MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan Trashes Tucker Carlson For Lying And Then Lying About Lying

MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan wasn’t thrilled with Ben Smith’s interview with Fox Information host Tucker Carlson.

Hasan stated on Sunday evening there’s no level in interviewing a “bad-faith actor” as “it doesn’t obtain something aside from give them one other platform from which to spout their bile and normalize their awfulness.”

Hasan famous a few of Smith’s missed alternatives to carry Carlson to account, particularly given how the Fox Information host has attracted help from white supremacists together with his extremist views.

And he identified that Carlson had the “audacity and shamelessness” to assert he’s by no means lied on his present.

Carlson ― who has prior to now admitted to mendacity ― requested Smith to seek out an instance of him mendacity.

“It’s truly not that arduous, as a result of there are such a lot of,” Hasan stated ― and he introduced receipts:

So keep in mind that interview final week that Ben Smith did with Tucker Carlson?

Tonight on the @MehdiHasanShow, I did a deep-dive into Carlson's solutions (evasions?), his precise views, and what I might have requested him had I executed the interview.

Watch/share:pic.twitter.com/19YQBxYySw

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) July 11, 2022