Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel Fundraises After Telling Tucker Carlson to F**k Off
Former senator and current Democratic presidential nominee Mike Gravel is not a fan of Tucker Carlson. To prove it, his campaign sent out a fundraising email on Wednesday afternoon with the less-than-subtle subject line “Fuck Tucker Carlson.”
The reason for the email is that Carlson recently invited Gravel on his show. Gravel’s campaign, which is pushing an anti-war message that would fit right in with Carlson’s persona as a nationalist opposed to foreign interventions, declined. Then they explained why in the fundraising letter:
King.@MikeGravel just sent out an email blast with the subject “Fuck Tucker Carlson,” informing his list he rejected an invite to appear on Tucker’s show pic.twitter.com/Xq1CXE1bah
— jordan (@JordanUhl) April 10, 2019
The letter condemns Fox for its history of “using xenophobia and white supremacy to sell wars.” It also calls Carlson a “white supremacist” who has encouraged “violence against immigrants, people of color, and the political left.” And as Gravel’s campaign repeated in a later tweet, his appearance on Carlson’s show would be a “tacit endorsement” of his views. Or at least lend them some legitimacy:
We’re not going to send Sen. Gravel into a trap to get attacked by a proto-fascist TV host. It’s not worth giving a white nationalist legitimacy and more attention. https://t.co/zEQIdLTByq
— Mike Gravel (@MikeGravel) April 10, 2019
Fox News and Carlson himself have been crying for civility in the 2020 campaign. Given their own track record, it seems Gravel’s campaign is not taking them seriously.
