Heritage Foundation President Admits He Made A 'Mistake' In Handling Of Tucker Carlson Defense: Free Beacon
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His acknowledgment comes only after the conservative think tank faced major backlash— including from those on the right.
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts admitted that he’d “made a mistake” regarding his staunch defense of former Fox News host Tucker Carlson after his softball interview with white supremacist Nick Fuentes, The Washington Free Beacon reports.
“I made a mistake and I let you down and I let down this institution and I am sorry for that. Period. Full stop,” Roberts said during a Wednesday meeting with staff of the conservative think tank, according to video obtained by the Beacon.
Roberts’s acknowledgment comes only after he and the think tank received severe backlash, including from conservatives, over a video he posted last week in which he declined to distance the organization from Carlson. In it, he argues that critics of Carlson’s interview with Fuentes, a Holocaust denier, are part of a “venomous coalition” trying to “cancel” the right-wing media personality.
In Wednesday’s meeting, Roberts maintained that the organization did not “cancel” its friends, but said that his statement could have stressed that there was a “limiting principle.”
“You can say you’re not going to participate in canceling someone… while also being clear you’re not endorsing everything they’ve said, you’re not endorsing softball interviews, you’re not endorsing putting people on shows, and I should’ve made that clear,” he said.
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