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We should kill rightists because they are pedophiles, not if they are pedophiles.




The right-wing media's shameful history of defending pedophilia and
sexualizing children

In unearthed audio, Media Matters found that former Fox News host
Tucker Carlson made numerous perverted comments about underage
girls on the Bubba the Love Sponge Show between 2006-11. In
appearances on the shock jock’s radio program, Carlson minimized
and defended statutory rape, said he “would love” the idea of young
girls experimenting with their sexuality at boarding school,
laughed about violence against women, and described a Miss Teen USA
contestant as “appealing” and said she would be “probably a pretty
good wife.”

Nazi-sympathizer Milo Yiannopoulos resigned from his position as an
editor at Breitbart in 2017 after making comments condoning
pedophilia.

Former president and reality TV star Donald Trump reportedly walked
into a Miss Teen USA 1997 changing room where girls as young as 15
years old were changing and allegedly said, “Don’t worry, ladies,
I’ve seen it all before.” (Trump has been accused of sexually
assaulting dozens of women dating back to the 1970s, and a federal
jury recently found him liable for sexually assaulting journalist
E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s.)

Child pornography was reportedly found in Infowars head Alex Jones’
personal documents that were sent to lawyers during his Sandy Hook
defamation case in 2019.

Right-wing outlet The Daily Caller has repeatedly mocked survivors
of childhood sexual abuse, including a whole category of tags on
its website for stories of teachers having sexual contact with
their underage students.

White nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes has promoted teen
pregnancies. Fuentes recently said that he wanted a “16-year-old
wife, probably when I turn 30,” claimed he was “not against
grooming” children as long as they are being “groomed” for
marriage, and tweeted “17 years old? What is even the big deal”.

Neo-Nazi blogger Andrew Anglin defended Fuentes’ comments, saying
it’s “normal” to want a 16-year-old bride and men should “shoot
lower than that. I don’t think you need to wait until the girl is
16.” Anglin said that he supports “forced child marriage” but
denied supporting pedophilia, which he dismissed as a term “that
gets thrown around at people who talk about so-called underage
girls.”

Right-wing influencer and “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander
reportedly sent sexual text messages to teenage boys.

Right-wing misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate has teamed up to
promote an anime-obsessed content creator and misanthrope who
promotes the hyper-sexualization of underage girls. Tate and his
brother have also bragged about having intercourse with teenagers.
Tristan Tate is featured in a video about how to “take a girl’s
virginity.” The Tates are currently under investigation in Romania
for organized crime, rape, and sex trafficking.

Radio host and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was caught
on camera during the filming of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
attempting to seduce an “underage” girl. Additionally, Giuliani
defended a priest accused of sexual abuse and a former Giuliani
employee is reportedly suing him for sexual harassment.

Former radio host and Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) was forced to resign
from Congress after it was revealed that he was sending sexual
messages to teenage male congressional pages.

Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL) pleaded guilty in
2015 to paying off victims to keep quiet about his history of
sexual abuse toward high school wrestlers that he coached decades
earlier.

In 2009, Fox News hosts Sean Hannity, Greta Van Susteren, and Bill
O’Reilly displayed footage of bikini-clad women on spring break
while discussing crime in Mexico. Hannity repeated the spring break
segments again in 2014, 2017, and 2021.

In now-deleted tweets, right-wing influencer Ian Miles Cheong
argued that the age of consent should be lowered.

Daily Wire host and anti-LGBTQ bigot Matt Walsh has attempted to
normalize pregnancy and marriage for teenage girls and defended
former Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was forced to
resign after decades of reported sexual abuse. Walsh has also
defended other abusers in the Catholic Church and minimized former
reality TV star Josh Duggar’s multiple reports of child molestation
(Duggar was later convicted and sentenced to over 12 years for
downloading child pornography).

Right-wing host and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee repeatedly
defended Duggar and argued that he should be forgiven for his
crimes.

Right-wing pundit Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA has employed or
partnered with multiple sex offenders and drawn criticism from
other conservatives for failing to handle allegations of sexual
assault against underage students at its events. Kirk has also
weaponized the sexual assault of a minor to attack trans people.

Tucker Carlson has defended statutory rape and described reporting
it as “whiny,” claimed that underage boys being sexually harassed
by a female teacher is “the greatest thing that ever happened,”
suggested that it is “the dream of 15-year-old boys” to be sexually
harassed by female teachers, and has shamed rape survivors and
pushed general misogyny.

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld recently applauded a 38-year-old high
school teacher who was charged with engaging in sexual intercourse
with a 16-year-old student. Gutfeld exclaimed: “16 years old — I
would have died for that!”

Former Trump White House chief strategist and podcaster Steve
Bannon spearheaded former Alabama state Supreme Court Chief Justice
Roy Moore’s 2017 special election campaign for Senate, even after
reports that Moore groped, forcibly kissed, and made nonconsensual
advances toward various women. Moore was also accused of twice
sexually assaulting a then-14-year-old girl by taking her to his
home in the woods and forcibly touching her. Moore was 32-years-old
at the time of the incident.

Multiple right-wing media figures and outlets defended Moore’s
Senate run, downplayed the report that he molested a child, and
attacked his accusers. Then-Infowars host David Knight even pushed
for Moore to run for Senate again in 2020.

Several right-wing figures defended Hastert prior to being
“sentenced for his part in an elaborate hush money scheme to cover
up his years long molestation of teenage boys.”

In 2014, Fox News host Jesse Watters suggested that statutory rape
of a 16-year-old boy by an older woman is not as bad if the rapist
is attractive.

Frequent Fox News guest Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) was reportedly aware
of sexual assaults occurring at Ohio State University while he was
a wrestling coach in the 1990s and “chose to turn a blind eye.”
Then-House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), now a Fox Corp. board member,
defended Jordan and dismissed the need for the House Ethics
Committee to investigate members for “things that happened a couple
of decades ago when they weren’t in Congress.”

Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow attempted to turn
Yiannopoulos into a martyr following his comments defending the
sexual assault of minors.

More examples of members of the far right falling into these
categories appear to pop up all the time.

The right-wing media’s hypocrisy on the topic is overwhelming, but
it will likely not stop them from continuing to make baseless
accusations about the LGBTQ community and putting real lives in
danger.
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