Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke lashed out after Fox News anchor Shepard Smith offered a rebuke of Tucker Carlson’s assertion that concerns about white supremacy are a “hoax,” a claim that Duke had earlier praised.
On Tuesday night, Carlson delivered a rant in which he claimed that media coverage of white supremacy is a “hoax,” and that white supremacy itself is “actually not a real problem in America” — just days after that “hoax” killed 22 people in El Paso, Texas and wounded dozens more.
Duke is an avowed fan of Carlson’s — he has frequently praised Carlson, and has called him a “hero” in the past — and expressed enthusiastic support for Carlson’s rant, tweeting “Tucker is RIGHT! White Supremacy is a ZioMedia Conspiracy Theory! The term is itself a lie. Millions of White activists are NOT “supremacists” We seek NOT to oppress or destroy any race! Human Rights for all – EVEN FOR WHITE PEOPLE! Stop antiWhite racism!”
But then on Wednesday, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith delivered a not-so-veiled rebuke of Carlson’s view, paraphrasing a Joe Biden speech by telling his audience that “white nationalism is real, that white nationalism is on the rise, and that white nationalism is without question a very serious problem in America.”
Smith’s comments did not go over well with Duke, who linked to our article and rage-tweeted “Fox Too !!! I am a White human rights activist. ‘White Supremacism’ is a lie, a N word for White people who simply defend their Human Rights from the Haters media and politics who intentionally promote ethnic cleansing of white people in the EU and USA!”
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Smith’s acknowledgement of white supremacy as a “very serious problem in America” may have sent Duke into an illiterate rage at Fox News, but he can take comfort in the fact that Tucker Carlson still works there.
*story by Mediate