Anti-woke American Tucker Carlson unleashes on the ABC and calls a female reporter 'stupid' in extraordinary rant

Tucker Carlson has called a female reporter 'stupid' and unleashed on the ABC during an extraordinary rant at the Australian Freedom Conference. 

The former Fox News host launched a fierce attack on the AAP reporter on Tuesday after she asked for clarification about his Great Replacement Theory. 

She said Carlson had spoken about how Australians, Americans and Europeans were being replaced by non-white immigrants up to '4,000 times' on his show. 

The anti-woke US commentator claimed he had 'never said that whites are being replaced, not one time', adding 'if you think that's racist, that's your problem'.

The reporter suggested theories like the Great Replacement Theory had inspired a racially-motivated mass shooting that left 10 dead in Buffalo, New York in 2023. 

'Oh God! Come on!' Carlson replied. 

'How do they get people this stupid in the media? I guess it doesn't pay well.

'Look, I'm sorry, I've lived among people like you for too long. I don't mean to call you stupid; maybe you're just pretending to be. But I'm totally against violence. 

'I'm totally against the war in Ukraine, for example, which doubtless you support and, like all dutiful liberals, support more carnage. I don't. I hate mass shootings, actually. 

'Nothing I said would inspire anything. My views are not bigoted against any group. They're honest. 

'They're factual. That's not hate; that's reality. My views derive from my deep concern for Americans. 

'Americans aren't having kids because they can't afford to, and nobody in charge cares. 

'So that's my position. That doesn't inspire mass shootings. How dare you try to tie me to some lunatic who murdered people. How dare you, actually?'

The reporter suggested Carlson therefore supported gun control. 

'What?! I thought it couldn't get dumber but it did,' he replied. 

'No, I don't support disarming law-abiding people so they can't defend themselves, so the government has a monopoly on violence. I don't think so. 

'First of all, in my country, that's illegal, as you know. But moreover, it should be illegal in every country. 

'A sovereign person has the right to defend himself and his family, period. That said, I'm opposed to harming anyone, anyone.'

The reporter asked if Carlson felt any responsibility for hate crimes in the US.

'I'm sorry, I'm trying to be charitable. I'm trying to be charitable. I was like, maybe you're just pretending to be dumb. Now I don't think it's an act,' he replied. 

'I love it. I just feel sorry. I mean, because I got here and the country is so unbelievably beautiful, and the people are so cheerful and funny and cool and smart. I'm like, your media has got to be better than ours. 

'It can't just be a bunch of castrated robots reading questions from the boss, and then it turns out it's exactly the same. Maybe even a tiny bit dumber.'

The commentator answered questions from journalists after making a speech at the Australian Freedom Conference held at the Hyatt Hotel in Canberra on Tuesday. 

Carlson said he 'resented' how media organisations were aligning with their governments before he took aim at the ABC. 

'It's a perfect inversion of what you're supposed to do,' he said. 

'If your a journalist, your job is to challenge power on behalf of the powerless, it's not to align with the powerful against the powerless. 

'And that is precisely what you've done. Your ABC this morning in my hotel room, before I looked around for a vomit bag. 

'It was one of the most grotesque... I couldn't even believe it was real.' 

Carlson said he sympathised for people 'who work for these companies that are truly corrupt' but had 'kids and a mortgage'. 

'I get it, I've been there,' he told the crowd. 

'But let's just be honest, everyone else knows what it is, everyone else knows how corrupt you are, and so there's a reason they have contempt for you.'

Carlson is currently on a speaking tour Down Under and attended the Australian Freedom Conference on the invitation of mining billionaire Clive Palmer. 

Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce, Coalition senators Matt Canavan and Alex Antic and One Nation's Malcolm Roberts were attended the conference.