Tucker Carlson Oddly Ignores American Victims of Hamas

Tucker Carlson said it’s “odd” that so many commentators are getting so disproportionately emotional about the October 7 massacre in Israel.

But what’s odd is that somebody who is portraying himself as putting America first ignored the American victims of the Hamas attack in his comments.

In an interview he did with Candace Owens about her ongoing dispute with Ben Shapiro, Carlson said that, while he was “horrified” by the attacks, he believes commentators have become too emotionally invested in the matter.

“I feel so sorry for the Israelis who were killed,” Carlson said. “However, there is an emotional response that is disproportionate, I think, on the part of some commentators.”

He went on to say: “Our country is being invaded right now by millions of young men whose identities we don’t know, who probably don’t like America, who are living here. Over 100,000 Americans a year die of Fentanyl. I’ve known a couple. Those are real tragedies. I’ve never seen anything like the emotion from any commentator around those tragedies as I’m watching about a foreign tragedy and I think that’s odd.”

Put aside why people might have an emotional reaction to the largest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, to the images of burned bodies, to women being raped, or to infants being taken hostage. Forget about why the rise of antisemitic attacks around the world, and within the United States, might be rattling people. Let’s just look at something through the prism of somebody who believes it’s worth getting worked up only about American tragedies rather than “a foreign tragedy.”

Why doesn’t Carlson mention the fact that over 30 Americans were killed in the Hamas attacks and that nine more are currently being held hostage, including a three-year-old? Why is the reality of an American toddler being held by a terrorist in Gaza somehow unworthy of an emotional response from Carlson?

Say what you want about Tucker Carlson, but he is extremely smart, and it is not plausible to believe that he is unaware of the American victims of Hamas. And yet he chooses to ignore these facts.

So strange. So odd.