[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 120 (Wednesday, July 20, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3505-S3506]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                             Tucker Carlson

  Mr. President, finally, on Tucker Carlson, FOX News. Last night, FOX

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News host Tucker Carlson began his prime time show with another 
deranged rant on the conspiracy theory known as the ``great 
replacement.'' This racist theory, which asserts that a conspiracy 
exists to replace White Americans with immigrants and people of color, 
motivated a White supremacist to gun down 10 Black Americans in a 
grocery store in my home State of New York, in Buffalo, just over 2 
months ago.
  Here is what Mr. Carlson said last night, among many deranged things. 
These are his words:

       Sometime around 1965, our leaders stopped trying to make 
     the United States a hospitable place for American citizens, 
     their constituents, to have their own families. . . . They 
     just imported new people. That's literally what happened.

  Can you believe someone said that on a national network and the 
network does nothing about it?
  There is only one way to describe what Mr. Carlson is doing: He is 
stoking racial resentment among his viewers. It is deranged. It is 
dangerous. It is racist.
  Not long ago, views like ``replacement theory'' were only found in 
the darkest places in disturbed minds. Now someone as prominent as 
Carlson is spreading night after night to an audience that often tops 3 
million viewers. And it is not an isolated incident. According to one 
measure by the New York Times, Mr. Carlson has spewed rhetoric that 
echoes ``replacement theory'' at least 400 times on his show since 
2016--400 times. This is not a one-off, what he just did last night.
  The more that MAGA radicals like Carlson spread ``replacement 
theory,'' it is not out of the question that racially motivated 
violence will further ignite the country. FOX News should be ashamed 
that they are enabling these racist views and giving them an enormous 
platform on their network. It is dangerous and un-American for one of 
the biggest news networks in the world to amplify conspiracy theories 
that are eerily similar to those cited by the Buffalo shooter.
  I urge Carlson to stop spreading ``replacement theory'' or else risk 
seeing more tragedies like the one we saw in Buffalo last month.
  I yield the floor.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.