Tucker Carlson roasted by celebs after he claimed Lil Nas X 'helped incite' riots: 'F**k this pasty a**hole'
Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson was roasted by a host of celebrities on Friday, June 5, after he attacked many prominent figures in Hollywood who donated to organizer bail funds, Civil Rights organizations, and other efforts to support the ongoing protests against police brutality in a segment on his show.
Carlson said on Fox News that celebrities are "paying to get violent rioters out of jail" as half of the screen on his segment was dedicated to a scroll of the headshots of such prominent figures, along with their respective names. The list included Chrissy Teigen (whose last name was spelled wrong during the segment), Janelle Monae, Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, Don Cheadle, Kehlani, Colin Kaepernick, Ben Schwartz, Harry Styles, Patton Oswalt, Nick Kroll, Rob Delaney, Cynthia Nixon, and Halsey.
Then Carlson picked one of the celebrities - Grammy award-winning rapper Lil Nas X - to critique on. The host claimed that the musician "helped incite" riots by telling his 4.7 million followers on Twitter to donate to protester bail funds in Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. "Imagine if he'd used those followers instead to help small businesses destroyed by the riots he helped incite," Carlson added in a snide comment.
After Nas X was made aware of the segment involving his name, he took to the same millions of followers to set the record straight. "This man just lied and told millions of people on national television that I was inciting riots. you can’t make this up," he wrote in a tweet. Soon a number of celebrities - many of whom were there on Fox News' list, flocked to the comment section to give their opinion on the matter.
Seth Rogen wrote: "F**k this pasty a**hole" while Halsey wrote, "Ahh my fellow “Domestic terrorists”. YouTube satirist Ethan Klein wrote: "What a f**kin cunt." TV producer of 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' Andy Lassner simply wrote, "Oh this man lies every night. It’s his whole job." Late-Night TV writer Jesse McLaren said, "How is this not defamation. Cant you sue Fox News for this?" Video Blogger Sky Williams wrote, "Oh - oh my good lord. This is pretty surreal."
Zach Cornfeld, famously known as one of the 'Try Guys' on Buzzfeed poked fun at the graphics department of Fox News. "These clowns can’t even get the names and photos to scroll the same speed," he said. The same was noticed by actor Anthony Padilla: "Holy s**t that editing made me nauseous."
Sleeping Giants, a liberal social media activism organization aiming to persuade companies to remove advertisements from certain news outlets, meanwhile, said that Carlson had already lost most of the advertisement giants who funded his show. "If anyone is interested, we’re continuing to ask advertisers on this network if they support the never-ending stream of racism, incitement, and disinformation on this network. Tucker Carlson has lost nearly all of his major advertisers now, but we’re continuing to push," the organization wrote in the comments.
To which an amused British musician and songwriter John Taylor wrote: "Who are the major advertisers remaining?"