Tucker Carlson slammed 'idiot Republicans' for focusing on Cuba rather than the 'tyrannical' United States government while defending people who spread vaccine misinformation.
The Fox News host made his comments on his show on Friday after President Joe Biden ripped social media companies like Facebook for letting COVID-19 vaccine misinformation spread on their platforms.
His comments also came after Senator Ted Cruz, along with a slew of Democratic and Republican lawmakers, announced a bipartisan resolution on Thursday condemning 'the Cuban communist regime's violent response' to Cuban citizens.
'I glad you mentioned Cuba, because even today idiot Republicans on the hill spent their whole day talking about the lack of freedom in Cuba,' Carlson said on his show.
'And it's not a free country, that's true - but increasingly neither are we and they don't seem to notice what's going on in the country they're supposed to be running.'
He added: 'And they're spending all their time on this Caribbean nation that's not central to our interests.'
Tucker Carlson slammed 'idiot Republicans' for focusing on Cuba rather than the 'tyrannical' United States government
The Fox News host made his comments on his show on Friday after President Joe Biden ripped social media companies like Facebook for letting COVID-19 vaccine misinformation spread
Carlson started the segment by playing a clip of Press Secretary Jen Psaki speaking at her daily press briefing on Friday.
In her press briefing, Psaki told reporters the White House is 'regularly' coordinating with Facebook and other social media giants on news it thinks should be censored.
'We are regularly making sure social media platforms are aware of the latest narratives dangerous to public health that we and many other Americans are seeing across all of social and traditional media,' Psaki said.
After the clip, Carlson alleged that 'the White House is actually in control of the information that you receive on your phone.'
'The first amendment doesn't exist, politicians have taken over the media, but that's totally fine because it's disinformation,' Carlson said.
'They said that out loud and today, they didn't backtrack or apologize or fire the person who said it and disavow what she said because it's crazy unconstitutional behavior, they double down.'
Carlson was joined on his show by journalist Glenn Greenwald who called the Biden administration 'as tyrannical as it gets.'
Underneath Greenwald, a chyron reads 'misinformation is anything Biden dislikes.'
President Joe Biden said Friday that social media companies are 'killing people' by failing to police misinformation on their platforms about COVID-19 vaccines.
Biden's comments came a day after U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared misinformation about the vaccines a threat to public health, and as U.S. officials advised that deaths and serious illness from the virus are almost entirely preventable because of the vaccines.
Biden, asked if he had a message for platforms like Facebook where false or misleading information about the coronavirus vaccines has spread, told reporters, 'They're killing people.'
'The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated,' he said.
Speaking Thursday, Murthy said
