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| Tucker Carlson feeling the heat after saying offensive remarks about immigrants on his white nationalist program. |
The propaganda arm of Donald J. Trump has peddled white nationalism for years. The primetime lineup featuring Tucker Carlson, Sean "Softball" Hannity and Laura Ingraham.
These three agitators have constantly divided America for a profit.
It's time.
Now, it's Tucker Carlson who is facing an advertiser boycott after he made racist remarks on Fox News last week.
"Our leaders demand that you shut up and accept this. We have a moral obligation to admit the world's poor, they tell us, even if it makes our own country poorer, and dirtier, and more divided. Immigration is a form of atonement.
Previous leaders of our country committed sins -- we must pay for those sins by welcoming an endless chain of migrant caravans. That's the argument they make.
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What is more predictable is how leaders of the caravan are starting to talk. Suddenly, they sound like community college professors from Long Beach. Entitled, cut off from reality, and highly aggressive.
Yesterday a group of leaders of the caravan marched into the U.S. consulate in Mexico, and demanded $50,000 to return to their own countries.
Huddled masses yearning to breathe free? Nope, cynical shakedown artists who have been watching too much CNN.
No surprise there. When rich liberals tell you that America owes you a comfortable life, nobody should be shocked when you believe them."
Media Matters for America, Sleeping Giants and Grab Your Wallet are pushing forth.
We are seeing the destruction of Tucker Carlson. His remarks on immigrants were considered too extreme for advertisers. Now with his potential fall, who will be the next conservative agitator to fall?
Tucker Carlson Tonight became a fixture among white extremists. The conservative agitator would speak the language to white extremists.
Carlson's show has lost at least six advertisers since his outburst last Thursday, during which he claimed immigrants make the U.S. "poor and dirtier." Five days later on Monday, the far-right pundit doubled down, telling viewers, "The left would very much like you to stop talking and thinking about bad decisions they've made over the years." He continued, "'Shut up,' they're screaming, including to this show. Obviously, we won’t and you shouldn't either."
Reacting on Friday, the insurance company, Pacific Life, was the first to pull their ads, NY Mag reported. "Our customer base and our workforce reflect the diversity of our great nation, something we take great pride in," the company said in a statement.
On Monday, five more companies canceled ads. The job listing website Indeed announced on Twitter that it "is not currently advertising on Tucker Carlson and has no plans to advertise on this program in the future." The online marketplace Minted; SmileDirectClub; Nautilus, Inc.; and NerdWallet also pulled their ads.
On Tuesday, Just For Men said it would no longer advertise with the show, and IHOP pulled its ads, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Meanwhile, a number of advertisers, such as Mitsubishi and John Deere, are still with Carlson’s show. A Mitsubishi spokesperson told The Daily Beast that advertising "is determined based on demographics and psychographics, not politics," adding that the company would continue monitoring the situation and make adjustments where needed.
Over the last year, Carlson has peddled white nationalist talking points to his viewers, including the "white genocide" conspiracy theory. Additionally, he has published posts by white nationalists on his website the Daily Caller, including from Jason Kessler, who planned the deadly 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville. The post has since been removed. Carlson also has received praise from white nationalists David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, and alt-right head Richard Spencer.
In a statement on Tuesday afternoon, a Fox News spokesperson said, "We cannot and will not allow voices like Tucker Carlson to be censored by agenda-driven intimidation efforts from the likes of Moveon.org, Media Matters and Sleeping Giants."
The Fox News spokesperson added, "While we do not advocate boycotts, these same groups never target other broadcasters and operate under a grossly hypocritical double standard given their intolerance to all opposing points of view."
The Fox News spokesperson said that all of the advertisers were moving their commercials to other shows on the network and that as a result no revenue had been lost.
In the past, such boycotts haven't endured. Sean "Softball" Hannity lost advertisers like Dollar Shave Club last year after defending the alleged child molester Roy Moore, but the company went right back to running ads following Moore's election loss.
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