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Tucker Carlson's Racism Was Always Real

Tucker Carlson's Racism Was Always Real

Shocking text messages reveal Tucker Carlson really is an abhorrent racist, and it might have cost Fox News $787 million.

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May 03, 2023
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by Ben Cohen

I’ve always wondered whether Tucker Carlson’s nightly racism was real or just performance art to keep his audience entertained. I suspected it probably was legitimate, but not anywhere near as pronounced as Carlson pretended.

I’ve always pegged the former Fox host as more manipulative sociopath than heartfelt White Nationalist, but a new shocking text from the Dominion/Fox News lawsuit proves otherwise.

Tucker Carlson, it turns out, is a deeply malevolent narcissist and a genuine racist.

The story that was broken by the New York Times yesterday is stunning on a number of levels. Not only does it expose Carlson’s appalling racism, it provides a compelling explanation for why Fox settled with Dominion so quickly, and reveals why Carlson was axed almost immediately after. It also begs the important question: who is leaking these extremely damaging text messages, and why?

According to the Times, a text message Carlson sent to an unknown producer “set off a panic at the highest levels of Fox on the eve of its billion-dollar defamation trial”. For Fox to be worried about something Tucker Carlson said going public means it must have been really, really bad. And oh boy, it was.

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