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Posted on 09/22/2026 1:09:42 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
Maybe he has a different definition of “obsessed”?
It’s flimsy, but it seems like the best explanation, after Tucker Carlson rejected claims he’s “obsessed with the Jews” and Israel on the Monday episode of his podcast. But the episode seemed to instantly disprove Carlson, because the Jews and Israel came up a whole lot.
How many times? 281 times, to be exact. That included 215 mentions of “Israel” and 66 mentions of “Jew” or “Jewish.” There was a lone reference to Judaism too, for good measure.
The lion’s share of those mentions came from The Grayzone reporter Max Blumenthal, his guest on the show, who said President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again movement had been hijacked by an “Israel First” policy. Carlson agreed.
And towards the end of the 131-minute podcast, Blumenthal criticized Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk for doing an interview with CBS News boss and “self-proclaimed Zionist fanatic” (as Blumenthal put it) Bari Weiss, during which Erika Kirk said her husband was a big supporter of Israel. Blumenthal said that was bogus. He accused Erika Kirk of trying to “reverse his position” in the “eerie and cringeworthy” town hall.
That’s when Carlson defended himself against claims he has been fixated on Israel and Jews since leaving Fox News.
“One thing I really do resent is the idea that when you bring up stuff like this, some of the people you mentioned, will say to you, ‘You know, you’re kind of obsessed with the Jews.’ It’s like, well, I’m in no sense obsessed with the Jews — I’m obsessed with my kids, and a lot of things, but not the Jews,” Carlson said.
It’s a claim pundits like National Review writer James Kirchick have made, with Kirchick writing Carlson has an “unhealthy interest in Jews” last year. And Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) made a similar argument, saying the former cable news star seemed to have an “obsession with Israel.” Carlson scoffed at the accusations on Monday.
“Other people are obsessed with Israel in a way that’s really destructive and ugly, I think. But it’s not even quote ‘Jews’ who are doing this,” Carlson continued, while putting the words “Jews” in quotes with his hands. “It’s the Christian Zionists who are doing it. So it’s like, not a good faith response, at all.”
But again, Carlson’s own content sabotages his argument.
To point to a few examples this year: Carlson has suggested Israel is a terror regime which has “murdered” thousands of Gazans, claimed it is “probably the most violent country in the world,” and is “in control” of the U.S.; during a month-long stretch between February and March, 77% of Carlson’s YouTube videos were about Israel. And in July, he branded Trump a “weak” man who let Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strong-arm him into the Iran war.
Carlson echoed those remarks when he announced he was ditching the Republican Party. He said he couldn’t vote for the GOP anymore because it had “betrayed” the nation.
“How could I or any American voter support a political party that’s not loyal to the United States,” Carlson said. “That puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens. It’s not possible to vote for people like that, and I’m not going to.”
The foreign country he was talking about was, of course, Israel.
If he’s not fixated on the topic, it’s hard to tell from his commentary.
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Carlson is one of the great disappointments.
The “New” Tucker Carlson most certainly is obsessed with the Jews. Why bother to deny it?
Tucker Carlson has dug himself into a hole he will never climb out of. Completely unnecessary and stupid.
Tucker Carlson now thinks that Winston Churchill is a Villain and that we should’ve been fighting for Nazi Germany!
It’s in his podcasts!
Islam is the only way now.
Follow the Oil money right to Tucker’s barn, where he actually says a Demon lives.
Tucker Carlson claims Israel pushed Hunter Biden laptop story
Tucker Carlson Wants Trump Tried for Treason
Three minutes of Tucker Carlson praising Islam.
Tucker Carlson is in free fall — promoting conspiracy theories, praising North Korea
Tucker Carlson is now shilling for jihadis
Tucker Carlson implores White House staffers to say no Trump’s orders
Tucker Carlson in a long “history lesson” to his viewers / listeners - advised that during WWII, Winston Churchill jailed “the leader of his opposition party” (false) and said they actually were patriotic and were falsely accused of disloyalty by Churchill (false). The person Tucker was defending was Oswald Mosely, who was literally married at the home of Goebbels and the wedding was attended by Adolf Hitler.
Insanity in Tehran: Regime Cuts Internet to 80 Million, Streams Tucker Carlson on Loop
Tucker Carlson announces plan to buy home in Qatar
Tucker Carlson is speaking at a conference in Doha ......sponsored in part by The Atlantic Council, who stand for the exact opposite of America First as he does podcast after podcast telling his audience this country is captured by Israel and every person in the conservative movement whose actually fighting for America First is your enemy.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4262726/posts Carlson’s interview on Tuesday with alleged historian Darryl Cooper — like his interview in April with Reverend Munther Isaac, referenced in today’s flashbacks — was so much worse than merely glib or incurious.
Carlson chose to interview Cooper, whom he endorsed as “the best and most honest popular historian in the United States” to learn exactly how World War II didn’t happen. According to Cooper — and Carlson nodded along the entire time — Winston Churchill was perhaps “the chief villain of the Second World War” and “primarily responsible for that war becoming what it did.” It’s true that Hitler did not want or expect Britain to fight. He wanted Britain to acquiesce to German dominance of Europe from the Urals to Gibraltar and subsume the UK to Nazi interests. This is all a matter of historical record. Britain could fight or submit — that was Hitler’s choice, not Churchill’s.
FLASHBACK: Carlson chose to interview Isaac to find out how the Jewish State of Israel treats Christians. Isaac is a priest who neither lives nor works in Israel and who uses the loaded phrase “Occupied Palestine” as his location on his Twitter/X profile. He is a Palestinian Christian from Palestinian-controlled Bethlehem, where Christian ministers serve at the mercy of the Palestinian Authority.
Recently, Carlson has repeatedly taken to praising sharia law and suggesting Islam and its totalitarian legal code offer an inspiring moral clarity in contrast with today’s Western decadence. He has visited virtually seemingly every country in the Arab world, produced propaganda films for a few of them, and even announced his attention to buy a house a Qatar. He has called Hamas not a jihadist but a political organization, said he’d apologize to the family of Osama bin Laden, and has severely downplayed the Americans who have been killed in recent decades by Islamism. And earlier this week, the eponymous Tucker Carlson Network, in a seemingly earnest post better suited for a satirical Babylon Bee headline, offered this cherry on top: “Muslims love Jesus.”
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