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July 11, 2019

Rep. Ilhan Omar Urges Boycott of Fox News Host Tucker Carlson over Racist Attack
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Freshman Democratic Congressmember Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is calling on
advertisers to boycott Tucker Carlson, after the Fox News host targeted
her in a racist attack on his program Tuesday night. During a
three-minute monologue, Carlson blasted Omar-one of the first two Muslim
women ever elected to the U.S. Congress-as a "living fire alarm" and
"dangerous."

Tucker Carlson: "After everything America has done for Omar, and for her
family, she hates this country more than ever. … Ilhan Omar is living
proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this
country. … She's a living fire alarm, a warning to the rest of us that
we better change our immigration system immediately, or else."

Congressmember Ilhan Omar tweeted in response, "Fox News is now giving a
nightly platform to white supremacist rhetoric. It's dangerous.
Advertisers should not be underwriting hate speech." Tucker Carlson has
a history of racist, xenophobic and misogynistic comments; he recently
said immigration makes America "poorer, and dirtier, and more divided,"
and in 2006 called Iraqis "semiliterate primitive monkeys."


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