Lachlan Murdoch, CEO and CEO of Fox Corp., commented on Tucker Carlson
Tucker CarlsonGaetz denied by Trump: CNN cancels culture, Q-Anon and 21st Century state: Random response Anti-defamation league calls for Tucker Carlson to be fired MORE who asked the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to fire the host of the cable network, saying he had rejected an anti-Semitic theory during a recent interview.
“A full review of the gas interview indicates that Mr. Carlson rejected and rejected the replacement theory,” Murdoch wrote in a letter to the ADL, according to a post on the ADL website.
‘As Mr. Carlson himself said during the guest interview: ‘White replacement theory? “No, no, that’s a voting right question,” Murdoch added.
A Fox Corp spokesman did not immediately respond to requests from The Hill for the full text of Murdoch’s letter or questions about who did the internal review of Carlson’s comments or when.
The CEO of Fox Corp. refers to statements Carlson made during an appearance as a guest on a Fox News program on Thursday, and not in his own top-rated program. In the comments, he said that Democratic support for immigration is intended to dilute the voting power of people already living in the United States.
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt and others criticized these comments as thinly veiled references to the “Great Replacement” theory, which Greenblatt described in a tweet as a “white supremacist premise that the white race in endangered by an increasing tide of non-whites. “
.@TuckerCarlson: “Replacement theory” is a white supremacist premise that the white race is endangered by an increasing tide of non-whites.
It is anti-Semitic, racist and toxic. It informed the ideology of mass shooters in El Paso, Christchurch and Pittsburgh.
Tucker has to go. https://t.co/FSvgNfR1KO– Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) 9 April 2021
According to an ADL spokeswoman, the group also asked Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott to remove Carlson. This is the first time he’s doing this.
In the ADL report that Murdoch quoted, Greenblatt praised the CEO of Fox Corp and his father, Rupert Murdoch, for their past support to the ADL, but said that they did not absolve them of responsibility for Carlson’s statements. not.
‘I thank you for your words of respect for ADL. Although I appreciate the sentiment that you and your father continue to support ADL’s mission, the support of Mr. Carlson’s embrace of the ‘great replacement theory’ in direct contrast to that mission, ‘Greenblatt wrote.
‘As you noted in your letter, ADL honored your father a decade ago, but let me be clear that we would not do it today, and that does not absolve you, him, the network, or his counsel from moral failure. of not taking action against mr. Carlson does not. ”
Greenblatt added that given Lachlan’s defense of Carlson it is clear that whoever reviewed the host’s comments completely misunderstood why they were so badly criticized.
“While your answer calls for a ‘complete overview’ of the interview, the judges seem to have missed the point here,” Greenblatt wrote. “Replacement theory is a concept that is discussed almost daily in online forums full of anti-Semitism and racism. is.”
“I do not know which experts you consulted in your review, but as you rightly noted in your letter, we are the experts,” Greenblatt added.
Carlson on Monday directed the reaction directly to his comments on his Fox News show “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
‘But why all the anger? When someone says something you think is wrong, is your first instinct to hurt them? Probably not, ”Carlson said.
“If you hear something that you think is wrong, try to correct it. But correcting the facts is hardly the point of this exercise. The point is to prevent unauthorized conversations from starting in the first place, ”he added.
“Demographic change is the key to the political ambitions of the Democratic Party,” Carlson said before entering a lengthy monologue that provides evidence for his theory that “to win and retain power, Democrats intend to to change the population of the country. ‘