Tucker Carlson addresses ex-staffer's racist posts, says he will take 'long-planned' vacation

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In a brief set of prepared comments, Tucker Carlson addressed the revelation that his now-former top writer, Blake Neff, was secretly posting racist and sexist material on an online forum.

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"On Friday, many of those posts became public," Carlson said."Blake was horrified by the story and he was ashamed. Friday afternoon he resigned from his job."Carlson said the comments Neff wrote under a pseudonym on the online forum were"wrong" and that he does not"endorse those words." Carlson continued,"It is wrong to attack people for qualities they cannot control. In this country, we judge people for what they do, not for how they were born.

 

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His “apology” was actually a support for continued racism he should be fired

Disgraceful

Jealous much? You wish you had his ratings. Losers. 🤣😂

Tucker knew & holds the same beliefs ... that’s why Blake Neff worked for him in the first place

Ooops

And in his show. Or is that all Tucker?

Does this surprise anyone? TuckerCarlson needs to go. boycotttucker

And still more integrity than CNN.

TLDR edition: Carlson didn’t resign. Damn!

How's that DonLemon sexual assault story coming along? CNN

Love Tucker ❤️

Tucker can take a long walk on a short pier.

CNN, since I don't watch TV I wasn't aware of this story. Why did you not sprinkle the article with a few Neff quotes for context? Oh, that's right. Fake news outlets don't like context....

Liberals post far worse in public forums all the time, and gave up the 'in secret' part long ago.

I call BULLSHIT

CNN can’t compete with his ratings, thus, let’s trash him.

For all your Foxnews info, this is cnn

When will your writers be exposed for lying on every single article they write? Oh they’re exposed daily for inciting violence promoting looting, defunding police, no school, govt control, removal of freedoms, anti America pro communism...etc etc.

problem is solved he is fired.. Which CNN would fire some the black racists they have on their tabloid show.. that will never happen

No one is guilty by association. The guy wrote that junk under a pseudonym.

I don’t know, it all seems very on brand to me.

Corrected Trump Tweet about Alabama Senate Race

Talk about misleading.

But never really apologized

Like a little rabbit in the headlights...oeps! I put him on the plain too. Cargo bay...

It's almost like Tucker should have consulted CNN, maybe even had Tater write his remarks.

And he is still on the air. He must have known. In his statement he is making excuses for his ex writer.

In a power move, CNN is secretly trying to bring in TuckerCarlson

AKA fucker Carlson

A lot of racists seem to like & work for Tucker. 🤔

Same story, over and over again.

Jeff might’ve been ‘secretly’ posting racist & sexist comments, but Tucker was actively saying them.

Fucker Carlson is so sad he lost one of his racist buddies, now who is he gonna go to clan meetings with?

I hope he has a long nice swim with the fishies on his 'planned' vacation.

It’s great that you chopped up what he said and interjected your own commentary in between. That way we can not know what he actually said 🙄

Vaykay time!!!

be more of a surprise is a Carlson employee wasn't posting racist and sexist material

🎷

tucker does that shit on tv and i don’t see anyone stopping him

When the going gets tough they get going on VACATION! Avoidance mode to the max!

If TuckerCarlson could be a lambykins & extend his vacation until Fox News learns to report the truth, that would be great.

At least he addressed it directly. Unlike other outlets that have had employees posting anti-Semitic things or anti-white attacks — they ignore it.

Why he could not say it on the show ?

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