Tucker Carlson announced Monday night (July 13, 2020) in the same hour that he was forced to address his now-former stafferโs racist and sexist message board posts, that he was going on a planned vacation. Beginning tomorrow.
Hmm.
The controversial commentator closed out his show Monday with a temporary farewell, saying he was going off the air for a โlong-plannedโ vacation to do some โtrout fishingโ and will return next Monday.
Carlsonโs announcement Monday night followed his first public acknowledgment of the firing of his showโs top writer, Blake Neff, Friday after his bigoted blog posts were revealed by CNN.
โFirst, what Blake wrote anonymously was wrong. We donโt endorse those words. They have no connection to this show. It is wrong to attack people for qualities they cannot control,โ Carlson said.
โIn this country, we judge people for what they do, not for how they were born. We often say that, because we mean it. We will continue to defend that principle, often alone among national news programs, because it is essential. Nothing is more important.โ
โBlake was horrified by the story,โ Tucker says, as though Neff didnโt write the racist/sexist posts himself. He was horrifed that he was outed as a horrible racist.
โWe donโt endorse those words. They have no connection to the show,โ Carlson claimed. This is despite the obvious fact Neffโs posts were repeatedly echoed in his showโs scripts.
Carlson then lashed out at Neffโs critics. โBlake fell short of that standard and he has paid a very heavy price for it. But we should also point out, to the ghouls now beating their chests in triumph at the destruction of a young man, that self-righteousness also has its costs,โ Carlson said.
โWe are all human. When we pretend we are holy, we are lying. When we pose as blameless in order to hurt other people, we are committing the gravest sin of all. And we will be punished for it. Thereโs no question.โ
What? Heโs blaming the media and those who have rightfully called out Neff for being racists for calling Neff out on it? No Tucker, we donโt have to feel sorry for the racist because he was caught.
Watch Tucker Carlsonโs response below.