Michelangelo Signorile: The powerful gay man behind Tucker Carlson's bloodcurdling hate

[tenderfoot]

A gay man supercharges Carlson’s promotion of Florida’s odious “don’t say gay” law, which stigmatizes queer kids, teachers and parents — a brutal campaign in which Carlson at one point said teachers who don’t comply “should get beaten up.” And a gay man empowers Carlson’s crusade against trans teens and and their parents, a crusade in which Carlson stated that hospitals should expect violent threats for providing gender-affirming care.

That gay man, Justin Wells, helped promulgate the kind of hate that leads to violence. A mass shooting that happened in the same kind of nightclub at which Wells, in years past, danced the night away in Miami Beach and elsewhere, liberating himself from the world outside and surely never imagining he’d be shot dead.

Now he’s aided the extremists who deny that sense of safety and liberation to every future generation of queer people.

Wells runs the entire Tucker Carlson operation, and is responsible for imprinting the Tucker Carlson brand, which is all about emboldening white heterosexual male grievance, furthering the racist conspiracy of “replacement theory” and pushing an increasingly virulent anti-LGBTQ agenda. Wells is Senior Executive Producer of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and also holds the title of Vice President of Tucker Carlson Digital Products.

more: https://signorile.substack.com/p/the-powerful-gay-man-behind-tucker

[Hassin Bin Sober]

1. Drag him! (No pun intended)

[Carlitos Brigante]

2. I guess scum attracts scum.... nt

[Bucky]

3. Just mind boggling. Reminds me of the concentration camp kapos.

[ShazzieB]

15. I don't think that's a fair comparison.

Those guys had absolutely no choice. None, zero, zilch, nada. They did what they were forced to do, and the few that survived were able to tell the rest of the world what really went on in those camps.

Justin Wells is free to do anything he wants, and he has freely chosen to do evil. Nowhere near the same thing.

[tenderfoot]

16. Signorile is the author. Justin Wells is the one that has no issue with being evil.

eom

[ShazzieB]

18. Oops. Sorry, I'll fix it.

[Maraya1969]

4. Reminds me of Roy Cohn. Hateful cruel person who happens to be gay.

He must like the power and the money.

[bronxiteforever]

13. Exactly. I am thinking of Roy Cohen as portrayed in

Angels In America.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. Scratch a gay Republican and find a racist.

[gratuitous]

6. These quislings will always make a good living

By what they steal out of blind men's cups. And if today isn't their day of reckoning, so much the better. Tomorrow will take care of itself.

[Ilsa]

7. Was the "tanning your balls" promotion his idea, too? nt

[ZonkerHarris]

8. explains a lot of the homoerotic b-roll on the show...

[Deep State Witch]

9. Just Because He's Gay

Doesn't mean that he's not a scumbag.

[Caliman73]

19. True, but there is some kind of human expectation that a member of a particularly oppressed group...

would not participate in the systemic oppression of members of their own group.

I know that history is replete with people willing to sell members of their own group for power and money, but it is still upsetting to get more examples. Welles had to have experienced some types of discrimination in his life because he is a gay man. To work with someone who is working to propagate those attitudes and worse, just signals a lack of decency.

[appleannie1]

10. He is probably more than SEP and VP in a private capacity.

[geardaddy]

11. Log Cabin Rethuglicans

are self-hating gay people.

[TheBlackAdder]

12. So, metaphorically, he would be the pitcher.

[Demovictory9]

14. Wow 😳

[Samrob]

17. Self hate is the worse hate of all because it's with you all the time. nt