Tucker Carlson says white people are victims of “racial hatred” amid coverage of Tyre Nichols killing

Carlson: “There is a highly aggressive propaganda campaign underway tonight, designed to manipulate you and using the sad death of a young man in Memphis to do it”

Video file

Citation From the January 27, 2023, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): So, whatever you think of them, white people did not play any role in this particular tragedy. Whatever this story may be about, it's not about racial bias. Any honest person could see that immediately. But you would never know it from watching the so-called news coverage of this tape today. The only person whose race most media outlets identified was the victim. "Another unarmed black man murdered by the police," they said.

Moments ago on MSNBC, they just described what you just saw as white supremacy. Really? How? CNN's Van Jones did acknowledge that the police who hit Tyre Nichols were black, but, "they might still have been driven by racism." Van Jones didn't take the time to explain how. It was a lie, of course.

They're all lying, and Joe Biden himself, the president of the United States, swiftly reinforced that lie. Referring to an event in which every single participant -- and their supervisors -- was the same color, Biden lectured the United States that "fatal encounters with law enforcement have disparately impacted black and brown people."

So the one thing we know, no matter how you feel about the video, most people don't think that's right. But the one thing we know for sure is that there is a highly aggressive propaganda campaign underway tonight, designed to manipulate you, and using the sad death of a young man in Memphis to do it. That propaganda campaign, like all propaganda campaigns, is, by definition, dishonest.

But it's more than that. It's worse than that. This is yet another attempt by our leaders of our country to inflame racial hatred in the United States.