It was the 7 p.m. hour on Fox News and famed New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof found himself in the hot seat, forced to defend a column he had authored, in part, about President-elect Donald Trump’s supporters.
“I guess what I’m here for is empathy,” host Tucker Carlson told Kristof, noting the Times journalist had an extensive background traveling to some of the most troubled places on the globe.
“I’ve never read a column by you that suggests the people in those places — who support dictators oftentimes — are racists or bad people,” Carlson said, as he placed a printed copy of the column on the studio’s glass desk. “You would never write that about a poor person in the third world. But you’re implying that about your fellow Americans.”
Kristof rejected Carlson’s characterization of his work, but the newly minted Fox News primetime host, who previously hosted shows on CNN and MSNBC, calmly pressed forward.....
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