The news broke Sunday evening, and spread virally. Now there are calls for Fox News to fire its top host, Tucker Carlson, and some on social media are urging a boycott of Carlson’s advertisers.
Media Matters revealed in audio recordings they unearthed that Carlson over a five year period (2006 – 2011) repeatedly made extremely misogynistic remarks and grotesquely attacked about a half-dozen women by name. But perhaps most disturbing, Carlson, 49 and a father of four, appeared to condone statutory rape of both girls and boys and admitted he “would love” a “scenario” in which two underaged girls “explore” each others’ bodies.
Carlson sloughed off his remarks as just “something naughty,” adamantly refusing to apologize.
On Twitter, the hashtag #FireTuckerCarlson is trending:
There are growing calls also for those disgusted by Carlson’s remarks to boycott advertisers, with activists tweeting out names of those they say pay Fox big money to get their products in front of viewers.
Which makes, as Media Matters’ president notes, this development bad timing for Fox News:
Here’s a sampling of calls urging a boycott:
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