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On The Beat With Ari Melber Thursday, former DNC chair and governor of Vermont Howard Dean weighed in on the controversy surrounding Fox News following the mass shooting in a Buffalo, New York supermarket Saturday, in which a gunman murdered 10 Black people in a racially motivated attack. In a lengthy screed, the gunman repeatedly cited the racist “replacement theory” conspiracy, which has been pushed on Fox for years by both guests and hosts. First, Dean railed against Fox founder Rupert Murdoch, an Australian immigrant. “I see the brand of Fox being hate, anger, dishonesty, and now murder… Murdoch has harmed this country more than any other human being in my lifetime, and he should never have been given citizenship,” Dean said. “The one thing I’d change about our immigration policy, is to send Murdoch back to Australia and keep him there, with the whole family.” Then Dean turned his attention to Tucker Carlson, the popular Fox opinion host who has been a fervent supporter of the “replacement theory” conspiracy over the years, but has claimed to not know what it is in the days since the Buffalo shooting, even going so far as to say it was “coming from the left.” “The guy is nuts. I mean, really? You gonna take this seriously in any way? But he’s dangerous because he’s got a lot of people who believe in this nonsense,” Dean said. “I actually think he’s crazy. But he’s malevolently crazy, and he’s a danger to the United States of America. And since we can’t take him off the air, we ought to boycott Fox.”