“Fox News is behind us as they have been from the very first day,” Mr. Carlson told viewers. He added: “We will never bow to the mob. Ever. No matter what.”
As Mr. Carlson was speaking, Media Matters released a second batch of excerpts from his appearances on the “Bubba” radio program, including a clip from 2008 in which Mr. Carlson described Iraq as “a crappy place filled with a bunch of, you know, semiliterate primitive monkeys — that’s why it wasn’t worth invading.” Calling into the show in 2006, Mr. Carlson said of Barack Obama, then an Illinois senator, “How is he black, for one thing? He has one white parent, one black parent.”
Fox News has long grappled with fallout from incendiary remarks by its commentators. In 2017, Ms. Pirro was criticized for saying that prosecutors investigating President Trump “need to be taken out in cuffs.” Another host, Laura Ingraham, lost advertisers after she mocked students who survived the Parkland, Fla., school shooting, and after she referred to American facilities holding immigrant children as “essentially summer camps.”
Still, the network has faced unusually sharp scrutiny over the past week, starting with an article in The New Yorker that chronicled the close-knit relationship between Mr. Trump’s inner circle and Fox News personnel. One network alumnus in the White House, the deputy chief of staff Bill Shine, resigned from his position on Friday after a brief, bumpy tenure.
On Saturday night, Ms. Pirro, the prosecutor turned politician turned TV host who is close to Mr. Trump, attacked Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, in the opening remarks of her weekend show, “Justice With Judge Jeanine.”
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/business/media/jeanine-pirro-ilhan-omar.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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