Neff's owes his career to Tucker Carlson.
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Neff → owe → Carlson
Now, he struggles to comprehend what his former boss has seemingly become.
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boss → struggle → ?
'What I think has driven a lot of what Tucker has done in the last year or so is he's indulged negative traits within him more and more,' Neff, co-host of The Charlie Kirk Show and former lead writer for Tucker Carlson, told Jeremy Boreing.
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Neff → think → Boreing
Excerpts of Boreing's interview of Neff were shared exclusively with the Daily Mail.
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Excerpts → share → Mail
The full conversation will air on The Jeremy Boreing Show today at 3pm central/4pm eastern time.
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conversation → air → 3
Neff knows Carlson better than many.
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Neff → know → many
At 26-years-old, he was working as a reporter at Carlson's website The Daily Caller, when Carlson launched his primetime show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News.
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Carlson → work → News
In 2016, Carlson pulled Neff out of the newsroom to help write his Fox News monologues which would come to shape the tenor of the program and much of the conservative moment, at the time.
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which → pull → time
Then in 2022, Neff resigned from Fox News after several seemingly racist blog posts surfaced.
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posts → resign → News
Neff says his writings were jokes, taken out of context by critics.
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writings → say → critics
He ended up on the staff of the Charlie Kirk Show, as a writer and producer.
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He → end → writer
Just a few years after that Neff stood just 20 feet from his boss when the conservative activist was killed by an assassin on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
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activist → stand → Orem
Neff's career makes him a unique witness to a fraught moment in conservative media, as former allies are at odds over the Trump administration, the war in Iran and even the circumstances surrounding Kirk's death.
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allies → make → death
'What I think has driven a lot of what Tucker has done in the last year or so is he's indulged negative traits within him more and more,' Neff, co-host of The Charlie Kirk Show
Podcasters, like Candace Owens and even Carlson's younger brother Buckley, have spread various conspiracy theories about Kirk's killing.
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Neff → think → killing
In March, Buckley Carlson retweeted a message suggesting that Kirk's killing was a 'black magic ritual.'
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killing → retweete → message
Neff told Boreing that the last time he was in contact with Carlson, he asked him to ask his brother to stop trafficking in conspiracies around Kirk's death.
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he → tell → death
Carlson, who often speaks about his close personal and professional ties to Kirk, refused to intervene, Neff said.
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Neff → speak → Kirk
'The last communication I had with Tucker was: Tucker, just privately, can you ask your brother to just stop pushing this Candace stuff?
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you → have → stuff
He refused to ask,' Neff said.
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Neff → refuse → ?
'I don't think Tucker in 2018 would have had that response to someone he has a close relationship with spreading incredibly hateful lies about innocent people,' he continued.
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he → think → people
The Daily Mail reached out to Carlson's representatives for comment.
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Mail → reach → comment
Neff goes on to allege that Carlson now seems to uncritically accept nearly any smear of his perceived opponents.
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Carlson → go → opponents
'He'll believe anything negative,' said Neff.
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Neff → believe → anything
'Israel did this war that I powerfully hate, so why wouldn't they have murdered Charlie?
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they → do → Charlie
Why wouldn't they have murdered President Kennedy, which he's also suggested is something they did.
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And then that transitions into, let's be frank, carrying water for people who are pushing the most hateful and deranged conspiracy theory.
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who → transition → theory
I would say it's at least on par with people who say Sandy Hook was faked.
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Hook → say → people
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'I don't think Tucker in 2018 would have had that response to someone he has a close relationship with spreading incredibly hateful lies about innocent people,' Neff said
Neff stood just 20 feet from his boss when the conservative activist was killed by an assassin on the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah
Indeed, Neff seems to be pained to criticize a man for whom he once worked.
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he → think → whom
'I owe my entire career to the fact that Tucker plucked me out [of the Daily Caller] and said, would you like to be the writer for my show at Fox?
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you → owe → Fox
The bottom level of hell in Dante's Inferno is for people who have betrayed masters.
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who → betray → masters
As to why Carlson has made this alarming transformation, Neff – who has not worked with Carlson for six years – has a theory:
'He has some grievances that he has fixed upon.
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he → make → that
He has always been passionately against [America] going to war with Iran.
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America → go → Iran
He was paranoid that we would go to war with Iran way back when I was at the Daily Caller.
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I → go → Caller
I think the fact that it finally happened was just profoundly upsetting to him.
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it → think → him
Also, I think he's spoken about it himself, that he felt a little powerless to stop it.
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he → think → it
And this has made him so angry.
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him → make → ?
'Tucker's so fixated on his personal beef with Israel that he's going to enable people who are going to lie about [Turning Point USA], lie about the good people at it and try to rip it to smithereens.
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who → go → smithereens
'He's let this real grievance of his take over everything.
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grievance → let → everything
It's consumed everything.
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It → consume → everything
He just refuses to see the huge damage that he's doing to individual people as a result of this,' Neff concluded.
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Neff → refuse → this
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