Report: Tucker Carlson got support from Murdoch heir after saying immigration made U.S. 'dirtier'
Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch. By Erik Wemple Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry. Email Bio Follow Media critic April 3 at 1:12 PM Not only does Tucker Carlson think apologizing is for sissies, as we explained on Tuesday, but also his boss apparently isn’t big on saying sorry, either.
He also complained: “The left would very much like you to stop talking and thinking about bad decisions they’ve made over the years that they happen to be profiting from,” Carlson said on his program. “‘Shut up,’ they’re screaming, including to this show. Obviously, we won’t, and you shouldn’t either.”
When Tucker Carlson came under fire for his increasingly pointed attacks on immigration — “We have a moral obligation to admit the world’s poor, they tell us, even if it makes our country poorer and dirtier and more divided” — he received personal text messages of support from Lachlan, according to two people familiar with the texts.
It’s hard to underestimate the importance of stiff-spined text messages from the boss. When Carlson says something hateful, the impact is immediate. He hears about it on social media; his phone blows up. He even referred, obliquely, to the outrage that greeted Media Matters’ unearthing of his nasty and vile comments on a radio program a decade ago. “As anyone who has ever been caught in its gears can tell you, the great American outrage machine is a remarkable thing.
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