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margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #FF6E00; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#FF6E00">Parroting squawkbox <a href="/wiki/Pundit" title="Pundit">Pundits</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#E9E4E4;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Political_pundits" title="Category:Political pundits"><img alt="Icon pundit.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/4/45/Icon_pundit.svg/100px-Icon_pundit.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/4/45/Icon_pundit.svg/150px-Icon_pundit.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/4/45/Icon_pundit.svg/200px-Icon_pundit.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#FF6E00; text-align:center;">And a dirty dozen more </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#E9E4E4;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Randall_Terry" title="Randall Terry">Randall Terry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Ladd" title="Chris Ladd">Chris Ladd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Santorum" title="Rick Santorum">Rick Santorum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christina_Hoff_Sommers" title="Christina Hoff Sommers">Christina Hoff Sommers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerome_Corsi" title="Jerome Corsi">Jerome Corsi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Dice" title="Mark Dice">Mark Dice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Jeffress" title="Robert Jeffress">Robert Jeffress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nick_Fuentes" title="Nick Fuentes">Nick Fuentes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemma_O%27Doherty" title="Gemma O'Doherty">Gemma O'Doherty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matt_Walsh" title="Matt Walsh">Matt Walsh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caleb_Maupin" title="Caleb Maupin">Caleb Maupin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._K._Chesterton" title="G. K. Chesterton">G. K. Chesterton</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Pundits" title="Template:Pundits">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Pundits" title="Template talk:Pundits">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Pundits&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="infobox" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #ff6600; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#ff6600">Some dare call it <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">Conspiracy</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#ffe6d5;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Conspiracy_theorists" title="Category:Conspiracy theorists"><img alt="Icon conspiracy.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/5/58/Icon_conspiracy.svg/100px-Icon_conspiracy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/5/58/Icon_conspiracy.svg/150px-Icon_conspiracy.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/5/58/Icon_conspiracy.svg/200px-Icon_conspiracy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="195" data-file-height="195" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#ff6600; text-align:center;">What THEY don't want you to know! </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#ffe6d5;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings" title="7 July 2005 London bombings">7 July 2005 London bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Water_fluoridation" title="Water fluoridation">Water fluoridation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Committee_on_the_Elimination_of_Discrimination_Against_Women" title="Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women">Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illuminati" title="Illuminati">Illuminati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TWA_Flight_800" title="TWA Flight 800">TWA Flight 800</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Alamo" title="Tony Alamo">Tony Alamo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Explanatory_Memorandum" title="Explanatory Memorandum">Explanatory Memorandum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Targeted_Individuals" title="Targeted Individuals">Targeted Individuals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transvestigation" title="Transvestigation">Transvestigation</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#ff6600; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Sheeple" title="Sheeple">Sheeple</a> <a href="/wiki/Wake_up" title="Wake up">wakers</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#ffe6d5;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Accuracy_in_Media" title="Accuracy in Media">Accuracy in Media</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Basiago" title="Andrew Basiago">Andrew Basiago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Thomson_Iserbyt" title="Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt">Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Pratt" title="Larry Pratt">Larry Pratt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Cantor" title="Eric Cantor">Eric Cantor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shintaro_Ishihara" title="Shintaro Ishihara">Shintaro Ishihara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liz_Wheeler" title="Liz Wheeler">Liz Wheeler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_Little_Europe" title="Pioneer Little Europe">Pioneer Little Europe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinesh_D%27Souza" title="Dinesh D'Souza">Dinesh D'Souza</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Conspiracynav" title="Template:Conspiracynav">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Conspiracynav" title="Template talk:Conspiracynav">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Conspiracynav&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;">“”<a href="/wiki/Sinclair%27s_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinclair's Law">It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Upton Sinclair<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;">“”Listening to that Fucker Carlson, I'd like to add that traffic lights have always seemed to me to be an infringement of my personal liberty, and that people's slavish obedience to them shows the alarming effect on individual freedoms brought by such socialist nanny-state measures.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cleese" class="extiw" title="wp:John Cleese" rel="nofollow">John Cleese</a>'s<img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> tweet from April 28th, 2021<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;">“”Tucker Carlson is a kind of <a href="/wiki/Father_Coughlin" class="mw-redirect" title="Father Coughlin">Father Coughlin</a> of the current moment where he's constantly broadcasting coded anti-Semitism.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—<a href="/wiki/Jason_Stanley" title="Jason Stanley">Jason Stanley</a><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (1969–) is an <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> <a href="/wiki/White_nationalist" class="mw-redirect" title="White nationalist">white nationalist</a><a href="#cite_note-peltz-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascist</a><a href="#cite_note-ecarma-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> political commentator, propaganda-spewing news correspondent, <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> supporter,<a href="#cite_note-8">[note 1]</a> Russia supporter, TV dinner heir,<a href="#cite_note-tuckermystery-9">[8]</a> and professional jackasshole. He started his career as a semi-respectable <a href="/wiki/Journalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Journalist">journalist</a> (though his open <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Homophobia" title="Homophobia">homophobia</a> was documented in college<a href="#cite_note-trinity-10">[9]</a>), and has been sinking lower ever since.<a href="#cite_note-11">[10]</a> He co-hosted the <a href="/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a> political show Crossfire (until it was cancelled), and the <a href="/wiki/MSNBC" title="MSNBC">MSNBC</a> show Tucker (until it was cancelled). He <a href="#Tucker_Carlson.2C_ex-Fox_News_host">was</a> also a major host at <a href="/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News">Fox News</a> from 2016–2023,<a href="#cite_note-13">[note 2]</a> taking sexual harasser <a href="/wiki/Bill_O%27Reilly" title="Bill O'Reilly">Bill O'Reilly's</a> prime-time spot, with his show Tucker Carlson Tonight,<a href="#cite_note-14">[12]</a> also known as the White Power Hour.<a href="#cite_note-15">[13]</a> He is also the co-founder and former editor-in-chief of the propaganda outlet <a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Caller" title="The Daily Caller">The Daily Caller</a>. Previously known for holding <a href="/wiki/Libertarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Libertarian">libertarian</a> views on economic issues, he flipped to a faux-protectionist <a href="/wiki/Economic" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic">economic</a> analysis in which he consistently blames immigrants for every problem in the US.<a href="#cite_note-16">[14]</a> Carlson is arguably fully fascist because he embraces several of the aspects of Robert Paxton's definition: <a href="/wiki/Good_old_days" title="Good old days">obsession with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood</a>, white nationalism, working the masses with less-than-uneasy collaboration with <a href="/wiki/Elite" class="mw-redirect" title="Elite">elites</a> (specifically <a href="/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch" title="Rupert Murdoch">Rupert Murdoch</a>, although Tucker himself is also an elite), and support for the anti-<a href="/wiki/Democratic" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic">democratic</a> violence of the <a href="/wiki/2021_U.S._Capitol_riot" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 U.S. Capitol riot">2021 U.S. Capitol riot</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ecarma-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-17">[15]</a>:218 According to Erik Wemple of The Washington Post, Carlson's modus operandi is to <a href="/wiki/Gish_Gallop" title="Gish Gallop">blindside "his guests and keeping them from issuing fully formed answers",</a> as well as falsely claiming that his guests are ill-prepared to refute his arguments.<a href="#cite_note-18">[16]</a> When his guests object to his <a href="/wiki/Loaded_question" title="Loaded question">loaded questions</a>, he'll keep badgering them for not answering his question and <a href="/wiki/Pigeon_chess" title="Pigeon chess">then subsequently declare victory</a>. The "<a href="/wiki/Elite" class="mw-redirect" title="Elite">elites</a>" are a frequent target of Carlson,<a href="#cite_note-19">[17]</a> which is <a href="/wiki/Ironic" class="mw-redirect" title="Ironic">ironic</a>, since he himself is an elite, as are his colleagues and his dark master Rupert Murdoch. This just shows how he is playing a character with regard to anti-elitism, although with regard to his racism and other bigotry, one should believe that it's the real deal. Carlson's father, Dick Carlson, was wealthy and politically-connected.<a href="#cite_note-20">[18]</a> Carlson went to exclusive private schools. His father remarried the heir to the Swanson Enterprises fortune, which eventually made Carlson an heir to the fortune as well. Carlson's net wealth as of 2022 was estimated $420 million,<a href="#cite_note-21">[19]</a> which puts him at the poorer end of the <a href="/wiki/Ruling_class" title="Ruling class">ruling class</a> — remember that next time he tells you that the elites are oppressing you. Foreshadowing Tucker's career, Dick lost a defamation case against then-San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto because he had falsely and maliciously accused the mayor of having <a href="/wiki/Mafia" class="mw-redirect" title="Mafia">mafia</a> ties, implicitly smearing Alioto's Sicilian ancestry.<a href="#cite_note-22">[20]</a> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Crossfire_debacle_with_Jon_Stewart">1 Crossfire debacle with Jon Stewart</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Sexism">2 Sexism</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Toxic_masculinity">2.1 Toxic masculinity</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Assorted_dickishness">3 Assorted dickishness</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Federal_crimes">3.1 Federal crimes</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Racism_and_xenophobia">3.2 Racism and xenophobia</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7"><a href="#Tucker_Carlson.2C_racist_Kremlin_propagandist">3.2.1 Tucker Carlson, racist Kremlin propagandist</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8"><a href="#Tucker_Carlson.2C_antisemitic_authoritarian_asshat">3.2.2 Tucker Carlson, antisemitic authoritarian asshat</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9"><a href="#Tucker_Carlson.2C_domestic_terrorism_and_hate_crime_apologist">3.2.3 Tucker Carlson, domestic terrorism and hate crime apologist</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Tucker_Carlson.2C_double_agent">3.3 Tucker Carlson, double agent</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#Tucker_Carlson.2C_insurrection_cheerleader">3.4 Tucker Carlson, insurrection cheerleader</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-12"><a href="#Tucker_Carlson.2C_insurrection_footage_whitewasher">3.4.1 Tucker Carlson, insurrection footage whitewasher</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-13"><a href="#Tucker_Carlson.2C_bullshitter_for_profit">3.4.2 Tucker Carlson, bullshitter for profit</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Tucker_Carlson.2C_criminal_fanboy">3.5 Tucker Carlson, criminal fanboy</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="#Tucker_Carlson.2C_creationist">3.6 Tucker Carlson, creationist</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="#Tucker_Carlson.2C_ex-Fox_News_host">4 Tucker Carlson, ex-Fox News host</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="#We_pause_now_for_a_few_moments_of_not_being_a_dick">5 We pause now for a few moments of not being a dick</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18"><a href="#Follow_the_money">6 Follow the money</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19"><a href="#Relationship_with_Alex_Jones">7 Relationship with Alex Jones</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20"><a href="#See_also">8 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21"><a href="#In_a_nutshell">9 In a nutshell</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-22"><a href="#External_links">10 External links</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23"><a href="#Notes">11 Notes</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24"><a href="#References">12 References</a></li> </ul> </div> <h2>Crossfire debacle with Jon Stewart[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Crossfire debacle with Jon Stewart">edit</a>]</h2> On October 15, 2004 <a href="/wiki/Jon_Stewart" class="mw-redirect" title="Jon Stewart">Jon Stewart</a> appeared on Crossfire and although he criticized the show as a whole, Carlson took it as a personal attack. Stewart attacked the show for sensationalizing political debate and failing to provide hard-hitting interviews with those they agree with, comparing it to professional wrestling. Carlson decided to engage in the <a href="/wiki/Tu_quoque" title="Tu quoque">tu quoque</a> method of debate by pointing out that Stewart did not ask <a href="/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry">John Kerry</a> tough questions. Stewart responded with: "You're on CNN! The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls!