Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson on the set of his program in New York on Oct. 1, 2018. (Jennifer S. Altman / For The Times)
Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson is causing static with the network's advertisers again.
The conservative-leaning news channel has seen several companies say they will no longer run their commercials in the top-rated prime-time program "Tucker Carlson Tonight" due to the host's recent comments on Black L***s M****r, the movement denouncing police brutality and racial bias that has gained substantial support among protesters nationwide in recent weeks following the death of G****e F***d.
While much of the country and the media have taken a sympathetic view of the demonstrations spurred by the video of Floyd, an unarmed Black man who died on a Minneapolis street with his neck under the knee of a police officer, Carlson has been a harsh skeptic.
Carlson has criticized Republican politicians who have expressed support or understanding of the protests since they began at the end of May. He also said it was "soulless" and "craven" to support Black L***s M****r and ran a scroll of celebrities who offered financial help to the cause in front of video of property set ablaze during the uprisings.
But the host, a reliably contrarian conservative voice on the network that gets the attention of President Trump, crossed a line with advertisers when he said the movement "may be a lot of things, this moment we’re living through, but it is definitely not about Black lives. Remember that when they come for you, and at this rate, they will.”
Fox News has issued a clarification of the remarks, saying the "they" referred to Democratic politicians.
After the remarks were highlighted by Media Matters and Sleeping Giants, the liberal watchdog groups that often target Fox News comments they deem inflammatory, five sponsors publicly stated they will no longer run in Carlson's program. One of them, telecom company T-Mobile, stated its intention in a tweet from its Chief Executive Mike Sievert, who wrote "Bye-Bye Tucker."
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