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Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League has written to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, demanding that Tucker Carlson be fired for promoting the dangerous white supremacist theory that people of color are “replacing” whites.
It seems impossible that Carlson could find any new low, and yet he keepsdoingso.
Media Matters has a good explanation of Carlson’s latest new low:
On the April 8 broadcast of
Fox News Primetime, Carlson offered perhaps his most explicit justification yet for the core belief of the “great replacement” conspiracy theory: that a wave of “Third World” invaders is coming to replace you and reshape your environment, and that you, the audience, should do something about it.
business perspective is oh, wait, this doesn t sell the way it used to. bow ties and earnest frowns don t sell the way they used to. he is in a necktie. feel free to correct. look, there is advertising pressure. right. but it is interesting to me, when you look at the board put the board up, the fox corporation board. rupert murdoch, paul ryan is on there. it s interesting to me paul ryan is up there. paul ryan last seen hand-ringing in tim alberta s book he was so troubled by trump s moral failings. he sits on a board that is promoting that white people are undergoing replacement and latinos and immigrants are invaing the united states. paul ryan is the quintessential example of what is going to be the new thing is gosh, i just want the tax cuts, not the racism. right? and that s essentially what paul ryan. you have a lot of people who may personally and in a personal way, their own sense of moral
klansman. this isn t a new thing. what fox is realizing from a business perspective is oh, wait, this doesn t sell the way it used to. bow ties and earnest frowns don t sell the way they used to. he is in a necktie. feel free to correct. look, there is advertising pressure. right. but it is interesting to me, when you look at the board put the board up, the fox corporation board. rupert murdoch, paul ryan is on there. it s interesting to me paul ryan is up there. paul ryan last seen hand-ringing in tim alberta s book he was so troubled by trump s moral failings. he sits on a board that is promoting that white people are undergoing replacement and latinos and immigrants are invading the united states. paul ryan is the quintessential example of what is going to be the new thing is gosh, i just want the tax cuts, not the racism. right? and that s essentially what paul
i had the pleasure of meeting abigail just a couple of weeks ago. a very fine young lady. yeah, they should look to you for guidance. i got to tell you, though, let me ask you this, wajahat, because i think it s important to point out. this is what we did at cnn. we reached out to fox corporation board members rupert murdoch, roland hernandez and paul ryan for comment. and i just want to go through what happened when we contacted them all, okay? so hope hicks, fox s spokesperson who represents rupert did not provide comment. reached by phone, hernandez hung up, and when asked about carlson s comments, dais did not respond to requests for comments. a representative for ryan told cnn to contact fox. hicks who represents fox did not respond when asked if the former speaker had a comment. okay. then the seventh member of the fox corporation board jacques nassar could not be reached by cnn for comment. so nobody is commenting. maybe there s no accountable. i don t know what s going on.