<a href="#cite_note-23">[note 3]</a> What is wrong with you?"<a href="#cite_note-24">[21]</a> <div class="thumb embedvideo autoResize" style="width: 508px;"><div class="embedvideo autoResize" style=""><div class="embedvideowrap" style="width: 500px;"><iframe title="Play video" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/aFQFB5YpDZE?" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div></div></div> Stewart doubled down on his criticism on an episode of The Daily Show the following Monday. Specifically, he mocked them for claiming to be a show about serious political debate even though their show is "named after the stray bullets that hit innocent bystanders in a gang fight" along with pointing out the irony of him getting criticized for expressing an opinion on an opinion based news show.<a href="#cite_note-25">[22]</a> The show was cancelled a few months later with the president of CNN stating that he felt Stewart was right in his criticisms.<a href="#cite_note-26">[23]</a> However, whether or not this is the real reason is still debatable. Rather pathetically, Carlson is still under the delusion he won the debate,<a href="#cite_note-27">[24]</a> and has made claims such as that a Daily Show producer called him to say he was sorry and that Jon Stewart lectured the show's staff for over an hour.<a href="#cite_note-28">[25]</a> These claims have never been backed up and, given his history of dishonesty (see Keith Olbermann incident below), this leaves him open to skepticism. <h2>Sexism[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Sexism">edit</a>]</h2> He appears to consider <a href="/wiki/Kinder,_K%C3%BCche,_Kirche" title="Kinder, Küche, Kirche">1950s gender roles</a> applicable in modern society, believing that the idea of a woman paying for her man's meals is "disgusting."<a href="#cite_note-29">[26]</a> His attitudes are also sexist towards men as well since he does not consider <a href="/wiki/Statutory_rape" class="mw-redirect" title="Statutory rape">statutory rape</a> a crime if the victim is male and the perpetrator is female, further adding that it is <a href="/wiki/Blame_the_victim" class="mw-redirect" title="Blame the victim">"whiny"</a> for the boys to report it.<a href="#cite_note-30">[27]</a> He has attacked <a href="/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">rape</a> shield laws that protect the identity of victims, and he has defended <a href="/wiki/Pedophile" class="mw-redirect" title="Pedophile">pedophile</a> <a href="/wiki/Warren_Jeffs" title="Warren Jeffs">Warren Jeffs</a>.<a href="#cite_note-31">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-32">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-33">[30]</a><a href="#cite_note-34">[31]</a> <a href="/wiki/Media_Matters" class="mw-redirect" title="Media Matters">Media Matters</a> compiled disgusting comments over the years that Carlson made about women, among other topics: <div class="thumb embedvideo autoResize" style="width: 508px;"><div class="embedvideo autoResize" style=""><div class="embedvideowrap" style="width: 500px;"><iframe title="Play video" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/yr1WnL070hc?" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div></div></div> <h3>Toxic masculinity[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Toxic masculinity">edit</a>]</h3> A related recurring theme in Carlson's broadcasts is hyper-obsession with masculinity — or, at least, Carlson's definition of masculinity, a cartoonish projection of macho "strength", tough-guy swagger, <a href="/wiki/Misogyny" title="Misogyny">misogyny</a>, and an obsession that modern society (especially <a href="/wiki/Feminism" title="Feminism">feminism</a>) has devitalized American men and made them "weaker".<a href="#cite_note-carlsonmasccrisis-35">[32]</a> Similar hyper-masculine themes were common in <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> fascist regimes,<a href="#cite_note-carlsonmasccrisis-35">[32]</a> and are also common themes in the modern strongmen (or strongman-wannabe) authoritarian leaders Carlson admires, such as those of <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Orb%C3%A1n" title="Viktor Orbán">Viktor Orbán</a>.<a href="#cite_note-36">[33]</a> Like others with this obsession, this may in part be a mask to cover for Carlson's <a href="/wiki/Misogyny" title="Misogyny">fearful hatred of independent women</a>.<a href="#cite_note-37">[34]</a><a href="#cite_note-38">[35]</a> This hatred was confirmed in an interview with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Smith_(journalist)" class="extiw" title="wp:Ben Smith (journalist)" rel="nofollow">Ben Smith</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> in July 2022 where he admitted that the archetype of the type of person he really hates is a "38-year-old female white lawyer with a barren personal life".<a href="#cite_note-39">[36]</a> Due to this, Carlson will be happy to promote people that share similar hyper-masculine <a href="/wiki/Misogynistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Misogynistic">misogynistic</a> <a href="/wiki/Asshole" class="mw-redirect" title="Asshole">asshole</a> qualities, regardless of their repulsiveness. For example, Carlson hosted the notoriously toxic <a href="/wiki/Manosphere" title="Manosphere">manosphere</a> grifter<a href="#cite_note-40">[37]</a> <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Tate" title="Andrew Tate">Andrew Tate</a> on his August 25 2022 show, shortly after he was banned from most social media. On Carlson's show, Tate wailed that he was being banned for what he called called flaunting "very traditional masculine values".<a href="#cite_note-41">[38]</a> According to social media companies, the actual reason for the bans were due to "misogyny", "hate speech",<a href="#cite_note-42">[39]</a> and "content that attacks, threatens, incites violence against, or otherwise dehumanizes an individual or a group".<a href="#cite_note-43">[40]</a> Tate was arrested (along with three others) in Romania in late December 2022, with the allegations against Tate being the "very traditional masculine values" of human trafficking and <a href="/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">rape</a>. Subsequently, remarks from this interview resurfaced and were freshly scrutinized. In the interview, Carlson (using his usual <a href="/wiki/Just_asking_questions" title="Just asking questions">just asking questions</a> mode) defended Tate and downplayed any notion of wrongdoing concerning an April 2022 police raid on Tate, which occurred due to reports that a woman had been held captive in Tate's house.<a href="#cite_note-44">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-45">[42]</a> In early July 2023, Carlson (who by that time was fired from <a href="/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News">Fox News</a> and was reduced to broadcasting his show on <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>) once again hosted Tate for an interview (who by then was officially indicted for human trafficking and rape). Bizarrely in the interview, Tate "forgot" about his long history of running a <a href="/wiki/Pornography" title="Pornography">pornographic</a> webcam businesses and went on to lament how porn is destroying "masculine virtue", before launching into an anti-immigration discussion as typically one would find on Carlson's show.<a href="#cite_note-46">[43]</a><a href="#cite_note-47">[44]</a> While <a href="/wiki/Elon_Musk" title="Elon Musk">Elon Musk</a> gave props to the interview (calling it "interesting"), many other conservatives (among them <a href="/wiki/Joe_Walsh" title="Joe Walsh">Joe Walsh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Erick_Erickson" title="Erick Erickson">Erick Erickson</a>, Benjamin Domenech (of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_(website)" class="extiw" title="wp:The Federalist (website)" rel="nofollow">The Federalist</a>),<img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> and the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Examiner" title="Washington Examiner">Washington Examiner</a>) were appalled by Carlson choosing to do an interview with an indicted rapist and confirmed pornographer, especially since Carlson was portraying Tate as a "hero".<a href="#cite_note-48">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-49">[46]</a> Also due to this, Carlson will go out of his way to make disparaging and baseless attacks on any organization as "<a href="/wiki/Woke" title="Woke">woke</a>" for the mere "offense" of having women in it. For example, in March 2021, Carlson went out of his way to complain about the United States military being "feminine" and a "mockery" simply for designing combat uniforms and body armor for women. These remarks were widely condemned by <a href="/wiki/The_Pentagon" title="The Pentagon">The Pentagon</a>, veterans, and people in service, with many senior military leaders (among others) responding with praise for the women in military service, calling them "beacons of freedom" in contrast to Carlson's "divisive" rhetoric (which, of course, was based on "zero days of service in the armed forces").<a href="#cite_note-50">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-51">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-52">[49]</a> Later, in December 2021, Carlson, having learned nothing, hosted a right-wing talk show airhead named Jesse Kelly, who insisted that "we don’t need a military that’s woman-friendly" and that "we can’t even get women off of naval vessels… that should be step one, but most of them are already pregnant anyway.”<a href="#cite_note-53">[50]</a> Carlson's peculiar brand of "masculinity" led to widespread mockery on social media when in April 2022, Carlson unveiled a trailer for an upcoming special for Fox's streaming service Fox Nation called The End of Men, with the premise concerning "the total collapse of testosterone levels in American men".<a href="#cite_note-testicletan-54">[51]</a> The trailer featured images of hunky shirtless men wrestling, tossing tires, and chopping wood. Such images were naturally widely considered unintentionally homoerotic by many commentators, including a definitive affirmation of such from <a href="/wiki/George_Takei" title="George Takei">George Takei</a>.<a href="#cite_note-55">[52]</a> The trailer also featured an unusual "<a href="/wiki/Snake_oil" title="Snake oil">treatment</a>" for the supposed (unproven) "problem" of low testosterone: <a href="/wiki/Light_woo" title="Light woo">red light therapy</a>, where for some reason you become an instant High-Testosterone Manly-Man by shining some red lights on your <a href="/wiki/Balls" class="mw-redirect" title="Balls">balls</a>.<a href="#cite_note-56">[53]</a> This bizarre "<a href="/wiki/Testicles" class="mw-redirect" title="Testicles">testicle</a> tanning" <a href="/wiki/Broscience#Exploring_the_limits_of_logical_fallacies" title="Broscience">broscience</a> was widely mocked on social media as proof that Carlson had, indeed, gone completely nuts.<a href="#cite_note-testicletan-54">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-57">[54]</a> <h2>Assorted dickishness[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Assorted dickishness">edit</a>]</h2> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Tucker_Carlson_yearbook_1991.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/2/2a/Tucker_Carlson_yearbook_1991.jpg/250px-Tucker_Carlson_yearbook_1991.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="161" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/2/2a/Tucker_Carlson_yearbook_1991.jpg/375px-Tucker_Carlson_yearbook_1991.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/2/2a/Tucker_Carlson_yearbook_1991.jpg/500px-Tucker_Carlson_yearbook_1991.jpg 2x" data-file-width="870" data-file-height="562" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Tucker_Carlson_yearbook_1991.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>1991: Voted most likely to become jackasshole supreme</div></div></div> <ul><li>During the weekend that <a href="/wiki/Keith_Olbermann" title="Keith Olbermann">Keith Olbermann</a> was suspended from MSNBC, he actually pretended to be Olbermann in a back-and-forth e-mail exchange with Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky. In the exchange, Carlson slandered Olbermann's boss.<a href="#cite_note-58">[55]</a> It turns out that Carlson's right-wing website <a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Caller" title="The Daily Caller">The Daily Caller</a> purchased the domain KeithOlbermann.com over the summer and Carlson's e-mail address there is "Keith@KeithOlbermann.com."<a href="#cite_note-59">[56]</a></li> <li>His insanity includes attacking his then-current network, Fox News, as <a href="/wiki/Gun_control" title="Gun control">anti-gun</a> (no really!) for reporting the importance of gun safety around children.<a href="#cite_note-60">[57]</a></li> <li>Like a lot of conservatives he is against <a href="/wiki/Affirmative_action" title="Affirmative action">affirmative action</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a>, and, … seat-belt laws.