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On April 4, Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman from Illinois, tweeted what some people interpreted as a direct quote from Fox News host Tucker Carlson. [email protected] tonight: ‘What if these bodies of tortured, dead civilians were staged? What if they’re fake? What if the Ukrainian military killed them & then blamed Russia? I’m not saying any of this is true, I’m just asking the questions. Why can’t we ask these questions?’ the tweet said. That evening, Walsh tweeted a clarification: I tweeted this out this morning. I was predicting what @TuckerCarlson would say ‘tonight.’ Here’s what’s funny: So many people read this tweet & believed Tucker had already said it. Which is understandable becuz it’s EXACTLY the kind of thing Putin-lover Tucker would & has said. Carlson addressed the original tweet on his show the following night. He claimed that this was a verbatim quote from our show, Carlson said. Quote: ‘What if the bodies of tortured dead civilians are staged? What if they're fake? What if Ukrainian military killed them and blamed Russia? Not saying any of this is true, just asking questions. Why can't we ask questions?’ End quote. Carlson went on to say that the quote isn’t real. It’s completely made up, he said. We didn’t say that, we didn’t say anything like that, we didn’t even address the topic on the air in any way. RELATED VIDEO Russia has said without evidence that fake dead bodies were staged in Bucha after its troops left the town. Carlson, meanwhile, has been criticized for echoing Russian talking points . On March 9, for example, Carlson said a Russian claim that Ukraine has bioweapon labs was totally and completely true, but there’s no evidence that’s the case, PolitiFact reported . But this talking point, about staged bodies, wasn’t one Carlson made. We rate claims that he said the words that appeared in Wash’s tweet False.
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