US EditionHeritage Foundation President Apologizes for Defending Tucker Carlson in Leaked Staff Meeting
Kevin Roberts apologized after defending Carlson's interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, which caused staff dissent and loss of Jewish partnerships, with Fuentes' audience estimated at 5 million.
- On Wednesday, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts apologized to staff for refusing to condemn Tucker Carlson after his friendly interview with Nick Fuentes and admitted he had let down the institution.
- Roberts had posted a video last week defending Carlson, with the script written by Ryan Neuhaus, who misled Roberts about approval and later resigned.
- During a tense, two-hour all-hands meeting, Heritage staff challenged Roberts's leadership and warned his stance gravely damaged ties with Jewish partners, as Project Esther collaborators cut ties.
- Several longtime fellows and legal scholars at Heritage told Kevin Roberts they no longer had confidence, and Roberts said he had offered his resignation to Heritage's board of directors but felt a moral obligation to stay.
- The episode underscored ideological rifts within the conservative movement as younger Heritage staff questioned pro-Israel priorities, while Robert Rector, Heritage veteran of 47 years, invoked William F. Buckley Jr. and said `I hope you know who he is`.
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The Real Split on the Right: Influencers Versus Conservatives
There’s a fight being waged for the soul of the right. It has taken the form of a reckoning over podcaster Tucker Carlson’s cozy interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes last week. Carlson, an able debater, gave basically no pushback to Fuentes, a man with avowedly pro–Adolf Hitler, proudly antisemitic, racist, segregationist views, and instead raved about how Christian Zionists disgust him.The interview sparked a backlash, one that rapidly…
Heritage head Kevin Roberts apologizes for calling Tucker Carlson critics 'venomous coalition'
The Heritage president warned that Democratic victories in elections across the country showed how the Conservative movement had to work to engage in difficult conversations to promote its values.
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CNN's Audie Cornish cut off a Republican congressman after he deflected away from an antisemitism rift that's roiling the conservative movement.Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) ripped former Fox News host Tucker Carlson as “the most dangerous antisemite in America" after he hosted Holocaust denier Nick Fuente...
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