Posted on 10/31/2025 8:55:25 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
Some Heritage Foundation staffers are speaking up about a controversial video its president, Kevin Roberts, released on Thursday.
After Tucker Carlson released his friendly interview of white nationalist Nick Fuentes, there were calls for Heritage, which has made a show of allying itself with Carlson, to disavow the former Fox News host.
Instead, Roberts released a video defending both Carlson and Fuentes.
“We will always defend truth, we will always defend America, and we will always defend our friends against the slander of bad actors who serve someone else’s agenda. That includes Tucker Carlson, who remains – and as I have said before, always will be – a close friend of the Heritage Foundation. The venomous coalition attacking him are sowing division. Their attempt to cancel him will fail,” declared Roberts. “The American people expect us to be focusing on our political adversaries on the left, not attacking our friends on the right. I disagree with, and even abhor, things that Nick Fuentes says, but canceling him is not the answer either. When we disagree with a person’s thoughts and opinions, we challenge those ideas in debate, and we have seen success in this approach as we continue to dismantle the vile ideas of the left.”
Some Heritage employees are not being shy about expressing their disagreement with Roberts’s sentiments.
“NAZIS ARE BAD,” read the caption on a meme shared by Heritage research fellow Preston Brashers.
pic.twitter.com/tG6tE9D7PW
— PrestonBrashers (@PrestonBrashers) October 31, 2025
Richard Stern, the director of Heritage’s economic policy institute and federal budget center, retweeted Brashers and added that it was “Evidently, a truth that is never more than one generation away from being forgotten.”
Evidently, a truth that is never more than one generation away from being forgotten🤦♂️ https://t.co/fHriqXPJaE
— Richard A. Stern (@RichAStern) October 31, 2025
Brashers’ tweet was also shared by Heritage staffers Jason Bedrick, Jay Greene, and John Peluso.
Bedrick also retweeted a post from The Babylon Bee’s Joel Berry, submitting that “The Pagan Right’s call for ‘unity’ is the call of a murderer demanding his victim stop struggling.”
Another Heritage director, Jay Richards, did not directly subtweet his boss, but did express his disagreement with his argument prior to the release of Roberts’s video.
“Almost seems like it’s a coordinated effort to destroy the conservative coalition. And even if it’s not coordinated, the effect is the same,” mused Richards in response to another anti-Carlson/Fuentes post from Berry.
Almost seems like it's a coordinated effort to destroy the conservative coalition. And even if it's not coordinated, the effect is the same. https://t.co/oBHCti8JwF
— Jay W. Richards 🇺🇸 (@DrJayRichards) October 30, 2025
The posts from Heritage staffers were supplemented by those from many others on the political right:
This statement by Kevin Roberts is reprehensible for the following reasons.
First, it is dishonest. Roberts opens by declaring that “Christians can critique the state of Israel without being anti-Semitic” — as if the issue were free speech or foreign policy. It is not. Tucker… https://t.co/n5KgzTonw6
— Mike (@Doranimated) October 31, 2025
JUST IN: Ted Cruz BLASTS Kevin Roberts’s Tucker Carlson defense:
“Now is a time for choosing. If you sit there with someone who says Adolf Hitler was very cool and that their mission is to defeat ‘global Jewry,’ and you say nothing, then you are a coward, and you are complicit… pic.twitter.com/QsDFbEDona
— Jayne Zirkle (@JayneZirkle) October 31, 2025
Siding with Hitler and Stalin over Churchill is not conservative or consistent, no matter what Tucker claims.
In deciding to side with him, Kevin Roberts has shifted the foundations on which the Heritage Foundation was built.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) October 31, 2025
This simple x dot com post from a Heritage Foundation staffer took more courage than anything Kevin Roberts has done as the Heritage Foundation's "leader." Note how many Heritage staffers have reposted it: https://t.co/LXr3MmeMnj
— Jason Hart (@jasonahart) October 31, 2025
The reaction to the outpouring of condemnations for the Roberts video about how there's room for Jew haters on the right will take the form of: "Did you notice how so many of the people who are mad are Jews?" because that's the level of cognitive talent on display in that set.
