Fox News host Tucker Carlson is on the warpath after the Anti-Defamation League has called for him to be fired.
The ADL accused Carlson of promoting the “great replacement” theory which it called a white nationalist talking point, The Daily Beast reported.
Carlson said that Democrats want to replace white conservative voters with third-world immigrants of color who would more readily go along with their agenda.
“In political terms, this policy is called ‘the great replacement,’ the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from far-away countries,” he said. “They brag about it all the time, but if you dare to say it’s happening they will scream at you with maximum hysteria.”
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblat renewed his calls to have Carlson fired from Fox News.
“It cannot be overstated enough,” he said to The Daily Beast. “For Tucker Carlson, host of one of the most-watched news programs in the country, to use his platform as a megaphone to spread the toxic, antisemitic, and xenophobic ‘great replacement theory’ is a repugnant and dangerous abuse of his platform.”
“If it somehow wasn’t clear enough before to the executives at Fox News that Carlson was openly embracing white nationalist talking points, let last night’s episode be case and point. We reiterate our call to Fox News and Lachlan Murdoch: Tucker Carlson must go,” he said.
Greenblatt worked for the Obama White House as the Director of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation.
Murdoch defended Carlson to the ADL in a letter, arguing that Carlson was simply talking about voter rights.
“Concerning the segment of ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ on April 8th, however, we respectfully disagree,” he said in response to the ADL. “A full review of the guest interview indicates that Mr. Carlson decried and rejected replacement theory. As Mr. Carlson himself stated during the guest interview: ‘White replacement theory? No, no, this is a voting rights question.’”
And Carlson responded to the calls for his firing when he spoke to Megyn Kelly on her Sirius XM show, Mediaite reported.
“Sure enough, on cue, the ADL comes out and comes after you,” Kelly said.
“The ADL?” Carlson said. “Oh, f**k them.”
“I know, I don’t even want to be the one to tell you because you do a good job of avoiding it,” Kelly said.
“I didn’t even know that. I mean what liars,” he said.
“Well, they want you to be fired. They’re pushing yet again for you to be fired, Tucker. It’s — it’s constant,” Kelly said.
“THE ADL was such a noble organization that had a very specific goal, which was to fight anti-Semitism. That’s a virtuous goal. I think they were pretty successful over the years. Now it’s operated by a guy who’s just a Democratic Party, just an apparatchik of the Democratic Party. And I have to say, it’s important for people with moral authority to stand up and say that, you know, because it’s very corrosive for someone to take the residual moral weight of an organization that he inherited and use it for partisan ends, which is what they’re doing,” Carlson said.
“So the great replacement theory is, in fact, not a theory. It’s something that the Democrats brag about constantly up to and including the President. And in one sentence at that, it’s this: rather than convince the current population that our policies are working and they should vote for us as a result, we can’t be bothered to do that. We’re instead going to change the composition of the population and bring in people who will vote for us. So that’s, there isn’t actually inherently a racial component to it, and it’s nothing to do with antisemitism,” he said.
“It’s a political point you’re trying to make.,” Kelly said.
“Yeah I don’t know what the ADL is doing weighing in on this. It has, it has nothing to do — that’s just insane. And obviously, I’m not going to stop saying it because they’re saying it,” he said.
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