<a href="#cite_note-61">[58]</a></li> <li>When interviewing a <a href="/wiki/Washington" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington">Washington</a> state elector about his intention to urge electors to vote their conscience, Carlson engaged in an extremely disingenuous argument. Hold on to your hats and pay attention here: Carlson claimed that electors wanting to support <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">the candidate with the most popular votes</a> rather than <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">the one with the most electoral votes</a> is against democracy. He was essentially arguing against his own (stupid) position while making it seem like his guest was guilty of the same thing he is. Absolutely crazy spinning.<a href="#cite_note-62">[59]</a></li> <li>He is known for his uncomprehending expression when he cannot understand basic science and is a denier of the overwhelming evidence of global warming. Whenever he realizes that his opponent on the Republican-biased Fox News debate is making a valid point, he chortles in a failed attempt to try to undermine the scientific evidence but deepens his reputation to further stupidity.<a href="#cite_note-63">[60]</a></li> <li>He referred to <a href="/wiki/Transgender" title="Transgender">transgender</a> people transitioning as "the act of a crazy person", and compared it to "setting your hair on fire or blinding yourself."<a href="#cite_note-64">[61]</a></li> <li>He said of <a href="/wiki/California" class="mw-redirect" title="California">California</a>'s pro-LGBT curriculum "It sounds weird but California public schools could soon be required to teach kids about the sex lives of historical figures. <a href="/wiki/Homosexual_agenda" title="Homosexual agenda">It‘s all part of an effort to force kids to approve of homosexuality</a>."<a href="#cite_note-65">[62]</a></li> <li>In 2019, he attempted to re-ignite a <a href="/wiki/Culture_war" title="Culture war">culture war</a> that was already (mostly) won by idiots like himself in the 1980s, keeping English units in the US instead of the <a href="/wiki/Metric_system" title="Metric system">metric system</a>.<a href="#cite_note-66">[63]</a></li> <li>Another example of Tucker not being a journalist on any level: he claims that some "damning, authentic" documents that are somehow the only documents to exist in one copy on <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a>'s son <a href="/wiki/Robert_Hunter_Biden" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Hunter Biden">Hunter</a> has "disappeared in the mail". Sure, Tucker, we <a href="/wiki/Bullshit" title="Bullshit">believe</a> you.<a href="#cite_note-67">[64]</a></li> <li>He casually engaged in <a href="/wiki/JAQ" class="mw-redirect" title="JAQ">JAQing</a> off regarding the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" class="mw-redirect" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> vaccine, speculating that "maybe it doesn't work".<a href="#cite_note-68">[65]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci" class="extiw" title="wp:Anthony Fauci" rel="nofollow">Anthony Fauci</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> responded by calling Carlson's blabbering "typical crazy <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">conspiracy theory</a>".<a href="#cite_note-69">[66]</a> Carlson responded to Fauci with even more <a href="/wiki/JAQ" class="mw-redirect" title="JAQ">JAQing</a> off regarding COVID-19 restrictions, showing a complete misunderstanding of the public health guidelines for fully vaccinated people at the time.<a href="#cite_note-70">[67]</a> Carlson kept at it by <a href="/wiki/Cherry_picking" title="Cherry picking">cherry picking</a> data and demonstrating that he did not understand the concepts of <a href="/wiki/Causality" title="Causality">causality</a> or <a href="/wiki/Control_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Control group">control groups</a>: if millions of people get the vaccine, of course some of them will die within a month but Carlson didn't think about comparing that group to people who weren't vaccinated.<a href="#cite_note-71">[68]</a> He also compared businesses requiring people be vaccinated to "medical Jim Crow".<a href="#cite_note-72">[69]</a></li> <li>Carlson has repeatedly invited antivaxxer/anti-<a href="/wiki/Face_masks" title="Face masks">masker</a> Alex Berenson onto his show.<a href="#cite_note-73">[70]</a> In 2021, Carlson urged people to call the police on parents who have children wearing facemasks.<a href="#cite_note-74">[71]</a></li> <li>In late April 2021, Carlson went off on a <a href="/wiki/Hyperbole" title="Hyperbole">hyperbolic</a> rant regarding <a href="/wiki/Face_masks" title="Face masks">face masks</a>. He first compared mask mandates as being the equivalent to living in <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> for some reason. He then showed that, regardless of how angry he was at the mask mandates, he really doesn't mind <a href="/wiki/Authoritarianism" title="Authoritarianism">authoritarianism</a> all that much if it's Tucker Carlson style authoritarianism, by suggesting that parents who have their children wear face masks during the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a> were actually committing child abuse, and encouraging all his viewers to call child protective services on these parents if they see this.<a href="#cite_note-75">[72]</a><a href="#cite_note-76">[73]</a> Tucker's opinions on whether masks actually work, meanwhile, change based on what the Democrats are saying about the subject.<a href="#cite_note-77">[74]</a></li> <li>In January 2022, Carlson got mad at (of all things) changes made to some animated characters used in advertising <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%26M%27s" class="extiw" title="wp:M&M's" rel="nofollow">M&M's</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> candy. In particular, Carlson was mad that the high stilettos and go-go boots worn by some of the characters were being replaced with "less sexy" shoes, which meant that he was "totally turned off" from the animated talking candies now.<a href="#cite_note-78">[75]</a> One year later, Carlson again got mad at M&Ms after the manufacturer (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars,_Incorporated" class="extiw" title="wp:Mars, Incorporated" rel="nofollow">Mars Inc.</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" />) debuted a new promotional wrapper featuring three female M&M cartoons, along with a campaign to support professional pursuits by women. This led to Carlson bizarrely complaining that a new purple M&M character (representing a peanut M&M) was "obese" and somehow thinking that the green M&M was a <a href="/wiki/Lesbian" class="mw-redirect" title="Lesbian">lesbian</a>.<a href="#cite_note-79">[76]</a><a href="#cite_note-81">[note 4]</a></li> <li>And to top it all off, Fox News, in late 2020, defended itself in a defamation lawsuit (brought by a former Trump mistress whom Carlson said was committing "a classic case of extortion") by arguing that Carlson cannot be trusted to provide accurate information on his show.<a href="#cite_note-82">[78]</a></li></ul> <h3>Federal crimes[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Federal crimes">edit</a>]</h3> <ul><li>Tucker Carlson has admitted to violating <a href="/w/index.php?title=Endangered_species&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Endangered species (page does not exist)">endangered species law</a> by taking a feather from a bald eagle home with him after being explicitly told it was an illegal thing to do; he described his actions as "thrilling".<a href="#cite_note-83">[79]</a> This infraction alone means he potentially faces 1 year in prison and a $100k fine.<a href="#cite_note-84">[80]</a><a href="#cite_note-85">[81]</a></li></ul> <h3>Racism and xenophobia[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Racism and xenophobia">edit</a>]</h3> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main articles on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">Racism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Xenophobia" title="Xenophobia">Xenophobia</a></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:167px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Tucker_Carlson._Old_school_racism._Middle_school_haircut..jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/e/e0/Tucker_Carlson._Old_school_racism._Middle_school_haircut..jpg/165px-Tucker_Carlson._Old_school_racism._Middle_school_haircut..jpg" decoding="async" width="165" height="163" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/e/e0/Tucker_Carlson._Old_school_racism._Middle_school_haircut..jpg/248px-Tucker_Carlson._Old_school_racism._Middle_school_haircut..jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/e/e0/Tucker_Carlson._Old_school_racism._Middle_school_haircut..jpg/330px-Tucker_Carlson._Old_school_racism._Middle_school_haircut..jpg 2x" data-file-width="1125" data-file-height="1110" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Tucker_Carlson._Old_school_racism._Middle_school_haircut..jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Meme made to mock Tucker Carlson.<a href="#cite_note-86">[82]</a></div></div></div> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;">“”Tucker Carlson is basically ‘<a href="/wiki/Daily_Stormer" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily Stormer">Daily Stormer</a>: The Show.’</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Daily Stormer post, August 24, 2018<a href="#cite_note-tuckermystery-9">[8]</a></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> Carlson has a long and storied history of spouting out white nationalist rhetoric.<a href="#cite_note-87">[83]</a> <ul><li>His racism and extreme homophobia dates at least as far back to his 1991 college yearbook, where his biography listed "History, Christian Fellowship 1 2 3 4, <a href="/wiki/Jesse_Helms" title="Jesse Helms">Jesse Helms</a> Foundation, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_White" class="extiw" title="wp:Dan White" rel="nofollow">Dan White</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> Society".<a href="#cite_note-trinity-10">[9]</a>:184 Dan White was the assassin of San Francisco City Councilmember and <a href="/wiki/Gay_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Gay rights">gay rights</a> activist Harvey Milk.<a href="#cite_note-88">[84]</a></li> <li>He claimed that California is becoming a third world country (it's not) because of Latin American migrants.<a href="#cite_note-89">[85]</a> He believes <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a> has interfered in American elections more successfully than <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> by "packing our electorate".<a href="#cite_note-90">[86]</a></li> <li>On his MSNBC show, he called <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canadians</a> "stalkers" and "like your retarded cousin". After the controversy, he went on the <a href="/wiki/CBC" title="CBC">CBC</a> program The Hour and gave an equally offensive non-apology.<a href="#cite_note-91">[87]</a></li> <li>He promoted the <a href="/wiki/Alt-right" title="Alt-right">alt-right</a> social media platform <a href="/wiki/Gab" title="Gab">Gab</a> on his show.<a href="#cite_note-92">[88]</a></li> <li>He claimed <a href="/wiki/Ilhan_Omar" title="Ilhan Omar">Ilhan Omar</a> was "living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country", citing "values are simply antithetical to ours."<a href="#cite_note-93">[89]</a></li> <li>He called <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraqis</a> "semiliterate primitive monkeys" and said that <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> is never going to be a civilized country because the people aren't civilized."<a href="#cite_note-peltz-4">[4]</a></li> <li>He promoted the racist, <a href="/wiki/Islamophobic" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamophobic">islamophobic</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Anti-semitic" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-semitic">anti-semitic</a> <a href="/wiki/Alt-right" title="Alt-right">alt-right</a> "<a href="/wiki/Great_Replacement" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Replacement">Great Replacement</a>" theory on Fox News, both implicitly<a href="#cite_note-94">[90]</a> and explicitly.<a href="#cite_note-95">[91]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League" title="Anti-Defamation League">Anti-Defamation League</a> responded to this by, in a public letter to Fox News, calling for Carlson to be fired, citing multiple racist and bigoted incidents in the past.<a href="#cite_note-96">[92]</a> Carlson responded to this criticism by doubling down on the racism and xenophobia, wailing that the <a href="/wiki/Democratic" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic">Democratic</a> party was "trying to replace the current electorate" with "more obedient voters from the Third World."<a href="#cite_note-97">[93]</a></li> <li>Carlson claimed that <a href="/wiki/George_Floyd" class="mw-redirect" title="George Floyd">George Floyd</a> died of drug overdose.<a href="#cite_note-98">[94]</a></li> <li>Prior to being dumped by Fox, Carlson had primarily veiled his antisemitism by attacking Jewish financiers George Soros and Paul Singer. Since that time he has become more overtly antisemitic on Twitter.<a href="#cite_note-99">[95]</a></li> <li>Tucker once complained a demographic shift in local communities was occurring "without debate," leading Cody Johnston of Some More News to ask if he lived in "the racist town from <a href="/wiki/Blazing_Saddles" title="Blazing Saddles">Blazing Saddles</a>."<a href="#cite_note-100">[96]</a></li></ul> Due to Carlson's <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racism</a> and other toxic dickish behavior, by April 2021, Carlson was too toxic for all but the sketchiest of advertisers (such as <a href="/wiki/Bullshit" title="Bullshit">bullshit</a> artists like <a href="/wiki/Mike_Lindell" title="Mike Lindell">Mike Lindell's</a> MyPillow, and bogus <a href="/wiki/Nutritional_supplement" title="Nutritional supplement">nutritional supplement</a> promoters), despite being (depressingly) the most-watched host in cable news at the time.<a href="#cite_note-101">[97]</a> <h4>Tucker Carlson, racist Kremlin propagandist[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Tucker Carlson, racist Kremlin propagandist">edit</a>]</h4> Like much of the <a href="/wiki/Far_right" title="Far right">far right</a> and similar to <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">his idol, Donald Trump</a>, Carlson's <a href="/wiki/White_nationalism" title="White nationalism">white nationalism</a> has fostered a bromance with <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a>, who also shares similar white nationalist views.