Twitter wants advertisers to ditch Tucker Carlson after his latest xenophobic remarks

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Words still occasionally have consequences — even on Fox News.

After Tucker Carlson accused immigrants of making America “dirtier” on his show Thursday night, outrage quickly followed. On Friday, one of Carlson’s most prominent advertisers, Pacific Life, announced that it would be pausing advertising on the show while the company “re-evaluated” its relationship with the program.

Here is Tucker’s original comment in full:

“Nice people, no one doubts that, but as an economic matter, this is insane,” Tucker said of low-skilled immigrants. “It’s indefensible, so nobody even tries to defend it. Instead, 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.” Read more…

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12 times Fox News goofed in 2018

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The year was pretty ridonkulous across the board, but Fox News had itself a doozy of a 2018, with a string of controversies, slip-ups, feuds, and strange happenings. 

The news network has long since tied its fortunes to President Trump. They seem to sink or swim along with the president — with the occasional aside from figures like Shep Smith, the lone voices of reason among a collection of pro-Trump pundits.

From beefs with teen school shooting survivors to fear-mongering about, well, all sorts of things, it was another weird, wacky, controversial year for The House That Roger Ailes Built. Here are 12 moments that stuck out above the rest. Read more…

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Tucker Carlson’s anti-diversity rant for Fox News didn’t go over well on Twitter

Fox News host Tucker Carlson went on a rant Friday against Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and other Democrats and politicians who have called for a more diverse workforce, government, and American way of life.
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Laura Ingraham compares child detention centers to ‘summer camps’ as Fox News goes totally off the rails

Fox News has really outdone themselves this time.
While the rest of the nation waits for a soothing voice to rise above the maddening cacophony and give us direction in this moment of national crisis, two of Fox News’ highest profile on-air talents c…

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Tim Draper wore a Bitcoin tie on Fox News because fashion is dead

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I’ll say this for venture capitalist Tim Draper: he is fully committed to the gimmick. 

Appearing on the Fox News show of sentient bowtie Tucker Carlson, Draper donned a Bitcoin tie and big Bitcoin broach to discuss his plan to divide the state of California up into three separate states: Northern California, Southern California, and Bitcoinlandia California.

While the “Cal 3” plan is Draper’s big current initiative — he says the proposal has garnered enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot — Draper is a huge proponent of Bitcoin and has been for a while, having scooped up thousands of bitcoin seized from dark web marketplace Silk Road and auctioned off by the U.S. government.  Read more…

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