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Tucker Carlson with Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch

Molly Butler / Media Matters

Tucker Carlson’s latest endorsement of “replacement theory” proves that Lachlan Murdoch is complicit

Written by Nikki McCann Ramirez

Published 04/22/21 9:50 AM EDT

In a letter to the Anti-Defamation League on April 11, Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch claimed that Tucker Carlson never actually endorsed the so-called “great replacement theory” on Fox’s air on April 8. This claim was transparently specious if you looked at the transcript of Carlson’s remarks.

Carlson has now proved that Murdoch is complicit.

The Fox host once again explicitly reiterated his belief in the “great replacement” immigration conspiracy theory on April 21, this time connecting it to a call for action by conservatives.

During the April 21 episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson once again argued that “Democrats are using mass immigration to transform the country, to change who votes, so they can control who wins.”

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From the April 21, 2021, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight 

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Well, Ted Lieu is a member of Congress, he's a Democrat. He represents the state of California. He's incredibly smart, went to Stanford and Georgetown.

...

With that in mind, we wanted to bring you one of his recent pronouncements. This is a tweet and it's in response to one of his colleagues, the Congressman Scott Perry.

Now, Perry was making an argument we have often made, because it's true -- and that is that Democrats are using mass immigration to transform the country, to change who votes, so they can control who wins.

Ted Lieu was very annoyed that Scott Perry said this. And so, he sent the following tweet, and he was clearly enraged as he did, quote, “Dear Scott Perry, native-born Americans like you are no more American, and no less American, than an immigrant like me." Good point, we agree with that.

And then, he said this: “And with every passing year, there will be more people who look like me in the United States. You can't stop it. So take your racist replacement theory and shove it."

In other words, you're being replaced, and there's nothing you can do about it. So, shut up.

Carlson then tried to tie his fearmongering of rapid immigrant-induced change into a call to action for conservatives, airing a clip from his new Fox Nation show Tucker Carlson Today featuring the Claremont Institute’s Glenn Ellmers.

In the video, Ellmers discussed a recent essay he wrote, arguing that conservatives need to “think as revolutionaries or maybe, if you look at it in a different way, counterrevolutionaries, to bring back the stuff that’s lost.” He also said that the Declaration of Independence says “if the people decide that the government is no longer protecting their rights, they have both a right and a duty … to alter or abolish that government and replace it with something they think will serve what the declaration calls their safety and happiness.”

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From the April 21, 2021, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight

Of course Ellmers’ call to revolutionary action would appeal to Carlson, who has built himself into Fox’s poster child on a diet of excusing and egging on vigilantes so long as it suits his own worldview. He’s wondered aloud why anyone would stand for a migrant invasion he views as a great replacement, attempted to rewrite the history of the January 6 attack on the Capitol building, and defended Kyle Rittenhouse for shooting counterprotesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

The Anti-Defamation League called for advertisers to boycott Carlson following his endorsement of the great replacement conspiracy theory. Media Matters has launched the #UnFoxMyCableBox effort to empower people to ask their cable news providers to stop forcing them to subsidize Fox News’ bigotry and lies.

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