celeb news Fox execs hunting leaker of Kanye antisemetic/crazy lines Tucker nixed from interview

[Espresso]

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Fox News executives are “full-on freaked out” about the leak of never-aired clips of Tucker Carlson’s interview with Kayne West, Confider has learned, and the network is closing in on the “mole” who was the source of the embarrassing breach.

 

A few weeks ago Carlson interviewed West, who now goes by the mononym Ye, and touted him as a brave truth-teller dismissed by liberal elites for his increasingly far-right beliefs and stunts like wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt to Paris Fashion Week.

 

Despite the Fox News celebration of West’s supposed intellectual heft, unaired snippets leaked to Vice’s Motherboard showed the rapper and fashion mogul peddling openly antisemitic tropes and bizarre claims about “fake children” being used to manipulate his kids. These more embarrassing, newsworthy remarks never made into the final broadcast of Carlson’s chat with the rapper. (The interview was also before Ye threatened online to go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE” before being banned from multiple platforms.) [...]

 

[FameFatale]

I don't think it leaked, I think they reached out using the freedom of information act and was able to receive the full unedited interview. 

[Espresso]

17 minutes ago, FameFatale said:

I don't think it leaked, I think they reached out using the freedom of information act and was able to receive the full unedited interview. 

Vice's Motherboard didn't ask for the full interview, it was leaked to them. Daily Beast quotes another exec who was fired within a day for doing the same thing who was impressed that whoever it was hadn't been caught yet. Not requested. No FOIA process.

[Taylena]

15 minutes ago, FameFatale said:

I don't think it leaked, I think they reached out using the freedom of information act and was able to receive the full unedited interview. 

Fox News is not a government agency. 

[FameFatale]

2 minutes ago, Espresso said:

Vice's Motherboard didn't ask for the full interview, it was leaked to them. Daily Beast quotes another exec who was fired within a day for doing the same thing who was impressed that whoever it was hadn't been caught yet. Not requested. No FOIA process.

 

2 minutes ago, Taylena said:

Fox News is not a government agency. 

I was thinking about something else  Nevermind...