During his show on Monday night, Tucker Carlson He briefly addressed a staff member who resigned on Friday after CNN discovered his racist and sexist comments. But while he said he and the show do not “endorse” the staff member’s comments, Carlson kept his strongest words to the “demons” who, he said, were “hitting their chests in triumph over the destruction of a young man.”
“Self-righteousness also has its costs,” said Carlson. “We are all human. When we pretend to be holy, we are lying. When we pose as innocents to hurt other people, we commit the gravest sin of all, and we will be punished for it.”
Carlson said at the end of the program that he would go on a “long-planned” vacation to “fish for trout.”
CNN unearthed the posts, which were written by Blake Neff on a blog popular with law students. Over the course of five years and as recently as this month, Neff had used racist language and taunted women.
Neff joined “Tucker Carlson Tonight” in 2017 after working on the conservative website The Daily Caller, founded by Carlson.
According to CNN, Carlson had praised Neff as a “wonderful writer” in the past and credited him with recognitions for his book.
Neff resigned on Friday. In a memo sent to employees on Saturday, Fox News executives called Neff’s posts “horrendous and deeply offensive,” according to The New York Times.
Carlson said “we do not endorse” Neff’s words and said “they have no connection to the program.”
“It is wrong to attack people for qualities that they cannot control,” Carlson said. “In this country, we judge people by what they do, not by how they were born. We often say that because we mean it and we will continue to defend that principle, often only among national news programs, because it is essential: nothing is More importantly, Blake did not meet that standard and has paid a high price for it. ”
Various advertisers, including T-Mobile and Papa John’s, they distanced of Carlson in June after incendiary comments he made about the protests after George Floyd’s death. When asked the next day by a Twitter user if Carlson’s message was compatible with T-Mobile, CEO Mike Sievert replied, “It definitely isn’t. Bye Tucker Carlson! #BlackLivesMatter.”
Carlson also sparked controversy last week when he described senator tammy duckworth, who is among those mentioned as a possible vice presidential election for presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, as one of the people who “hate the United States.” Duckworth is an Iraq war veteran whose legs were amputated after a helicopter crash.
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