<a href="#cite_note-102">[98]</a> This has led Carlson, on occasion, to be somewhat out of step with other conservatives who were still more in the <a href="/wiki/Neoconservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Neoconservative">neoconservative</a> camp (or other forms of conservatism that aren't quite so openly racist), and still considered <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> America's number one geopolitical foe, as <a href="/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney">Mitt Romney</a> notably did in 2012.<a href="#cite_note-103">[99]</a> Throughout late 2021 and early 2022, Tucker Carlson publicly supported the idea of Russia invading Ukraine and criticized US support to help Ukraine's defenses (obviously, Carlson was unconcerned about innocent people dying).<a href="#cite_note-104">[100]</a> Helping defend Ukraine against a potential Russian invasion was one of the few issues in 2022 that attracted bipartisan support from most <a href="/wiki/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Democrats" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrats">Democrats</a>. Carlson, however, was opposed to any sort of assistance, preferring instead to defend Putin's aggression against Ukraine by regurgitating Kremlin propaganda.<a href="#cite_note-slateprop-105">[101]</a> For instance, when Republican representative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Turner" class="extiw" title="wp:Mike Turner" rel="nofollow">Mike Turner</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> appeared on Carlson's show in November 2021 and defended assistance to Ukraine, citing the "strategic importance" and the need to defend <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democracy</a>, Carlson countered by openly wondering "why wouldn’t we be on Russia’s side?" To explain this stance, Carlson cited Russia's energy reserves (perhaps hinting at the threat of <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_baculum" title="Argumentum ad baculum">Russia cutting off natural gas to Europe</a>),<a href="#cite_note-106">[102]</a> insinuated that Russia for some reason would help counterbalance "the actual threat, which is <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>", and wondered why military troops weren't being used instead for an issue of vastly more importance to Carlson: <a href="/wiki/Xenophobia" title="Xenophobia">closing the US-Mexico border.</a><a href="#cite_note-107">[103]</a> Later, Carlson created a conspiracy theory that US defense contractors were the real people behind the crisis, building a bizarre narrative based on a single quote <a href="/wiki/Cherry_picking" title="Cherry picking">cherry-picked</a> from a Biden press conference concerning shortages and geopolitical concerns on a completely unrelated topic, semiconductors.<a href="#cite_note-108">[104]</a><a href="#cite_note-109">[105]</a> In another show, Tucker ranted that all of the pundits and politicians who were demanding strong action from the Biden administration (from <a href="/wiki/Joe_Scarborough" title="Joe Scarborough">Joe Scarborough</a> to <a href="/wiki/Bill_Kristol" title="Bill Kristol">Bill Kristol</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Crenshaw" class="extiw" title="wp:Dan Crenshaw" rel="nofollow">Dan Crenshaw</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Schiff" class="extiw" title="wp:Adam Schiff" rel="nofollow">Adam Schiff</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" />) were just "pathetic" "Twitter trolls" spewing "<a href="/wiki/Ad_hominem" class="mw-redirect" title="Ad hominem">ad hominem</a>" attacks against his other idol, Vladimir Putin (in the same opening segment where he complained about people saying mean things about Putin, Carlson demonstrated his vapid geopolitical knowledge when he insinuated that no one knew what <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> is).<a href="#cite_note-110">[106]</a> This created a small rift in the bipartisan consensus on Ukraine when a few of the more extremist and not-so-bright Republican representatives (such as insurrection supporters <a href="/wiki/Lauren_Boebert" title="Lauren Boebert">Lauren Boebert</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Gosar" title="Paul Gosar">Paul Gosar</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene" title="Marjorie Taylor Greene">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a>) migrated towards Carlson's viewpoint.<a href="#cite_note-111">[107]</a> Later, the day after a major development in the Ukraine situation — where Putin declared two regions of Ukraine to be "independent states", bizarrely asserted that the regions were no longer part of Ukraine, and authorized Russian forces to be deployed to the region as "peacekeepers"<a href="#cite_note-112">[108]</a> — Carlson went out of his way to defend Putin. During the rant, Carlson embraced <a href="/wiki/Culture_war" title="Culture war">culture war</a> <a href="/wiki/Whataboutism" title="Whataboutism">whataboutism</a> tactics to try and assert that Putin was really a swell guy ("Has Putin ever called me a <a href="/wiki/Racist" class="mw-redirect" title="Racist">racist?</a>... Did he <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_denialism" title="COVID-19 denialism">manufacture a worldwide pandemic</a> that wrecked my business and kept me indoors for two years?"), quote mined remarks from <a href="/wiki/Kamala_Harris" title="Kamala Harris">Kamala Harris</a> made at the 2022 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Security_Conference" class="extiw" title="wp:Munich Security Conference" rel="nofollow">Munich Security Conference</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /><a href="#cite_note-113">[109]</a> and used them to insinuate that her completely understandable remarks regarding <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> and Ukraine were somehow completely incomprehensible and asserted that everyone should love Putin because if you don't, <a href="/wiki/Argumentum_ad_baculum" title="Argumentum ad baculum">energy prices will go up.</a><a href="#cite_note-114">[110]</a> Carlson's pro-Kremlin viewpoints on Ukraine in 2022 are, of course, nothing new. Carlson had previously exclaimed "why shouldn't I root for Russia? Which, by the way, I am." in a November 2019 show, in regards to Russia's long armed conflict with Ukraine's democracy.<a href="#cite_note-115">[111]</a> Russian media were delighted to find such a prominent <a href="/wiki/Useful_idiot" title="Useful idiot">useful idiot</a> and frequently broadcast Carlson's Russian propaganda after it was aired.<a href="#cite_note-116">[112]</a> A leaked memo from the Kremlin even went so far as to call him "essential" to the Russian government.<a href="#cite_note-117">[113]</a> In a political discussion program on Russian state controlled TV, there was consensus that Carlson was an American who should not be killed.<a href="#cite_note-118">[114]</a> In February 2024, Carlson confirmed his position as Putin's most prominent American useful idiot<a href="#cite_note-119">[115]</a> by actually being granted an interview with Putin himself. Carlson was the first American "journalist" to interview Putin since October 2021.<a href="#cite_note-putininterviewreuters-120">[116]</a> This wasn't for a lack of trying; multiple Western news organizations tried to arrange an interview with Putin, but were denied access for not being pro-Putin <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> outlets.<a href="#cite_note-putininterviewreuters-120">[116]</a><a href="#cite_note-121">[117]</a> After the Russian invasion of Ukraine occurred in 2022, the Kremlin criminalized criticism of the war and drove out virtually all independent Russian media organizations, along with hundreds of journalists.<a href="#cite_note-abcputininterview-122">[118]</a> At the time of the interview, two actual American journalists, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Gershkovich" class="extiw" title="wp:Evan Gershkovich" rel="nofollow">Evan Gershkovich</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> (of the <a href="/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" title="Wall Street Journal">Wall Street Journal</a>) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsu_Kurmasheva" class="extiw" title="wp:Alsu Kurmasheva" rel="nofollow">Alsu Kurmasheva</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> (of Radio Free Liberty) were being detained in Russia on flimsy espionage or foreign agent charges that were widely condemned by the West as politically motivated.<a href="#cite_note-abcputininterview-122">[118]</a> It has been suggested that Carlson could face sanctions by the EU for airing the interview of a charged war criminal, since Carlson has long been a propagandist rather than a journalist.<a href="#cite_note-123">[119]</a> After the interview, Carlson filmed some segments fawning over how Moscow purportedly was "so much nicer than any US city".<a href="#cite_note-reasontuckergrocery-124">[120]</a> Bizarrely, in order to demonstrate just how much better life is in Moscow, he glowingly showcased decades old shopping cart security technology that was already quite common in many US grocery stores already.<a href="#cite_note-125">[121]</a> Carlson also praised the low prices (in US dollar terms) at the Moscow supermarket he visited, and claimed that these low prices "radicalized" him "against our (United States) leaders". This demonstrates that Carlson is unaware (or at least pretends to be unaware) of the concept of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/purchasing_power_parity" class="extiw" title="wp:purchasing power parity" rel="nofollow">purchasing power parity</a>.<img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /><a href="#cite_note-126">[122]</a> Reality is different: compared to the United States, food is much less affordable in Russia for the average citizen. After the Ukraine war began in 2022, the percentage of disposable income Russians spent on food doubled to 40%.<a href="#cite_note-127">[123]</a> In contrast, in 2022, the USDA reported that Americans spent 11.3 percent of their disposable income on food, with half of this figure coming from food away from home.<a href="#cite_note-128">[124]</a> Carlson's glowing propaganda contrasts with the <a href="/wiki/Brain_drain" title="Brain drain">brain drain</a> Russia was experiencing at the time. From 2022 to 2023, an estimated 1 million Russians left the country entirely, with the technology sector particularly hard hit by emigration.<a href="#cite_note-129">[125]</a> <h4>Tucker Carlson, antisemitic authoritarian asshat[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Tucker Carlson, antisemitic authoritarian asshat">edit</a>]</h4> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;">“”I do believe that there is a pattern with <a href="/wiki/Pat_Buchanan" title="Pat Buchanan">Pat Buchanan</a> of needling the Jews. Is that antisemitic? Yeah! … Pat Buchanan obviously has a lot of personal and affectionate relationships with people who are Jewish. So on a personal level, perhaps he's not. But on a different, maybe thematic level, I think he probably is.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Tucker Carlson (1999 edition)<a href="#cite_note-130">[126]</a><a href="#cite_note-131">[127]</a></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;">“”Tucker Carlson and his guest Darryl Cooper engaged in one of the most repugnant forms of <a href="/wiki/Holocaust_denial" title="Holocaust denial">Holocaust denial</a> of recent years. These far-fetched <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theories" class="mw-redirect" title="Conspiracy theories">conspiracy theories</a> are not only dangerous and malevolent, they are <a href="/wiki/Antisemitic" class="mw-redirect" title="Antisemitic">antisemitic</a>.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Chairman of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yad_Vashem" class="extiw" title="wp:Yad Vashem" rel="nofollow">Yad Vashem</a>,<img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>'s official memorial to victims of the <a href="/wiki/Holocaust" title="Holocaust">Holocaust</a> (2024)<a href="#cite_note-JNSDC-132">[128]</a></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> Russia is not the only authoritarian government that Carlson has formed a bromance with. In January 2018, the government of <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a>, led by <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Orb%C3%A1n" title="Viktor Orbán">Viktor Orbán</a>, passed Bill T/333.<a href="#cite_note-133">[129]</a> This bill, framed as the "STOP <a href="/wiki/George_Soros" title="George Soros">Soros</a>" act due to Orban's obsession with the billionaire <a href="/wiki/Philanthropist" class="mw-redirect" title="Philanthropist">philanthropist</a>, criminalized the activity of providing assistance for asylum seekers. Widely condemned by human rights organizations,<a href="#cite_note-134">[130]</a> the bill was loaded with the type of nativist <a href="/wiki/Xenophobia" title="Xenophobia">xenophobia</a> and strong whiffs of <a href="/wiki/Authoritarianism" title="Authoritarianism">authoritarianism</a> that appeals to many of Orbán's voters.<a href="#cite_note-135">[131]</a> As Carlson (and his audience) is no stranger to xenophobia and authoritarianism, it is no surprise that Carlson also ended up idolizing Orbán. In late January 2022, Carlson created a documentary for the streaming service Fox Nation called Hungary vs. <a href="/wiki/George_Soros" title="George Soros">Soros</a>. There, he created <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> straight from Orbán's playbook, depicting Hungary as a traditional <a href="/wiki/Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative">conservative</a> <a href="/wiki/Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian">Christian</a> paradise, and applauding Orbán's strict immigration policies (no matter how dehumanizing they were). Unusually, Carlson was even allowed to visit Hungary's southern border fence, and he actually was able to interview Orbán — practices normally not allowed to media outlets not known to be an Orbán lapdog. Naturally, Soros ended up being the boogeyman of the documentary, which used standard <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> documentary tricks (black and white imagery, ominous music) to complain that Soros was trying to force a <a href="/wiki/Liberal" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal">liberal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Globalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Globalist">globalist</a>, open-borders agenda onto Hungarian society.