[384] Carlson defended protests against lockdowns in rural areas, saying, "The threat to rural America from this virus is minuscule, so why are we punishing the people who live outside the cities? [334] Carlson was criticized for abbreviating a clip of Biden in 2015 describing "an unrelenting stream of immigration, nonstop" in U.S. history to remove its context. [96] He also hosted a late-afternoon weekday wrap-up for the network during the 2006 Winter Olympics. [198], Writing for Politico in January 2016, Carlson expressed his support for Donald Trump's candidacy and his positions, such as his proposed "Muslim ban", and criticized the other Republican candidates for not similarly making immigration a core issue. They are seen wrestling, . Testosterone levels in American men are collapsing. Fertility is in decline. [12][193], Carlson voted for George W. Bush in the 2000 election. [375] In 2021, Carlson belittled the paternity leave taken by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, a gay man, joking that Buttigieg could be "trying to figure out how to breastfeed". His monologue was described by The Guardian as "racially loaded" and "full of anti-immigrant rhetoric". Tucker Carlson has called out David French, Beth Moore, and Tim Keller over their silence after a Canadian pastor was arrested for protesting an event that exposed young children to drag queens. "[413], Carlson is married to Susan Thomson Carlson (ne Andrews). [360], On August 18, 2017, during a debate about whether web hosting companies should do business with racist sites like The Daily Stormer, Carlson said "I'm not defending white supremacy. [26][233] Carlson said in 2004, "I hate all nanny-state regulations, such as seat belt laws and smoking bans. [41][53], When Carlson was in first grade, his father moved Tucker and his brother to the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, and raised them there. [223][224] In March 2018 he criticized Donald Trump for comments supporting gun control after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. [313], In call-in segments Carlson made from 2006 to 2009 on the radio show Bubba the Love Sponge, Carlson said Iraq was not worth invading because it was a country made up of "semi-literate primitive monkeys" who "don't use toilet paper or forks". [362] Ben Samuels of Haaretz wrote that the episode "brings Carlsons history of providing a platform for antisemitism further into focus". Carlson said of the interview, "I thought I'd be ragged for writing a puffy piece. He shares with Donald Trump a deep reluctance to apologize for his mistakes, and he lobs insults that seem suspiciously like subconscious self-assessments: He loves to accuse his guests of "preening", and he derides "pomposity, smugness, and groupthink". [234][235], Since 2018, he has promoted more populist economics,[41] attacking libertarianism, saying "market capitalism is not a religion" and portraying some Republicans as "controlled by the banks". That's news to Ron Paul", "Tucker Carlson: The Bow-Tied Bard of Populism", "Tucker Carlson Goes to War Against the Neocons", "Tucker Carlson faces calls to resign after promoting white supremacist 'replacement' theory", "Talking With Tucker Carlson, the Most Powerful Conservative in America", "Tucker Carlson falsely claims Anthony S. Fauci 'created' covid", "The Anti-Vaccine Influencers Who Are Merely Asking Questions", "Tucker Carlson's wild, baseless theory blaming the FBI for organizing the Jan 6 Capitol riot", "Tucker Carlson's 'Patriot Purge' film on Jan. 6 is full of falsehoods, conspiracy theories", "The accountability-free world of Tucker Carlson", "Almost everything Tucker Carlson said about Anthony Fauci this week was misleading or false", "It's a Different Story Now for Ex-Newsman", "Conservative Fellow Travelers: Tucker Carlson Drops In On Viktor Orban", "Weddings: Melissa Price, Buckley Carlson", "Buckley Carlson's former employer asks LinkedIn to 'get our name off the page', "How Would Trump's Immigration Crackdown Have Affected His Own Team? [46][39][47][48] Carlson's father was adopted at the age of two by upper-middle-class New Englanders, the Carlsons, an executive at the Winslow Brothers & Smith Tannery of Norwood (the oldest tannery in America) and his wife. [89][90] Carlson later said: "I resigned from Crossfire in April [2004], many months before Jon Stewart came on our show, because I didn't like the partisanship, and I thought in some ways it was kind of a pointless conversation. No, no, this is a voting rights question." [95] Carlson wanted to focus on his new MSNBC show Tucker and said that although PBS was one of the "least bad" instances of government spending he disagreed with, it was still "problematic". Carlson stated on-air that the government had "launched a new war" on American citizens and characterized his series as "rock-solid factually". Market data provided by Factset. [140] Carlson condemned Neff's posts on the second episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight that aired after the posts were initially reported. [355][356][357], After jurors found Chauvin guilty of murder, Carlson argued that they were intimidated into doing so by Black Lives Matter protests rather than being swayed by witness testimony or video of the killing of Floyd. And the rest of us have been so intimidated by the screaming of the activists and the highly funded lobbies they have in Washington. Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him? [261] The Open Society Foundations, a group founded by Soros, called the film "anti-American propaganda," and its Vice President Laura Silber stated that "Carlson appears to prefer authoritarian rule, state capture of media and the courts, crony corruption and rigged elections. 23-year-old woman to Tucker: I regret transitioning as a teen Fox News 10.3M subscribers Subscribe 3.9M views 9 months ago #Tucker #FoxNews Helena Kerschner tells Tucker Carlson on why she. [96] Rachel Maddow and Jay Severin featured as guests on a rotating panel. [31] In September 2020, on The Rubin Report, Carlson said that, unlike TV newscasters who he said "systematically lie", he will only lie "if I'm really cornered or something", saying, "I lie. And we've really been cowed into silence. In the latest installment of Fox Nation's "Tucker Carlson Originals," host Tucker Carlson speaks with a renowned theoretical physicist, a former UK Ministry investigator, and government. [437][438][439] The following February, Dominion's legal team released texts and other products of discovery against Fox, revealing that Carslon privately doubted the false claims that the 2020 election was stolen and mocked Trump advisors, including Rudy Giuliani and Sydney Powell. S1, Ep3. [165] Reuters media critic and libertarian Jack Shafer, while commenting "I've never thought much of Media Matters' style of watchdogging or Brock's journalism", nevertheless sharply criticized The Daily Caller piece for relying on conjecture, absence of evidence, and inclusion of "anonymously sourced crap", adding that "Daily Caller is attacking Media Matters with bad journalism and lame propaganda. The week a train derailment poisoned an entire town in Ohio, the transportation secretary, the man in charge of preventing train derailments, held a press conference attacking White construction . [160][41], In June 2010, The Daily Caller published excerpts from e-mails sent between members of JournoList, an invitation-only liberal forum, consisting of "several hundred journalists, academics and policy experts" launched in 2007 by Ezra Klein. Mother Jones further observed Carlson was the only Western media pundit the Kremlin adopted in this way. [12] Sources such as CNN and The Washington Post have said Carlson promotes racism,[13][304][20][305][306] a charge he denies, saying in 2018, "I'm not a racist. [374] Some of his comments on air have been described as homophobic, including a 2006 radio conversation in which he and Bubba the Love Sponge used the word faggot to describe their affection for each other, and his 2007 description of an incident during high school of beating up a gay man who had made an advance on him in a public bathroom. But if they're sending children into irreparable surgeries and castrating them and sterilizing them for life, then we have a moral obligation to say, no, you're not allowed to do that. All rights reserved. [18] In 2022, Carlson released The End of Men, a Tucker Carlson Original alleging a decline in American masculinity. Join Tucker Carlson and his team as their cameras take you inside the issues for a new documentary news magazine, 'Tucker Carlson Originals' Full Episode 00:01:23 The Death of Comedy He supported Ron Paul's 1988 presidential candidacy, when Paul ran as the candidate for the Libertarian Party, along with his 2008 presidential candidacy, when Paul ran as a Republican. The CMD said Carlson had a conflict of interest and had violated journalistic standards. When asked how he entered the U.S., the man casually explained that he just took the train., RISING CRIME AND MURDERERS WALKING FREE: 'TUCKER CARLSON ORIGINALS' EXPOSES WINDY CITY CRISIS. [72][73][74] Carlson's 2003 Esquire profile on his journey to Liberia alongside Reverend Al Sharpton and other civil and political rights activists would garner a nomination at the National Magazine Awards. [56][39] In 1984, his father unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Republican Mayor Roger Hedgecock in the San Diego mayoral race. The rest of us have been told to shut up about it because we're being mean to some oppressed community if we say this. [434][435], In July 2021, Carlson suggested that "there actually was meaningful voter fraud in Fulton County, Georgia, last November" despite the state's election results being validated via both hand and machine recounts. "[410] More than 90% of Fox Corporation's full-time employees had been fully vaccinated by September 2021. [53][210][211] Carlson has described Roe v. Wade as "the most embarrassing court decision handed down in the last century". "[264] According to The New York Times, Carlson played an influential role in dissuading Trump from launching military strikes against Iran in response to the shooting down of an American drone in June 2019. Has Putin ever called me a racist? That's a lie. Most people don't care and don't want to get involved in it. [342][338][339][343][341][344][345], Following the Carlson segment, President Trump tweeted that he had instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to "closely study the South Africa land and farm seizure and large scale killing of farmers". "[263] In 2004, Carlson wrote a commentary in Esquire accusing Bush of weakness after the September 11 attacks and in the invasion of Iraq. Finally Make a Deal on Guns? [476] The New York Times observed there was a distinction between Carlson's communications being intercepted by the NSA and intercepts of foreigners who were discussing Carlson. [41] In 2001, he was appointed co-host of Crossfire, in which Carlson