FTVLive told you that Tucker Carlson’s top writer resigned from Fox News after it was uncovered that for years he was posting racist rants on the internet.

Last night, Carlson addressed the issue and then left to go trout fishing.

This is what he said:

“Over the weekend you may have seen stories about a writer on this show called Blake Neff. For years, since he was in college, Blake posted anonymously on an internet message board for law school students. On Friday, many of those posts became public. Blake was horrified by the story, and he was ashamed. Friday afternoon, he resigned from his job. We want to say a couple of things about this.

 First, what Blake wrote anonymously was wrong. We don’t endorse those words. They have no connection to this show. It is wrong to attack people for qualities they cannot control. In this country, we judge people for what they do, not for how they were born. We often say that, because we mean it. We will continue to defend that principle, often alone among national news programs, because it is essential. Nothing is more important.

 Blake fell short of that standard and he has paid a very heavy price for it. But we should also point out, to the ghouls now beating their chests in triumph at the destruction of a young man, that self-righteousness also has its costs. We are all human. When we pretend we are holy, we are lying.  When we pose as blameless in order to hurt other people, we are committing the gravest sin of all. And we will be punished for it. There’s no question.

Well we’re out of time, going to spend the next four days trout fishing. Long planned, this is one of those years where if you don’t get it in now, you are probably not going to. If something dramatic happens, of course, we’ll be back, we’ve got some taped segments for you. Brian Kilmeade will be sitting in. But in the meantime, we hope you have the best and happiest week and we will be back on Monday, if not before. 8PM Eastern, the show that is the sworn and totally sincere enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and group think. Until then, the great Sean Hannity steps in from New York.”

Now, we or almost anyone else could point out the large amounts of irony in this statement, but we’ll leave that up to others.

We do wonder about his fishing vacation.

Carlson and Fox News says that it was preplanned and we have no reason not to take them at their word. But, with that said, how many of you have a vacation planned, go to work on a MONDAY and then take the rest of the week off?

I don’t know about you, but something smells fishy and it’s not the trout.

Just saying….