Tucker Carlson’s biggest advertiser, the MyPillow guy, doesn’t think he needed to apologize for writer’s hate speech
Neff’s “horrendous and deeply offensive racist, sexist and homophobic comments” in a memo on Saturday and told staff that Carlson would “address” the controversy on Monday.
“Why should someone apologize for something someone else does?” Lindell asked in an email exchange with The Washington Post on Tuesday.The company founder and CEO thought the host handled the situation properly. “He said what he should have said,” Lindell said. “He said the comments were terrible.”
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