The Heritage Foundation’s Kevin Roberts is walking back his defense of Tucker Carlson.
Carlson caused a major stir on the right last week when he decided to interview Nick Fuentes, a known white supremacist and Hitler fan. The interview was immediately flamed by conservative Jews, who condemned the ex–Fox News host’s decision to elevate Fuentes’s talking points.
Despite the opposition, Roberts released a video on X Thursday in support of Carlson and Fuentes, noting that while he disagreed with Fuentes’s beliefs, he did not believe that the “venomous” coalition “cancelling” the Christian nationalist Holocaust-denier had an appropriate reaction to the interview.
Since then, the Heritage Foundation has been embroiled in internal controversy, with at least one staffer exiting the institution over the mess. Roberts addressed the schism Wednesday.
“I made a mistake and I let you down and I let down this institution. Period. Full Stop,” the conservative think tank’s president told employees at an all-staff meeting, according to The Washington Free Beacon.
Oh no. You can’t anger your Zionist masters
Question: is Tucker sanewashing Fuentes by giving him an in to mainstream media? Or is Fuentes “nazi-washing” Tucker and helping him out by giving him access to Fuentes’ audience? For a much better breakdown than I can give, Dan & Jordan at Knowledge Fight just covered this in episode 1089.
Tucker has already debased himself, as if that were possible, by interviewing the likes of Alex Jones (who of course has had Fuentes on his show multiple times). It’s not like he’s any more guilty by direct association. Given that 30-40% of young republican DC staffers may be groypers (not exactly a scientific poll but I mean…doesn’t this comport with recent experience), is it surprising that he’s cozying up to a literal nazi in a desperate attempt to stay relevant to the next generation of republicans?
And as Knowledge Fight (honestly pretty
exhaustinglyexhaustively) shows: Fuentes has been making the rounds lately. All the right-wing grifters and shitheels have had him on—they are fully on board with the sentiment. This is precisely what 4chan circa 2016 hath wrought: the old guys are still “hiding their power level” but the young republicans are out and proud nazis. This is just Tucker tapping into that base. For money.As bleak as all that is, I still hold on to hope that there are enough of us who have resisted the brainrot and redpill propaganda enough to see these goofy assholes for what they are. Because listening to what they have to say should be a potent vaccine against their ideas. If you’ve got even a shred of humanity left in you.
…with at least one staffer exiting the institution over the mess.
The staffer reportedly asked, “Are we the baddies?” as he tendered his resignation.
Galaxy brain figures out that when they lay with pigs, they get covered in shit. Whoda thunk it.
“I made a mistake and I let you down and I let down this institution. Period. Full Stop,” the conservative think tank’s president told employees at an all-staff meeting, according to The Washington Free Beacon.
“…I let the mask slip off a little too quickly. We have a clear plan and I just got so excited about the suffering of the poor I thought we were already on phase 6. This is a premature failure on my part, not the organization and its mission. I’d also like to take a moment to address our Jewish members and donors…‘It was just a prank, bro’. I hope this has addressed any fears that may have been raised that we are secretly white supremacists. Please continue on with the good work of phase 4.” - Roberts probably
Imagine being evil enough to work for the Heritage Foundation, but having to leave in disgust, on account of them being far too evil for you to tolerate.
just like when the nazis during ww2 viewed americans policies against POCs were too far gone for thier liking.
“Shhhh we don’t talk about that in these parts, Dr. Von Braun.”
Not too evil, just a different kind of evil. Like my daughter not liking Strawberry Ice cream. Wrong flavour.
When the regime falls, Kevin Roberts will be one of them that faces real consequences.
the groypers, fuetes theme will probably string him up as a sacrified, for not being nazi enough.
Is that the sound of internal contradictions intensifying?
Conservative Jews and Face Eating Leopards - name a more nutritious combination.
conservative Jews
OMYHWH…I imagine Jews for Hitler likely also had a lot to say.
just like gays, trans conservatives
He said it to employees?
Reported by Washington free beacon?
This is bullshit. I’ll believe it when he goes on a national broadcast and
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you didn’t need to uncensor to know what he should do
It’s weirdly satisfying watching the right fracture. Being on the left, we fracture over the most trivial and academic points despite being the party of solidarity and mass power. I hope we can grow the current excitement and victory into something notable.
The main fracturing on the left is primarily caused by ideological purists (aka tankies), who refuse to even consider that going from current capitalist systems to communism doesn’t happen at the flip of a switch and we need to slowly but surely push for more and more progress towards it. Mind you the same people in the same breath will go on and praise authoritarian, state-capitalist systems as if they’re an example to follow, so…
Ideological debate should always be welcome when relevant and not detrimental to the goal. After all, everyone’s perspective is different and mutual understanding is a must for mutual respect. Even if we disagree on topics, debating them with logical reasoning is the way, and while that might look like fracturing, it’s still a much better option than, say, pooling behind a child rapist mango with pubes on top of it, just to appear united.
This existed before tankies and there has been issues with popular fronts in the past. This video is funny because it has more than just a grain of truth.
