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brooklynite

(94,333 posts)
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 08:54 AM Jul 2020

Tucker Carlson's top writer resigns after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in online forum

Source: CNN

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.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/media/tucker-carlson-writer-blake-neff/index.html

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Tucker Carlson's top writer resigns after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in online forum (Original Post) brooklynite Jul 2020 OP
So, the pseudonym was not so secret, after all. JustABozoOnThisBus Jul 2020 #1
If you're a typesetter Harker Jul 2020 #21
Incel JI7 Jul 2020 #2
+1. He ought to get himself some Nazi tattoos to broaden his career options with racist groups dalton99a Jul 2020 #6
Well if they play NFL this year he could get a job @ strong safety. Botany Jul 2020 #8
Pretty much true. He featured in a Washington Post dating article muriel_volestrangler Jul 2020 #18
This message was self-deleted by its author CatLady78 Jul 2020 #19
+1. There was no second date dalton99a Jul 2020 #22
Poor Widdle Bay-Bee, He's discovered the Luke 8:17 Effect Vogon_Glory Jul 2020 #3
Why was he fired? He's Carlson's mini-me. SharonClark Jul 2020 #4
Fox News said he resigned dalton99a Jul 2020 #7
He will get picked up by OANN, News Max, or by Louie Gohmert's office. Botany Jul 2020 #9
He works for fucker Carlson and bothers to try to keep it secret?? ResistantAmerican17 Jul 2020 #5
Tucker had a writer? Mz Pip Jul 2020 #10
That surprised me too. Who knew he needed help in being a bigot? muriel_volestrangler Jul 2020 #17
Ignorant Asshole MLAA Jul 2020 #11
I'm surprised the motherfucker didn't get a promotion and a raise. (nt) Paladin Jul 2020 #12
The article at the link is worth the entire read. yardwork Jul 2020 #13
I'm sure he'll find a job in the White House with Stephen Miller writing white power speeches kimbutgar Jul 2020 #14
A. Tucker has writers? B. Fox didn't give him a bonus instead of firing him? C. I can't even. catrose Jul 2020 #15
If they're going to do that... jmowreader Jul 2020 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author CatLady78 Jul 2020 #20

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,321 posts)
1. So, the pseudonym was not so secret, after all.
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 09:01 AM
Jul 2020

I guess even the ultra-double-top-secret pseudonym "JustABozoOnThisBus" had better mind its "P"s and "Q"s.

Whatever are those darn "P"s and "Q"s.

Botany

(70,447 posts)
8. Well if they play NFL this year he could get a job @ strong safety.
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 09:59 AM
Jul 2020

He looks just like I thought he should look. Dartmouth has to be damn proud of their product.


muriel_volestrangler

(101,265 posts)
18. Pretty much true. He featured in a Washington Post dating article
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 04:30 PM
Jul 2020

and the results were a man who thought he was hard done by because he doesn't look like Brad Pitt, but thinks women would submit to him if he did. And who stays away from women, since they don't fall at his feet when he's an asshole.

In 2017, Neff was featured in the Washington Post's Date Lab — a series in which D.C. professionals are set up with one another, go on a date and then report back.

He told his blonde date that he preferred brunettes. When he saw her drinking a cocktail at the bar while waiting for him because he was late, he told her that alcohol was poison. On the subject of hobbies, he said "Most of my hobbies allow me to escape women." He brought a giant book about Catherine The Great with him.

When his date said she "wasn't looking for a relationship right now" as they said goodbye, he told the Post that his first thought was "If I were Brad Pitt, you would be."


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Neff mentioned, both in that article and on the message board that he doesn't date much. It seems fair to say that this is probably one of the few positive things he has done for this world.

https://www.wonkette.com/who-would-have-believed-this-woman-hating-racist-was-writing-tucker-carlsons-show

Response to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #18)

Vogon_Glory

(9,109 posts)
3. Poor Widdle Bay-Bee, He's discovered the Luke 8:17 Effect
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 09:06 AM
Jul 2020

Now he's discovered something that Democrats have learned for years. After twenty plus years, Democrats have learned the bitter lesson that anything, anything, no matter how small, no matter how picayune, no matter how far out of context, will eventually be picked up from print and the Net and put on public display.

Tough kibbles, Blakey! You did it to yourself!


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Luke Chapter 8 verse 17

"For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light."


And you thought that just applied to Democrats and liberals, didn't you?

ResistantAmerican17

(3,795 posts)
5. He works for fucker Carlson and bothers to try to keep it secret??
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 09:07 AM
Jul 2020

Why ??? SMH... a badge of honor for the bow tie boy man.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,265 posts)
17. That surprised me too. Who knew he needed help in being a bigot?
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 04:25 PM
Jul 2020

I really thought Fox News was about news, albeit with a horrible right wing bias. I thought the idea was that they pretended to be journalists - you know, people who write their own material.

kimbutgar

(21,055 posts)
14. I'm sure he'll find a job in the White House with Stephen Miller writing white power speeches
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 11:51 AM
Jul 2020

For mf45 .

jmowreader

(50,528 posts)
16. If they're going to do that...
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 02:37 PM
Jul 2020

They should consider going through Fox News' employee roster and removing ALL the racists and sexists from their ranks - starting with Tucker Carlson. They can go to work for the Daily Stormer, who would be pleased to have them.

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