Posted on 10/30/2025 4:33:23 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Huckabee: 'Wasn’t aware Tucker despises me, I get that a lot from people not familiar with the Bible'
Former Fox News host and analyst Tucker Carlson continued his descent into rank antisemitism on Tuesday, publishing an interview with far-right podcaster Nick Fuentes, who has engaged in open holocaust denial and praised Hitler in the past.
Despite former disagreements between them, Carlson and Fuentes bonded over their shared suspicion of “these Jews,” as well as their distaste for Christian Zionism and its supporters among the Republican Party.
The self-identified lapsed Episcopalian Carlson lauded Fuentes for his criticism of Israel and U.S. support for it, “because it’s insane and it hurts us. We get nothing out of it. I completely agree with you there.”
He went on to blast Christian Zionists who he said were “seized by this brain virus,” listing figures like Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz, John Bolton, George W. Bush and Carl Rove.
“Christian Zionists – like what is that? … I dislike them more than anybody, you know, because it’s Christian heresy and I’m offended by that as a Christian,” Carlson declared in the interview.
“If you wake up in the morning and decide that your Christian faith means you have to support whatever the Israeli government does, that's not Christianity – that's something else.”
Huckabee responded to clip from the interview, writing on 𝕏 that he “Wasn’t aware that Tucker despises me. I do get that a lot from people not familiar with the Bible or history. Somehow I will survive the animosity.”
Senator Cruz commented, “It’s remarkable, and sad, watching Tucker turn into Nick Fuentes.” Cruz had defended U.S. support for Israel in a notably hostile interview with Carlson earlier this year.
The interview with Fuentes drew strong criticism from several popular Republican voices.
Conservative author Dinesh D’Souza wrote, “I debated Nick Fuentes because the two of us strongly disagree. We are not on the same side. Tucker did a friendly, almost devotional interview with Nick because the two of them are on the same side.”
Orthodox Christian author Rod Dreher, who said he had considered Carlson a friend, wrote on his Substack blog that “this was a bright red line that I was hoping Tucker would not cross. But cross it he did… Total softball interview, entirely sympathetic. Shockingly so.”
“Tucker asked nothing about Fuentes’s past statements praising Hitler, or any number of horrific things that have come out of that kid’s mouth, (e.g., ‘We will make Jews die in the holy war.’).”
“Carlson has, by this squishy-soft interview, introduced Fuentes into the right-wing mainstream. It is legit freaky that we have reached this point in American life. It is, in fact, Weimar America time,” Dreher concluded.
Author Eric Metaxas argued, “What's really going on is that we are seeing Satan trying to push Christian faith out of the MAGA movement. Those who love Jesus love the Jews. Read my Bonhoeffer book on that. Let's pray Tucker repents of this grievous misstep.”
Despite Fuentes’ well-known admiration for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Carlson cautiously pushed back against his type of overt Jew-hatred, claiming he is “not that interested in ‘the Jews,’ but I am very interested in the foreign policy question.”
“The second you’re like, ‘Well, actually, it’s the Jews,’ first of all, it’s against my Christian faith. Like, I just don’t believe that, and I never will. Period,” he said.
Carlson explained that his aversion to Christian Zionism began around 2003, when he became “pissed at the neocons [Neoconservatives]” allegedly driving U.S. foreign policy by instigating the Iraq War.
Fuentes explained that in his opinion, “neoconservatism arises from Jewish leftists who are mugged by reality when they saw the surprise attack during the Yom Kippur War.”
“As far as the Jews are concerned, you cannot actually divorce Israel and the neocons and all those things that you talk about from Jewishness: ethnicity, religion, identity,” Fuentes told Carlson.
Among his opponents on the right, Fuentes sees “Jewishness as the common denominator,” he said.
“They’re a stateless people. They’re unassimilable. They resist assimilation for thousands of years. And I think that’s a good thing. And now they have this territory in Israel. There’s a deep religious affection for the state. It’s bound up in their identity.”
“If you are a Jewish person in America, it’s sort of rational self-interest, politically, to say, ‘I am a minority. I am a religious, ethnic minority. This is not really my home. My ancestral home is in Israel,'” Fuentes said.
Despite being a major force on the (online) right wing and having once dined with the president, Fuentes and his “groyper” movement have notably turned against the MAGA movement and President Donald Trump.
In the interview, Fuentes attacked fellow antisemite and GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, whom Carlson praised in this interview, as well as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent.
He alleged they had betrayed the core ideals of the “America First” movement, which he claims to uphold.
In the past, Fuentes also criticized Vice President JD Vance as “the end state of Trumpism, a complete fabrication who was created in a lab by Peter Thiel,” and said he will urge his supporters to “either stay home or vote for a protest candidate” if Vance runs on the Republican presidential ticket in 2028.
