Tucker Carlson Goes The Full Joseph Goebbels For Trump’s Big Lie

“Proud Boy” Tucker Carlson, the host of “White-Power Hour” on the Fascist Fox News network, is going the full Joseph Goebbels for Trump’s Big Lie, with the complicit blessing of owner Rupert Murdoch.

See previously, ‘White-Power Hour’ host Tucker Carlson says ‘white supremacy is a hoax’, gets owned.

Huffington Post reports, Tucker Carlson Takes Jan. 6 Denial To Chilling Level With ‘Patriot Purge’ Trailer:

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on Wednesday teased his upcoming series about the U.S. Capitol riot that includes a suggestion that the pro-Donald Trump mob’s violence was a “false flag.”

The trailer for “Patriot Purge” takes Carlson’s previous reality-denying spin on the Trump-incited Jan. 6 insurrection to a chilling level.

The promo spot shows people warning that “the domestic war on terror is here” and “it’s coming after half of the country,” “the left is hunting the right,” and “false flags have happened in this country” and “one of which may have been Jan. 6th.”

The series will air on the Fox Nation streaming service starting Monday.

Just to be clear: the MAGA/QAnon rioters who engaged in a violent seditious insurrection and failed coup d’etat on January 6 are not patriots,” they are domestic terrorists and traitors who should be hunted down and prosecuted to the full extent of the law, including those who provided aid and comfort to these seditionists and incited the seditious insurrection, including the Fascist Fox News network, and Newsmax, OAN, etc.

These fascist propagandists should be “purged” from this county. Millions of Americans served in a World War to rid the world of fascism. We dishonor their service and sacrifice by allowing a homegrown fascist movement in America. Tucker can take his white supremacy shtick to Russia or Hungary where he would be more welcome.

Carlson, like many right-wing media personalities and GOP politicians, has repeatedly downplayed the riot, once claiming it was just “a mob of older people from unfashionable zip codes.”

Hundreds of Trump fans have been charged in the violence, which led to the deaths of several rioters and police officers.

Carlson said Wednesday he was “proud” of the series, calling it “the best thing we’ve ever done.”

Critics likened it to Alex Jones’ conspiracy theory-spewing InfoWars.

Media Matters adds, The Murdochs share the blame as Tucker Carlson pushes Alex Jones-esque January 6 “false flag” series:

On the October 27 edition of his Fox News show, Tucker Carlson previewed a “three-part series” on Fox Nation called “Patriot Purge.” It appears to be an Alex Jones-flavored sob story about the people who attacked the Capitol building on January 6.

The trailer features:

• • • What can only be described as a sympathetic interview with “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander.
    • An interview with Darren Beattie, who was fired from the Trump White House after reporting emerged he had attended a white nationalist conference.
    • Another person claiming that “the left is hunting” conservative Americans.
    • A warning, apparently from Fox contributor Katie Pavlich, that “false flags have happened in this country” as footage on-screen shows then-President Donald Trump speaking on January 6 before cutting to file footage of Osama Bin Laden.

At this point, it’s clear that Carlson himself is well into his “going door-to-door trying to shock people” stage of being a cable news host.

But it’s not just Carlson. The Wall Street Journal editorial page on October 27 also published a screed of Trump lies about the election in which he claimed it was rigged. Even worse, there was no explanation for why it was published or a response of any kind.

The Washington Post does the job for them. The 14 things you need to know about Trump’s letter in the Wall Street Journal.

At least one Journal reporter spoke out.

Wall Street Journal reporter: "I think it’s very disappointing that our opinion section continues to publish misinformation that our news side works so hard to debunk.” https://t.co/ohre2QU5Fg

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) October 28, 2021

So the question is who enables this kind of total bullshit. And it’s a pretty simple list:

• • • Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch.
    • The rest of the Fox Corp. board of directors like Paul Ryan, Fox Corp executives such as Viet Dinh, and Fox News executives like Suzanne Scott, Joe Dorrego, and Jay Wallace.
    • Robert Thomson and the News Corp. leadership team and board of directors.
    • Cable companies that charge exorbitant fees to subscribers for Fox News even if people never watch the channel.
    • Advertisers that team up with Fox News.
    • Tucker’s well-paid Fox colleagues who don’t speak up.
    • YouTube, which declared Fox News an “authoritative” source on the election despite repeated lies; The platform announced days ago that it has again teamed up with Fox, this time to broadcast all Fox Nation content as an add-on – meaning that this series will be available to air on YouTube. (YouTube removed Alex Jones from the service after he pushed false flag conspiracy theories about 9/11, Sandy Hook, and more.
    • The massive right-wing infrastructure funded to create lies like these: Tucker Carlson couldn’t do it alone. Right-wing billionaires fund their production on an industrial scale for people like Carlson to pluck from.

