Anti-Immigrant Fox News Anchor Out

 

Tucker Carlson is out as the news anchor face of Fox News. As NBC News put it,

"Fox News said Monday it is parting ways with firebrand anchor Tucker Carlson, the network's most popular prime-time host and a leading voice in the modern conservative movement known for his conspiratorial rhetoric and culture-warrior provocations.

The network announced the stunning news days after it agreed to pay nearly $800 million to Dominion Voting Systems to avert a high-stakes defamation trial that had cast a shadow over the future of the network."

He was no fan of immigrants.  Jose Antonio Vargas, a news personality who is undocumented, referred to Carlson as "[t]he most anti-immigrant broadcaster on television."  People describes Carlson's controversial December 2018 suggestion on the air that immigrants make the country 'poorer and dirtier."  Several major advertisers left Fox after that comment.

 

KJ