(Video: Fox News)
Tucker Carlson set the record straight Tuesday after former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) falsely attributed a quote to the Fox News host and later doubled down on his “satire” defaming Carlson as a supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin with his “manufactured lie.”
Referring to Walsh as a “political extremist,” the host asserted on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” “Walsh is known for his willingness to say anything that might help the Democratic Party whether or not it’s true.” In this instance, the former Illinois lawmaker chose to react to developing news about reported atrocities that had taken place in the town of Bucha near Kyiv, Ukraine.
“Well, last night he lived up to his reputation,” Carlson added before presenting a tweet that Walsh had evidently published Monday morning.
.@TuckerCarlson tonight: “What if these bodies of tortured, dead civilians were staged? What if they’re fake? What if the Ukrainian military killed them & then blamed Russia? I’m not saying any of this is true, I’m just asking the questions. Why can’t we ask these questions?”
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) April 4, 2022
Walsh wrote, “@TuckerCarlson tonight: ‘What if these bodies of tortured, dead civilians were staged? What if they’re fake? What if the Ukrainian military killed them & then blamed Russia? I’m not saying any of this is true, I’m just asking the questions. Why can’t we ask these questions?'”
“It’s completely made up – utterly,” Carlson explained, “We didn’t say that, we didn’t say anything like that. We didn’t even address the topic on the air in any way. So everything about Joe Walsh’s tweet is a manufactured lie. It’s pure disinformation as they now say.”
However, those facts didn’t stop the lies from spreading. Carlson pointed out that Twitter did not force Walsh to delete the tweet, or any of the follow-up tweets perpetuating the lie like Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) who, in addition to sharing a video, wrote, “I gotta say, if @TuckerCarlson is not a Russian asset he should be, he is absolutely over-qualified for the job. Is he a Russian asset? I don’t know, just asking questions.”
On a positive note, journalists like Glenn Greenwald saw fit to step in and correct the matter, calling out Kinzinger for being “incomparably dumb and unhinged.”
The incomparably dumb and unhinged @AdamKinzinger took a fabricated quote from long-time-deadbeat-dad-turned-liberal-hero @WalshFreedom, believed it true, and used it to declare a journalist a “Russian asset” – just as hordes of dumb liberals did with @TheRickWilson‘s fake quote. pic.twitter.com/vhRaKDy6wE
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 5, 2022
Carlson made clear he could have done the same, “but we couldn’t do that because we’ve been locked out of our own Twitter account for more than a week. Why? Because we suggested that [President] Joe Biden’s most famous admiral, Rachel Levine, was born a man, which is actually true. But Twitter banned us anyway. See how that works? You take one side off the field so the other side wins.”
Even that simple fact, easily verifiable, Walsh decried as a lie until he was later corrected by someone on Twitter, after he wrote, “Why did @TuckerCarlson lie to his audience about my tweet? Why did Tucker lie and tell his audience he is currently suspended from Twitter? He’s not. Why is Tucker so easily triggered? Why DOES Tucker root for Putin? Hey, I’m just asking questions.”
Of course, Walsh isn’t “just asking questions.” He’s engaged in a smear campaign designed to perpetuate a narrative. His zealotry is so all-consuming that he even went after Mediaite which offered him a chance to counter Carlson’s defense.
Three points @Mediaite:
1. It wasn’t a fake quote. I was predicting what @TuckerCarlson would say on that night’s show.
2. Tucker can dish it out, but he can’t take it.
3. Tucker admitted he’s “rooting for Putin.” That’s the main point here. https://t.co/WnsdCaymFu— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) April 6, 2022
Apparently being given a platform to state that his “fake quote” was, “exactly the kind of sh*t Tucker always says,” wasn’t enough for Walsh. Simply allowing the former lawmaker to say, “He accuses me of lying, then he lies about my tweet making it seem like I tweeted after his show,” didn’t further the desired narrative that Walsh attempted to peddle.
That is why, Carlson pointed out, it’s important to address these issues on social media. Greenwald rightly pointed out the danger of this and how it wouldn’t be as readily perpetuated by the opposition.
Given the claim is that fake quotes that go viral are just “satire” — even though hundreds of thousands of dumb liberals clearly believe them — make up some twisted quotes and attribute them to Joy Reid, Pete Buttigieg, or Anderson Cooper and see if you get away with it.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 5, 2022
“As a result, our social media platforms are dominated by unscrupulous liars like Joe Walsh,” Carlson surmised in fashion with Greenwald’s tweet. Controlling the narrative like this is not by accident, “that’s a reelection strategy.”
