The 25-minute Tucker Carlson monologue before his confrontation with Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee led viewers to look through the prism of endless lies and factual mistakes, which are too many to address in one article. See here to read Part 1.

Another example is when Tucker pontificates that he is concerned that “Christians in areas controlled by Israel (be) treated with dignity.” He conveniently overlooks that Christians in Israel are the only Christian population that’s growing in the entire Middle East, that Christians and Christianity are protected, and that the singular threat to persecuted Christians in the Middle East and around the world is Islam. But that’s too awkward for his Qatari handlers and funders. So, he does what every antisemite in history has done: make up lies and blame the Jews.

And then, of course, his cherry on top is that he claims that as a US taxpayer, he pays for all of that. Thank you for your business.

While not part of the monologue or the confrontation with Huckabee itself, a glaring omission in Tucker’s faux concern for the well-being of persecuted Christians is not a mention of persecuted Christians anywhere outside of “areas controlled by Israel.” By setting it up the way he does, he allows the viewer to think that Christians persecuted in the Palestinian Authority are under “areas controlled by Israel.” But the fact is that they are not, and the fact is that they are persecuted by their Islamist neighbors, fellow........

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