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Jim Acosta Skewers Tucker Carlson as ‘Fox’s Ayatollah of Paranoia’ for Vilifying Afghan Refugees (Video)

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Jim Acosta argues that there’s plenty of blame to go around in how the media has covered Afghanistan’s fall to the Taliban, but he singles out Tucker Carlson, in particular, calling him Fox News’ “Ayatollah of Paranoia” for attempting to incite fear of being “invaded” by Afghan refugees.

On Acosta’s Saturday show, the CNN host took aim at conservative media personalities for what he feels are inappropriate responses to the crisis in Afghanistan.“The pictures of Afghans clinging to military planes are not what riles up the Fox audience — it’s these images of Afghans loaded onto those planes,” Acosta said, showing a crowded C-17 cargo plane loaded with refugees. “And leave it to Tucker Carlson, Fox’s ‘Ayatollah of Paranoia’ to take it one.

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