Tucker Carlson is being ripped on social media after he hosted a conversation about a conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was manufactured to make Jewish people immune to it.
The bizarre chat kicked off during Tuesday’s episode of “The Tucker Carlson Show,” after the disgraced former Fox News host mentioned Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s erroneous claims that COVID could be “tailored” and had “disparate effects on [different] populations.”
The podcaster appeared to be referring to a 2023 report by the New York Post titled “RFK Jr. says COVID was ‘ethnically targeted’ to spare Jews.”
Kennedy denied making the comments in an X post.
“The @nypost story is mistaken. I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews,” Kennedy wrote.
Carlson’s guest during the episode, author Dr. Andrew Huff, then controversially alleged that a scientific publication, which he did not name, found that one population of people of Jewish ancestry was affected by COVID more than others.
Calling RFK Jr.’s unfounded claims “scientifically true,” Huff told Carlson: “There was a finding in a scientific publication that two different populations of people of Jewish ancestry — depending [on] which line they’re from — one was more heavily impacted than the others.”
Interjecting, Carlson then clarified that Huff was referring to “Sephardic/Ashkenazi” Jewish people.
Kennedy Jr., a known anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist, has a history of spreading misinformation about health, and has repeatedly made false claims about topics such as vaccines and autism.
Carlson, a conservative political commentator, has also peddled conspiracy theories and far-right extremist ideology on social media.
Social media users on X called out Carlson for not condemning Huff’s assertion and for promoting an “anti-semitic lie.”
“Nothing to see here just Tucker Carlson pushing the anti semitic lie that Covid was designed to spare Ashkenazi Jews (who were actually affected MORE than other groups in the real world),” one person wrote on X.
The user went on to call Carlson and RFK Jr. “two conspiracy cranks.”
Someone else slammed Carlson as a “raging antisemite” while questioning why Vice President JD Vance, an ally of his, has not yet “denounced his bigoted views.”
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