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Tuesday, 12 March 2019

Tucker Carlson: Fox host under fire again over resurfaced racist comments

Remarks made when Carlson was a guest on a shock jock radio show, which he was a regular guest on from 2006 to 2011

Fox News host Tucker Carlson is under fire for the second time in as many days for remarks he made years ago as a guest on a shock jock radio program – this time for a barrage of racist language about the people of Iraq.

“I just have zero sympathy for them or their culture. A culture where people just don’t use toilet paper or forks,” he said of the nation in a 2006 appearance on the Bubba the Love Sponge radio show, in audio rediscovered by the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters. “They can just shut the fuck up and obey, is my view.”

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It’s never going to be a civilized country because the people aren’t civilized

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