<a href="#cite_note-orbandocone-136">[132]</a><a href="#cite_note-orbandoctwo-137">[133]</a> Another recurring visual motif in the documentary is a supposed contrast between <a href="/wiki/Xenophobia" title="Xenophobia">chaotic, scary footage of non-white migrants and tranquil images of happy, white families</a>, as well as an underlying <a href="/wiki/Concern_troll" title="Concern troll">concern</a> over <a href="/wiki/White_genocide" title="White genocide">white demographic decline</a>.<a href="#cite_note-orbandocvox-138">[134]</a> A few Hungarians who responded with a review of Carlson's "documentary" noted how similar Carlson's propaganda was to Orbán's, which was widespread and well known in Hungary. Thus (similar to Carlson's bromance with Putin) Carlson was basically acting as a <a href="/wiki/Useful_idiot" title="Useful idiot">useful idiot</a> in creating <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> that suited Orbán's agenda. Unsurprisingly, the pro-Orbán television channel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%ADrTV" class="extiw" title="wp:HírTV" rel="nofollow">HírTV</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> aired Carlson's documentary just a couple weeks after the documentary premiered on Fox Nation.<a href="#cite_note-orbandocone-136">[132]</a><a href="#cite_note-orbandoctwo-137">[133]</a> Other reviewers commented on the <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racism</a> that underpinned the documentary. For instance, one reviewer thought that the documentary could easily be summarized by taking the <a href="/wiki/White_nationalist" class="mw-redirect" title="White nationalist">white nationalist</a> phrases of the <a href="/wiki/Fourteen_Words" title="Fourteen Words">"14 Words"</a> and swap "Hungarian" for "white".<a href="#cite_note-orbandocvox-138">[134]</a> Several reviewers, not to mention activist organizations such as the <a href="/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League" title="Anti-Defamation League">Anti-Defamation League</a>, also commented that Carlson's framing of Soros as a shadowy puppet master was, simply put, a nasty <a href="/wiki/Antisemitic" class="mw-redirect" title="Antisemitic">antisemitic</a> trope.<a href="#cite_note-139">[135]</a> Carlson, of course, has endorsed other authoritarian governments when it conveniently fits his narrative. In September 2021, Tucker <a href="/wiki/Horseshoe_theory" title="Horseshoe theory">praised</a> the <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">Chinese government</a> as "virtuous" for intervening in its citizens' private lives and placing restrictions on gaming and celebrity culture<a href="#cite_note-140">[note 5]</a> and argued that the Biden administration should do the same. This is in spite of him <a href="/wiki/Hypocrisy" title="Hypocrisy">attacking the CDC</a> for promoting COVID-19 vaccinations and restrictions.<a href="#cite_note-141">[136]</a> Of course, Carlson doesn't see anything wrong with the behavior of governments like Putin or Orbán. Instead, Carlson prefers to assign <a href="/wiki/Authoritarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Authoritarian">authoritarian</a> labels to leaders of <a href="/wiki/Democracies" class="mw-redirect" title="Democracies">democracies</a>. For instance, in the wake of the 2022 <a href="/wiki/Canada_convoy_protest" title="Canada convoy protest">Canada convoy protest</a>, Carlson declared "there's no more fearful despot in the world" that is more dictatorial than... Canadian prime minister <a href="/wiki/Justin_Trudeau" title="Justin Trudeau">Justin Trudeau</a>.<a href="#cite_note-142">[137]</a> Additionally, in February 2022, Carlson insinuated that the Ukrainian president, <a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy" title="Volodymyr Zelenskyy">Volodymyr Zelenskyy</a>, who was elected in April 2019 with 73% of the vote,<a href="#cite_note-143">[138]</a> was "a dictator who’s friends with everyone in Washington", instead of the leader of a fledgling democracy that was being threatened by Carlson's authoritarian bud Putin.<a href="#cite_note-144">[139]</a> He later, in 2023, called Zelenskyy <a href="/wiki/Evil_Jew" title="Evil Jew">"sweaty and rat-like, a comedian turned oligarch, a persecutor of Christians, a friend of BlackRock", "shifty", and "dead-eyed"</a>.<a href="#cite_note-145">[140]</a><a href="#cite_note-146">[141]</a> This appears to be about the point where Carlson's rhetoric began exhibiting much more obvious signs of antisemitism — the descriptors for Zelenskyy such as "shifty" or "rat-like", for instance, are not only gratuitous in context but identical to actual Nazi <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> such as Der ewige Jude.<a href="#cite_note-147">[142]</a> As the 2023 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war" class="extiw" title="wp:Israel–Hamas war" rel="nofollow">Israel–Hamas war</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> began, Carlson was offered another opportunity to drive a wedge between Christians and Jews. Interviewing <a href="/wiki/Candace_Owens" title="Candace Owens">Candace Owens</a> (herself an Israel critic and occasional Nazi apologist), Carlson compared anti-Israel protests on college campuses to <a href="/wiki/Social_justice" title="Social justice">social justice</a> movements. He then asserted that because pro-Israel donors to these universities were concerned with the former but not the latter, that they must support the <a href="/wiki/White_genocide" title="White genocide">extermination of white people</a> using <a href="/wiki/DEI" title="DEI">diversity initiatives</a>.<a href="#cite_note-148">[143]</a> Carlson, in separate segments, also criticized pro-Israel conservatives and suggested that the government of Israel especially oppresses Christians, also claiming they may be dying "disproportionately" from the war.<a href="#cite_note-149">[144]</a><a href="#cite_note-150">[145]</a><a href="#cite_note-151">[146]</a> In May 2024, Carlson took a leaf from 2013 Trump's playbook,<a href="#cite_note-152">[147]</a><a href="#cite_note-153">[148]</a> bringing up that <a href="/wiki/Jon_Stewart" class="mw-redirect" title="Jon Stewart">Jon Stewart</a> changed his name from "Jon Leibowitz", stating: "It's not even your real name. Like, everything about you is fake. You're just fake."<a href="#cite_note-154">[149]</a><a href="#cite_note-155">[150]</a> Clearly he never got over <a href="/wiki/Tucker_Carlson#Crossfire_debacle_with_Jon_Stewart" title="Tucker Carlson">an exchange twenty years earlier</a>. Carlson's choice to bring up Stewart's name change could conceivably have been an antisemitic insinuation; Stewart himself comments that the name change was to distance himself from his dad but yet "people always view it through the prism of ethnic identity".<a href="#cite_note-156">[151]</a> "Stewart" is actually a derivation of his middle name at birth, Stuart.<a href="#cite_note-157">[152]</a> For Carlson's friend <a href="/wiki/J._D._Vance" title="J. D. Vance">J. D. Vance</a> (formerly J. D. Hamel<a href="#cite_note-158">[153]</a>), the scorn at name-changers is quite absent.<a href="#cite_note-159">[154]</a><a href="#cite_note-160">[155]</a> In September 2024, he interviewed a <a href="/wiki/Holocaust_denier" class="mw-redirect" title="Holocaust denier">Holocaust distortionist</a>, who said <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> was the "chief villain" of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a><a href="#cite_note-161">[156]</a><a href="#cite_note-NRMAW-162">[157]</a><a href="#cite_note-StelterCNN-163">[158]</a> and had claimed <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> tried "to reach an acceptable solution to the <a href="/wiki/Jewish_question" title="Jewish question">Jewish problem</a>."<a href="#cite_note-AtlanticAA-164">[159]</a><a href="#cite_note-165">[160]</a> He also suggested the <a href="/wiki/Holocaust" title="Holocaust">Holocaust</a> occurred because the <a href="/wiki/Nazis" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazis">Nazis</a> planned poorly for the war, so they simply "did not have enough food" and killed people as a "more humane" solution to prevent them from dying of starvation first.<a href="#cite_note-JNSDC-132">[128]</a><a href="#cite_note-AtlanticAA-164">[159]</a> Carlson said he "may be the best and most honest popular historian in the United States",<a href="#cite_note-166">[161]</a><a href="#cite_note-NRMAW-162">[157]</a><a href="#cite_note-StelterCNN-163">[158]</a> despite his lack of serious credentials or original research.<a href="#cite_note-JNSDC-132">[128]</a><a href="#cite_note-AtlanticAA-164">[159]</a> For his comments, Carlson's guest was censured (i.e. condemned) by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yad_Vashem" class="extiw" title="wp:Yad Vashem" rel="nofollow">Yad Vashem</a>,<img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>'s official memorial to victims of the Holocaust; they called his claims "patently false".<a href="#cite_note-JNSDC-132">[128]</a> <h4>Tucker Carlson, domestic terrorism and hate crime apologist[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Tucker Carlson, domestic terrorism and hate crime apologist">edit</a>]</h4> On multiple occasions, Carlson has deflected, engaged in <a href="/wiki/Whataboutism" title="Whataboutism">whataboutism</a>, or even <a href="/wiki/Blaming_the_victim" title="Blaming the victim">blamed the victim</a> whenever an American mass shooting has occurred. Of course, Carlson never blames the sort of racism, homophobia, and hate that Carlson likes to promote... or other American right-wing cause célèbres, like firearms policy and culture. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_El_Paso_shooting" class="extiw" title="wp:2019 El Paso shooting" rel="nofollow">2019 El Paso shooting</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> (August 3 2019): Three days after a white supremacist committed a mass shooting in El Paso, Carlson dismissed <a href="/wiki/White_supremacy" title="White supremacy">white supremacy</a> as "a hoax", "just like the <a href="/wiki/Trump-Russia_connection" title="Trump-Russia connection">Russia hoax</a>".<a href="#cite_note-167">[note 6]</a><a href="#cite_note-168">[162]</a> (He then declared that he never "met anybody, not one person, who subscribes to white supremacy", suggesting that he hasn't looked in a mirror lately).<a href="#cite_note-169">[163]</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Buffalo_shooting" class="extiw" title="wp:2022 Buffalo shooting" rel="nofollow">2022 Buffalo shooting</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> (May 14 2022): A hate-motivated mass shooter killed 10 <a href="/wiki/African_American" title="African American">Black</a> people due to racist ideology he picked up on the Internet. The shooter wrote a "manifesto" which in particular was littered with the <a href="/wiki/The_Great_Replacement" title="The Great Replacement">Great Replacement conspiracy theory</a>. Carlson was well associated with promoting this theory — according to one analysis, at the time of the shooting, he had pushed the concept in more than 400 of his shows. Therefore, his rhetoric was under fresh scrutiny by the media. Carlson, of course, refused to acknowledge his connection to the "great replacement" <a href="/wiki/Bullshit" title="Bullshit">bullshit</a> the shooter promoted. Instead, he responded by first engaging in <a href="/wiki/Whataboutism" title="Whataboutism">whataboutism</a> ("Many other metro areas recorded murders over the weekend. That's typical now."). Then he deflected from the issue by complaining that <a href="/wiki/Democrats" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrats">Democrats</a> have some nerve being ticked off about hate speech. In the process, he made up a new definition of hate speech as "speech that our leaders hate", and then complained that "the left" is somehow not allowing racists like Carlson to "express your political views out loud". (Of course, he was stating this as host of one of the most depressingly popular cable news shows at the time.)<a href="#cite_note-170">[164]</a><a href="#cite_note-171">[165]</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Park_parade_shooting" class="extiw" title="wp:Highland Park parade shooting" rel="nofollow">Highland Park parade shooting</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> (July 4 2022): Carlson, operating in his usual "<a href="/wiki/Just_asking_questions" title="Just asking questions">just asking questions</a>" mode, responded to this shooting first by blaming <a href="/wiki/Antidepressant#SSRI" title="Antidepressant">SSRIs</a> (or, as he describes it, "endless psychotropic drugs that are handed out at every school in the country by crackpots posing as counselors"). Noting that many mass shooters are young men (who in Carlson's mind live in "a solitary fantasy world of <a href="/wiki/Social_media" class="mw-redirect" title="Social media">social media</a>, <a href="/wiki/Porn" class="mw-redirect" title="Porn">porn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Video_games" class="mw-redirect" title="Video games">video games</a>" smoking "government-endorsed <a href="/wiki/Marijuana" class="mw-redirect" title="Marijuana">marijuana</a>"), Carlson then tries to push his "theory", using all the anti-<a href="/wiki/Feminism" title="Feminism">feminism</a> <a href="/wiki/Misogyny" title="Misogyny">misogyny</a> he can muster, that the reason "a lot of young men in America are going nuts" is due to "the authorities in their lives, mostly women" lecturing men about "their so-called privilege".<a href="#cite_note-172">[166]</a><a href="#cite_note-173">[167]</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Springs_nightclub_shooting" class="extiw" title="wp:Colorado Springs nightclub shooting" rel="nofollow">Colorado Springs nightclub shooting</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> (November 19 2022): On this date, a mass shooting by a person identifying as non-binary occurred at a <a href="/wiki/LGBTQ" title="LGBTQ">LGBTQ</a> nightclub in Colorado Springs. Although <a href="/wiki/Hate_crime" title="Hate crime">hate crime</a> charges were being looked into, the motive was unknown for several days after the event. That did not stop Carlson from using the shooting as a launchpad to go on a <a href="/wiki/Transphobic" class="mw-redirect" title="Transphobic">transphobic</a> rant on the following Monday and Tuesday about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Children%27s_Hospital" class="extiw" title="wp:Boston Children's Hospital" rel="nofollow">Boston Children's Hospital</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> "sexually mutilating kids",<a href="#cite_note-174">[168]</a><a href="#cite_note-175">[169]</a> a wildly exaggerated conspiracy theory regarding transgender care that had already led to several bomb threats aimed at the hospital.