Twitter wants advertisers to ditch Tucker Carlson after his latest xenophobic remarks

Words still occasionally have consequences — even on Fox News.

After Tucker Carlson accused immigrants of making America “dirtier” on his show Thursday night, outrage quickly followed. On Friday, one of Carlson’s most prominent advertisers, Pacific Life, announced that it would be pausing advertising on the show while the company “re-evaluated” its relationship with the program.

Here is Tucker’s original comment in full:

“Nice people, no one doubts that, but as an economic matter, this is insane,” Tucker said of low-skilled immigrants. “It’s indefensible, so nobody even tries to defend it. Instead, our leaders demand that you shut up and accept this. We have a moral obligation to admit the world’s poor, they tell us, even if it makes our own country poorer, and dirtier, and more divided. Immigration is a form of atonement. Previous leaders of our country committed sins; we must pay for those sins by welcoming an endless chain of migrant caravans.” Read more…

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