5 Christians pushing back against Pam Bondi's 'hate speech' comments

1. Tucker Carlson

Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, host of “The Tucker Carlson Show,” condemned Bondi’s comments in an episode of his TCN show on Sept. 16 and again during an exclusive live broadcast with journalist Michael Shellenberger Wednesday night in a special episode titled “The End of Free Speech.”

“There’s no sentence that Charlie Kirk would have objected to more than that,” Carlson said on his Sept. 16 show, referring to Bondi’s remarks distinguishing hate speech from free speech. 

“That thinking there that [Bondi] just articulated on camera there is exactly what got us to a place where some huge and horrifying percentage of young people think it’s OK to shoot people you disagree with, to ‘kill Nazis’ for saying things they don’t like,” Carlson warned.

He went on to describe “any attempt to impose hate speech laws in this country” as something that “cannot be allowed under any circumstances,” adding, “That’s got to be the red line.” 

Carlson then asked, “When they can do that, what can’t they do?” He also criticized the belief that “there’s free speech but then there’s also hate speech and woe to those who engage in it because it’s a crime” as a “lie.”