After Scathing Letter Chuck Schumer Refuses To Debate Carlson
In response to the shooting in Buffalo Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer sent a scathing letter to Fox News.
“According to one measure by the New York Times, Fox’s top political pundit, Tucker Carlson, has spewed rhetoric that echoes replacement theory at least 400 hundred, 400 hundred times on his show since 2016. 400 times,” Schumer said during a speech on the Senate floor. “This is a poison that is being spread by one of the largest news organizations in our country.”
Chuck Schumer calls out Tucker Carlson and Fox News for “spewing” the “poison” of rhetoric echoing replacement theory pic.twitter.com/lRIhgThWJj
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 16, 2022
“The message is not always explicit, but we’ve all seen the pattern,” Schumer said. “Every time MAGA Republicans or pundits vilify wrongly immigrants and call them ‘invaders,’ every time they falsely claim that millions of undocumented people cast ballots in our elections, every time loud, bigoted voices bemoan the disintegration of a ‘classic America’ the subtext is clear,” Schumer said. “These hard-right MAGA Republicans argue that people of color in minority communities are somehow posing a threat, a threat to the American way of life.”
In his letter to Fox Schumer wrote that Fox News executives must “immediately cease the reckless amplification of the so-called ‘great replacement’ theory” on the network’s broadcasts.”
In a letter to Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, Fox CEO Suzanne Scott, and Fox president Jay Wallace, Chuck Schumer says he urges Fox News to “immediately cease the reckless amplification of the so-called ‘Great Replacement’ theory…” pic.twitter.com/9FbUYrMtBi
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 17, 2022
In response to the letter, Carlson invited Schumer on his show but the Senate Majority leader declined.
.@TuckerCarlson invited me on his show tonight to debate the letter I sent to @FoxNews.
I’m declining. Tucker Carlson needs to stop promoting the racist, dangerous ‘Replacement Theory’.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) May 17, 2022
Schumer further amped up the rhetoric…
Tucker Carlson and Fox News promote dangerous, racist, white supremacist lies and conspiracy theories.
That’s cowardly.
Amplifying racist lies and propaganda is simply not debatable.
It should have no place in America.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) May 17, 2022
So you’re scared of debate. https://t.co/g8500qD2Ni
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) May 17, 2022