<a href="#cite_note-176">[170]</a><a href="#cite_note-177">[171]</a> In addition, on Tuesday November 22, Carlson hosted a guest named Jaimee Mitchell who reportedly ran a group called "Gays Against Groomers". Mitchell first claimed that people who accurately describe the anti-LGBTQ slur "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_grooming_conspiracy_theory" class="extiw" title="wp:LGBT grooming conspiracy theory" rel="nofollow">groomer</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" />" as a <a href="/wiki/Homophobic" class="mw-redirect" title="Homophobic">homophobic</a> <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">conspiracy theory</a> were "putting a really large target on our backs". Then she blamed the victim by declaring that "the tragedy that happened in Colorado Springs the other night, it was expected and predictable" and she speculated these sort of attacks wouldn't "stop until we end this evil agenda (of gender-affirming care) that is attacking children".<a href="#cite_note-178">[172]</a><a href="#cite_note-179">[173]</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Covenant_School_shooting" class="extiw" title="wp:2023 Covenant School shooting" rel="nofollow">2023 Covenant School shooting</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> (March 27 2023): On this date, a mass shooting occurred at a private Presbyterian parochial school. In contrast to the archetypes of the perpetrators of other mass shootings Carlson has commented on, initial information indicated that the shooting was committed by one of Carlson's <a href="/wiki/Other" title="Other">Others</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Transgender" title="Transgender">transgender</a> individual. This allowed Carlson (who in a previous segment broadcast a few days earlier insinuated that transgender people arming themselves for self-defense was "not the exercise of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Amendment" title="Second Amendment">Second Amendment</a>" but "political hysteria")<a href="#cite_note-180">[174]</a> to use the shooting as an excuse to hyperbolize during the next couple nights of Tucker Carlson Tonight, using <a href="/wiki/Cherry-picking" class="mw-redirect" title="Cherry-picking">cherry-picking</a> as well and second-guessing of the perpetrator's motive, that this was evidence of an emerging movement of "trans <a href="/wiki/Terrorism" title="Terrorism">terrorism</a>" which specifically targets <a href="/wiki/Christians" class="mw-redirect" title="Christians">Christians</a>, of whom he declared transgender people were a "natural enemy".<a href="#cite_note-181">[175]</a><a href="#cite_note-182">[176]</a><a href="#cite_note-183">[177]</a> In one instance, Carlson supported his arguments using a Twitter hoax post with a modified version of a racist <a href="/wiki/4chan" title="4chan">4chan</a> copypasta; Carlson quoted the modified version of the copypasta verbatim.<a href="#cite_note-184">[178]</a> If you have paid attention to the insanity going on at Fox for long enough, you may recall <a href="/wiki/Lesbian_gang_epidemic" title="Lesbian gang epidemic">a similar moral panic</a> whipped up by <a href="/wiki/Bill_O%27Reilly" title="Bill O'Reilly">Carlson's predecessor</a> against an Other that was <a href="/wiki/Homophobia" title="Homophobia">more fashionable to hate</a> at the time.</li></ul> <h3>Tucker Carlson, double agent[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Tucker Carlson, double agent">edit</a>]</h3> It was revealed in June 2021 that not only is Carlson a frequent source for journalists of unflattering material about Trump, but that he is also a primary source for Fox News' internal politics.<a href="#cite_note-185">[179]</a> Playing both sides like this not only makes Carlson a <a href="/wiki/Hypocrite" class="mw-redirect" title="Hypocrite">hypocrite</a>, but feeding internal politics on the down-low to journalists ("cringing animals who are not worthy of respect", as Carlson calls them) is the kind of thing that gets an ordinary person fired for violating the non-disclosure agreement. <h3>Tucker Carlson, insurrection cheerleader[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Tucker Carlson, insurrection cheerleader">edit</a>]</h3> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/2021_U.S._Capitol_riot" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 U.S. Capitol riot">2021 U.S. Capitol riot</a></div> Leading up the riot, when Carlson was having election-denialist guests such as Trump lawyers Jenna Ellis and <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Powell" class="mw-redirect" title="Sidney Powell">Sidney Powell</a>, Fox Vice President Raj Shah and Carlson's then-producer Alex Pfeiffer discussed the insanity of their denialist claims while balancing the needs of Carlson's audience. In internal communication, Pfeiffer went so far as to refer to Carlson's balancing act in speaking to the audience as:<a href="#cite_note-186">[180]</a> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;">“”Like negotiating with terrorists, but especially dumb ones. Cousin fucking types not <a href="/wiki/Saudi" class="mw-redirect" title="Saudi">saudi</a> royalty.</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> Tucker Carlson has frequently defended the perpetrators of the <a href="/wiki/2021_U.S._Capitol_riot" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 U.S. Capitol riot">2021 U.S. Capitol riot</a>. Carlson's general tactic on the issue has been to engage in <a href="/wiki/Gaslighting" title="Gaslighting">gaslighting</a> in order to downplay the nature of the violent, anti-democratic insurrection attempt. On his show's alternate reality, the insurrection attempt really is an event where "many of [the indicted individuals] did nothing wrong" and the mob (which had members of groups like the <a href="/wiki/Proud_Boys" title="Proud Boys">Proud Boys</a> in it, and waved <a href="/wiki/Confederate_flags" class="mw-redirect" title="Confederate flags">Confederate flags</a>) "wasn’t an armed invasion by a brigade of dangerous white supremacists."<a href="#cite_note-187">[181]</a> Individuals with clear violent intent, such as Eric Munchel (who stormed the Capitol in tactical gear, carrying disposable handcuffs), were referred to as merely someone who "just walked into what we used to refer to as ‘The People’s House’" whose "only crime was trespassing in the Capitol".<a href="#cite_note-188">[182]</a> Naturally, according to Carlson, the fault for any viewpoint grounded in reality (that is, this was a violent insurrection attempt) lies with <a href="/wiki/Social_media" class="mw-redirect" title="Social media">social media</a>.<a href="#cite_note-189">[183]</a> Carlson hasn't hesitated to also use the <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racism</a> so prevalent on his show to bizarrely downplay the riot, either. In later April 2021, after <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> gave a speech obliquely referring to the riot as the "worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War", Carlson responded by saying that the worst attack on democracy in 160 years actually was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965" class="extiw" title="wp:Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965" rel="nofollow">Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965</a>,<img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> because "the law <a href="/wiki/Xenophobia" title="Xenophobia">completely changed the composition of America's voter rolls</a>, purely to benefit the <a href="/wiki/Democratic" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic">Democratic</a> Party."<a href="#cite_note-190">[184]</a> On multiple occasions, Carlson even has alluded to the riot being a supposed <a href="/wiki/False_flag" class="mw-redirect" title="False flag">false flag</a>, infiltrated by an "<a href="/wiki/Agent_provocateur" title="Agent provocateur">agent provocateur</a>" who was there to make <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> look bad <a href="/wiki/Bullshit" title="Bullshit">"for reasons we cannot comprehend"</a>. Of course, one of the accused "agent provocateurs" clearly documented (via his <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> posts) not only his full willing participation in the riot, but also how much he loved <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, how much he believed Trump's <a href="/wiki/2020_U.S._presidential_election#Fraud_claims" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 U.S. presidential election">"Big Lie"</a>, and how much he loved Carlson's show.<a href="#cite_note-191">[185]</a> In another instance, Carlson's argument for the riot being "organized at least in part by government agents" was based on a bizarre interpretation of an early indictment of one of the participants, Thomas Caldwell (an <a href="/wiki/Oath_Keepers" title="Oath Keepers">Oath Keeper</a> who has frequently appeared on Carlson's show).<a href="#cite_note-192">[186]</a> On November 2021, Carlson made a <a href="/wiki/Pseudohistory" title="Pseudohistory">pseudohistorical</a> schlockumentary on the insurrection, called "Patriot Purge", that added further crazy claims to support his notion that the Capitol Attack was a <a href="/wiki/False_flag" class="mw-redirect" title="False flag">false flag</a> to take ‘way err reigghts!!!!!!<a href="#cite_note-193">[187]</a> This special pissed off <a href="/wiki/Jonah_Goldberg" title="Jonah Goldberg">Jonah Goldberg</a> (along with his business partner, Stephen Hayes) enough to sever all ties with the Fox News network.<a href="#cite_note-194">[188]</a> One year after the riot in 2022, Carlson's power over the <a href="/wiki/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republican</a> party was demonstrated when <a href="/wiki/Ted_Cruz" title="Ted Cruz">Ted Cruz</a> had to beg Carlson for forgiveness and walk back his words after calling the riot participants who attacked Capitol police <a href="/wiki/Terrorists" class="mw-redirect" title="Terrorists">terrorists</a>.<a href="#cite_note-195">[189]</a> According to Carlson, actually denouncing the violence that occurred at the insurrection like Cruz did was scandalously "repeating the talking points" of the <a href="/wiki/Biden" class="mw-redirect" title="Biden">Biden</a> administration, and such made Carlson's audience feel that the Republican party was "worthless" for not fully embracing Carlson's gaslighting and conspiracy theories.<a href="#cite_note-196">[190]</a><a href="#cite_note-197">[note 7]</a> On January 13, 2022, 11 <a href="/wiki/Oath_Keepers" title="Oath Keepers">Oath Keepers</a> were charged with seditious conspiracy for not only merely participating in the <a href="/wiki/2021_U.S._Capitol_riot" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 U.S. Capitol riot">2021 U.S. Capitol riot</a> but allegedly actively plotting to undermine the lawful transfer of presidential power by force. On January 14, 2022, one of the accused Oath Keepers, Thomas Caldwell, once again appeared on Carlson's program. Carlson downplayed Caldwell as a "senior citizen who walks with a cane", a "devout Christian", and a "<a href="/wiki/Irony" title="Irony">thoroughly loyal American</a>."<a href="#cite_note-198">[191]</a><a href="#cite_note-199">[192]</a> On January 8 2023 in <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>, supporters of <a href="/wiki/Jair_Bolsonaro" title="Jair Bolsonaro">Jair Bolsonaro</a> (who had recently lost an election to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) <a href="/wiki/2021_U.S._coup_attempt#2022-23_Brazilian_coup_attempts" title="2021 U.S. coup attempt">attempted their own version</a> of a "January 6th" style insurrection and stormed the Brazilian presidential palace and other government buildings. Unsurprisingly, Carlson cheered these insurrectionists on as well. Carlson described the recent Brazil presidential election (without any evidence) as "very rigged", and claimed (without any evidence) that Brazil's "democracy has been hijacked possibly forever". Carlson then extended sympathy to the rioters, and also (without any evidence) claimed that "Lula is working to turn Brazil into a Chinese-style dictatorship".<a href="#cite_note-200">[193]</a><a href="#cite_note-201">[194]</a> Carlson had previously given a very sympathetic interview to Bolsonaro on his show in late June 2022.<a href="#cite_note-202">[195]</a> <h4>Tucker Carlson, insurrection footage whitewasher[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Tucker Carlson, insurrection footage whitewasher">edit</a>]</h4> In late February 2023, after the <a href="/wiki/Republicans" class="mw-redirect" title="Republicans">Republicans</a> took the House of Representatives in the <a href="/wiki/2022_midterm_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 midterm elections">2022 midterm elections</a>, the new House speaker, <a href="/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy" title="Kevin McCarthy">Kevin McCarthy</a>, decided (in a pandering to the <a href="/wiki/MAGA" class="mw-redirect" title="MAGA">MAGA</a> voters) that the best person to have exclusive access to roughly 40,000 hours of security footage from the coup attempt was Carlson. Shortly after this, <a href="/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez" title="Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a> warned that providing the footage would probably merely be fodder to boost his claims that the coup attempt was a "false flag" attempt... a warning that proved to be, fairly obviously, quite correct.