Fox News “Media Buzz” host Howard Kurtz came to the defense of colleague Tucker Carlson for his analysis of the Buffalo supermarket killings.
A transcript posted on Breitbart said what he finds troubling “is the knee-jerk partisanship with which pundits and politicians on the left and sometimes the right respond to mass shootings.”
Left-leaning pundits have blamed Carlson for fostering an atmosphere of hate and racism during his nightly show “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
“The murder of 10 innocent people in Buffalo is utterly heartbreaking in so many ways all victims of a suspect whose writing reeks of racism, antisemitism, and a twisted mind,” Kurtz said.
Carlson’s comments on immigration have fueled the criticism. New York Senator Chuck Schumer wrote a letter to Fox News and demanded the network cancel his show for alleged hateful comments about the shooting that left 10 people dead.
“President Clinton blamed the Oklahoma City bombing in part on Rush Limbaugh. Liberal pundits, and later The New York Times, blamed a mass shooting in Tucson on a Sarah Palin political map that the gunman never even saw,” Kurtz said.
“But when a liberal Bernie Sanders supporter, a Rachel Maddow fan, wounded Steve Scalise and others five years ago at a Republican congressional baseball practice, the media didn’t blame Maddow or left-wing philosophy, and they shouldn’t have,” added Kurtz.
