Tucker Carlson: Fox News employees “would resign in protest” if it aired claims that domestic terrorists “are more dangerous than foreign terrorists”
Carlson: “What kind of effect do lies like that, the ones you just heard, calculated to terrify you, what kind of effect do they have on the country?”
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From the January 29, 2021, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): American citizens are more dangerous than foreign terrorists. You often hear people say "Fox is so extreme, the Fox News channel is so extreme" -- no show on this channel would ever put that on the air, ever. And if anyone did, people would resign in protest because that is completely untrue and completely reckless.
For once, we're not even going to mock Don Lemon for being a mouth breather, though he demonstrably is. The problem is much bigger than that and it's not funny. He, and that former Obama official you just saw told their viewers that millions of American citizens are terrorists. Now, that's a lie, for one thing it's just not true. Press a little and you'll find the Department of Homeland Security, which has been amping up the domestic threat for the past week, at great cost to people's sanity, DHS has no actual evidence that Trump voters are planning to hurt anyone. There is no evidence of a plot of any kind. They can see that. Trust us, they would tell you if they found a plot. But the question you have to ask yourself, is what kind of effect do lies like that, the ones you just heard, calculated to terrify you, what kind of effect do they have on the country? Especially over time, this is not new.
When you tell people they're evil because of how they vote or how they look, and our leaders are definitely telling them that every single day, when you train a population to tally every group of Americans by race and ethnicity first and foremost, keep track of people's genetic background every time you see a picture -- really? What effect does that have, when you promote group identity even as you intentionally destroyed national identity?
If you do all of those things, what kind of country do you get at the end? Well, you get a scary divided country. The kind of country where you need steel fencing outside of the national legislature. It's very obvious where all of this is going, and it's very, very bad.