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Mar 12, 2019 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
Unearthed audio shows Tucker Carlson using white nationalist rhetoric and making racist remarks mm4a.org/4XV
Carlson has a long track record of racism, including to this very day on his Fox News show. mm4a.org/4pd
White supremacist podcasts love Tucker Carlson. mediamatters.org/research/2018/…

A white supremacist group loves Tucker Carlson. mediamatters.org/blog/2019/03/0…

A white supremacist website loves Tucker Carlson. buzzfeednews.com/article/joseph…

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