Journalist Csaba Toth highlighted another troubling gap in Carlson’s Hungarian work. The Fox News host gave a speech at the Orban-backed MCC Feszt, a Budapest conference. Official video omitted a crucial line in Carlson’s attack on authoritarian regimes. He riffed, “That’s what every authoritarian movement does: You don’t matter, put on a mask, you’re all the same!” Somehow the part about putting on a mask wasn’t audible in the official video, as Toth noted. (See video.)
Again, some context: Whereas Carlson has spent the pandemic sneering at mask mandates, Orban insisted on those mandates, even in outdoor spaces. Turns out there’s diversity in the international authoritarian movement.
According to Toth’s report in Azonnali.hu, the conference organizer attributed Carlson’s missing comment about masks to an “unfortunate sound error.”
Does Tucker Carlson, king of the perma-skeptical brow, buy the explanation that these were instances of mere Hungarian carelessness?
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