ANALYSIS – What is wrong with Tucker Carlson? First, he is a Putin apologist. And now, a Nazi one? I may soon have to start a newsletter dedicated just to this question about Carlson’s mental state.
While I still find areas of conservative opinions to agree with Carlson – illegal immigration, the culture wars, Christianity, the threat from the left – his bizarre “right-wing” fringe schtick has gotten very old.
His most recent idiotic nonsense? Fawning over a self-described historian who appears to be a Nazi apologist and Holocaust denier.
This is wild. pic.twitter.com/YwY5Dvqman
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) September 3, 2024
The Daily Beast reported:
Liberals and conservatives alike have turned on Tucker Carlson after controversial podcaster and self-proclaimed historian Darryl Cooper claimed on Carlson’s show that “millions of people ended up dead” in Nazi concentration camps.
Unknown photographer from the Auschwitz Erkennungsdienst. Several sources believe the photographer to have been SS officers Ernst Hoffmann or Bernhard Walter, who ran the Erkennungsdienst., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Cooper also painted U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill as the “chief villain” of World War II.
Carlson said on X that Cooper “may be the best and most honest popular historian in the United States” when posting The Tucker Carlson Show Monday episode, which featured topics like Christianity and authoritarians like Viktor Orbán and Vladimir Putin.
Cooper is a podcaster who hosts the history show Martyr Made.
As Newsweek noted: “Cooper and Carlson discussed the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict, immigration in Europe, the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter, and more in the interview, which lasted over two hours.”
Newsweek added:
The interview has gained 21.3 million views, 37,000 likes, and 10,000 reposts on X and has been criticized by both liberals and conservatives. Former congresswoman Liz Cheney was among those who referred to it as “pro-Nazi propaganda.”
Cooper did provide himself some cover by saying that even though he thought Churchill was the villain, Hitler wasn’t the good guy in his alternate version of reality.
“Yeah, well and the next thought that comes into their head is ‘Oh, you’re saying Churchill was the chief villain therefore his enemies — you know, Adolf Hitler and so forth — were the protagonists, right? They’re the good guys if you think he’s a villain.’ That’s not the case,” said Cooper.
United Nations Information Office, New York, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The backlash continued against Elon Musk. As Newsweek reported:
On September 3, Musk shared a post from Carlson which included his interview with Darryl Cooper, a podcaster who hosts the history show Martyr Made. The pair discussed the Holocaust and events of World War II, with Cooper making comments that have been widely called out for appearing sympathetic towards Hitler.
In the now-deleted post, Musk wrote that the interview was, “Very interesting. Worth watching.” He quickly received severe backlash along with Carlson, as Cooper claimed in the video that the Nazis did not intend to kill millions of people, but that they instead “ended up dead” because Hitler was unprepared for war.
Here is the entire excerpt from the interview, quoted by Mediate, appearing to gloss over the holocaust:
You know, Germany, look, they put themselves into a position in Adolf Hitler’s chiefly responsible for this, but his whole regime is responsible for it, that when they went into the east in 1941, they launched a war where they were completely unprepared to deal with the millions and millions of prisoners of war, of local political prisoners, and so forth that they were going to have to handle. They went in with no plan for that and they just threw these people into camps. And millions of people ended up dead there.
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You know, you have, you have like letters as early as July, August 1941 from commandants of these makeshift camps that they’re setting up for these millions of people who were surrendering or people they’re rounding up and they’re- so it’s two months after, a month or two after Barbarossa was launched, and they’re writing back to the high command in Berlin saying, “We can’t feed these people, we don’t have the food to feed these people.” And one of them actually says ‘Rather than wait for them all to slowly starve this winter, wouldn’t it be more humane to just finish them off quickly now?”
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Somehow, both Cooper and Carlson seem to forget or ignore the fact that Hitler and the Nazis had a detailed master plan to exterminate the Jews and other so-called undesirables.
In a February 26, 1942 letter to Martin Luther, Reinhard Heydrich follows up on the Wannsee Conference by asking Luther for administrative assistance in the implementation of the “Endlösung der Judenfrage” (Final Solution of the Jewish Question).
Blaming poor logistics planning for mass murder and genocide is beyond idiotic. It is offensive and despicable. Carlson should be ashamed. But sadly, he doesn’t seem to have much shame left.
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