Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) shared a threatening voicemail he received from a viewer of Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show in which the caller spewed racist, homophobic and sexist epithets and talked about the lawmaker and his family being chopped up and fed to dogs.
It was “the Tucker Carlson effect,” Swalwell wrote on Twitter.
“Tucker attacks me. His fans respond with threats to kill my family. And Tucker knows exactly what he’s doing,” he said.
Listen to this. It’s the Tucker Carlson effect. Tucker attacks me. His fans respond with threats to kill my family. And Tucker knows exactly what he’s doing. pic.twitter.com/PsSLYbctXa — Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) October 22, 2021
Speaking Friday to MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, Swalwell said this particular threat — out of the hundreds he receives — was different because the caller at the start of the message “identified that he had just” watched Carlson’s show.
Swalwell said he had “personally, eyeball to eyeball” and via text message asked Carlson not to lie about him on his widely watched show because of the sinister threats that often resulted. In July, Swalwell declined to call Carlson or appear on his program, drawing the TV personality’s ire.
Carlson has not commented on the voicemail. But Swalwell suggested the Fox host “knows his followers will be inspired and radicalized and aim their vitriol at whoever he is attacking that day.”
jeremyfunktrain on October 27th, 2021 at 14:08 UTC »
When you blow the dog whistles the dogs bark.
agentup on October 27th, 2021 at 14:05 UTC »
The other day a fan at a charlie kirk rally asked during a Q&A when would be the time to take up guns and fight. And people in the audience cheered the question.
Kirk did tell him not to use guns but still agreed with him that republicans were being opppressed
black_flag_4ever on October 27th, 2021 at 13:38 UTC »
He literally quoted Tucker in the rant, let’s see how Tucker goes on to say he’s got nothing to do with it.