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December 19, 2018

Advertisers Flee as Tucker Carlson Says Immigrants Make U.S. "Dirtier"
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In media news, more than a dozen companies have pulled advertisements
from the program "Tucker Carlson Tonight" after the Fox News host said
that immigrants make the U.S. "poorer and dirtier and more divided."
Carlson made the comment on his prime-time show last Thursday.

Tucker Carlson: "We have a moral obligation to admit the world's poor,
they tell us, even if it makes our own country poorer and dirtier and
more divided."

Following an uproar over the comment, companies including Land Rover,
IHOP, Pacific Life Insurance, Ancestry.com and Just for Men have pulled
ads from Carlson's show. Fox News has accused left-wing groups of
"censoring" Carlson's program and noted that the advertisers have only
shifted their sponsorship to other Fox News programs.


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