Sat Jul 11, 2020, 02:18 AM

Tucker Carlson's top writer resigns after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in online forum

Surprise! It wasn't Tucker himself! ...That's the only surprise.

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/media/tucker-carlson-writer-blake-neff/index.html

The top writer for Fox News host Tucker Carlson has for years been using a pseudonym to post bigoted remarks on an online forum that is a hotbed for racist, sexist, and other offensive content, CNN Business learned this week.

Just this week, the writer, Blake Neff, responded to a thread started by another user in 2018 with the subject line, "Would u let a JET BLACK congo n****er do lasik eye surgery on u for 50% off?" Neff wrote, "I wouldn't get LASIK from an Asian for free, so no." (The subject line was not censored on the forum.) On June 5, Neff wrote, "Black doods staying inside playing Call of Duty is probably one of the biggest factors keeping crime down." On June 24, Neff commented, "Honestly given how tired black people always claim to be, maybe the real crisis is their lack of sleep." On June 26, Neff wrote that the only people who care about changing the name of the NFL's Washington Redskins are "white libs and their university-'educated' pets."

And over the course of five years, Neff has maintained a lengthy thread in which he has derided a woman and posted information about her dating life that has invited other users to mock her and invade her privacy. There has at times also been overlap between some material he posted or saw on the forum and Carlson's show.

CNN Business contacted Neff for comment Thursday night. After he or someone acting on his behalf passed that email to Fox News spokespeople, a network spokesperson on Friday morning told CNN Business that Neff had resigned. A Fox News spokesperson said Carlson could not be reached for comment. Neff did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Neff worked at Fox News for nearly four years and was Carlson's top writer. Previously, he was a reporter at The Daily Caller, a conservative news outlet that Carlson co-founded. In a recent article in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Neff said, "Anything [Carlson is] reading off the teleprompter, the first draft was written by me."

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Tucker Carlson's top writer resigns after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in online forum (Original post)	Grokenstein	Jul 2020	OP
Blake Neff is a racist coward.	dalton99a	Jul 2020	#1
He's such a glorious example of White Supremacy, isn't he?	Grokenstein	Jul 2020	#2
Yep. A pseudointellectual dork who wishes he could join a neo-Nazi biker gang	dalton99a	Jul 2020	#3
He looks like an incel to me.	brush	Jul 2020	#4
It's Dwight shrute!	unblock	Jul 2020	#6
Behold. The "Master Race."	ZZenith	Jul 2020	#7
Hitler would be proud N/T	pink	Jul 2020	#5
Shocked. Shocked, I tell you.	Squinch	Jul 2020	#8
Tucker Carlson is the most racist bastard on live TV today	uponit7771	Jul 2020	#9
I think I speak for all of us when I say	mnmoderatedem	Jul 2020	#10
This message was self-deleted by its author	CatLady78	Jul 2020	#11