{"id":1484611,"date":"2022-05-19T15:15:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T19:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1484611"},"modified":"2022-05-19T15:15:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T19:15:55","slug":"fact-check-was-tucker-carlson-pictured-smiling-while-holding-a-newspaper-reporting-on-the-buffalo-supermarket-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-was-tucker-carlson-pictured-smiling-while-holding-a-newspaper-reporting-on-the-buffalo-supermarket-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Was Tucker Carlson Pictured Smiling While Holding A Newspaper Reporting On The Buffalo Supermarket Shooting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-was-tucker-carlson-pictured-smiling-while-holding-a-newspaper-reporting-on-the-buffalo-supermarket-shooting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1484611&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><span>An image <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wafflecake37\/posts\/10166397606015274\"><span>shared on Facebook<\/span><\/a><span> purportedly shows conservative TV host Tucker Carlson smiling while holding a newspaper article reporting on a recent shooting in Buffalo, New York.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The photo is digitally altered. The unedited picture can be found on Carlson\u2019s verified Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A gunman shot and killed 10 people and injured three others at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York in what authorities believed to be a \u201cracially motivated\u201d attack, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/ten-killed-three-wounded-mass-shooting-grocery-store-buffalo-ny-2022-05-14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a>. Carlson, an anchor at Fox News, has since faced criticism for allegedly promoting the \u201cgreat replacement theory,\u201d a conspiracy theory the alleged shooter reportedly espoused, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/fox-news-tucker-carlson-fresh-scrutiny-buffalo-mass-shooting-rcna29084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a photo shared on Facebook appears to show Carlson smiling as he holds up a copy of the New York newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/buffalonews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Buffalo News<\/a> with a front page story about the mass shooting. \u201c\u2018Pure evil\u2019: Racial motive cited as 10 are slain at Buffalo market,\u201d reads the headline of the front page story. <span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/01\/14\/fact-check-1927-newspaper-billionaires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did A 1927 Newspaper Article Report That Five Billionaires Bought The US?)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The photo is digitally altered. The unedited version was posted to Carlson\u2019s verified <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1520802827823685632\">Twitter<\/a><span> account May 1, weeks before the shooting in Buffalo.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FJ76ULBSBG\">pic.twitter.com\/FJ76ULBSBG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1520802827823685632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The original image shows Carlson grinning as he holds up a newspaper from The New York Times. \u201c<span>American Nationalist: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/30\/us\/tucker-carlson-gop-republican-party.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear To Conquer Cable News<\/a>,\u201d reads a headline on the paper\u2019s front page.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Carlson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-EzgfBMVwFQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spoke<\/a> about the shooting on his show shortly after it occurred, calling the suspected shooter \u201cmentally ill\u201d and the manifesto he left behind \u201ccrazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>DISCLOSURE: Tucker Carlson co-founded Check Your Fact\u2019s parent company, The Daily Caller.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows conservative TV host Tucker Carlson smiling while holding a newspaper article reporting on a recent shooting in Buffalo, New York.\u00a0Verdict: False The photo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":1484654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1484654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}