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Tuesday, April 16th, 2019

Who bankrolls Tucker Carlson’s hateful propaganda? Why the Kochs of course.

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Source:     Nation of Change
Publication Date:     April 8, 2019
 Link: Who bankrolls Tucker Carlson’s hateful propaganda? Why the Kochs of course.
Stephan:   Fox Brain Syndrome (FBS) is an affliction that has done untold damage to the United States, and the men and women, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs LIz Claman, Gerri Willis et al are the perpetrators of the Syndrome. But special notice must be given to Tucker Carlson. Every boy who went to prep school recognizes him, because every prep school class has a Tucker Carlson. The snarky, snotty, nouveau rich kid who never excels at anything but thinks himself better than everyone else. And who funds such people? Why the Kochs of course. Here is the story.

Tucker Carlson
Credit: Sarah Wasko/Media Matters

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson is under fire this week for racist, sexist, and homophobic comments he made while chatting on “Bubba the Love Sponge” a shock jock radio show between 2006-2011. Groups are scrutinizing Fox’s advertisers and demanding that they drop the show.

But Carlson also publishes The Daily Caller, a controversial online media outlet with ties to white nationalists that has infamously peddled everything from climate denial and anti-Islamic tropes to false prostitution charges and violence against protesters.

Carlson’s moonlighting as an extremist at The Daily Caller is heavily bankrolled by – you guessed it – the Koch brothers. An investigation by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) finds that the Charles Koch Foundation has poured more than $2.7 million into the Daily Caller’s non-profit “charity” since 2012, which generates the lion’s share of the “news” that the Caller publishes.

Indeed, in 2016, Koch cash accounted for 83 percent of the The Daily Caller News Foundation’s $1.1 million in revenues.

Carlson under fire

As if catering to white supremacists […]

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