This had caused Carlson to attack Fuentes, suggesting he was a federal agent running a “psyop” against conservatives and calling him a “weird little gay kid in his basement.”
However, Tuesday’s interview apparently served to settle the dispute between the two, with Carlson nudging the once-radioactive Fuentes further into the conservative mainstream.
“I’m sorry I called you gay, by the way, but I’m always, I think I’m just too old or something. I’m like, ‘Why [isn’t] anyone married?’,” Carlson said.
Author Rod Dreher concluded, “The fact that Tucker Carlson, the most influential right-wing media figure in America, went from dismissing Fuentes early this year as a gay twerp in a Chicago basement, to having him on his show and blessing him with a soft interview, is a sign of the times. And not a good one.”
I am no fan of Tucker Carlson, though I was years ago. Not anymore.
Not on Fox anymore. He’s now like Savage and O’rielly-podcasts only.
Now we can listen how they are more free and independent.
If you are afraid and become angry, when your ideas are criticized, you are a cult member.
SDA, Jehovah Witnesses, and those who believe Israel as currently formed as fulfillment of prophecy.
You can think it is, you can even wish it is, but to put your faith in it? That is madness.
I’ll stick with the standard fare from before the “Rapture” madness came to the fore.
Tucker has gone nuts.
Never forget to always place a large BOW-TIE on this a@@clown “very un-conservative” son of Clown In Action daddy, DC centric pal of Hunter Biden, who escaped to Maine when Commies came outside his door in DC.
Lucky him, inheritor of a large sum of money from the Swanson TV Dinner mega corp (his daddy married a Swanson, Swanson-Carlson... hurdy furdy Swedes).
Now this clown Fuentes. Tucker was far more interesting interviewing the co-Founder of the Proud Boys back in the day, the Canadian with an Native American wife.
Imho- Carlson should give up chewing so much baccy and drinking the green matcha crap “health” drink with mega caffeine. Remember—CNN with the bow-tie— that is who he really is.
Tucker parody: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPWcFTzDMwl/
A number of conservatives in the spotlight have suddenly, like a mind control thing, gone off the deep end.
Bizarre.
I forgot the Mormons. Show us your gold tablets, all of Creation waits with bated breath, or is it baited?
You don’t have to believe in end-times prophesies to grasp that Hamas are psychopaths. Israel has the right and the solemn responsibility to clean them out. Leaving them alive and in the territory guarantees more war.
It’s in accord with Biblical prophecy. Numbers 23:9 “...lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.”
Cruz in his recent interview by Tucker Carlson, was caught short by him.
That wasn’t Carlson’s fault. Moreover, Carlson did the American public a favor by revealing the pathetically weak, and theologically defunct, foundation underlying Cruz’s conception of U.S.-Israel relations.
Instead of speaking ill of Tucker Carlson, Ted Cruz should be about removing the obvious plank from his eye.
You’re kind of a shallow end swimmer it seems
Couldn’t be more right. It’s a bought and paid for psyop that’s been going on for decades. Now reaching dangerous levels.
Correction. Nick Fuentes is a socialist and a nazi admirer. That is FAR LEFT
I never watched him when he was on Fox. I stopped watching Fox News and all news programs on all platforms in 2008 when Obama was selected. Never watched his blog, or whatever he set up after he got fired. I'm not Jewish, but I support Israel's right to exist, and I support the Jews who remember and honor the Holocaust, not the Jews who hate their Jewishness, and distance themselves from it. And there are many. They were there in Germany in the 30's, and are still around. They are the Schumer's, the Nadler's, the Bill Kristol's, the Blumenthal's, etc., that hate America too. Anyone who denies the Holocaust ever happened is a Nazi themself.
I'm a history buff, and have been reading many sourced books about Hitler's rise to power, his first 100 days as Chancellor, the first Jewish political victims in Dachau, the Jewish resistance fighters in the Vilna Ghetto in Lithuania, biographies of Nazi leaders as well as Hitler, the rise and fall of the Third Reich, a comprehensive study of every Nazi concentration camp, Jews that fought for Hitler, and many other subjects related to Nazi Germany, it's leaders, etc., with more on my bookshelf to read.
Tucker has become a random thought generator, most of them bad.
His popularity went to his head. I hope President Trump distances himself from him after this.
Israel has always been characterized as being "America's friend", however I believe it was a wise person who said that "nations do not have friends, they have interests."
Which leads to my question ... without referring to religion, how are America's interests supported by Israel?
Don’t even need to see the rest of what Tucker Carlson said - giving someone like Nick Fuentes a platform and portraying him in a positive light is enough. Fuentes is an admitted bigot:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4343413/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4259874/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4257816/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4112985/posts
By the way, Fuentes is not to be confused with Nick Freitas - some people on a social media thread were outraged with criticisms of “Nick Fuentes” denying he’s said the things he has repeatedly said, and it was possible they were thinking of Nick Freitas.
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