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
The difference is that Miami Rebel's calling Fuentes "vermin" is deserved, whereas the Nazi's calling Jews that was not.
Respecting the tenets of liberalism (in the old sense) like free speech does not require a suspension of moral judgment. No one is calling for Fuentes to be cancelled, arrested or gassed.
From what I gather, Tucker didn't "challenge Fuentes' ideas in debate." He just gave Fuentes a platform to spread thoe ideas without challenge. So if you challenge someone when you disagree, and Tucker didn't challenge, then it is reasonable to conclude that Tucker doesn't disagree with Fuentes.
And if Tucker doesn't disagree with Fuentes, does Heritage really want to consider Tucker to be a "friend"?
You don’t have to agree, but if you were having lunch with a friend and he said, “The Nazis weren’t so bad. All those Jews that died were UNINTENTIONALLY killed, and also Churchill was worse than Hitler,” would you keep chewing your grilled cheese or would you say, “Are you out of your F-ing mind?”
It is if he allows that person to disseminate those views on his show without being challenged.
IMHO when someone identifies as a Democrat it acceptable to call them a rat. People here have praised some rat’s decisions and positions (like Fetterman) and specify the rational. It is not acceptable to call someone a rat who identifies as a conservative unless considerably more detail about a variety of issues is provided. One position does not make you a rat.
Rather than say “are you out of your...mind” I would ask for the sources they used to support that claim—and asked what additional research they have made to assess the validity of the sources.
I might also make the case for an opposing point of view—calmly and rationally.
No name calling is necessary or appropriate.
Why not?
P.S. I don't think Tucker Carlson ever really was a "conservative," having been a dedicated bow-tie-donning RINO swamp-dweller since the 1990s CNN "Crossfire" shows, comfy later even with a show on MSNBC, and best-buddies with Hunter Biden, defending him as a "very good man" and denouncing his laptop as fake news. I am not surprised to see him acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Qatar, as has been alleged.
Conservative media targeted by Qatari foreign influence operations
The Qatar Papers; Tucker Carlson
Bottom line... Israel is a foreign nation and does not like Jesus or America. And traitors here have elevated the moslem skunks in America with immigration, political contact and money. They also dislike Jesus and America.
So I get treated to Palestinians rioting in the streets with head rags. And then the Jewish community demanding every American snap in as an Israeli supporter and protect Israel.
None of this is anything normal Americans care much about. It’s a foreign fight, being conducted in the midst of our society now. So far all I’ve got out it is Charlie Kirk dead, the Epstein files protected by Trump, our government wrapped around the finger of Saudi and Qatar money, and it’s looking like moslem mayors in New York and Minneapolis.
Tired of the foreign bullcrap dominating everything in America.
Why waste time arguing with a flat-earther?
The best counter-arguments and contravening facts are certainly something of which a guy like Fuentes is already aware. It's not like you're going to bring up something truly new that he hasn't heard before. So, it is reasonable to assume that he is fully aware of the same facts as are you, and has chosen his Holocaust-denying position anyway.
In any case, in the transcript I read, Tucker didn't do what you described anyway.
Well, if you say it, it must be true!
The collapse of Conservative Inc is delightful and long overdue. Please take your globalism, never ending wars and diversity and stick them up your tail end. Thank you.
Would you please try to make a reasoned case? why do you resort to name-calling?
I agree Fuentes is up to speed on all the counter arguments—but the hypothetical I was making was just the average citizen.
They probably did minimal research and may not be familiar with all the issues with their views.
Likewise with a Flat Earther—if they founded the movement they probably have “all the answers”—but if they just saw a couple of clips online then the discussion is definitely worth having.
Stuff it
Now why am I not surprised that you are aligned with Nick Fuentes....
It sounds like you didn’t watch the episode of Tucker.
And it also sounds like you think the job of an interviewer is to argue with the interviewee.
A common mistake of this era. Interviewers interview.... the interview is not the place to challenge and debate them. Hannity is the prime example of this, he gets in more words than the person being interviewed.
They describe them as “Nazis” but they sound just like Pro-Palestine Democrats.
The vermin on DemocraticUnderground are shidding & farding.
“How will I eat? Who will feed me? Who will take care of me?
Don’t lecture us about calling a spade a spade.
Tucker is sick. His anti Israel statements are disgusting.
The guy running for New York mayor is similar in having sick disgusting views.
Very odd how Jew haters have been around for thousands of years. That speaks volumes that it is a spiritual issue..
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