Earlier this week, Tucker Carlson released an interview with Nick Fuentes, the highly controversial political commentator.
On Thursday, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts released a statement backing Carlson, which drew plenty of reactions from conservative news media members.
Roberts noted that there had been speculation that the foundation would be “distancing” itself from Tucker Carlson in the aftermath of his interview with Fuentes. Fuentes is a self-identified Christian nationalist. The 27-year-old has more than 1 million followers on social media, and his views have been viewed as antisemitic, homophobic, racist, and Islamophobic. Nick Fuentes is perhaps most known as the largest critic of Charlie Kirk and his Turning Point USA organization.
In the video statement, Robinson shared that it is firmly against “cancel culture.”
“The Heritage Foundation didn’t become the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement by canceling our own people or policing the consciences of Christians,” he shared. “And we won’t start doing that now.”
Roberts added that Tucker Carlson “is, and always will be, a close friend of the Heritage Foundation.”
Those comments drew strong reactions, from both sides of the coin, from conservative radio, podcast, and TV hosts.
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Interesting how when liberals had things to say about the murder of Charlie Kirk, they were immediately demonized. But yet this guy who Carlsen interviewed besides being a holocaust denier and anti-Charlie Kirk is being supported by factions of Maga. True hypocrisy.