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Tucker Carlson's top writer resigns after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in online forum
By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business
Updated 7:33 PM ET, Fri July 10, 2020
New York (CNN Business)Editor's note: This article quotes racist, homophobic and sexist language, much of which has not been censored.
The top writer for Fox News host Tucker Carlson has for years been using a pseudonym to post bigoted remarks on an online forum that is a hotbed for racist, sexist, and other offensive content, CNN Business learned this week.
Just this week, the writer, Blake Neff, responded to a thread started by another user in 2018 with the subject line, "Would u let a JET BLACK congo n****er do lasik eye surgery on u for 50% off?" Neff wrote, "I wouldn't get LASIK from an Asian for free, so no." (The subject line was not censored on the forum.) On June 5, Neff wrote, "Black doods staying inside playing Call of Duty is probably one of the biggest factors keeping crime down." On June 24, Neff commented, "Honestly given how tired black people always claim to be, maybe the real crisis is their lack of sleep." On June 26, Neff wrote that the only people who care about changing the name of the NFL's Washington Redskins are "white libs and their university-'educated' pets."
And over the course of five years, Neff has maintained a lengthy thread in which he has derided a woman and posted information about her dating life that has invited other users to mock her and invade her privacy. There has at times also been overlap between some material he posted or saw on the forum and Carlson's show.
CNN Business contacted Neff for comment Thursday night. After he or someone acting on his behalf passed that email to Fox News spokespeople, a network spokesperson on Friday morning told CNN Business that Neff had resigned. A Fox News spokesperson said Carlson could not be reached for comment. Neff did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Neff worked at Fox News for nearly four years and was Carlson's top writer. Previously, he was a reporter at The Daily Caller, a conservative news outlet that Carlson co-founded. In a recent article in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Neff said, "Anything [Carlson is] reading off the teleprompter, the first draft was written by me." He also acknowledged the show's influence, telling the magazine, "We're very aware that we do have that power to sway the conversation, so we try to use it responsibly."
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marmar
(77,088 posts)He essentially says the same stuff on air, in a gentler way.
lame54
(35,313 posts)Not saving the best material for the show
marmar
(77,088 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,965 posts)No longer hiding behind the relative safety of a pseudonym. Emphasize the ties to a wannabee rising repug star (fucker Carlson).
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)tulipsandroses
(5,124 posts)Why pretend that racism is not allowed at Fox?
JI7
(89,261 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,147 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,189 posts)Mopar151
(9,992 posts)The Dartmouth Review staff were darlings of the Old Right, who were wont to attack "leftist" professors for "thinking too much"!
Shaddox
(384 posts)Nazis dont quit unless the writing is on the board.
Jim__
(14,082 posts)Yes, I'm kidding.