Prediction: How Tucker Carlson Is Going To Spin The Resignation Of His White Supremacist Writer

[Celerity]

The top writer for Tucker Carlson, Blake Neff, turns out to be a vicious White Supremacist. Will Carlson apologize?

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Unsurprisingly, the top writer for Tucker Carlson turns out to be a vicious White Supremacist who has has been posting grotesque comments on an online forum for racists and misogynists. For those of us who have followed Carlson during the Trump years, this news is about as shocking as Donald Trump’s mishandling of the Coronavirus. Nevertheless, the news has shocked the industry and amplified calls for Carlson to be dismissed from Fox News. Here is how the story unfolded at CNN over the weekend:

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.

The full report on Neff’s history of racism and misogyny makes for deeply unpleasant reading, but you can see the same seething white hatred daily on Carlson’s show. Neff, who resigned Friday, articulated online what Carlson basically alludes to every night — that white America is under threat from inferior races.

Carlson’s White Nationalist Career

Carlson’s role in the Trump era has been to translate the ugly racism festering in internet chatrooms around the country into palatable talking points for Republican voters. He has helped to make racism acceptable again and provided a crucial buffer for Trump, who is able to retain total control over traditional Republican voters, because people like Carlson make it acceptable for them to do so. Carlson is apparently set to address the comments of his former writer on his show tonight. The stakes are incredibly high and what he says could well determine the future of his show. Having already lost millions in advertising dollars for his racist dogwhistle monologues, Carlson has a very delicate needle to thread with bosses at Fox News. He has the ear of the president and is the highest rated show on cable news, so he has leverage. But Trump is likely headed towards a historic loss in November, and White Nationalism might suddenly look like very bad business for the corporate news behemoth. Carlson has gotten away with being a race baiting blowhard because he understands the current political power dynamic incredibly astutely. As Trump ascended, so too did Carlson’s race baiting. But power dynamics can change quickly, and Carlson may not have as much leverage as he believes he does.

What will Carlson do?

Those expecting contrition and and unreserved apology from the host will almost certainly be left wanting. Carlson, who recently smeared double amputee Iraq war veteran Sen. Tammy Duckworth for “hating America” and being a “coward” because she would not come on his show, is not one to apologize. Why? Because Carlson believes there is still huge currency in “owning the libs” and being a racist. Just as Donald Trump speaks only to his base, Carlson speaks only to aggrieved white people who tune in to watch him insult women and minorities. They pay his bills and Carlson gives them exactly what they want. He might think Trump will lose in November, but he is gambling that White Supremacy isn’t going anywhere. Carlson will likely attempt to reframe the controversy as another attempt by the far left to destroy America and end his show. Carlson regularly criticizes “cancel culture” so has prepped his audience well for what he is about to say. He will condemn his writer’s words (but not apologize for them), and then tell his audience that the controversy is really a distraction from the dastardly plot concocted by radical liberals to destroy America. Yes, his writer “said something naughty”, but liberals are trying to silence free speech, and that is the bigger issue etc, etc. This is the same playbook Carlson uses over and over and over again to make his audience forget how utterly disastrous the Trump administration is.

The Conservative Playbook: Never Apologize For Anything

“The core appeal of Trump was, if things ever started to fall apart, he would defend you,” Carlson said during a monologue on his show recently. “Yes, he was loud and crude. Most bodyguards are. Only a man like Donald Trump was tough enough to fight the creeping authoritarianism of the education cartel in corporate America.” “If Trump got elected, you could say what you really believed,” he went on. “The basic promise of America could be restored, you could live with dignity. Under Donald Trump, you wouldn't be forced to mouth the lyrics to some repulsive little orthodoxy you hate. You could declare out loud that all lives matter because all lives do matter. God made us all. And if you can't say that, what's the point of living here?” No mention of the 130,000 dead Americans under Trump’s watch. No mention of Trump’s smearing of military servicemen and women. No mention of the thousands and thousands lies Trump tells on a monthly basis, and no mention of his provably treasonous behavior. Americans shouldn’t be concerned about any of that. Instead they should be concerned with whether they can say “all lives matter” after a black man is brutally lynched by a white policeman live on the internet.

Carlson deals in deception and manipulation. More specifically, he deceives his viewers in order to manipulate them. He creates a fictitious world where the white majority are the persecuted and white culture is in danger of being wiped out by the rampaging “education cartel” (whatever that is), then convinces them not to pay attention to Trump’s grotesque incompetence. Don’t look there because the liberals are far, far more dangerous. And this is what he will do tonight. Don’t mind the disgusting White Supremacist I hired to write most of my material because the liberals are so much worse. There are apparently growing calls for Tucker Carlson to run for president in 2024 should support for Trump collapse completely before November. Carlson may not have any intention of running for office, but he has a political base of his own that gives him real power in the right wing media world. A Republican strategist close to the White House told Politico recently that: “If you are a Republican politician and you want to know where Republican voters are, all you have to do is watch Tucker Carlson every night.” Carlson knows this and is gambling that the connection he has with Republican voters will be enough to help him survive this scandal. They have given Trump a pass for three and a half years and ensured total obedience from the party and the right wing media, so Carlson’s thinking will almost certainly prove to be correct. If you don’t believe Tucker Carlson is the most dangerous person in America right now, tune in tonight and you’ll see exactly why.

[onecaliberal]

1. The sad thing is everything Blake wrote, Tucker says on the air every day.

It’s hypocritical and absurd to fire him and act as though tucker is some paragon of virtue. He’s been spreading hateful white supremacist bullshit for years.

[flibbitygiblets]

2. apparently he's taking a "long planned" vacay

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142536856