Kellyanne Conway argued that the media’s coverage of white nationalism is not proportionate to the coverage given to other forms of hate.
Eric Bolling, the host of Sinclair’s America This Week, asked Conway on Thursday if she agreed with Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s recent comments about white supremacy.
“We do our best to be fair and balanced and unbiased, so I have to ask you this question,” Bolling asked the White House counselor. “Tucker Carlson said that white supremacy is a ‘hoax.’ Is it?”
“I think white supremacy is real here,” she answered. “I looked at the testimony of FBI Director Chris Wray from July 23. It got scant attention because the next day — drum roll please — Bob Mueller was going to testify, so everybody was on TV pretending we knew what Bob Mueller was going to say and do, instead of covering the FBI director informing the nation that under our watch, prosecutions and arrests of domestic terrorists are way up, including white supremacy, but other forms of hate also.”
As Conway mentioned, Wray testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee last month. He said that the majority of domestic terrorism the FBI investigates are motivated by “some version of what you might call white supremacist violence.”
“I think perhaps what Tucker is saying, but you’d have to ask him, is that the outsized coverage it, gets versus all forms of hate,” Conway added. “All forms of hate have to really, they have to be reined in. We have to look at the motivations, we have to try to keep firearms out of the hands of those who are capable of doing such evil.”
