{"id":152252,"date":"2020-07-14T15:54:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T13:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/14\/tucker-carlson-announces-vacation-after-writer-resigns-over-racist-remarks\/"},"modified":"2020-07-14T15:54:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T13:54:30","slug":"tucker-carlson-announces-vacation-after-writer-resigns-over-racist-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=152252","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson announces vacation after writer resigns over racist remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News host also said ex-writer Blake Neff\u2019s comments were \u2018wrong\u2019 but that he paid a \u2018very heavy price\u2019The Fox News host Tucker Carlson responded to the resignation of senior writer Blake Neff on Monday night, saying racist and misogynistic comments Neff made on an online forum were \u201cwrong\u201d, but adding that the writer had paid a \u201cvery heavy price\u201d.Carlson also said he was taking a \u201clong-planned\u201d vacation. He did not say it was connected to Neff\u2019s resignation, which was announced last week after a CNN investigation found that he had written on the online forum under a pseudonym for years. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2020\/jul\/14\/tucker-carlson-writer-resignation-blake-neff-fox-news-response\" target=\"_blank\">Tucker Carlson announces vacation after writer resigns over racist remarks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News host also said ex-writer Blake Neff\u2019s comments were \u2018wrong\u2019 but that he paid a \u2018very heavy price\u2019The Fox News host Tucker Carlson responded to the resignation of senior writer Blake Neff on Monday night, saying racist and misogynistic comments Neff made on an online forum were \u201cwrong\u201d, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}