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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 05:17 PM Mar 2014

Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones: Democratic Party now the KKK, but ‘with minorities’

By David Ferguson
Saturday, March 1, 2014 14:14 EST

Fox News host Tucker Carlson appeared on right-wing conspiracy enthusiast Alex Jones’ Internet-only radio show on Friday. The two men shared their paranoia about Latino immigrants, dubbing them the new Ku Klux Klan.

“I’ve looked at the Democratic Party and I’ve looked at the demographics,” said Jones. “Now, I’ve always been non-partisan, but you can see they’re going to get rid of the Republican Party right now. They are making it commit suicide and the Republicans are absolutely helping in this.”

Jones then told his version of the history of the Republicans’ “Southern Strategy,” in which segregationists abandoned the Democratic Party for the Republicans during racial integration. Republicans used the influx of racist whites to gain electoral dominance in the former slave states.

“And the Democrats went from being the Ku Klux Klan party on race with Sen. [John] Byrd [D-VA] and all of them,” Jones said, “to literally going, ‘Okay, we’re gonna go race politic with the minorities, make them the majority.’”

As a result, he said, “we as Republicans, as Libertarians, or as white people” are made to feel guilty and “beat ourselves with whips on the head” for being white.

“And meanwhile, the Democrats have just recreated the Ku Klux Klan movement,” he continued, “but they’ve done it with minorities.”

“Yeah, there’s a lot of truth in that,” agreed Carlson. “I wish there weren’t. I mean, there’s no question that the country is more race conscious than it was when I was a kid. I thought we were moving away…I mean, I hate segregation.”

“Clarence Thomas said that and got demonized last week,” Jones said.

“It’s just factually true,” Carlson said.

Watch video about this story, embedded below:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/01/tucker-carlson-and-alex-jones-u-s-is-more-race-conscious-now-than-during-segregation/

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Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones: Democratic Party now the KKK, but ‘with minorities’ (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2014 OP
It's strange how Alex Jones was considered a fringe lunatic in the Bush years CJCRANE Mar 2014 #1
just get him to tell these guests about how he thinks GWB took down the Towers on 9/11 TeamPooka Mar 2014 #17
He used to have a big following here as well in the old days Blue_Tires Mar 2014 #24
It's a Fox freak show now. L0oniX Mar 2014 #25
And this is but one more reason why.... Behind the Aegis Mar 2014 #2
But his ideas are mainstream on the right now... CJCRANE Mar 2014 #4
I understand the point of the article. Behind the Aegis Mar 2014 #6
I bit my lip and clenched my fist whenever someone dragged this nutjob's "theories" out. While I adirondacker Mar 2014 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author DonViejo Mar 2014 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author Behind the Aegis Mar 2014 #19
My apologies; I misunderstood/read... DonViejo Mar 2014 #20
All is well, I have deleted mine as well. Behind the Aegis Mar 2014 #21
Now there is a pair to draw to. old guy Mar 2014 #3
Tucker's bow tie cut off blood flow to his brain for too long. House of Roberts Mar 2014 #5
That bow tie is actually a special antenna that receives reptilian orders from the planet X. L0oniX Mar 2014 #23
I met this guy on line... yuiyoshida Mar 2014 #7
I thought it was Bush who started the FEMA camps YarnAddict Mar 2014 #12
Maybe they are so secret yuiyoshida Mar 2014 #28
Alex Jones has always claimed to be non-partisan, but it's clear LuvNewcastle Mar 2014 #8
Non-partisan? HAH! He said right out loud there that he is a Republican. tblue37 Mar 2014 #14
Ummm ... the KKK hates all minorities ... so how is that supposed to work ? eppur_se_muova Mar 2014 #10
Even bizarro superman is confused. Rex Mar 2014 #11
They projecting much? Katashi_itto Mar 2014 #15
Are these nutters joking? AverageJoe90 Mar 2014 #16
I believe Alex Jones is the perfect person for Tucker Carlson to talk to Johonny Mar 2014 #18
That bow tie wearing asscarrot hasn't been worth listening to since Stewart destroyed him. L0oniX Mar 2014 #22
and he was worth listening to before for what reason? ibegurpard Mar 2014 #26
It's all starting to make sense now Major Nikon Mar 2014 #27

CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)
1. It's strange how Alex Jones was considered a fringe lunatic in the Bush years
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 05:21 PM
Mar 2014

and dubbed an "anarchist" by Fox News...

but now conservatives love him and his conspiracy theories!



