Opinion: Why is Tucker Carlson so obsessed with Maine?
. Last Wednesday night, Carlson reported that Mills is continuing her pursuit of the restaurateur. “Maine’s civil courts are currently shut down, but Mills has asked them to reopen temporarily solely to order Rick Savage’s restaurant shut down completely,” said Carlson. “That shouldn’t be allowed in this country. It has nothing to do with health. In fact,
In an interview with the Erik Wemple Blog, Savage says he’s known Carlson for a long time, though they don’t hang out. “He has land in Maine and he loves Maine and that’s why he’s so passionate about Maine,” says Savage, who points to the stakes involved in his fight: He had to lay off all but a handful of his 70 employees as a result of the shutdown order. “It’s not like he’s trying to beat [Mills] up, but this affects him, too. He does love Maine, and he’s a great guy.
Is that an ethical problem? Perhaps not. On the one hand, Carlson has a very direct stake in the outcomes of the decision-making that he’s attacking on air. On the other, his stake stems from his status as a citizen, and who cares where he summers?There’s a bigger issue at play here, anyhow: Should a cable-news host use his platform to encourage a man to defy a state order? Fox News didn’t provide an answer to an inquiry on that matter.
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