MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Wednesday defined why he doesn’t purchase Tucker Carlson’s obvious soul-searching in a newly unearthed textual content message wherein the previous Fox Information host mentioned three white males attacking an “Antifa child” have been “dishonorable” as a result of it’s “not how white males struggle.”
Within the message, Carlson additionally confessed that whereas watching footage of the beating he wished the child to be killed. However he then claimed an “alarm went off” in his mind. “I ought to do not forget that someplace someone in all probability loves this child, and could be crushed if he was killed,” he wrote. “If I don’t care about these issues, if I cut back individuals to their politics, how am I higher than he's?”
O’Donnell referred to as Carlson’s, “How am I higher than he's?” query, “his model of white supremacist introspection.”
“He means: ‘I'm higher than he's.’ And that's Tucker Carlson’s right-wing, non secular perception in regards to the world. Posed with pretend introspection as a query,” O’Donnell added.
Fox Information introduced it had parted methods with Carlson final week in what a number of media shops reported was a firing.
Some experiences instructed the racist textual content led to his departure, though O’Donnell insisted there “should be extra,” contemplating Carlson’s lengthy historical past of constructing offensive, racist and xenophobic feedback on the air.
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