Stephen Colbert returned to “The Late Present” Monday night time after a bout of COVID-19 and jumped proper again into the fray, suggesting Fox Information host Tucker Carlson ought to in all probability be involved that his “browser historical past matches that of a mass assassin.”
First, the comic expressed his unhappiness over the mass taking pictures in Buffalo, New York on Saturday that left 10 folks lifeless, most of them Black. A white, 18-year-old male named Payton Gendron is accused of concentrating on the predominantly Black neighborhood in what authorities mentioned was a hate crime.
In on-line writings purportedly written by Gendron, he embraced the racist “alternative” conspiracy concept, which holds that white People are being changed by folks of shade. The ideology is a typical theme on Carlson’s Fox Information present.
According to The New York Times, Carlson’s “producers generally scoured his present’s uncooked materials from the identical darkish corners of the web that the Buffalo suspect did.” Different mass killers, together with the shooter who killed 23 folks in El Paso, Texas in 2019 and the New Zealand gunman who slayed 51 folks earlier that yr, have additionally espoused the racist alternative ideology.
Nevertheless, Colbert mentioned that doesn’t imply Tucker’s liable for what occurred.
“However I’d hope it could give anybody pause to seek out out that their browser historical past matches that of a mass assassin,” he mentioned. “If I discovered that Jeffrey Dahmer was actually into the ‘Lord of the Rings,’ I would change over to the Narnia stuff.”
Watch his full monologue under:
