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CNN's Jim Acosta calls Tucker Carlson a 'human-manure spreader' for his 'race-baiting' attacks on Afghan refugees
Yelena Dzhanova
Sun., September 5, 2021, 9:58 a.m.
Left: Jim Acosta; right: Tucker Carlson Left: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana; right: AP Photo/Richard Drew, File
Carlson on Friday claimed that the United States is taking in Afghan refugees to increase the pool of Democratic voters in the country and sway future elections.
"Over on Fox, human manure-spreader Tucker Carlson has floated yet another race-baiting conspiracy theory that tens of thousands of Afghan refugees are being welcomed into this country to change the outcome of future elections," Acosta shot back on Saturday.
The US for weeks has been frantically trying to get Americans and fearful Afghans out of Taliban-run Afghanistan. A Homeland Security official said recently that the United States expects to welcome in at least 50,000 Afghans to resettle in the US.
Carlson called the evacuation effort "Operation Change America Forever." In response, CNN put up a chyron as Acosta tore into Carlson, reading, "It's the far right, not Afghan refugees, posing a threat to democracy."
Carlson has been fear-mongering about the arrival of Afghans to the US for weeks. In another segment earlier in August, Carlson ominously warned of an invasion.
"We will see many refugees from Afghanistan resettle in our country in coming months, probably in your neighborhood. And over the next decade, that number may swell to the millions," he said. "So first we invade and then we're invaded."
As of Wednesday, more than 23,000 Afghans have arrived in the US since evacuations from Kabul began, Axios reported. The Biden administration appointed former Delaware Gov. Jack Markell to oversee Afghan resettlement in the US.
But the resettlement effort has been rocky. Refugee resettlement agencies in the US have been scrambling to pull together staff, funding, and housing to accommodate the droves of arriving Afghans, Insider's Kenneth Niemeyer and Charles Davis reported. These groups are trying to ramp up hiring efforts after severe program cuts made by the Trump administration.
Funding from the federal government will likely bolster resettlement efforts. A State Department official told Bloomberg each evacuee could receive up to $2,275 to be spent on food, housing, or other necessities like enrolling children in school.
Read the original article on Business Insider
Jim Acosta blasts ‘human manure-spreader’ Tucker Carlson over claim Biden sending Afghan refugees to swing states
NN anchor Jim Acosta has berated Tucker Carlson for spreading ‘race-baiting conspiracy theories’ about Afghans being resettled in the United States.
Mr Acosta called the Fox News host a ‘human manure-spreader’ for his claim that President Joe Biden was deliberately sending Afghan refugees to swing states to influence the outcome of future elections.
In a monologue delivered on his primetime show, Mr Carlson claimed refugees were being relocated in states such as Florida, Nevada, Georgia, and Pennsylvania to disfranchise voters there.
“Are you surprised by this? Funny,” Mr Carlson said, adopting a typically conspiratorial tone.
He went on to claim Afghans were being secretly settled in Wisconsin, another key swing state that flipped from Donald Trump to Mr Biden in 2020.
Tucker Carlson (Getty Images)
“What do the people of Wisconsin think? It’s not their country. Oh, but it is.”
Responding to the comments on CNN, Mr Acosta said: “Over on Fox, human manure-spreader Tucker Carlson has floated yet another race baiting conspiracy theory that tens of thousands of Afghan refugees are being sent over to this country in order to change the outcome of elections.”
Mr Acosta’s comment attracted an outpouring of support – and some condemnation – online.
“Tucker and his kind are dangerously deceptive and it’s costing people their lives,” Rex Zane wrote.
“Acosta has become my favorite person on CNN,” wrote another.
“Newscasters be beefin’ like rappers,” Jamaal S. Abdul-Alim said. “They might as well start doing battle raps.”
“ââRepublicans had no problem having Afghans help American troops in Afghanistan but now want nothing to do with them!”
Tens of thousands of Afghans who worked as translators and contractors for the US military were evacuated from Kabul as the Taliban took the country at breakneck speed last month.
Many qualified to come to the US under the special immigrant visa category.
According to the State Department, newly arrived Afghans will be dispersed between more than a dozen cities, including Phoenix, Jacksonville, Portland, Buffalo, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City. Many will go to states considered safely Democrat or Republican.
It’s not the first time Mr Acosta has gone after Mr Carlson for airing his ‘race-baiting’ views.
In April, he called the Fox host the “chief white power correspondent” over his reaction to Derek Chauvin being found guilty of the murder of George Floyd.
Mr Carlson has a long history of promoting a conspiracy popular among the white supremacist movement known as the ‘great replacement theory’ on his prime time Fox show.
The theory posits that white people are being replaced by non-whites through immigration and birth rates and has been cited by at least four white supremacist mass murderers since 2018, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
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Yelena Dzhanova
Sun., September 5, 2021, 9:58 a.m.
