Tucker Carlson called a journalist “stupid” and unleashed on the ABC during an extraordinary rant at the Australian Freedom Conference.
The former Fox News host launched a blistering attack on the AAP reporter on Tuesday after she asked him for clarification on his Great Replacement Theory.
He said Carlson had spoken on his show about how Australians, Americans and Europeans were being replaced by non-white immigrants “up to 4,000 times.”
The American anti-woke commentator claimed he had “never said white people are being replaced, not once,” adding “if you think that’s racist, that’s your problem.”
The journalist suggested that theories such as the Great Replacement Theory had inspired a racially motivated mass shooting that left 10 dead in Buffalo, New York, in 2023.
‘Oh God! Come on!’ Carlson responded.
‘How do they get such stupid people in the media? I guess it doesn’t pay well.
‘Look, I’m sorry, I’ve lived too long among people like you. I don’t want to call you stupid; Maybe you’re just pretending to be. But I am totally against violence.
Tucker Carlson branded a woman outed as “stupid” and unleashed on the ABC during an extraordinary rant at the Australian Freedom Conference on Tuesday (pictured).
‘I am totally against the war in Ukraine, for example, which you undoubtedly support and, like all obedient liberals, support more killings. No. In fact, I hate mass shootings.
‘Nothing I said would inspire anything. My opinions are not intolerant against any group. They are honest.
‘They are factual. That’s not hate; that’s reality. My opinions stem from my deep concern for the American people.
‘Americans don’t have children because they can’t afford it and no one in charge cares.
‘So that’s my position. That doesn’t inspire mass shootings. How dare you try to link me to a lunatic who murdered people? How dare you, really?
The journalist suggested that Carlson therefore supported gun control.
‘That?! I thought he couldn’t be any dumber, but he was,” she replied.
‘No, I do not support disarming law-abiding people so that they cannot defend themselves, so the government has a monopoly on violence. I do not think.
First of all, in my country that is illegal, as you know. But also, it should be illegal in all countries.
‘A sovereign person has the right to defend himself and his family, period. That being said, I am opposed to harming anyone, anyone.
Carlson confronted an AAP journalist at the Australian Freedom Conference (pictured)
Tucker Carlson accused the ABC of being “corrupt” during a fiery rant in Canberra on Tuesday.
The journalist asked if Carlson felt any responsibility for hate crimes in the United States.
‘Sorry, I’m trying to be charitable. I’m trying to be charitable. I thought, maybe you’re just pretending to be dumb. Now I don’t think it’s an act,’ he replied.
‘I love it. Just sorry. I mean, because I came here and the country is incredibly beautiful, and the people are so happy and fun and cool and smart. I think their means have to be better than ours.
‘It can’t just be a bunch of neutered robots reading the boss’s questions and then it turns out to be exactly the same. Maybe even a little sillier.
The commentator answered questions from journalists after giving a speech at the Australian Freedom Conference held at the Hyatt Hotel in Canberra on Tuesday.
Carlson said he “resented” how media organizations were aligning themselves with their governments before targeting the ABC.
“It’s a perfect reversal of what you’re supposed to do,” he said.
‘If you are a journalist, your job is to challenge power on behalf of the powerless, not to align yourself with the powerful against the powerless.
And that is precisely what you have done. Your ABCs this morning in my hotel room, before looking for a barf bag.
“It was one of the most grotesque… I couldn’t even believe it was real.”
Carlson was invited to the Australian Freedom Conference by mining billionaire Clive Palmer (the pair are pictured ahead of their cross-country speaking tour).
Carlson said he sympathized with people “who work for these companies that are really corrupt” but who have “kids and a mortgage.”
“I get it, I’ve been there,” he told the crowd.
“But let’s be honest, everyone else knows what it is, everyone knows how corrupt you are, and that’s why there’s a reason they despise you.”
Carlson is currently on a speaking tour of Australia and attended the Australian Freedom Conference at the invitation of mining billionaire Clive Palmer.
The conference was attended by former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce, coalition senators Matt Canavan and One Nation’s Alex Antic and Malcolm Roberts.