Meet Blake Neff. Until this week, he was the head writer for Tucker Carlson's show on Fox.
Not surprising, he's misogynist, homophobic, racist and he's the guy who writes the words that come out of Carlson's mouth every evening on Fox... or at least he was, until the media found 5 years of his posts on a online forum for alt right bigots.
In a recent profile about Neff, he was quoted as saying, "Anything [Carlson is] reading off the teleprompter, the first draft was written by me." He also acknowledged the show's influence, telling the magazine, "We're very aware that we do have that power to sway the conversation, so we try to use it responsibly."
Among the forum discussions that Neff participated in were:
- A thread entitled, "Would u let a JET BLACK congo n****er do lasik eye surgery on u for 50% off?"
- A thread in which he has derided a woman and posted information about her dating life that has invited other users to mock her and invade her privacy.
- A thread where he referred to ‘foodie f*ggots.’
- A thread where he made a joke about "Sandra Bland’s Sugar-free Shortbreads!", referring to a black woman who was arrested in Texas for a minor traffic violation and was later found hanged in her cell.
- A thread entitled "We should just buy Canada and kick the Canadians out", where he commented, "Okay but what do we do with the millions of Chinese people?".
Meanwhile, Carlson still has his highly-rated show on Fox and he is promoting the idea that he's going to run for President in 2024.
Tucker Carlson's top writer resigns after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in online forum [CNN]