and Robert Novak represented the political right (alternating on different nights), while James Carville and Paul Begala, also alternating as hosts, represented the left. [41][65], Carlson began his career in journalism as a fact-checker for Policy Review,[41] a national conservative journal then published by The Heritage Foundation and later acquired by the Hoover Institution. It means killing people". ", "Tucker Carlson appears to endorse Harvey Milk's murderer in college yearbook", "Tucker Carlson's College Yearbook Says He Belonged to Club for Harvey Milk's Murderer", "Former Dem-Gaz editorial writer Tucker Carlson to succeed Megyn Kelly in Fox prime time", "Why Are Writers and Editors So Obsessed With Tucker Carlson? [336], In August 2018, Carlson alleged that the South African government was targeting white farmers because "they are the wrong skin color" and falsely said the country's president had changed the constitution to allow land thefts from whites during ongoing land reform efforts. I have less political power because they are importing a brand-new electorate. He was criticized in India by figures such as the politician and historian Shashi Tharoor, who had written a book detailing atrocities by the British Raj. [186][183] In 2017, Carlson said his registration as a Democrat was to gain the right to vote in the primaries for mayoral elections in the district, and that he nevertheless "sincerely despise[s]" the Democratic party and "always vote[d] for the more corrupt candidate over the idealist" in order to favor the status quo and stem progressivism. I'm psyched to get to do that. "Tucker Announces New Book That Includes Section Grilling His Own Publisher", "For Fox News, Life After Bill O'Reilly Will Feature Tucker Carlson", "Tucker Carlson: A Buckley for Our Time? [431] Carlson said "what Powell was describing would amount to the single greatest crime in American history", but that Powell became "angry and told us to stop contacting her" when he asked for evidence of widespread voter fraud. 10. Call the police immediately, contact child protective services. [53] A few years earlier he quit smoking cigarettes (a habit dating to eighth grade) and took up nicotine gum, which he "chews constantly", and nicotine pouches. [24][25] Formerly an economic libertarian, he now supports protectionism. [370][371][372][373], Carlson has highlighted what he considers excesses of LGBT people on the political left. Stream all episodes of the new documentary news magazine. Tucker Carlson and his team take you inside the issues for a new documentary news magazine, 'Tucker Carlson Originals', See production, box office & company info, Self - Field Reporter & Independent Journalist, Self - VP, Texas Public Policy Foundation, The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM, Tucker Carlson Tonight: Episode dated 10 November 2021. 0%. 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Details of the FOIA were obtained via a separate FOIA filed by, By law, the NSA is prohibited from monitoring communications of Americans without a, Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress, criticizing the federal government's response, Politicians, Partisans and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News, Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution, The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalism, 2022 Republican U.S. Senate primary in Ohio, Special Counsel investigation on Russian interference, 2014 overthrow of the pro-Russia Ukrainian government, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, police shooting of a rioter inside the Capitol, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News, Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution, "Bickel v. Carlson (In re Estate of Vaughan), F077628 | Casetext Search + Citator", "Fox News Host Tucker Carlson Leaves the Daily Caller", "Tucker Carlson 2024? The End of Men: With Tucker Carlson. Derek Reimer, pastor at Mission 7 Ministries in Calgary, was arrested and charged on Thursday for mischief and causing a disturbance after he was . Carlson began his media career in the 1990s, writing for The Weekly Standard and other publications. Streaming only @foxnation Get free account: http://TuckerCarlson.com Media PersonalityJoined March 2022 3Following 73.2KFollowers Tweets Tweets & replies Media Likes Tucker Carlson Originals's Tweets AfriForum, a South African non-governmental organization focused mainly on the interests of Afrikaners, took credit for Carlson's and Trump's statements, saying it believed that its campaign to influence American politics had succeeded. Paul Ryan blamed Tucker Carlson for pushing toxic and racist content on Fox News. Not a joke. [34][450] Carlson also said Russian president Vladimir Putin raised "fair questions" when Putin mentioned the fatal police shooting of a rioter inside the Capitol while denying involvement in the poisoning of a Russian politician. The judge also agreed with Fox News' defense that reasonable viewers would have "skepticism" over statements Carlson makes on its show, as he often engages in "exaggeration" and "non-literal commentary", and that Carlson is not "stating actual facts" on its show. Legal Statement. 1 In Total Viewers", "Tucker Carlson suggested immigrants make the U.S. 