Tucker Carlson sells Interests in Daily Caller, Advertisers Leave Fox Show Over BLM remarks

The highly successful conservative talk show host and commentator Tucker Carlson is parting ways from the popular conservative news outlet, The Daily Caller

The NY Times reported: The Fox News host Tucker Carlson has sold his stake in The Daily Caller, stepping away from the Washington-based conservative news and opinion site he co-founded in 2010 as an alternative to left-leaning outlets like The Huffington Post.

“I haven’t had editorial input” since the prime-time show began, Mr. Carlson said in an interview on Wednesday, adding that he sold his stake in the site last year. “Neil runs it. I wasn’t adding anything. So we made it official.” Neil Patel, college roommate, Neil Patel, the site’s publisher and a former chief policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney.

Meanwhile, Several advertisers have pulled out of the top rated Tucker Carlson, after the host made some outspoken remarks about BLM. Carlson, has reported in the past the activist’s roots to socialist organizations. The hot remarks that cost Fox News the advertising dollars of Disney, T-Mobile and Papa Johns according to Deadline “This may be a lot of things, this moment we are living through,” he said Monday on his Fox News show,  “But it is definitely not about black lives and remember that when they come for you, and at this rate, they will”. He could be referring to Democrat politicians or a Socialist Revolutionary front.

Last week, the host told his primarily conservative audience that they weren’t “required to be upset” about Floyd’s Memorial Day death in broad daylight on the street at the hands of cops.

Below is the segment which received blowback.