Let’s not forget also that two weeks ago Tucker Carlson was laughing about George Soros being mailed a pipe bomb. Don’t you just love how conservatives cry victim – after they get called out for repeatedly victimizing?
A protest by antifascists outside the home of Tucker Carlson this week has generated outrage and scorn throughout media circles from conservative pundits to celebrities like Late Show host Stephen Colbert, but unlike the protest which was peaceful, just last year Carlson promoted a more violent and illegal tactic to counter protests.
An archive.org link to an old Daily Caller article titled “Here’s A Reel Of Cars Plowing Through Protesters Trying To Block The Road” Was published in January 2017 by Mike Raust, who was listed as a Video Editor in his byline. Along with the video, which was a montage of cars doing as the title suggested set to a folksy cover of the 2001 Ludacris hit “Move Bitch,” was a brief description that read, “Here’s a compilation of liberal protesters getting pushed out of the way by cars and trucks. Study the technique; it may prove useful in the next four years. None of these clips are new, but that doesn’t mean they’re not still fresh.”
The article was also published by the Fox News website Fox Nation, curiously on Jan. 28, 2017, the day that thousands protested Donald Trump’s travel ban at international airports. The articles remained on both sites for several months with very little outrage, but when Heather Heyer was killed when a car allegedly driven by one of the neo-Fascist attendees plowed into her and several other counter protesters of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA in August 2017, both Fox and the Daily Caller pulled the article immediately after attention was drawn to the article in the wake of that tragedy.
Carlson, who ironically two weeks ago laughed off a pipe bomb sent to right-wing boogeyman George Soros after Donald Trump and other right-wingers began blaming him for the protests against Brett Kavanaugh and then the migrant caravan, regularly touts positions on his television show that is held by neo-Fascists to the point that he has been accused of being a White nationalist. He has also hosted neo-Fascists like Joey Gibson of Patriot Prayer and Stephen “Tommy Robinson” Yaxley-Lennon, the founder of the English Defence League, painting them as victims of either antifa or the legal system because of their activities which has included attacking and assaulting protesters opposing them and others. Yaxley-Lennon was arrested for breach of peace in May when he stood outside a courthouse live streaming and reading out the names of defendants’ in a rape trial and the charges they were accused of—some incorrect—as they arrived at the court, which was seen as potentially prejudicing a criminal case.
Released on bail in August, Yaxley-Lennon is planning an international speaking tour pending the outcome of his case, and will be joined by Gavin McInnes, the founder of the neo-Fascist group Proud Boys, a who have come under fire after several of their members were arrested for their participation in a brawl outside a Republican Club event in Manhattan where McInnes spoke. Carlson famously posed in a picture with Presidential Advisor Roger Stone, who has used the Proud Boys as security at events and has been initiated into the group.
Police are investigating the protest outside Carlson’s home.
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