The daily show Host Trevor Noah checked in Tuesday with Tucker Carlson, “mom’s haircut model and primetime Fox News star.”
The night before, Carlson finally addressed the controversy surrounding his show’s lead writer, Blake Neff, who was fired by Fox for a history of racist, misogynistic, and homophobic online posts. “So Fox News got rid of the guy,” said Noah, “but it seems like Tucker Carlson might have mixed feelings about how it all happened.”
After telling viewers that he does not “endorse” Neff’s comments, Carlson said: “We should also point to the ghouls who are now pounding on their chests in triumph over the destruction of a young man. Then he announced that he would spend the rest of the week on a “long-planned” fishing trip.
“Okay, first of all, I love how every time Tucker Carlson gets into trouble he takes a ‘planned vacation’ in the middle of the week,” Noah said, joking that he must think, “the trout never expects you to show up on Tuesday. ” . ”
Carlson has not only announced sudden vacations amid controversy in the past, but the man who occupied his Fox News schedule before him, Bill O’Reilly, told viewers he was going on a two-week trip that he had booked “the last fall” in the midst of his own sexual misconduct scandal, and then never returned.
“Look, man, if you feel the need to say that your trip was ‘long-planned,’ then you know it definitely wasn’t,” added the host. “Because that’s never a detail that someone shares when they talk about vacation.”
Beyond that, Noah wanted to know why Carlson is “blaming the public” for the firing of his lead writer. “Fox News chose to fire this person, not the public,” he said. “And if Fox News fires you for being racist, then you are racist racist.”
But the “most confusing” part of the entire Noah story was why Neff was posting racist comments on online forums in the first place. “I mean, you already write for Tucker Carlson,” he said. Imagine writing racist shit for the Tucker Carlson show all day and they go home and write more racist shit in your spare time. That would be like relaxing before bed for a second. Daily program. ”
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