Carlson: I’ve Never Spoken To A White Supremacist

The Hill reports:

Fox News host Tucker Carlson swatted away suggested ties to white supremacist ideology when pressed about the rhetoric on his nightly show during a tense interview at an event on Thursday.

“I’ve never had a white supremacist work for me. I don’t think I’ve ever talked to a white supremacist,” Carlson said during event hosted by Semafor, a new media company founded by journalist Ben Smith and media executive Justin Smith. “I’m not sure what that means. I know it’s a slur and the worst thing that a person can be. I don’t really understand the terms.”

Smith pressed Carlson specifically about a number of staffers that formerly worked on his show, who were found to have posted on white supremacist message boards, something Carlson argued at the time he did not know about.

Read the full article. The interview is getting lots of criticism but the host did get in that Carlson has approvingly cited the so-called Great Replacement Theory over 400 times in the last few years.