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
That is true.
I beg your pardon!
Why on earth would ANYONE engage with someone using the handle “George L. Rockwell”?
The original GLR: “Adolf Hitler was the White Savior of the twentieth century.”
Rockwell got cancelled with extreme prejudice by another Nazi.
And it was another Nazi!
Heritage is a mere fading shell of its former self...
Maybe it is time to give up on Tucker for the Nazi stuff. I wouldn’t want Free Republic to just become a conduit for whatever the Israeli government wants people to think, though. If Jews and Israelis themselves can have different opinions, why the lockstep here?
I’m not disagreeing with you, but I simply have no idea what you’re trying to say.
Tucker is as tiresome as the rest of the Israel haters here. The hate Israel MORE than the left. They are therefore USELESS in the true fight, just point and laugh at how useless they are.
Every day fr bandwirh is taken up by this same old nonsense. Tucker hates Israel MORE than the left
+1
“ Just give me an example of one off the top of your head.”
I’m not your researcher. Go to Google and type in “Tucker Carlson anti Israel statements”
Are you sure you didn’t see “Night and Fog?” That is a classic Holocaust documentary.
Israelis as individuals are almost perfectly exclusively and greatly appreciative of American support.
The politicians, well they suck everywhere, Israel included.
In case you hadn’t noticed, everyone spies on everyone. For example, next to the old embassy in Tel Aviv, American CIA, contractors, military guys , etc. all congregate and spy ON ISRAEL. Everyone knows it. I’m sitting in The Imperial bar across the street, and two grizzled old porky Americans are having a drink. “What are you guys doing here?” I asked. “We’re Interior Decorators” they replied.
England spies on us, we spy on England. And everyone else spies on absolutely everyone else. So don’t take special umbrage when Israel does exactly the same thing. They do spy better, though, I think. See the Pager attack among many others! :-)
I bailed out pretty fast and didn’t look back. Titles didn’t mean much to me when I was twelve. It could been anything; but, it did have some sort of US Army prologue.
His "intent" changes depending upon whether or not he likes what his guest is saying. If he does, he lets them speak unchallenged. Or, like he does with MacGregor and some others, affirmatively tongue-bathes them during the interview by stating how valuable their opinions are, why people should believe them, etc..
But if Tucker disagrees with someone, he will challenge them and disagree openly.
He also sometimes does his pathetically transparent "I'm just asking questions" schtick, which boils down to softball rhetorical questions to his favored guests, or antagonistic questions to his disfavored ones.
To be blunt...I don't see how an honest person can state that Tucker is unbiased and doesn't let his own views become apparent even when they are not stated openly. It's blindingly obvious by the way he treats the people he has on his show.
Borrowing a page out of Julius Streicher’s playbook?
From what I've seen, Nick Fuentes is a buffoon and a deviant, while Daryl Cooper is a conspiracy-peddling nutcase.
That being said, I wonder about the priorities of people who are more offended by Fuentes and Cooper (two non-entities with precisely zero power and impact) than they are by leftist media and political figures who have actual influence and power and are actively destroying America.
In other words, what should we get bent out of shape over - kooks saying foolish things, or people who are actively subverting our nation?
Tucker’s opinions on Israel reflect the majority opinion of conservatives under 50. Nick Fuentes opinions reflect the majority opinion of Gen Z conservatives. So how can you ignore them? The heresy of ‘Christian Zionism’ will die out with the boomers.
My impression is that most younger conservatives, apart from Dispensationalist Evangelicals, simply don't give a damn about Israel and the Middle East. They aren't anti-Israel or anti-Jewish, they (rightly) just don't think that Israel's fight is our fight.
While I'm glad to see the attitude that joined America and Israel at the hip for decades fading, that doesn't mean that I have any use for the Muslims either, unlike Fuentes who actively supports Hamas etc.
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