Amid a feud with Fox News talk show host Tucker Carlson, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., suggested that companies should stop advertising on Carlson’s show. "Fox News is now giving a nightly platform to white supremacist rhetoric," the congresswoman said in a July 10 tweet. "Advertisers should not be underwriting hate speech." Her tweet linked to a list of companies that ran ads during Carlson’s July 9 show, when he called Omar "living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country." See Figure 1 on PolitiFact.com Carlson fired back that night. "Ilhan Omar and her allies ... >>More
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