Tucker Carlson wants his advertisers to know: "I like immigrants"

On his Friday night program, Carlson returned to the topic of the caravan. There was no particular need to do so, considering that Friday’s headlines provided several other story lines. Yet the host seemed intent diving back in, telling commentator Ethan Bearman, “The reason we keep going back to this topic, and let me just stipulate, as I have before with you, that I — I like immigration. I like immigrants. I give every person in the caravan the benefit of the doubt. I think most really do want to come here for a better life.”

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And with that, Carlson signaled that he was scared — scared that Pacific Life’s conclusions would become the conclusions of other advertisers. And scared that “Tucker Carlson Tonight” would go the way of Glenn Beck’s show and “The O’Reilly Factor,” two Fox News programs that succumbed to pressure campaigns from advertisers.

Thing is, Carlson had a point when he told Bearman that he’d said conciliatory things about immigration in the past.

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