Remember: among many incendiary acts Tucker has repeatedly attacked immigrants in America and questioned their value. At the time of one of these attacks I was working as an exec & atty for his boss, Rupert Murdoch. Creating, like, a fervor — or an anxiety about what was happening in our country,” Azam said of the news coverage, particularly Fox News’ primetime anchors Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Jeanine Pirro. According to Azam, he deleted the tweet after his boss warned him not to spar with Fox News figures and others connected to Murdoch’s news outlets. He recently posted a screenshot of the old tweet, after Media Matters uncovered a trove of racist and sexist comments from Carlson.

Source: Huffington Post March 22, 2019 14:15 UTC