Inside Heritage's All-Staff Meeting: Kevin Roberts Issues Kinda Sorta Mea Culpa for Tucker Carlson Video
Plus, Zohran Mamdani's victory emboldens the Left: 'Socialism is not a dirty word anymore'
“I made a mistake and I let you down and I let down this institution. Period. Full stop.” That’s how Heritage president Kevin Roberts began an address to staffers on Wednesday, a week after he posted a video decrying those demanding the organization denounce Tucker Carlson after he gave Stalin fanboy Nick Fuentes a two-hour tonguebath.
It wasn’t exactly a full stop, though. While Roberts apologized for his “terrible choice of words”—he described Carlson’s critics as a “venomous coalition”—he explained they actually came from his former chief of staff, Ryan Neuhaus, who “had the pen” and duped him into thinking the remarks had been approved by “the handful of colleagues who are part of that [approval process].” Roberts said he “should have had the wisdom to say, ‘Time out, let’s double check this.’” Apparently his mistake was not double checking.
Roberts also conceded that he should have acknowledged that the Heritage Foundation’s commitment to not canceling people, mainly Carlson, has a “limiting principle.” That limiting principle isn’t that the organization will actually distance itself from some people, and definitely not Tucker, but that the Heritage Foundation doesn’t share all his views, which is something Roberts basically said in the original video.
Several courageous Heritage Foundation employees gave Roberts a piece of their minds. We refer you in particular to the 22 minute mark and the 42 minute mark at the video included in the report below.
Late last night, Roberts posted a video attempting to clean up his attempted cleanups. “Everyone has the responsibility to speak up against the scourge of antisemitism no matter the messenger,” he said. “Heritage and I will do so, even when my friend Tucker Carlson needs challenging.”
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Thanks in part to Carlson’s efforts, the mainstream media are becoming real friendly to Fuentes. New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg anointed Fuentes the “successor” to Charlie Kirk in a piece that was “accompanied by a photo some argue was deliberately selected to promote anti-Semitism by making Fuentes, 27, look way cooler than he actually is,” our Andrew Stiles writes. “One of many examples: Fuentes has argued that the ‘only really straight heterosexual position is to be an asexual incel.’”
Axios reporter Mike Allen, meanwhile, interviewed Fuentes for a piece “about the squirrely nerd’s allegedly influential role in the intra-Republican debate about whether or not to embrace Mamdani-style anti-Semitism. ‘One side is obviously dug in on supporting Israel,’ Fuentes said. ‘I think it’s going to get ugly.’”
“Some have likened the mainstream media response—desperately trying to anoint Fuentes as a conservative figurehead—to the anti-Israel journalist Glenn Greenwald’s kinky proclivity for worshiping feet.”
READ MORE: Mainstream Journos Simp for Nazi Twink
‘This is a country that defeated the USSR, unfortunately’: Zohran Mamdani will soon be mayor of New York City, and his comrades on the Left want you to know they aren’t stopping at the Big Apple. A who’s who of far-left activists—from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her former “Squad” colleague Jamaal Bowman to streamer Hasan Piker and ousted MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan—gathered at Mamdani’s victory party to plant the socialist flag.
“Socialist is not a dirty word anymore,” Bowman gushed. “We are in the heart of the imperial war. This is a country that defeated the USSR, unfortunately,” Piker added. “We have a future to fight for, and we’re either going to do that together, or you’re going to be left behind,” AOC warned.
Mamdani suggests his message has resonated with working-class New Yorkers: “Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas, Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses, Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties.” The numbers say otherwise. Andrew Cuomo voters without a high school degree, voters whose education ended with a high school diploma, and voters with “some college.” Mamdani won college grads by 19 points.
READ MORE: ‘Socialism is Not a Dirty Word Anymore’: Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Emboldens the Far Left
In other news:
Remember when the Left lost it over a Wall Street Journal op-ed labeling Dearborn, Mich., “America’s Jihad Capital”? Three men in the area were just charged with providing material support to ISIS.
It’s not all good news for Democrats after Tuesday night’s election: “Mamdani of Minneapolis” Omar Fateh fell to the city’s incumbent mayor Jacob Frey, denying the party’s socialist flank a sweep in the two high-profile mayoral races they targeted. And congressman Jared Golden, who has won a swing district in Maine the last four election cycles, will not run for a fifth term, handing Republicans a prime pickup opportunity.
More Senate Democrats are reportedly ready to work with Republicans to reopen the government. The timing is no coincidence, according to Oklahoma senator Markwayne Mullin, who said Chuck Schumer recently told his colleagues to “wait till after the election” to end the shutdown to keep their “base” motivated to vote on Tuesday.
One day after Zohran Mamdani took New York, the city’s fire commissioner, Robert Tucker, announced his resignation. One FDNY source said that Tucker, a Zionist Jew, “felt he wouldn’t mesh well with Mamdani.” Can’t imagine why!
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