Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly Bash Bipartisan Push To Censor So-Called ‘Hate Speech’

🏢Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson and Sirius XM’s Megyn Kelly on Thursday slammed a bipartisan push to censor so-called “hate speech” online.

Republican New York Rep. Mike Lawler and Democratic New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer introduced a resolution on April 29 which urges social media platforms to combat so-called “antisemitic rhetoric” online. On “The Megyn Kelly Show,” Carlson and Kelly accused these lawmakers, along with CNN’s Jake Tapper, of wanting to suppress the speech of anyone who criticizes Israel or the Iran war.

“I am opposed to violence against innocents. It’s the main thing I oppose,” Carlson said. “It’s why I oppose Jake Tapper and that shill for Israel Lawler guy and the Gottheimer from New Jersey. It’s not that I dislike them personally. I feel sorry for all three of them. It’s that I don’t agree with their program of hate and violence. And it’s just so interesting that they whip it around be like, No, no, no. Anyone who criticizes ethnic cleansing in Gaza is guilty of hate and embedding violence.’ It’s like, come on. I’m not falling for that. It’ll work. By the way, they’re absolutely going to censor the internet, of course, at the urging of the Israeli government using our tax dollars.”

“I mean I really hope that the social media companies have learned their lesson because remember they were censoring all talk about you know the trans issue,” Kelly said. “For years, they were censoring. You couldn’t say that it’s a sickness. You’re unwell if you have this gender confusion. You couldn’t say that a man cannot become a woman … So like this cannot become the new one where this powerful lobby comes and holds this cudgel over the you know heads of the social media companies saying that’s the new hate speech. Like this whole thing about hate speech is very dangerous because I was also told for years you can criticize Israel. You can criticize Israel and not be called an antisemite.”