After Tucker Carlson says he won't 'bow to the mob,' Media Matters surfaces more radio remarks

A defiant Tucker Carlson refused again Monday night to apologize for his comments about women and child rape that emerged Sunday night on social media.

Minutes later, Media Matters, a self-described "progressive media watchdog," that published the clips and transcripts, dropped a second batch of audio offerings in which Carlson can be heard making racist and xenophobic remarks about Iraq, Afghanistan Muslims, the Obamas and immigrants.

"We've always apologized when we're wrong and will continue to do that," Carlson said while addressing the clips released Sunday, adding that the leftist "mob" attacks free speech and demands conformity to political correctness. "That's what decent people do; they apologize. But we will never bow to the mob."

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His comments during Monday's episode of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" came after two different appearances on a popular radio show called "Bubba the Love Sponge" went viral last weekend. Carlson made the comments during appearances that took place between 2006 and 2011.

Media Matters surfaced additional transcripts on Monday night.

In one interview Carlson said the nation should invade Canada and compared its "good-looking women and good fishing" to Iraq.

"If I didn't like Canada, I wouldn’t consider it worth invading," Carlson said in a clip from 2008. "I mean, Iraq is a crappy place filled with a bunch of, you know, semiliterate primitive monkeys — that’s why it wasn't worth invading."

After an anonymous host in 2009 mentioned parts of Afghanistan beyond the control of NATO forces, Carlson said the country is "never going to be a civilized country because the people aren't civilized." Carlson can be heard saying in a 2006 clip he would vote for a politician expressing Islamophobic views such as the following:

"If you are really heavily into Islam, I really – I'm sorry, I just don't – I don't care for you that much," Carlson said. "And I don't care what that sounds like, you can call me a racist, you can call me whatever the f--- you want."

Another interview from that year included a host discussing a 40-year-old doctor marrying a 19-year-old "fresh off the boat." Carlson responded by saying he values certain immigrants over ones who "come over and pick lettuce."

"People who come to this country ought to have something to offer," Carlson said. "Be hot, be really smart, you know what I mean?"

Before hosts challenged him, Carlson in 2009 said it's "ridiculous" that people would attack President Barack Obama because he is black. He said Obama would still be serving in Illinois's state senate if he were white. Three years earlier, Carlson said Michelle Obama was going to be a "problem" for him, adding she "turns into a sister."

He didn't disagree when a host responded, "She does. She gets that whole, you know, three snaps and a f---ing whirl around kind of deal."

Warning: The following audio contains explicit language:

In clips released Sunday, Carlson can be heard jokingly downplaying the crimes of cult leader – and convicted child sex offender – Warren Jeffs. In other clips, he calls women "extremely primitive," says he feels "sorry for unattractive women," uses the c-word to describe a woman, calls one woman a "pig" and refers to two other women as "whores."

During one of the discussions about Jeffs, who was accused, among other things, of arranging marriages between underage girls and adult men, Carlson said what he had done was not as bad as a violent assault.

"I am not defending underage marriage at all," Carlson said in a clip from 2009. "I just don't think it's the same thing exactly as pulling a child from a bus stop and sexually assaulting that child."

When the hosts pushed back, saying that what Jeffs did was arguably worse because it was "more planned out and plotted," Carlson disagreed.

"Hold on a second. The rapist, in this case, has made a lifelong commitment to live and take care of the person, so it is a little different. I mean, let's be honest about it," Carlson said.

An unidentified "Love Sponge" co-host called Carlson's take "twisted" and "demented," prompting Carlson to repeat that he was not defending child marriage.

In another clip from that 2009 interview, Carlson incorrectly said Jeffs "didn't marry underaged girls" (he would be convicted in 2011 of marrying and sexually assaulting two girls ages 12 and 15).

Carlson said the real reason Jeffs was in prison was "because he's weird and unpopular and he has a different lifestyle that other people find creepy." He said that if he made the laws, Jeffs would go free while former NFL quarterback Michael Vick would have been given the death penalty for dog fighting.

"I'm not for child rape. I'm just saying, if you mistreat dogs like that, we're going to have to execute you," he said.

Warning: The following audio contains explicit language:

Carlson addressed the audio clips in a statement Sunday night, just hours later: "Media Matters caught me saying something naughty on a radio show more than a decade ago," he said. "Rather than express the usual ritual contrition, how about this: I’m on television every weeknight live for an hour. If you want to know what I think, you can watch. Anyone who disagrees with my views is welcome to come on and explain why."

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