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Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Tucker Carlson Doubles-Down After FOX News Expresses Support


After Fox Corp. defended Tucker Carlson over calls for his firing last week, the Fox News Channel host doubled down Monday on comments about voter replacement that started the controversy, USAToday reports.

In an unusually long, 20-minute monologue that opened "Tucker Carlson Tonight," the host of Fox's most-watched program called his critics "the usual chorus of hyper-aggressive liars" and said Democrats support mass immigration because it increases their electoral advantage and power.

He said Democratic political hopes are based on demographics: "In order to win and maintain power, Democrats plan to change the population of the country."

The Anti-Defamation League last week called for Fox News to fire Carlson, saying he "embraced a foundational theory of white supremacy," the“great replacement” theory,  during an appearance on "Fox News Primetime" Thursday.

The replacement conspiracy theory holds that people of color are replacing white people in the West, enabled by Jews and progressive politicians.

Tucker Carlson received Fox corporate backing after the Anti-Defamation League called for his firing following on-air comments related to 'replacement' theory.

In a letter sent Sunday to the civil rights group and shared with the Associated Press, Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch defended Carlson, saying he 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.

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