<a href="#cite_note-203">[196]</a> On March 6 2023, Carlson released the first Tucker Carlson Tonight episode devoted to this exclusive footage. Carlson, along with <a href="/wiki/New_York_Post" title="New York Post">New York Post</a> columnist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_Devine" class="extiw" title="wp:Miranda Devine" rel="nofollow">Miranda Devine</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" />, attempted to promote a <a href="/wiki/Gaslighting" title="Gaslighting">gaslighting</a> style <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> narrative, using <a href="/wiki/Cherry-picking" class="mw-redirect" title="Cherry-picking">cherry-picked</a> clips, that the coup participants were "politely queuing, very peaceable" and were "orderly and meek" sightseers instead of participants in a violent coup. In addition, Carlson insinuated that there was no connection whatsoever between the death of officer Brian Sicknick and the coup, even though Sicknick died one day after the coup attempt and was assaulted by coup participants during the event.<a href="#cite_note-204">[197]</a><a href="#cite_note-nprcarlsontapes-205">[198]</a> Even among Republicans the reaction was incredibly negative, with a strong rebuke from, among many others, <a href="/wiki/Mitch_McConnell" title="Mitch McConnell">Mitch McConnell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney">Mitt Romney</a> (who compared Carlson's whitewashing attempt to <a href="/wiki/Alex_Jones" title="Alex Jones">Alex Jones</a>'s portrayal of the <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Hook_massacre" title="Sandy Hook massacre">Sandy Hook massacre</a>) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom_Tillis" class="extiw" title="wp:Thom Tillis" rel="nofollow">Thom Tillis</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> (who simply flat out called Carlson's untruths "<a href="/wiki/Bullshit" title="Bullshit">bullshit</a>").<a href="#cite_note-nprcarlsontapes-205">[198]</a><a href="#cite_note-206">[199]</a> In addition, the Sicknick family also lambasted Carlson and <a href="/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News">Fox News</a> (comparing the network to the former <a href="/wiki/Soviet" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet">Soviet</a> <a href="/wiki/Communist" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist">Communist</a> newspaper <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda" class="extiw" title="wp:Pravda" rel="nofollow">Pravda</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /><a href="#cite_note-207">[200]</a>). Capitol Police Chief <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Thomas_Manger" class="extiw" title="wp:J. Thomas Manger" rel="nofollow">J. Thomas Manger</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> also ripped into Carlson, and the downplaying of Sicknick's death in particular, in a letter sent to the rest of the Capitol Police force.<a href="#cite_note-208">[201]</a> Of course, predictably, <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> was full of praise for Carlson's propaganda, using Carlson's program as the premise to write an all-caps tirade on his Truth Social platform demanding to "LET THE JANUARY 6 PRISONERS GO".<a href="#cite_note-209">[202]</a> <h4>Tucker Carlson, bullshitter for profit[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Tucker Carlson, bullshitter for profit">edit</a>]</h4> Privately, as exposed in 2023 in several documents for a defamation lawsuit against Fox News instituted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems" class="extiw" title="wp:Dominion Voting Systems" rel="nofollow">Dominion Voting Systems</a>,<img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> Carlson was ticked with the <a href="/wiki/Big_Lie" class="mw-redirect" title="Big Lie">Big Lie</a> direction Trump undertook, acknowledging that "there wasn't enough fraud to change the outcome", and complaining that Trump and his team of "lawyers" were "fuckers (that) are destroying our credibility". Carlson also speculated that Trump "could easily destroy us if we play it wrong", and was particularly irked with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Powell" class="extiw" title="wp:Sidney Powell" rel="nofollow">Sidney Powell</a>,<img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> calling her a "lunatic", "crazy person", and a "nutcase" in multiple texts.<a href="#cite_note-slatetuckerprivate-210">[203]</a> Later documents reveal that Carlson privately "passionately" hated Trump, and appeared to also privately believe that Trump's presidency was a "disaster" in contrast to his opinions about Trump on air.<a href="#cite_note-211">[204]</a> In April 2023, Fox settled the lawsuit with Dominion for $787 million, conceding the obvious from their disclosed internal documents. Excerpts from the disclosed Fox News internal documents:<a href="#cite_note-212">[205]</a> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> Alex Pfeiffer (Carlson's producer): Trump has a pretty low rate at success in his business ventures. Carlson: That’s for sure. All of them fail. What he’s good at is destroying things. He’s the undisputed world champion of that. </blockquote> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> Carlson: I’d heard that about the inauguration. Hard to believe. So destructive. It’s disgusting. I’m trying to look away. </blockquote> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> Carlson: I had to try to make the WH [White House] disavow her [Sidney Powell, Trump's election denial lawyer], which they obviously should have done long before. <a href="/wiki/Laura_Ingraham" title="Laura Ingraham">Laura Ingraham</a>: No serious lawyer could believe what they were saying. Carlson: But they said nothing in public. Pretty disgusting. And now Trump, I learned this morning, is sitting back and letting them lose the senate. He doesn’t care. I care. </blockquote> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> Carlson: We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait. I hate him passionately. </blockquote> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> Carlson: Trump has two weeks left. Once he’s out, he becomes incalculably less powerful, even in the minds of his supporters. Carlson: He’s a demonic force, a destroyer. But he’s not going to destroy us. I’ve been thinking about this every day for four years. Pfeiffer: You’re right. I don’t want to let him destroy me either. [REDACTED]. The Trump anger spiral is vicious. Carlson: That’s for sure. Deadly. It almost consumed me in November when Sidney Powell attacked us. It was very difficult to regain emotional control, but I knew I had to. We’ve got two weeks left. We can do this. </blockquote> Despite his personal opinions, Carlson appeared to acknowledge that there was financial incentives for Fox News to kowtow to Trump's Big Lie, in order to prevent their audience from migrating to fringe "news" networks that enthusiastically embraced and promoted Trump's bullshit. (As Carlson put it: "an alternative like <a href="/wiki/Newsmax" title="Newsmax">newsmax</a> could be devastating to us".)<a href="#cite_note-slatetuckerprivate-210">[203]</a> <h3>Tucker Carlson, criminal fanboy[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Tucker Carlson, criminal fanboy">edit</a>]</h3> In 2022, Carlson made a special trip from his 'coastal elite' house in <a href="/wiki/Maine" class="mw-redirect" title="Maine">Maine</a> to California to give a tribute at the funeral of Sonny Barger, founder of the Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle club. Barger had been convicted of drug dealing, conspiracy to transport explosives with intent to commit murder and damage buildings,<a href="#cite_note-barger-213">[206]</a> and domestic violence.<a href="#cite_note-214">[207]</a> Realistically, Barger committed many other crimes that he was not convicted of since he was a Hells Angel (murder, kidnapping, and assault with a deadly weapon).<a href="#cite_note-barger-213">[206]</a> Nonetheless, Carlson delivered his squeaky-voiced eulogy, quoting Barger:<a href="#cite_note-215">[208]</a><a href="#cite_note-216">[209]</a> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;">“”Why is it left to Sonny Barger to say, ‘Stand tall, stay loyal, remain free, and always value honor?' The president of the United States should be saying that every single morning as he salutes the flag, but only Sonny Barger is saying it. I thought to myself, if there is a phrase that sums up more perfectly what I want to be, what I aspire to be, and the kind of man I respect, I can’t think of a phrase that sums it up more perfectly than that.</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> Speaking before the Hells Angels, Carlson looks and sounds<a href="#cite_note-217">[210]</a> like someone that the Angels would happily turn into hamburger meat. <h3>Tucker Carlson, creationist[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Tucker Carlson, creationist">edit</a>]</h3> In an April 2024 interview with <a href="/wiki/Joe_Rogan" title="Joe Rogan">Joe Rogan</a>, Carlson declared that the "<a href="/wiki/Darwinism" title="Darwinism">theory of evolution as articulated by Darwin</a>" was "kind of not true".<a href="#cite_note-carlsoncreationist-218">[211]</a> To "prove" this point, he proclaimed that there was no evidence in the <a href="/wiki/Fossil_record" title="Fossil record">fossil record</a> of <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a>, a bogus argument often used by creationists. (In <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a>, evolution actually is, by far, the most accepted explanation by scientists for the patterns observed in the fossil record.)<a href="#cite_note-219">[212]</a> Instead, Carlson advanced a <a href="/wiki/Creationism" title="Creationism">creationism</a> argument ("<a href="/wiki/Creation_Week" title="Creation Week">God created people, you know, distinctly, and animals</a>."), justifying his stance with a weak <a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition" title="Appeal to tradition">appeal to tradition</a>. ("I mean, I think that’s what every person on Earth thought until the mid-19th Century, actually. It’s not a new idea!")<a href="#cite_note-carlsoncreationist-218">[211]</a> Even the normally <a href="/wiki/Credulous" class="mw-redirect" title="Credulous">credulous</a> Rogan pushed back against Carlson's creationism.<a href="#cite_note-carlsoncreationist-218">[211]</a> <h2>Tucker Carlson, ex-Fox News host[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Tucker Carlson, ex-Fox News host">edit</a>]</h2> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;">“”There is no Tucker on tonight. Tonight, no smirk, no squint, no sneer, no racist rhetoric, accompanied by a stifled giggle. Tonight, if you turn on the TV, it will not stare back at you perplexed and angry as though you are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Bible" class="extiw" title="wp:Wicked Bible" rel="nofollow">a startling typo that has made the Bible sexy</a>.<img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> You will not be all but directed on whom to harass or threaten. You will have to make things up as you go along. Tonight, if you say, "Roku, show me the exact diametric opposite of 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,'" your TV will not have a ready answer.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Alexandra Petri<a href="#cite_note-220">[213]</a></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> Shortly after Dominion settled with Fox News, on Monday April 24 2023, Fox News announced that they "and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways."<a href="#cite_note-221">[214]</a> The announcement was sudden and unexpected; on the previous Tucker Carlson Tonight program on Friday April 20 2023, Carlson cheerily told his viewers that "we'll be back on Monday".<a href="#cite_note-222">[215]</a> Ads for Carlson's supposedly-forthcoming show were still running the Monday morning that Carlson was pushed out the door.<a href="#cite_note-wpcarlsonout-223">[216]</a> One source reported that the decision to terminate Carlson came directly from Fox chairman <a href="/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch" title="Rupert Murdoch">Rupert Murdoch</a> himself.<a href="#cite_note-224">[217]</a> Aside from Carlson's role in the defamation lawsuit, reportedly negatives comments about Fox management by Carlson (that were revealed in the Dominion case), as well as vulgar <a href="/wiki/Misogynistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Misogynistic">misogynistic</a> slurs directed at guests and management (as reportedly found in private messages that was redacted from public legal filings), also played a significant role in Carlson's departure.<a href="#cite_note-225">[218]</a> An additional factor cited was a sexual harassment (and other alleged wrongs) lawsuit against Fox by a former Tucker Carlson Tonight producer named Abby Grossberg, which claimed that Grossberg was subject to a hostile and discriminatory environment while working for Carlson, which included frequent use of vulgarities to describe women and frequent <a href="/wiki/Antisemitic" class="mw-redirect" title="Antisemitic">antisemitic</a> "jokes".<a href="#cite_note-wpcarlsonout-223">[216]</a><a href="#cite_note-226">[219]</a> The <a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a> also reported that a text message sent to a producer around the <a href="/wiki/2021_U.S._coup_attempt" title="2021 U.S. coup attempt">2021 U.S. coup attempt</a>, where Carlson flirted with justifying political violence (with a hint of overt <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racism</a>) before moralizing the temptation away, played a role in the dismissal.<a href="#cite_note-227">[220]</a> One of the reporters of this article, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Schmidt" class="extiw" title="wp:Michael S. Schmidt" rel="nofollow">Michael S. Schmidt</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" />, claimed in a later interview that many of the texts that had not been released to the public were actually far worse than anything revealed to the public, and when Fox executives saw them, "they didn't think it was survivable for the network to have known about it and to allow him to stay on the air."<a href="#cite_note-228">[221]</a> In early May 2023, Carlson announced that he would be relaunching a new version of his political commentary program on <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>. Reportedly this would be in violation of Carlson's non-compete clause with Fox News, but Carlson's legal team shortly before the announcement tried to get ahead of any contractual disputes by firing off a letter accusing Fox News of fraud and breaching Carlson's contract themselves.<a href="#cite_note-229">[222]</a> Promisingly, the first episode of his new show started by promoting claims about an <a href="/wiki/Extraterrestrial" title="Extraterrestrial">alien</a> <a href="/wiki/UFO" class="mw-redirect" title="UFO">spacecraft</a> being recovered, before descending into more run-of-the-mill pro-Russia and pro-Trump conspiracy theories.