— Foster (@foster_type) October 30, 2025
Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts didn’t mind when Tucker attacked Christians. Attacking Christianity was fine. Attacking Tucker for boosting a Nazi was not. pic.twitter.com/L3c3ZTtDlJ
— Max Abrahms (@MaxAbrahms) October 30, 2025
Also, Kevin Roberts good lord that was bad pic.twitter.com/Rt4jtFkZzH
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) October 30, 2025
Fuentes, on the other hand, has unambiguously attacked Jews (not just Zionism) again and again.
I can't imagine why any principled conservative would find it necessary to defend that vermin.
No matter what flavor of them you specify, ALL socialists are very, very bad for a civilization.
“that vermin”
Attacking folks you do not like by calling them “vermin” is exactly the tactic Adolph used.
If you have an argument to make—then make it—and skip the virtue signaling.
nooo you can only talk to people on my little approved list and sit in echo chambers forever. Lemme guess, they speak highly of Charlie Kirk who was essentially doing the same thing as Tucker?
Seeking out fuentes f9r an interview means...the bud light tranny is next.
When does tucker dance naked?
I messed up. I forgot that Nazis have feelings too. Heaven forbid that they be dehumanized.
A slippery slope fallacy claims one small step will inevitably lead to extreme, undesirable consequences.
The problem is that if you debated Fuentes he would probably wipe the floor with you.
That does not mean his views are valid—it does mean you need to up your game.
Since last summer, the zionists in America have dropped the reasoned policy wonk persona and have started a venomous slander attack on anyone who doesn’t support the Israeli Government.
Levin, Hammer, Shapiro, Loomer and all their lesser luminaries are reduced to Hitler insults, truly vulgar personal insults etc... all delivered in the tone of absolute desperation that a psycho guy uses when a woman breaks up with them.
Careful, your critical thinking skills are showing!
I’ve been on this board for approximately a quarter century and Freepers have never been shy about comparing terrible people to vermin, including daily references to the other party as ‘Rats. And suddenly you’re clutching your pearls and claiming its “virtue signaling”?
That’s fascinating.
I wouldn’t waste my breath defending them.
But it says nothing of Fuentes’ Jew hatred.
I don’t agree with every decision or position of anyone, or any country.
You can’t expect a host to agree with every guest’s opinion and to push back on every one he disagrees with.
When someone resorts to name calling, they generally have lost the argument or are too lazy to specify their position.
Agreed—it is argument by intimidation.
That is a tactic the left has perfected—pathetic to see folks on the right start to adopt it as well.
OK—confession time.
I have used the “Rat” designation for one human being.
He is the Secretary of State of the state of Georgia.
I call him “Ratburger”.
He earned that—not by what he said—but by what he has done.
I’ll never meet that POS, much less debate him.
Your statement is logically void. It makes no more sense than my telling you that you need to step up your game to debate Zohran Mamdani, because, boy he’s really kicking your butt in my imagination.
‘The slippery slope fallacy’ is the only fallacy that turns out to foretell the future with astonishing accuracy. A prime example, the sexual revolution to homosexual marriage to transgender mania.
I would actually enjoy debating Mamdini.
I was on the debating team in high school and college—and was surrounded by leftists on all sides.
Of course I am getting a bit older so I may have lost my edge.
:-)
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Fuentes can rattle off a hundred arguments in favor of his views in ten minutes—without notes.
Just make sure you have solid data to rebut all of his claims before starting to call the guy names.
As far as Tucker Carlson is concerned, he is not against Irael, but is against war itself. There are times when war beomes the only option left, but he also doesn't want the U.S. taking on the role of being Isreal's defnder, whenn the reality is that we are not in a psotition to be the protector of the world, as we have our own fights to fight in order to reclaim control of this nation.
The fact that you so not see these realities is on no one other than you. Too often you remind me of the Democrats who love to lay their shortcomings at the feet of others than themselves.
Wake up to reality. Israel also need to wake up to reality. They are more than free to fight against the Arab nations that surround it, but if they do, they will lose our support, especially in a kinetic warfare situation.
The world will have to see for themselves that Hamas will not live up to the peace agreement they accepted. In the meantime, Hamas is killing Palestinians, which further erodes their arguments, that Israel is the problem.
Who Tucker Carlson has on his program is not tacit support for that person's views. This same charge was levied upon him when he interviewd Putin also. Putin, like Fuestes, are public people who receive lots of press, mostly bad. However, listening to what they have to say, should not be viewed as being supportive of their views.
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