used their racist talking points to justify killing 10 people. Carlson won't stop because as he explained to the NYTimes, it's good for ratings. Lives be damned. As Carlson will be at judgement day. https://t.co/fse5bRvEbN
— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) May 14, 2022
Along with sporting zero evidence at all that this shooter was a watcher of Fox News, let alone of Carlson, the Left-Wing dot-connecting is a step removed from past cases involving potential political links to a mass shooting. The gunman who targeted people with Republican stances, including the House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, on a Virginia baseball diamond back in 2017 “posted Bernie Sanders signs in the yard” and “cited MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show as one of his favorite television programs,” read a report from USA Today.
“I can’t believe this even needs to be said, but Tucker Carlson is no more responsible for the Buffalo shooting than Bernie Sanders was for the Congressional baseball field shooting,” stated a tweet from podcaster Chicks on the Right. “If you’re a person who is blaming anyone other than the shooter you’re a complete idiot.”