'dirtier' and it cost Fox News an advertiser", "Tucker Carlson thinks libertarians run the economy. In this country, we judge people for what they do, not for how they were born". [456], In late October 2021, "Patriot Purge", a three-part series produced by Carlson, was released on the Fox Nation streaming service. Episodes will explore a single topic at greater depth than typically done on a live television show. The reporter of the Axios exclusive story, Jonathan Swan, later confirmed he had contacted Carlson seeking pre-publication comment, but said he had not told Carlson that anyone had shared the email contents with him. [32][398] In another segment, Carlson misrepresented federal data to claim that in the previous five months around 30 people per day in the U.S. died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. Fox's biggest star, Tucker Carlson, secured exclusive access to Rittenhouse and members of his defense team during the trial. I don't approve of it". Tucker Carlson Originals Full Episode00:01:57 Season Two: A detransitioner's escape from gender confusion April 15, 2022 Tucker Carlson Originals Full Episode00:02:13 Season Two: The End of Men April 15, 2022 Tucker Carlson Originals Full Episode00:01:17 Season Two: A one of a kind UFO investigation into cattle mutilations April 15, 2022 Carlson traveled in an armored SUV with a convoy of Salvadorian politicians in order to move safely through the city and evade MS-13. or redistributed. [36][14][35][37][15], Carlson was born Tucker McNear Carlson in the Mission District of San Francisco, California, on May 16, 1969. Fox News host Tucker Carlson looks back on President Biden's gaffes on 'Tucker Carlson Originals' Christmas special. [295][third-party source needed], On November 20, 2020, The New York Times reported that Steve Bannon and Chinese businessman Guo Wengui had brought Li-Meng Yan to America to promote the COVID-19 lab leak theory, a theory which states covid was made in a Chinese laboratory and then escaped for the lab. 'Crazy Stuff. "[440] Furthermore, Carlson texted to Sean Hannity, saying fellow Fox reporter Jacqui Heinrich should be fired for fact-checking false claims Carlson and Trump circulated about Dominion. [41] Carlson and Begala later recalled that Stewart and one of the book's co-authors, Ben Karlin, stayed at CNN for more than an hour after the show to discuss the issues he had raised on the air, with Carlson saying, "It was heartfelt. [289], Carlson suggested that a similar attack that occurred the year before (the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack), which was attributed to Assad's forces and which the OPCW JIM indicated was carried out with sarin that bore the regime's signature, was a false flag attack perpetrated to falsely implicate the Assad government. [411][412] In May 2022, Carlson described himself as against "the vax". [466][e] On June 29, the NSA tweeted a rare statement of denial,[465][468] stating that Carlson has never been a target of its surveillance and it never had any intent to have his program taken off the air. His former time slots, 6:00p.m. and 9:00p.m., were subsequently occupied by two liberals, Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow." Join Tucker Carlson and his team as their cameras take you inside the issues for a new documentary news magazine, 'Tucker Carlson Originals' Tucker Carlson Originals - watch online: streaming, buy or rent I caught her. To watch the full episode head over to FoxNation. Tucker and his team take their cameras to Maine and investigate a corrupt "green energy" plot designed to make foreign corporations rich by destroying one of the most beautiful places in America. [61] He then went to Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, graduating in 1991 with a BA in history. [142][143] Carlson's program saw a dip in viewership following the aftermath of the 2020 election, losing out to Anderson Cooper 360 in the 2554 demographic which Carlson had maintained a hold of the prior month. Bain Capital Founders Throw Money At Biden 2020 Campaign", "Tucker Carlson says Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez are 'indisputably right' on Loan Shark Prevention Act", "Fox News host says Warren 'sounds like Donald Trump at his best', "Tucker Carlson at National Conservatism Conference: Big Business Hates Your Family", "Only 12% of Republican Fox News viewers believe climate change is man-made", "Fox News' Tucker Carlson and Bill Nye got into a heated debate about humans' contribution to climate change", "Bill Nye appears on Fox News and it doesn't go well", "Tucker vs. Bill Nye the Science Guy | Video | RealClearEnergy", "Bill Nye Is Not the Right Guy to Lead the Climate Fight", "Analysis | What if Tucker Carlson's wrong about more than just Russia? [194] Carlson told Salon in 2003 that some Washington conservatives suspected he was "secretly liberal" because he liked John McCain. [30][50][330][331] In an open letter to Fox News, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called for the network to fire Carlson, arguing that the talk about demographic replacement "was not just a dog whistle to racists it was a bullhorn". or redistributed. This came in the wake of Carlson's remarks criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement, which had caused some companies to pull their advertising from the show, including The Walt Disney Company, T-Mobile, and Papa John's. [31] Writing for New York magazine's Intelligencer in 2019, Park MacDougald called Carlson a "Middle American radical", which he described as someone who holds populist economic beliefs; hostility to corporatocracy; fervent positions on nationalism, race, and immigration; and a preference for a strong U.S. president.