Tucker Carlson says it's unfair to call the Portland attacker a white supremacist

Carlson: This is “hardly the behavior of a coherent white supremacist,” but “fake civil rights groups” like the SPLC “jumped onboard immediately”

From the May 30 edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight:

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TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): As you may have heard, over the weekend, a deranged man in the state of Oregon called Jeremy Christian began berating Muslims on a train, and when three men approached to intervene, he stabbed two of them to death. It was an atrocity, but it was only the first of many in the story.

Almost immediately after it happened, the press scrambled to define what exactly had happened. Right wing, white supremacist commits murder, provoked by Trump's climate of hate, or maybe climate of fear, maybe both.

Fake civil rights groups like the Center for Islamic Relations and the Southern Poverty Law Center jumped onboard immediately, blaming President Trump's rhetoric.

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The accused killer was not a Trump voter, he actually backed Jill Stein and Bernie Sanders in the 2016 race and indeed called for violent attacks on Trump supporters during the election. A video from the day before the stabbing shows him denouncing not just Muslims, but also, Jews and Christians. And in a Facebook posting from last June, he attacked Hillary Clinton for allegedly keeping Honduran refugees out of this country. Hardly the behavior of a coherent white supremacist.

At the alt-right rally, supposedly attended in April, he was apparently there to pick fights with everyone, whether they loved trump or hated him. Once you dig a little, you find this guy wasn't a right-winger, but an unstable maniac who hated almost everybody, and maybe inevitably was going to lash out at some point, but don't tell that tot the media, though. Like progressives everywhere, they see racists under every bed.

Related:

Washington Post: ‘Brave and selfless’ Oregon stabbing victims hailed as heroes for standing up to racist rants

Previously:

MSNBC's Ali Velshi honors heroes who died defending girls from an anti-Muslim extremist in Portland

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