"So it's about 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem, and Jesus shows up and he starts talking about the people in power, and he starts doing the worst thing that you can do, which is telling the truth about people, and they hate it and they just go bonkers. They hate it, and they become obsessed with making him stop. This guy's got to stop talking. We've got to shut this guy up. And I can just sort of picture the scene in a lamplit room with a bunch of guys sitting around and eating hummus, thinking about what do we do about this guy telling the truth about us. We must make him stop talking. And there's always one guy with the bright idea, and I can hear him say, I've got an idea, why don't we just kill him? That'll shut him up. That'll fix the problem."
"Among those to interpret it as such was Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior advisor Richard Goldberg, who submitted that Tucker's unhealthy obsession with Jews and Israel is a disease that is poisoning the Republican Party on X. While I am not surprised by his decision to use Charlie Kirk's assassination as a platform to spread this disease indeed, he is a disciplined strategic communicator I am surprised by how few conservatives have the backbone to stand up and say they will no longer"
Tucker Carlson delivered a memorial speech for Charlie Kirk that likened Kirk to Jesus and recounted a biblical scene of leaders deciding to kill Jesus. The analogy included a lamplit room of men eating hummus and a suggestion to "just kill him" to silence truth-tellers. Critics interpreted the remarks as echoing conspiracy theories blaming Israel and antisemitic tropes about Jewish responsibility for Christ's execution. Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior advisor Richard Goldberg called Carlson's obsession with Jews and Israel a disease poisoning the Republican Party and criticized the lack of conservative pushback.
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