MEDIA LOSER: Tucker Carlson The head of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, appeared on CNN Sunday to say that Tucker Carlson needs to go. During a segment about immigration with Mark Steyn last week, Carlson said that Democrats are trying to "replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World," among other things. The ADL sent a letter to Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott on Friday calling on the network to fire Carlson. over the "antisemitic, racist and toxic" commentary. Late Friday night, the Daily Show put out an absolutely brutal montage of Carlson saying things on air, captioned with similar quotes from white supremacist mass shooters. On Sunday's appearance with Brian Stelter, ADL's Greenblatt tore into Carlson. "As you pointed out, Tucker Carlson has a history of sanitizing stereotypes and of spreading this kind of poison," he said to Stelter. He even suggested advertisers should take action if the network doesn't. Carlson has long pushed the theory that Democrats support immigration because they are trying to replace real Americans with lesser people. His critics have often accused him of parroting the rhetoric of white supremacists. Now we have Carlson close to embracing that charge -- though insisting, unconvincingly, that the theory is not founded in any racism. It's a nauseating argument, and one that earned him well-founded rebuke by the ADL. "Tucker has got to go," said the ADL's Greenblatt on Sunday, capping off a bad weekend for the Fox host. |