Fox News Shifts Direction on Kanye

Fox News host Tucker Carlson doesn’t talk to Black people very often on his show. So, when he booked rapper Kanye West, he spread the interview over two nights.

West made news for designing and wearing a shirt that said that White Lives Matter and that in Itself got Carlson all giddy. The fact that he can promote his White agenda and have to have a Black man help him do it, I wouldn’t be surprised if old Tucker wet himself a bit.

Of course, since old Tuck is the king at Fox News, it didn’t take long for the other lemmings at FNC to follow along.

The Daily Beast writes that it started on Sunday when Fox & Friends Weekend hosts Will Cain, Pete Hegseth, and Rachel Campos-Duffy spent an early morning segment characterizing West’s Instagram suspension—for claiming that rapper Diddy was being controlled by Jewish people—as “totally totalitarian,” “totally anti-American,” and “just wrong.” They also suggested that West never would have been censored on social media had he not appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show.

But apparently, the hosts made those comments before seeing the subsequent tweet that led Twitter to lock his account. That message, which was posted late Saturday night and has since been removed by the platform, read, “I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death [sic] con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.”

Just two hours after declaring West a victim of unfair censorship, the Fox hosts were forced to make a sharp reversal. After learning what he had actually posted, Cain called the comments “shocking” and “pretty ugly,” while Hegseth said called them “unfortunate.”

“We talked about it earlier without knowing about these tweets and saying of course they’re going to put a target—after what he said with Tucker, there’s going to be a target, no doubt,” Hegseth said. “But in this particular case, I mean he brought the target with that.”

In other words, we talked about something we didn’t even look into, but hey Tucker says he’s cool, so we went with that.