Tucker Carlson's response to the Buffalo mass shooting was "utterly depraved"

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-05-16/tucker-carlson-tonight-fox-news-buffalo-shooting-response

Two weeks before an 18-year-old mass shooter carried out a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket that killed 10 people after posting a manifesto promoting the "great replacement theory," The New York Times published an investigation into how the Fox News host has made the same theory a "central theme" of his primetime show. "No public figure has promoted replacement theory more loudly or relentlessly than the Fox host Tucker Carlson, who has made elite-led demographic change a central theme of his show since joining Fox’s prime-time lineup in 2016," The Times said in wake of Saturday's tragedy. Yet, as Lorraine Ali says, "during a broadcast of his show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Monday, the Fox News host blamed Saturday’s mass shooting of 13 people in a predominantly Black neighborhood of Buffalo, N.Y. by a radicalized white gunman on the policies of President Joe Biden, the Democratic party and pretty much anyone who‘s called for a stop to the hate speech and racist ideology espoused by the suspect — and Carlson himself. Outcry that Carlson address his part in spreading a xenophobic philosophy known as 'great replacement theory' — a paranoid notion that white, Christian people are being intentionally replaced by people of color, Jews, Muslims and immigrants — was met during Monday’s telecast with no acknowledgement whatsoever of the role Carlson himself has played in energizing white nationalists, but plenty of moaning about who the real victims are in this tragedy: those in the right-wing media and Republican party who were swiftly connected with the horrid ideas in the shooter’s apparent manifesto." Ali adds: "Then, as if uncovering a nefarious plot, he danced around the subject of why the killings in Buffalo received the most attention. Using pretzel logic, he blamed the liberal media for targeting the right with woke politics, thereby inspiring the rise of 'white identity politics.' He didn’t mention gun control, of course, or present any new details about the victims of the Buffalo shooting he criticized the press for ignoring: The only person Carlson went on to name, and talk about at length, was the gunman. Under the circumstances, with the nation reeling from both the general regularity of mass shootings and its plague of racially motivated ones, Carlson’s display may have constituted his lowest point yet — at least in terms of humanity (never to be confused with ratings)."