TeamPooka

(24,155 posts)
17. just get him to tell these guests about how he thinks GWB took down the Towers on 9/11
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 09:09 PM
Mar 2014

and make them agree then

Behind the Aegis

(53,823 posts)
2. And this is but one more reason why....
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 05:21 PM
Mar 2014

...anyone posting something from Alex Jones, which is not done as a form of ridicule, should be thrown off this site!

CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)
4. But his ideas are mainstream on the right now...
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 05:23 PM
Mar 2014

that's the point.

In the Bush era he was a pariah (to both parties) but now the RW suddenly likes him and his crazy rants.

Behind the Aegis

(53,823 posts)
6. I understand the point of the article.
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 05:28 PM
Mar 2014

My point, however, is this asshole gets an audience with liberals, including this site. People post his crap here in earnest. He is a bigot and his lobotomized brain is rotted to the core. He nor his ideas should have a platform at this site.

adirondacker

(2,921 posts)
13. I bit my lip and clenched my fist whenever someone dragged this nutjob's "theories" out. While I
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 07:42 PM
Mar 2014

remain a skeptic on what some people knew about 911, this fucker took a lot of doubters aboard the crazy train. Glad to see the Opportunistic fuckwad found the right company.

Response to Behind the Aegis (Reply #2)

Response to DonViejo (Reply #9)

Behind the Aegis

(53,823 posts)
21. All is well, I have deleted mine as well.
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 10:17 PM
Mar 2014

Keep those gay articles coming! (See, I do know who you are! )

House of Roberts

(5,120 posts)
5. Tucker's bow tie cut off blood flow to his brain for too long.
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 05:27 PM
Mar 2014

Jones must have practiced erotic asphyxiation to get like this.

yuiyoshida

(41,759 posts)
7. I met this guy on line...
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 05:32 PM
Mar 2014

He was a rabid Alex Jones conspiracy Nut. He was talking about secret OBAMA FEMA CAMPS..that were already in place, and that here were special camps for Christians only, because Obama was really a Muslim.

I was like "What the Heck are you talking about!?" No, actually I didn't say that, but I loved that Obama did in that video posted. I left the chat room, because I didn't want to hear him spewing his garbage any further.

 

YarnAddict

(1,850 posts)
12. I thought it was Bush who started the FEMA camps
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 07:32 PM
Mar 2014

Guess I've gotten my conspiracy theories mixed up.

LuvNewcastle

(16,820 posts)
8. Alex Jones has always claimed to be non-partisan, but it's clear
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 05:50 PM
Mar 2014

where his sympathies lie. All he wants is a purer Republican Party. He's basically a teabagger with more conspiracy theories. How absolutely twisted does one have to be to compare the Democrats to the KKK? Sure, the Democrats are the KKK without all the race-baiters, or the cross-burnings, or the murders, or the sheets. He thinks he's enlightened because Justice Uncle Thomas is one of the great thinkers he admires. Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson have nothing to give America but more hate and dissembling.

tblue37

(64,979 posts)
14. Non-partisan? HAH! He said right out loud there that he is a Republican.
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 08:01 PM
Mar 2014
"As a result, he said, “we as Republicans, as Libertarians, or as white people” are made to feel guilty and “beat ourselves with whips on the head” for being white <emphasis added>."


Apaprently he realized his slip and clumsily tried to undo it by pretending that he was merely making a list of "threatened" groups, but that he himself belongs only to two of the groups in the list--but he came right out and said, without thinking first, "we as Republicans"!

eppur_se_muova

(36,227 posts)
10. Ummm ... the KKK hates all minorities ... so how is that supposed to work ?
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 06:22 PM
Mar 2014

Oh, it's something a conservative said. I'm sorry, I thought it was supposed to make sense. My bad.

Johonny

(20,681 posts)
18. I believe Alex Jones is the perfect person for Tucker Carlson to talk to
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 09:13 PM
Mar 2014

their firm grasp of make believe world is about equal. No doubt they will play dress up and pretend to be oppressed by the same scary monsters that live under the bed together. Meanwhile the grown ups are free to ignore even trying to be interested in their opinion.

 

L0oniX

(31,493 posts)
22. That bow tie wearing asscarrot hasn't been worth listening to since Stewart destroyed him.
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 10:20 PM
Mar 2014

Fox is his last refuge because any half ass legit news network would never consider contracting with him again.

ibegurpard

(16,685 posts)
26. and he was worth listening to before for what reason?
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 11:48 PM
Mar 2014

I've always want to punch his smarmy face in.

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