Carlson's Blake Neff no Ted Sorensen

Brilliant writer Ted Sorensen joined newly elected senator John Kennedy’s staff in 1953. Together, the two formed one of the most important and historic presidential partnerships. Sorensen sacrificed his marriage and health to write some of the most memorable presidential speeches ever: the 1961 inaugural, the August 22, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Speech, the June 9, 1963 Peace Speech and the Civil Rights Speech just a day later. He never recovered emotionally from JFK’s assassination.

We learned this weekend of another brilliant writer deeply attached to a highly influential figure. Blake Neff served as chief writer for top rated Fox News host Tucker Carlson for four years till his abrupt resignation Friday. Neff also wrote for Carlson’s opinion site The Daily Caller. He boasted about his influence over the influential Carlson, whose views touch, and sometimes stray over the line of promoting White Nationalism.

Now we know why Neff was so effective as Carlson’s chief writer exploiting racial animus on Fox News. Neff was outed as an anonymous, scurrilous author spewing extreme racist and misogynous hate on the online forum AutoAdmit. Posing as CharlesXII, no minority group was safe from CharlesXII’s vitriol. It took some time but CNN, Carlson’s frequent target as being a left leaning ‘fake news’ agency, pieced together five years of Neff’s anonymous hate speech to reveal CharlesXII was Neff.

Those of us fortunate to have grown up listening to Sorensen’s mellifluous and heartfelt words pouring from JFK’s mouth can dismiss Blake Neff with, “You’re no Ted Sorensen”.