Tucker Carlson Loses Pacific Life Ads After Remarking Immigration Making U.S. “Dirtier”
Tucker Carlsons Fox News Channel show wont have insurance company Pacific Life as an advertiser for ..
Tucker Carlsons Fox News Channel show wont have insurance company Pacific Life as an advertiser for at least a few weeks after opening Thursdays program with the remark that the “immigration crisis” in the U.S. had left the country “poorer” and “dirtier.”
In his opening monologue, Carlson said you “never” hear anybody making an “economic case for mass immigration” because that argument would be “insane” and “indefensible,” adding, “our leaders demand you shut up and accept this….even if make our own country poorer and dirtier and more divided.”
Carlson insisted theyre not “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” but “cynical shake-down artists who have been watching too much CNN.”
After which the insurance companys promo popped up on screen, touting its 150 years protecting generations of families.
Blowback ensued:
Last night on Fox News:
—Stephen Miller used the tragic death of a 7 y/o migrant girl in DHS custody to push Trump's border wall
—Sean Hannity did as well
—Tucker Carlson said immigration makes America “poorer, and dirtier, and more divided”Tell advertisers to drop Fox News now https://t.co/D2uXXsPY2j
— Melanie Fineman (@mnfineman) December 14, 2018
Pacific Life responded:
Fox News Channel responded to the response:
“It is a shame that left wing advocacy groups, under the guise of being supposed media watchdogs weaponize social media against companies in an effort to stifle free speech. We continue to stand by and work with our advertisers through these unfortunate and unnecessary distractions.”
