Tucker Carlson asked how the media could have "people this stupid" after he tore into a reporter's "absurd" and "disingenuous" questions at a speaking event on Tuesday in Canberra, Australia .
Australian Associated Press reporter Kat Wong questioned Carlson about his immigration views and said that he has "talked" about the "Great Replacement Theory" on his show regarding how "white Australians, Americans, and Europeans" are being replaced by "nonwhite immigrants."
"Whites are being replaced? I don't think I said that," Carlson pushed back.
"Well, it's been mentioned on your show 4,000 times," she said.
"Really? When did I say that whites are being replaced?" he responded.
Wong insisted he had "said that before."
Carlson challenged her to "cite that" while he went on to lay out what he has said publicly about immigration in America.
"I'm pretty sure I haven't said that. I said native-born Americans are being replaced, including blacks, native-born Americans," the former Fox News host said. "Americans who, like black Americans, have been in the United States for many decades, their families over 400 years. Their concerns are every bit as real and valid and alive to me as the concerns of white people whose families have been there for 400 years. So I've never said that whites are being replaced, not one time. And you can't cite it."
He added, "We just met, but when our relationship starts with a lie, it makes it tough to be friends. You actually can't cite it because I didn't say it and I don't believe it, and I'm telling you that to your face. So, why don't you just accept me at face value?"
Carlson continued to explain that he believed it was "immoral" for world leaders to shift their priorities "from the people whose responsibility it is to take of" to putting people around the world "above those of their own citizens."
The conservative host said Americans are not having children because of "the economy," which needs to be fixed so "people who want to have kids can," but instead, "we're importing people from other countries."
"You don't just go for the quick sugar fix of importing new people. That's my position. If you think that's racist, that's your problem," he said to the Australian reporter.
"I never called you a racist," Wong retorted.
"But of course, you are suggesting it. I must say one of the reasons why people don't like people like you in the media is that you never say exactly what you mean," Carlson shot back.
He added, "Your slurs are all by implication. You're about to tell me the Great Replacement Theory is racist or antisemitic, whatever. I've said what I've said to you right now like 100 times in public. I hope to, if I live long enough, to say it 100 more times. I think it's completely honest and real, not racist or scary. It's factually true. It's not a theory; it's a fact."
The reporter then claimed to Carlson that the "same theory" encouraged the 2022 mass shooter who killed 10 people in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
Carlson laughed, "Oh God, come on!"
The former television host ripped into the Australian reporter's statement.
"How do they get people this stupid in the media? I guess it doesn't pay well. Look, I'm sorry, I've lived among people like you for too long. I don't mean to call you stupid; maybe you're just pretending to be," he replied.
"But I'm totally against violence. I'm totally against the war in Ukraine, for example, which doubtless you support and, like all dutiful liberals, support more carnage. I don't," he said. "I hate mass shootings, actually. Nothing I said would inspire anything. My views are not bigoted against any group. They're honest. They're factual. That's not hate; that's reality. My views derive from my deep concern for Americans. Americans aren't having kids because they can't afford to, and nobody in charge cares. So that's my position. That doesn't inspire mass shootings. How dare you try to tie me to some lunatic who murdered people. How dare you, actually?"
"That's how I feel about your absurd, disingenuous question," Carlson stated.
"So, therefore, you support gun control?" she asked.
"What?! I thought it couldn't get dumber, but it did. No, I don't support disarming law-abiding people so they can't defend themselves, so the government has a monopoly on violence. I don't think so. First of all, in my country, that's illegal, as you know. But moreover, it should be illegal in every country. A sovereign person has the right to defend himself and his family, period. That said, I'm opposed to harming anyone, anyone," the former Fox News personality responded.
Carlson took another dig at the reporter's line of questioning.
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"I got here and the country is so unbelievably beautiful, and the people are so cheerful and funny, and cool, and smart. I'm like, your media has got to be better than ours. It can't just be a bunch of castrated robots reading questions from the boss, and then it turns out it's exactly the same. Maybe even a tiny bit dumber," he said.
Wong was not the only reporter that Carlson went toe-to-toe with at the event in Australia. He pushed back on numerous questions that included the topics of vaccines, Ukraine, and Russia.
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