The controversy surrounding The Heritage Foundation and Tucker Carlson / Nick Fuentes continues to burn. It appears from people who supposedly have knowledge that the President of Heritage Kevin Roberts survived an attempted ouster and is standing by Tucker though it’s unlikely Heritage will work with him in the future.
But the controversy is not going away. Prior coverage:
If anything it’s shifting from Fuentes and Roberts’ statement to Tucker as the focus. Tucker and his supporters are trying to create a narrative that Tucker is a free speech hero (classic crisis management tactic). Some big names, like Megyn Kelly, are standing by him (he will be on stage with her on her tour on November 5) and also pretending it’s just about free speech.
Tucker’s supporters also are asserting this is a backdoor way of attacking JD Vance.
It’s baffling how Tucker has such a stranglehold on big influencers and podcasters – everyone seems afraid.
But there are even more people speaking out.
I was on Newsmax this morning talking about the Tucker problem:
“There is an influential group who are trying to destroy the MAGA movement, who hate Donald Trump because they think he’s too pro-Israel and he’s too close to Jews. This is really a malicious thing and Tucker Carlson is a major problem. And I wish President Trump, who’s been great on so many things, would speak out about it because Tucker is destroying everything President Trump has achieved because he’s going to end up putting a Democrat back in the White House.”
More important, Ben Shapiro released a long dissection of Tucker. Here is the full thing, focus on the intro and the ending:
(Transcipt excerpts auto-generated, may contain transcription errors.)
“Hey folks. I want to do something different. On today’s show, we are going to cover one topic in depth. That topic is, I think, the most important thing happening in the country. It was a hot topic last week, but I wanted to take some time to really gather my thoughts and speak on it in coherent fashion, holistic fashion.That topic is the fragmentation of the political right. That fragmentation is being caused purposefully by a splinter faction of people led by a young man named Nick Fuentes. They call themselves the Groypers. They’re white supremacists. They hate women, Jews, Hindus, many types of Christians, brown people of a wide variety of backgrounds, blacks, America’s foreign policy, and America’s constitution. They admire Hitler and Stalin, and that splinter faction is now being facilitated and normalized within the mainstream Republican party.The main agent in that normalization is Tucker Carlson, who is an intellectual coward, a dishonest interlocutor, and a terrible friend, and Tucker Carlson last week was aided abetted, celebrated for normalizing Nazism within the Republican Party, by the mainstay organization of the traditional right, The Heritage Foundation.”
“Americans are not pro segregation, pro rape, anti-woman, pro child marriage, anti-black, anti Jew, anti-Indian, anti-Latino, anti-constitution, pro Hitler nut jobs like Nick Fuentes and Americans are not pro Putin, pro Iran, pro-China, pro Venezuela, pro Kamas, pro Fuentes, prot, idiots like Tucker Carlson. They hate this vit garbage. If Republicans decide to cower before the likes of neo-Nazis and their propagandize, they deserve to lose and they will lose. neo-Nazis and their propagandize are not Republicans. They’re not America first. They’re not maga. They sure as hell aren’t conservative. These people aren’t to my right. They’re not attached in any way to the fundamental principles of conservatism, and these people have already declared themselves to be my enemies. I’d be a fool not to take them seriously. If they get their way, they will hollow out the Republican party, lead it to electoral catastrophe and empty it, and the country of any semblance of decency in the procesMy answer is no. No, to the Groypers, no to their publicists like Tucker Carlson. No to those who champion them, no to demoralization, no to bigotry and anti meritocratic horse. No to anti-Americanism. No.This is our country. This is our party, and this is our conservative movement, and I will not stand by while it is handed over to those who betray the most fundamental principles I’ve spent my entire life defending and advocating. That is a path to defeat and a path to moral oblivion. I reject it because if we lose the right, we will lose to the left, and either way, we’ll lose the country. I’m Ben Shapiro.”
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