Madeline Peltz — Fox News' Public Enemy Number One? - video Dailymotion

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Tucker Carlson was caught making misogynistic and crude comments in a past audio clip. We have Madeline Peltz to thank for the revelation — and she tells Brut why it was important to make it public.

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00:00I just think that it's time for him to be held responsible

00:04for the sensationalized racism

00:07that has helped him fail up in his career.

00:10♪♪

00:17I've been at Media Matters for about two years,

00:19and I've been covering Tucker Carlson for about 18 months,

00:22which means I watch his show every night.

00:25And I have done a lot of background research

00:29into how his program developed into what it is today.

00:33And these files were online, and we found them.

00:37It just turned out that there was a lot that I thought,

00:40that we at Media Matters thought

00:42that the public would be interested in.

00:43♪♪

00:51Iraq is a crappy place filled with a bunch of, you know,

00:54semi-literate, primitive monkeys.

00:57The rapist, in this case, has made a lifelong commitment

01:00to live and take care of the person.

01:02So it is a little different.

01:03I mean, let's just be honest about it.

01:05It was very alarming and shows a very poor judgment

01:10that he thought that this is something

01:12that was appropriate to say into the microphone.

01:15But I wasn't really surprised

01:16because he spews this kind of hatred every night on his show.

01:20♪♪

01:30I think the protest was very important.

01:32It was a demonstration

01:34while Fox News had brought in their few remaining advertisers

01:38as a means to convince them to buy more ad real estate.

01:41It was an emergency meeting because they're bleeding revenue

01:45and the value of their ad real estate

01:48has gone down significantly.

01:49And so that's why we think that people should be

01:53politely letting advertisers know

01:55that they are their customers

01:57and that they don't support

01:58the extremely unpopular Fox News agenda.

02:00♪♪

02:04He's not a victim.

02:06He holds one of the most powerful microphones

02:09in right-wing media,

02:10and that claiming victimhood status

02:12is just a longstanding tactic of racists and white nationalists

02:16to portray themselves as under attack

02:19from some sort of outside agitated group.

02:22I think that if he loses his job at Fox,

02:25he'll still be fine

02:26because he has a massive industrial fortune

02:28that he stands to inherit.

02:30There's no real suffering involved.

02:32This is just being held accountable

02:34for his professional actions.

Madeline Peltz — Fox News' Public Enemy Number One?

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