We’re not even a year removed from the 2020 election. We’ve seen continued lies on a massive scale, attacks on multiple Capitol buildings, coup memos, threats of violence, actual violence, and right-wing media teaming up with Republicans across the country to undermine elections, including draconian rollbacks of voting rights and fake “audits.” With the anniversary of the election night around the corner, the most important thing to remember is that we are not “through” the assault on democracy in any way. It is still happening and almost certainly will get worse. And there are very rich, very powerful people who are just fine with that.

David Badash writes, Rupert Murdoch Is a ‘Domestic Threat’ Says Never-Trumper Over Tucker Carlson’s Upcoming Jan. 6 Special:

Stuart Stevens is calling out News Corp founder and chief Rupert Murdoch as a “domestic threat” in response to a stunning preview clip from Fox News’ top personality, Tucker Carlson, that falsely paints Donald Trump’s January 6 insurrection as a false flag operation by Democrats.

“If Rupert Murdoch were applying for American citizenship today, there would be ample evidence to classify him as a domestic threat and deny citizenship,” Stevens says of Murdoch, an Australian-born naturalized U.S. citizen. “He’s a dangerous man who should be treated as the anti-democratic propagandist he is.”

Stevens is known as one of the top Republican strategists who became a never-Trumper and co-founded The Lincoln Project. Murdoch owns News Corp, the parent company of Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, and numerous other outlets across the globe. He became a U.S. citizen in 1985 to meet the requirements to purchase and own TV stations.

The clip of Tucker Carlson’s three-part series on the January 6 insurrection is being called “fucking insane” by fellow never-Trumper Tim Miller, a former GOP strategist.

“I’d like to focus in on the fact that Fox is hosting one of the main architects of the Stop The Steal insurrection Ali Akbar Alexander for this 1/6 special,” Miller adds. “Going full Newsmax.”

Phillip Bump writes, Tucker Carlson made a movie [trying] to prove he’s not a white nationalist:

The trailer starts with a militaristic tattoo on a snare drum. A shot of the Capitol in daylight and then at night, with riot police in the foreground. Then a familiar clip: Officer Michael Byrd’s arms extending from a doorway inside the Capitol building, both hands steadying his firearm. An overdubbed gun shot echoes; we see Ashli Babbitt fall from the window she was climbing through.

On top of this scene, large block text a la Wes Anderson: “The War on Terror,” it reads, and then, over Babbitt’s falling body, “2.0.”

So begins the trailer for what Fox News’s Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night described as a “three-part series” he produced that will be released next month that will run on Fox Nation, the right-wing broadcaster’s streaming service. But it does seem clear what the intent is. Carlson wants to elevate the idea — the surreal idea, the deranged idea — that the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was fomented in whole or in part by the government so that it could crack down on the political right.

He has been cobbling this theory together on his show for months. Soon after President Biden was inaugurated, Carlson interpreted Biden’s inaugural speech comments about targeting white nationalists and domestic extremists as somehow revealing a plan to cast the entirety of the political right as targets of the federal government. Never mind that the Department of Homeland Security had elevated the threat posed by those groups even during the Trump administration; this was somehow Biden trying to use Jan. 6 as a way to imprison his foes.

A few months later, Carlson alleged that the FBI had a hand in starting the violence at the Capitol, an entirely speculative claim for which no credible evidence has emerged. Given the nature of the riot — insufficient law enforcement presence to contain thousands of angry supporters of Donald Trump — it defies logic to suggest that the violence was a function of a handful of agitators as opposed to the collective mentality of the mob. But, of course, this is Tucker Carlson we’re talking about.

