Media Matters for America transcribed more than a dozen instances of the Fox News host calling into the popular radio program the Bubba the Love Sponge Show between 2006 and 2011.
Tucker Carlson speaks during a debate at Politicon in Los Angeles in October. By Allyson Chiu Allyson Chiu Reporter Email Bio Follow March 11 at 4:42 AM Tucker Carlson refused to apologize Sunday after audio surfaced of him degrading women and airing controversial opinions about statutory rape and underage marriage on a radio program between 2006 and 2011. Instead, the Fox News host plugged his prime-time show and urged his detractors to come on as guests.
“Now this guy may be . . ., may be a child rapist,” Carlson said. “I’m just telling you that arranging a marriage between a 16-year-old and a 27-year-old is not the same as pulling a stranger off the street and raping her.” At the time, as the show’s co-host noted, Jeffs had already been convicted of being an accomplice to rape for his role in arranging a marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin.
In other segments, Carlson called for the elimination of rape shield laws, which are intended to protect the identities and histories of victims of sex crimes and engaged in a conversation about young girls and their sexual behavior. His criticism of women extended to prominent figures, such as Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, HuffPost’s former editor in chief Arianna Huffington and TV host Alexis Stewart, Martha Stewart’s daughter.
The audio from Media Matters swiftly went viral. By early Monday, a video shared by the nonprofit to Twitter had been watched more than 2 million times and Carlson was trending with tens of thousands of mentions, many slamming the host as “sexist” and condemning his views.Hey, @TuckerCarlson. Shame on you. You have daughters. https://t.co/HX5ePEMgCN
— ErikWemple March 11, 2019 And that's not even considering all the garden-variety sexism and misogyny that Carlson has foisted on the public over the years at the Daily Caller and Fox News: https://t.co/0FW7hSJeRh — Ken Olin March 11, 2019 If you want Tucker Carlson to pay the appropriate price for this horror show, the only language Fox speaks is money. Boycott his advertisers until they pull support. https://t.co/fTVNYSowea
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