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
“It absolutely is the job of an interviewer to challenge the interviewee if the person to whom they are giving a platform is someone who is spouting views with which you disagree. Otherwise, you’re just a propaganda outlet.”
No... the solution to that is in the next interview with someone who dismantles the views of the former with better arguments. The interviewer does not debate, he interviews. If Fuentes or that holocaust denier is bad, you ask how they got those views, for proof, etc. Than you interview someone well qualified to take them apart.
You are describing activists or advocates, not journalists.
“After Tucker Carlson released his friendly interview of white nationalist Nick Fuentes…”
White Nationalist:
WHITE by accident of birth.
NATIONALIST by love of country, America First.
How is that a bad thing?
Rebel is a never trumper and I suspect it’s personal on this topic
I’m ambivalent on jews as well as many identities but I know two things
But I know two things
One is we pay far too much attention to Jews and Jewishness
Second is they joined my group white southerners and white South Africans or any sub Saharan white as an identity it’s now ok to scorn and virtue signal over
I catch a lot of what Tucker says, and have never heard him attack Christians—he says he is a Christian himself. And I have never heard him attack Jews, unless you conflate attacking Bibi is attacking Jews. However, there are many Jews in Israel attacking Bibi. Are they anti-Jew?
“Tucker is sick. His anti Israel statements are disgusting.”
What exactly is his anti Israel statements?
George L. Rockwell
Good post—I never bought into the notion that the Middle East was our problem—instead we should always have sought energy independence (which we now have).
Both sides have worked very hard to influence our politicians. Since those other nations never bribed me I have no skin in the game.
Yes. Fuentes compared Jews going into the ovens to “cookies” baking, trying to show you couldn’t “bake that many cookies.”
The little man is pure scum.
Worrying about labels is childlike. What the liberals are doing with the NAZI label, on the other hand, is dehumanizing conservatives in order to justify "by any means" including violence. This differentiation needs to be proclaimed loudly.
Hitler passed the baton to Admiral Karl Donitz. That went rather smoothly and then Donitz called for surrender.
Some think had he survived, it would have been Heydrich.
That would have been terrible. Well, by that time, Germany had nothing left with which to fight.
Some speculation that Heydrich might have been setup by enemies in the SS, he did make a lot of enemies, who were not sad to see him go.
I do not agree with everything Tucker says, but I will still defend him for his right to state his beliefs.
I hate everything that Democrats have to say, but since I believe in free speech I defend them even if I think they are lying scumbags. Because free speech is one of the most important aspects of this nation.
Did you like it when they silenced the voices of conservatives? If not then why do you wish to silence them?
Tucker has his style, and that is his right, to neither speak out in support or dissent.
The saying silece is complicity, it mrans that you agree with what was said. Nonsense.
I personally prefer to pushback against those who say things I disagree with, but silence is not agreement with what may have been said. Especially, if your decision to fo so is to let others come to their own conclusions. Sometimes, that is more effestine than the pushback.
In other words, sometimes it is best to just let the other person speak, and to personally remain silent.
I heard what the person from the American Enterprise Institute who responded had to say, & I agreed with his take.
I agree with everything you posted. And hiding behind “It’s not Jews I hate, it’s Israel” is really tiresome
One fateful day we were accidentally shown a movie that was compiled from movies taken in the experimental medical ward of Dachau. Instant puke from a town full of kids. As we streamed out of there the owner was passing out dollar bills and begging for forgiveness. He thought it was a typical Hollywood war movie.
Believe me, what was seen can never be unseen. In those short minutes I saw a lifetime's supply of abject cruelty an deeply evil sights. Jew haters need to be forced to watch those movies. The depravity of the Germans in those times scraped the very walls of hell.
I will stand with Jews anytime, anywhere when I am needed. Even though I now resemble Jabba The Hutt.
” hard to see anything but hostility from them for America. At best, it could be said they are parasites and see us as a host. But they certainly aren’t friends.”
You speak the truth!
George L. Rockwell
“ What exactly is his anti Israel statements?”
He has said more that one, they will show up in a web search
Himmler when they were still viable, say 1941 or 1942, if Hitler died. Donitz wouldn’t have emerged the leader then. If he had, I doubt if the concentration camps would have continued.
“He has said more that one”
Just give me an example of one off the top of your head.
George L. Rockwell
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