Left: Jim Acosta; right: Tucker Carlson Left: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana; right: AP Photo/Richard Drew, File
- CNN's Jim Acosta referred to Tucker Carlson as a "human-manure spreader" after the Fox News host fear-mongered about Afghan arrival in the US.
- Carlson claimed that the US is taking in Afghan refugees to increase the pool of Democratic voters.
- "It's the far right, not Afghan refugees, posing a threat to democracy," a CNN chyron read as Acosta spoke.
- See more stories on Insider's business page.
Carlson on Friday claimed that the United States is taking in Afghan refugees to increase the pool of Democratic voters in the country and sway future elections.
"Over on Fox, human manure-spreader Tucker Carlson has floated yet another race-baiting conspiracy theory that tens of thousands of Afghan refugees are being welcomed into this country to change the outcome of future elections," Acosta shot back on Saturday.
The US for weeks has been frantically trying to get Americans and fearful Afghans out of Taliban-run Afghanistan. A Homeland Security official said recently that the United States expects to welcome in at least 50,000 Afghans to resettle in the US.
Carlson called the evacuation effort "Operation Change America Forever." In response, CNN put up a chyron as Acosta tore into Carlson, reading, "It's the far right, not Afghan refugees, posing a threat to democracy."
Carlson has been fear-mongering about the arrival of Afghans to the US for weeks. In another segment earlier in August, Carlson ominously warned of an invasion.
"We will see many refugees from Afghanistan resettle in our country in coming months, probably in your neighborhood. And over the next decade, that number may swell to the millions," he said. "So first we invade and then we're invaded."
As of Wednesday, more than 23,000 Afghans have arrived in the US since evacuations from Kabul began, Axios reported. The Biden administration appointed former Delaware Gov. Jack Markell to oversee Afghan resettlement in the US.
But the resettlement effort has been rocky. Refugee resettlement agencies in the US have been scrambling to pull together staff, funding, and housing to accommodate the droves of arriving Afghans, Insider's Kenneth Niemeyer and Charles Davis reported. These groups are trying to ramp up hiring efforts after severe program cuts made by the Trump administration.
Funding from the federal government will likely bolster resettlement efforts. A State Department official told Bloomberg each evacuee could receive up to $2,275 to be spent on food, housing, or other necessities like enrolling children in school.
Read the original article on Business Insider
Jim Acosta blasts ‘human manure-spreader’ Tucker Carlson over claim Biden sending Afghan refugees to swing states
NN anchor Jim Acosta has berated Tucker Carlson for spreading ‘race-baiting conspiracy theories’ about Afghans being resettled in the United States.
Mr Acosta called the Fox News host a ‘human manure-spreader’ for his claim that President Joe Biden was deliberately sending Afghan refugees to swing states to influence the outcome of future elections.
In a monologue delivered on his primetime show, Mr Carlson claimed refugees were being relocated in states such as Florida, Nevada, Georgia, and Pennsylvania to disfranchise voters there.
“Are you surprised by this? Funny,” Mr Carlson said, adopting a typically conspiratorial tone.
He went on to claim Afghans were being secretly settled in Wisconsin, another key swing state that flipped from Donald Trump to Mr Biden in 2020.
Tucker Carlson (Getty Images)
“What do the people of Wisconsin think? It’s not their country. Oh, but it is.”
Responding to the comments on CNN, Mr Acosta said: “Over on Fox, human manure-spreader Tucker Carlson has floated yet another race baiting conspiracy theory that tens of thousands of Afghan refugees are being sent over to this country in order to change the outcome of elections.”
Mr Acosta’s comment attracted an outpouring of support – and some condemnation – online.
“Tucker and his kind are dangerously deceptive and it’s costing people their lives,” Rex Zane wrote.
“Acosta has become my favorite person on CNN,” wrote another.
“Newscasters be beefin’ like rappers,” Jamaal S. Abdul-Alim said. “They might as well start doing battle raps.”
“ââRepublicans had no problem having Afghans help American troops in Afghanistan but now want nothing to do with them!”
Tens of thousands of Afghans who worked as translators and contractors for the US military were evacuated from Kabul as the Taliban took the country at breakneck speed last month.
Many qualified to come to the US under the special immigrant visa category.
According to the State Department, newly arrived Afghans will be dispersed between more than a dozen cities, including Phoenix, Jacksonville, Portland, Buffalo, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City. Many will go to states considered safely Democrat or Republican.
It’s not the first time Mr Acosta has gone after Mr Carlson for airing his ‘race-baiting’ views.
In April, he called the Fox host the “chief white power correspondent” over his reaction to Derek Chauvin being found guilty of the murder of George Floyd.
Mr Carlson has a long history of promoting a conspiracy popular among the white supremacist movement known as the ‘great replacement theory’ on his prime time Fox show.
The theory posits that white people are being replaced by non-whites through immigration and birth rates and has been cited by at least four white supremacist mass murderers since 2018, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
Read More
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