CNN media reporter Brian Stelter defended Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson after a group of aggressive protesters showed up at Carlson’s home Wednesday night shouting threatening chants and knocking on the door while his wife was inside.
“You can love or hate Fox’s Tucker Carlson, but we should all be able to see that this protester behavior is wrong,” Stelter wrote early Thursday morning in his newsletter.” Get a permit for a protest outside Carlson’s office if you want. But don’t chant ‘we know where you sleep at night’ outside his home.”
Carlson, who lives in Washington, D.C., was at his Fox office when the protesters, self-identified as “anti-fascists” with the group Smash Racism D.C., showed up at his home and began knocking on the door.
“Tucker Carlson, we will fight! We know where you sleep at night!” chanted one of the protesters, according to reports.
Carlson, whose program is largely sympathetic to the Trump administration, especially on immigration policy, called the activity a “threat.”
“They weren’t protesting anything specific that I had said,” he said in an interview with the Washington Post. “They weren’t asking me to change anything. They weren’t protesting a policy or advocating for legislation. … They were threatening me and my family and telling me to leave my own neighborhood in the city that I grew up in.”
