Ilhan Omar Floats Ad Boycott of Tucker Carlson: Fox News Gives ‘Nightly Platform to White Supremacist Rhetoric’
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) took her feud with Tucker Carlson up a notch on Wednesday by floating an advertiser boycott against the Fox News host.
Tuesday night, Carlson went after Omar on his show by saying she “hates” America, calling her a “living fire alarm,” and saying she’s “living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country.” The segment has been criticized for being “flat-out racist,” and Omar initially retaliated by calling Carlson a “racist fool…weeping about my presence in Congress.”
In response to a tweet listing advertisers on Carlson’s show, Omar suggested they drop his program, saying they “should not be underwriting hate speech.”
“Fox News is now giving a nightly platform to white supremacist rhetoric,” she wrote. “It’s dangerous.”
Fox News is now giving a nightly platform to white supremacist rhetoric. It’s dangerous.
Advertisers should not be underwriting hate speech. https://t.co/iQdMJ0heXR
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) July 10, 2019
She also joked that Carlson’s monologue “is what happens when your xenophobia cuts off the air circulation in your brain.”
Oh lord!
“immigrants-might-criticize-us reason” is the latest reason we need strict vetting of immigrants according to racist fool like Tucker.
This is what happens when your xenophobia cuts off the air circulation in your brain ? https://t.co/Ae9KxAYu69
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) July 10, 2019
UPDATE 4:45 p.m.: Fox News responded to Omar with a statement from Tucker Carlson’s senior executive producer Justin Wells:
“Anyone who values democracy and free expression should be gravely concerned when members of Congress demand that their critics be silenced. Tucker will address this on tonight’s show.”
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