‘If it weren’t my daughter, I’d love it’: in crude audio, Fox host Tucker Carlson praises 14-year-old girls sexually experimenting, defends child marriage, slurs ‘white whores’
- Tucker Carlson and Fox News are facing a fierce backlash over his conversations with radio shock-jock ‘Bubba the Love Sponge’
- Carlson calls Paris Hilton and Britney Spears ‘the biggest white whores in America’, and discusses other prominent women in degrading terms
Unearthed recordings of TV host Tucker Carlson making vulgar and sexist remarks, defending statutory rape and repeatedly using a crude reference to female genitals have led to calls for Fox News to fire the evening host.
Fuelled by the hashtag #FireTuckerCarlson, the backlash comes as the conservative network is taking heat for comments made by another of its top hosts, Jeanine Pirro, which led to a rare rebuke of talent by Fox News.
On Sunday, the watchdog group Media Matters for America, which is devoted to correcting conservative misinformation in the US media, resurfaced numerous call-in appearances Carlson made on a radio show hosted by a shock-jock known as Bubba the Love Sponge between 2006 and 2011.
Transcripts and a montage of the audio recordings feature Carlson degrading women based on their looks and sex appeal. He also slurs several prominent women, including Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, Martha Stewart’s daughter Alexis Stewart, and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.