Hence the trailer/series. Titled “Patriot Purge,” it presents pretty muddled messaging. The intent of the trailer is crystal clear, mind you. It weaves together violent imagery from the “war on terror” — a person being tortured, Osama bin Laden firing an automatic weapon — with scenes from the Jan. 6 riot in an overdose of adrenaline and fury. The viewer is meant to be furious at Biden, who is seen in a stylized video snippet giving a speech denouncing white supremacists.

But extending the “war on terror” analogy, are we meant to equate the Jan. 6 rioters with bin Laden? To see Sept. 11, 2001, as a false-flag operation; that is, as a government-generated crisis? [9/11 Truther conspiracy theory.]  After all, the trailer ends with a woman suggesting that Jan. 6 was a false flag, and that’s presumably the trigger for the “War on Terror 2.0.” So, by extension, what was 9/11? Showing Biden identifying the enemy stirs up the viewer’s animosity against the president, but it does tend to gloss over the fact that the Justice Department theoretically false-flagging away on Jan. 6 was one that reported to Trump.

The idea seems to be that the original war on terror took an overly broad approach to “terrorism,” which is certainly true, and therefore that the government is now taking an overly broad approach to the white supremacist threat. So what’s a Fox News viewer watching the trailer meant to think of footage of a Jan. rioter flipping off the Capitol? That he’s good? Bad? Unfairly targeted?

The footage of Babbitt is obviously meant to suggest the overbearing hand of state force, but it also serves as a reminder that a lot of people there that day were demonstrably not motivated by FBI provocateurs and that a lot of them committed real violence and demonstrated actual threats.

The trailer does not give the sense that what viewers should expect is a subtle, nuanced examination of the facts. Four interview snippets are shown. In one, for example, a speaker declares that “the left is hunting the right, sticking them in Guantánamo Bay for American citizens, leaving them there to rot.” This is a rather florid way of saying that the Justice Department has arrested a number of people who violated federal law on Jan. 6 and that a fraction of them remain in jail.

The biggest predictor of what to expect, though, comes from two of the other people shown in the trailer.

The first person shown, who says that this theoretical war on terror is “coming after half the country,” is a man named Darren Beattie. Beattie is the one who elevated the FBI-false-flag theory in the first place, earning multiple spots on Carlson’s nightly show to discuss it. But he also has a very direct investment in suggesting that the political right is being unfairly conflated with white nationalists: He worked for Trump until he was fired after it was revealed that he had attended a white nationalist conference. (If you think that you were unfairly targeted for sympathizing with white nationalists, no wonder you might think that everyone else faces the same risk!)

To demonstrate the purported ridiculousness of the “white nationalist” allegation, the trailer also shows a man named Ali Alexander. He says that even he has been called a white nationalist, even though he is not White. (They’ll say it about anyone!)

What is useful to know about Alexander, though, is that he’s an inveterate right-wing opportunist who latched onto the post-election “stop the steal” mantra as a lucrative fundraising gambit. He was central to the creation of a rally scheduled for the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, having previously declared on social media that he was “willing to give his life” for the fight against imaginary voter fraud. There’s not many people on God’s green earth who would benefit more from a redirection of blame for the violence of Jan. 6 to the federal government, so here’s Alexander, popping up from his period of guilty anonymity, to boost Carlson’s point.

That, really, is the point of the trailer. Carlson is sympathetic to Beattie’s argument about conservatives being targeted as racists because the Fox host’s rhetoric and associations with overt white nationalists have made him a focus of similar scrutiny. (For what it’s worth, which is not nothing, white nationalists think he agrees with them.)

Just this week: Neo-Nazi Christopher Cantwell Watched Tucker Carlson And Got Help From A White Supremacist In Prison To Prepare For His Trial In Charlottesville.

If you see yourself as a regular conservative and the world sees you as a white nationalist sympathizer, it makes sense that you might think all conservatives are being targeted along the same lines, even when they’re not. It makes sense that you would try to gin up some sweeping conspiracy in which the left-wing government is trying to paint every modest Republican as a virulent racist. It can be as much about making those Republicans feel targeted as making those racists feel like modest Republicans.

We’ll see what the actual series says. One should not be optimistic that it’s much more than an angry muddle. But if Carlson has demonstrated anything to the world, it’s that angry muddles can get big ratings.

Local Fox News affiliates should refuse to air this Fascist conspiracy theory propaganda.