Ultimately, the Fox News host concluded, “If you don’t restore free speech to social media, it doesn’t matter who you vote for.”
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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25 thoughts on “Joe Walsh creates fake Tucker quote in tweet, has absurd excuse after Carlson confronts him on TV”
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Illinois is not part of the Republic!
Can’t “journalists” etc be sued for intentionally putting such false statements out there and attributing them to a person who never said that?
Walsh claims that it wasn’t a “fake quote” but instead a PREDICTION of what he assumed Carlson might say that night. Hey, d***head, a QUOTE is an exact reference to what someone ACTUALLY SAID, and you are a doubly lying ass when you double down and deny it was a “fake quote.”
Wow Twitter is so full of morons, it is like they multiple like rabbits.
It would seem one of the main attribute to be a democRat is being an unscrupulous liar.
“…So everything about Joe Walsh’s tweet is a manufactured lie. It’s pure disinformation as they now say.” and that is the truth. Shameless democrat.
He said he was predicting what Tucker would say on his show. LOL I wonder what their new pants budget is because with the lies they tell they must be replacing the pants on fire every few days or hours in Kissinger’s case.
Democrats are masters of misinformation and disinformation. Witness the whole COVID fiasco.
With this generation’s attention span of a gnat, the point is to say something, anything, the bigger the lie the better. After that it’s out there to be quoted, supported, and believed because it supports what they already want to believe. No amount of denying it, no amount of disproving it, no number of insincere apologies will make them change their minds. They’d have to be able to actually think for that to happen.
Someone suggested we start posting crazy made up stuff claiming they said it. Like Joy Reid or Walsh or Kissinger. See how fast they freak out.
I know that Tucker is a public figure but there should be some legal remedy for slander of this type.
One thousand thumbs up!!!!!
I like the Joe Walsh that sings/plays guitar, this one, not so much.
Another POS Joe who almost wound up in jail for not paying child support.
To be fair, Twitter, Facebook and others are just doing their job to the best of their abilities.
It is the media’s charge to distribute state approved propaganda, which they do verbatim quite well.
It is then the charge of social media to silence any voice of dissent, to conceal facts and obfuscate truth.
All need to understand that such is necessary to facilitate the “Great Reset”, as a means to usher in the “New World Order” and absolute control, likewise the reason they are now creating the “World Pandemic Constitution”, or the “Constitution of the World Health Organization”, the title is still a work in progress, which would prevail over the US Constitution, as it would any other signatory nation.
Suffice to say, they have goals and perhaps we should better strive to be more compassionate, more understanding of their efforts to enslave us all, after all, they are just doing their job, just following orders! Where have we heard that before, oh yeah, Nuremberg!
“I gotta say, if @TuckerCarlson is not a Russian asset he should be…”
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Same thing they did to Trump for 4 years. Is it safe to say that they fear Tucker Carlsen as much as Trump now?
Yeah, the truth always scares the crap out of the democrats (or is that “democratics”?)
No, it’s actually the “DemoKKKraps”.
KAG Trump 2024 (or sooner)
Do like Nicholas Sandman and Kyle Rittenhouse and sue the liars!
You have to ask, and Tucker should, why are the elite GOP cozying up to Biden in his adoration of Ukraine? It was proven a while back that neither Russia nor Ukraine has any ethical high points going for them, but Ukraine has the reputation of being the money launderer for nearly all the deep state. So, there’s that. Tell us, Walsh, why is Biden so brilliant right now?
Is there a possible lawsuit in this?
DemocRATS are low-rent, soulless pieces of s***. And if you vote for them, you’re an enemy of this country who is going to be hunted down once the libs instigate the next Civil War.
Let’s see what Elon has to say about this and thousands of instances like this where Twitter blatantly restricts free speech and enables hate speech and falsehoods. #twitterceomustgo
Presenting your prediction of what someone will say as if he already said it is a fake quote. [sarc] Nice save [/sarc]! Good grief, even if we pretend it was a reasonable prediction, you’d hope this guy would have something better to defend himself with.
On the other hand, why worry about getting something better? The old saying, “You can fool all the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time”, isn’t applicable. If you can fool enough of your voting block most of the time, you have it made. And anyone who believes that my pasty face makes me racist, or that feminism can tolerate transgenderism, or that California’s an environmentally friendly state, will probably believe anything if the right person hunkers down on that hill to defend it. They might be even more convinced if the sap dies on that hill, which I hope doesn’t happen for our sake.
Oh….that Joe Walsh. Insignificant putz.
Anyone remember the James Gang with the real Joe Walsh ?