May 3, 2023

A text message sent by Tucker Carlson showed its most popular host sharing his private, inflammatory views about violence and race, and this seems to be the one Fox News was so worried about. Via the New York Times:

In the message, sent to one of his producers in the hours after violent Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Mr. Carlson described how he had recently watched a video of a group of men — Trump supporters, he said — violently attacking “an Antifa kid.”

It was “three against one, at least,” he wrote.

And then he expressed a sense of dismay that the attackers, like him, were white.

“Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously,” he wrote.

“It’s not how white men fight,” he said. But he said he found himself for a moment wanting the group to kill the person he had described as the Antifa kid.

Got that? White men fight "honorably." Like the Lost Cause!

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