Fox Corp. is standing behind Tucker Carlson after the Anti-Defamation League last week called for the company to fire the opinion host for his on-air defense of the white-supremacist “great replacement” theory.
In a letter sent Sunday to the civil rights group and shared with The Associated Press, Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch said Carlson had “decried and rejected replacement theory” when he said during the Thursday evening segment, “White replacement theory? No, no, this is a voting rights question.”
The ADL argued in a reply sent Monday to Murdoch that Carlson used white-supremacist language even if he claimed he didn’t.
“Mr. Carlson’s attempt to at first dismiss this theory, while in the very next breath endorsing it under cover of ‘a voting rights question,’ does not give him free license to invoke a white supremacist trope,” wrote ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.
The replacement conspiracy theory holds that people of color are replacing white people in the West, enabled by Jews and progressive politicians.
During a guest appearance Thursday on “Fox News Primetime,” Carlson “embraced a foundational theory of white supremacy,” the ADL said.
During the show, Carlson said “the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term ‘replacement,’ if you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate of voters now casting ballots with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World.” He added that he had “less political power because they are importing a brand new electorate.”
The ADL also listed numerous instances Carlson has used anti-immigrant language in the past, including blaming immigration for making the U.S. “poorer, and dirtier, and more divided,” and questioned whether white supremacy was real.
Murdoch noted in his letter that the ADL had once honored his father, Rupert Murdoch, with a leadership award. The ADL’s Greenblatt replied that the award was granted “over a decade ago, but let me be clear that we would not do so today, and it does not absolve you, him, the network, or its board from the moral failure of not taking action against Mr. Carlson.”
A Fox spokesperson declined to comment on the ADL’s Monday letter.
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Comments (5)
INtheGAME says:
April 13, 2021 at 9:53 am
Good for FOX in supporting Tucker and this story. The leftist/marxist/dems and all of their minions cannot stand a light to be shined on them and exposed .They want the MSM and all leftist/marxist organizations to stay in lock step and deny the truth hoping that the public will not spend the time to be informed and learn the truth. Tucker please keep up the good work!!
tvn-member-3011604 says:
April 13, 2021 at 12:04 pm
If you’re inflaming the left and they’re calling for your removal using the lamest of arguments, “white-supremacist language,” then you’re doing a good thing. Keep it going, TC! We know Fox isn’t going to remove the highest rated show on cable news or change the formula. If anything, they might add a Tucker Carlson late night or early afternoon show.
SurlyBoy says:
April 13, 2021 at 3:32 pm
IntheGame and TVNmember etc. are mixing fact with opinion, truth with ideology, morality with a-morality… and right on cue, these cowardly, white supremacists trolls come out of the basement (or rather type from their basement) defending the most polarizing, divisive, and fact challenged, a-moral opinion “pundit” on so called “news” television. Either Ignorance, intellectual laziness or fear (or all three) causes them to demonize over 50% of their fellow citizens as leftist/marxist/dems… If you have a conscience, are not afraid of the “other,” believe everyone is equal,all have a right to vote in this country, skin color has nothing to do with character, etc. then according to TC’s supporters here, you are a leftist/marxist. Assuming these folks work in “mainstream” media, so I guess, the MSM isn’t as “liberal” as the extreme right wingers always claim.
[email protected] says:
April 13, 2021 at 11:57 pm
SurlyBoy doesn’t know what facts are and what is the truth the media has a liberal bias and always tries and downplay any scandal on the left and conservatives scandals are big deals to them liberal scandals, not bad conservative scandals are the worse. I wish that the media would call scandals on both sides wrong since wrong is wrong no matter what that is how I see it. I don’t watch any of the primetime opinion shows since all of them are just for getting a reaction on the right & the left is all. SurlyBoy is a troll that plays the race card and brands anyone who disagrees with them a racist and a white supremacist and can’t back it up either. You’re the liar SurlyBoy the troll that doesn’t know anything and is just a keyboard warrior.
weneedhelpnow says:
April 14, 2021 at 8:03 am
do not criticize lefties on this platform..or the lefties who run it and are sell-outs, will take down your posts