<a href="#cite_note-230">[223]</a> Carlson apparently wasn't content to remain a mere Twitter personality, so he announced in December 2023 that he'd launch his own paid streaming service, the "Tucker Carlson Network", with Neil Patel (who he co-founded the Daily Caller with) as his CEO.<a href="#cite_note-231">[224]</a><a href="#cite_note-232">[225]</a> In 2023, Carlson stated that he had an "<a href="/wiki/Open_mind#The_paradox_of_an_.22open_mind.22" title="Open mind">open mind</a>" about the <a href="/wiki/Flat_Earth" title="Flat Earth">flat Earth</a> conspiracy theory. His 'open mind' is despite his stating that there's <a href="/wiki/Gun_nut" title="Gun nut">gun nut</a> evidence to the contrary, "As far as the curvature of the Earth, that's a thing in shooting. I like rifle shooting and past a certain distance you have to take that in account. That suggests it's real. Because one thing I know that is guns. Guns are real."<a href="#cite_note-233">[226]</a> The amount of deflection is indirectly caused by Earth curvature and rotation (Coriolis & Eötvös effects), and only causes a 0.03m adjustment per 900m (i.e., only sharpshooters might care about this).<a href="#cite_note-234">[227]</a> <h2>We pause now for a few moments of not being a dick[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: We pause now for a few moments of not being a dick">edit</a>]</h2> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Stopped_clock" title="Stopped clock">Stopped clock</a></div> While he supported the <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq War</a> at first, he would later criticize it<a href="#cite_note-235">[228]</a> and the <a href="/wiki/W" class="mw-redirect" title="W">Bush</a> Administration in general.<a href="#cite_note-236">[229]</a> In August 2018, he dedicated a segment of his Fox News show to calling out Amazon, <a href="/wiki/Walmart" title="Walmart">Walmart</a>, and Uber for not paying workers a living wage (and thus, <a href="/wiki/Corporate_welfare" title="Corporate welfare">forcing taxpayers to pick up the slack instead</a>), in weighing the benefits of the "Stop Bezos Act" proposed by <a href="/wiki/Bernie_Sanders" title="Bernie Sanders">Bernie Sanders</a> and Ro Khanna. He has also been strongly critical of the Trump administration's attempts to start a war with <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>.<a href="#cite_note-237">[230]</a><a href="#cite_note-238">[231]</a> <h2>Follow the money[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Follow the money">edit</a>]</h2> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;">“”It works by you taking (the <a href="/wiki/Koch_Industries" title="Koch Industries">Koch family's</a>) money, it's as simple as that. You are a millionaire funded by billionaires, that's what you are.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Dutch historian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutger_Bregman" class="extiw" title="wp:Rutger Bregman" rel="nofollow">Rutger Bregman</a>,<img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> in an interview for Tucker Carlson Tonight that Carlson refused to air<a href="#cite_note-239">[232]</a></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> Many journalists who have followed the career of Carlson have asked, what happened to the serious reporter of the 1990s, who still believed in integrity and, while <a href="/wiki/Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative">conservative</a>, wouldn't hesitate to take potshots at <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Standard" class="extiw" title="wp:Weekly Standard" rel="nofollow">Weekly Standard</a>?<img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /><a href="#cite_note-240">[233]</a><a href="#cite_note-241">[note 8]</a> In 2009, when Carlson still had a shred of credibility left, Carlson gave a speech at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Political_Action_Conference" class="extiw" title="wp:Conservative Political Action Conference" rel="nofollow">CPAC</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" />. During the speech, he defended accuracy in reporting news and felt that there was a need for more conservative news organizations with the accuracy and integrity of newspapers like the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a>. The mere suggestion that accuracy in reporting was a good thing was met with a chorus of boos.<a href="#cite_note-242">[234]</a> Perhaps this was the point when he realized that the profitable side of conservative "news" really wasn't in actual factual reporting. Instead, the real money was in the <a href="/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh" title="Rush Limbaugh">Rush Limbaugh</a>-pioneered style of outrage, where shock-jock verbal stunts (accuracy be damned) were combined with "<a href="/wiki/Good_old_days" title="Good old days">good old days</a>" <a href="/wiki/Jingoism" title="Jingoism">jingoism</a> about "<a href="/wiki/White_nationalism" title="White nationalism">real Americans</a>." Historically, after all, it certainly has been very profitable in America to bash the "<a href="/wiki/Elite" class="mw-redirect" title="Elite">elite</a>", portray oneself as an underdog, and babble about <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theories" class="mw-redirect" title="Conspiracy theories">conspiracy theories</a>.<a href="#cite_note-243">[235]</a> (The fact that, as someone whose mother is an heir to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanson" class="extiw" title="wp:Swanson" rel="nofollow">Swanson</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> frozen dinner fortune, Carlson is part of the elite is irrelevant to the target audience.)<a href="#cite_note-tuckermystery-9">[8]</a> It's not like there wasn't a little bit of the Carlson white grievance demagogue in the past, when he was doing things like writing stories in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquire_(magazine)" class="extiw" title="wp:Esquire (magazine)" rel="nofollow">Esquire</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> that all but accused <a href="/wiki/Al_Sharpton" title="Al Sharpton">Al Sharpton</a> of <a href="/wiki/Reverse_racism" title="Reverse racism">reverse racism</a>.<a href="#cite_note-tuckermystery-9">[8]</a> But his stint at the <a href="/wiki/Daily_Caller" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily Caller">Daily Caller</a> (where Carlson followed in <a href="/wiki/Breitbart" class="mw-redirect" title="Breitbart">Breitbart</a>'s footsteps and devolved the Caller into <a href="/wiki/Truthiness" title="Truthiness">truthiness</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bullshit" title="Bullshit">bullshit</a> for the future <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>-worshiping crowd)<a href="#cite_note-244">[236]</a> and maybe a few appearances in the 2000s on a radio program run by a shock jock named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubba_the_Love_Sponge" class="extiw" title="wp:Bubba the Love Sponge" rel="nofollow">Bubba the Love Sponge</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> seemed to have taught Carlson that there was no need to bother with difficult elements of journalism such as "<a href="/wiki/Fact" title="Fact">facts</a>" and "accuracy", especially when outrage is such a profitable enterprise.<a href="#cite_note-245">[237]</a> And so, Carlson set out on his path to <a href="/wiki/Lie" class="mw-redirect" title="Lie">lie</a> and shock all the way up to the highest viewership of any cable news show in US history.<a href="#cite_note-246">[238]</a><a href="#cite_note-247">[239]</a> As stated by <a href="/wiki/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican">Republican</a> speechwriter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gerson" class="extiw" title="wp:Michael Gerson" rel="nofollow">Michael Gerson</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> in a <a href="/wiki/Washington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Post">Washington Post</a> op-ed, Carlson provides his audience with "mass-marketed <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racism</a>", sophisticated sounding (but intellectually empty) "rationales for their <a href="/wiki/White_nationalism" title="White nationalism">worst, most prejudicial instincts.</a>"<a href="#cite_note-248">[240]</a> Even if mainstream advertisers flee Carlson's program due to the content, this type of message is depressingly popular with a lot of Americans, which translates into high TV ratings.<a href="#cite_note-249">[241]</a> As long as <a href="/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch" title="Rupert Murdoch">Rupert Murdoch</a>, the puppeteer pulling Carlson's strings,<a href="#cite_note-250">[242]</a> thought that Carlson's political shock jock performance was both good for <a href="/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News">Fox News</a>'s business and good for the businesses aligned with the Republican Party (businesses that, say, certainly approved if Carlson inserts a rant against measures to prevent <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a> in the middle of his white grievance spiel),<a href="#cite_note-251">[243]</a> Carlson's racist <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">conspiracy theory</a>-promoting shitshow was allowed to continue. At least until April 2023, when in the wake of a costly defamation lawsuit by Dominion against Fox, Tucker left Fox News. And nothing of value was lost.<a href="#cite_note-252">[244]</a><a href="#cite_note-253">[245]</a> <h2>Relationship with Alex Jones[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Relationship with Alex Jones">edit</a>]</h2> Although Carlson and ultra-conspiracy theorist <a href="/wiki/Alex_Jones" title="Alex Jones">Alex Jones</a> have kept distance from each other in public in the past, Jones has been shown to have a mutual brotherhood with Carlson on Fox News because of Carlson's previously stepping over the line in 2019.<a href="#cite_note-peltz-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-wemple-254">[246]</a> The dump of Jones' phone text conversations with Carlson revealed what many leftists have suspected, that being a close relation because of their pro-trump rhetoric despite Carlson (formerly) being a television host while Alex is a banned commentator.<a href="#cite_note-255">[247]</a><a href="#cite_note-wemple-254">[246]</a> <h2>See also[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Jones" title="Alex Jones">Alex Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laura_Ingraham" title="Laura Ingraham">Laura Ingraham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sean_Hannity" title="Sean Hannity">Sean Hannity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News">Fox News</a></li></ul> <h2>In a nutshell[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: In a nutshell">edit</a>]</h2> <center><div class="thumb embedvideo autoResize" style="width: 648px;"><div class="embedvideo autoResize" style=""><div class="embedvideowrap" style="width: 640px;"><iframe title="Play video" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/XMGxxRRtmHc?" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div></div></div></center> <h2>External links[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a>]</h2> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=Oq4UHWSTdO8">SWANSON: Eldritch Tucker Carlson</a></li></ul> <h2>Notes[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a>]</h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-8"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a> Carlson only supports Trump in public: <a href="#Tucker_Carlson.2C_bullshitter_for_profit">Tucker Carlson, bullshitter for profit</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><a href="#cite_ref-13">↑</a> Shortly after Fox News gave a $787 million settlement to Dominion Voting Systems in April 2023, Carlson and his producer were fired. Another lawsuit alleging sexism by Carlson may have also been involved.<a href="#cite_note-12">[11]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><a href="#cite_ref-23">↑</a> This was a reference to the television show Crank Yankers. </li> <li id="cite_note-81"><a href="#cite_ref-81">↑</a> One article plausibly wondered if part of the appeal of "socially <a href="/wiki/Progressive" class="mw-redirect" title="Progressive">progressive</a>" promotions to corporations was the free publicity, courtesy of the deranged snarls of those in the right-wing outrage machine, like Carlson.<a href="#cite_note-80">[77]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-140"><a href="#cite_ref-140">↑</a> You know, the same Chinese government he believes is the biggest threat to the United States today. </li> <li id="cite_note-167"><a href="#cite_ref-167">↑</a> Referring to the <a href="/wiki/Trump-Russia_connection" title="Trump-Russia connection">influence of Russia on American elections</a>, a topic Tucker Carlson has <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-russias-2016-election-interference-i-dont-think-it-really-hurt?redirect_source=/video/2019/03/26/tucker-carlson-russias-2016-election-interference-i-dont-think-it-really-hurt-country-actually-i/223242">dismissed as a lie</a> quite often… despite <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/24/politics/russia-trump-election-interference/index.html">all the evidence to the contrary.</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-197"><a href="#cite_ref-197">↑</a> The Republican Party needs help to look worthless? Now that's a laugh! </li> <li id="cite_note-241"><a href="#cite_ref-241">↑</a> The obvious answer? Hypocrisy is <a href="/wiki/Denialism" title="Denialism">mind cancer</a>, and that goes double for Fox News. </li> </ol></div></div> <h2>References[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:80%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191826719.001.0001/q-oro-ed4-00010168">Upton Sinclair 1878–1968 American novelist and social reformer</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a> John Cleese on Twitter at 17:07 PM on April 28th, 2021. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/DnsWH">Archived.</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3eOnFdQgqQ">The Far-Right: Examining its Roots and Challenging its Reach</a> by Jason Stanley (Nov 14, 2022) YouTube. </li> <li id="cite_note-peltz-4">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-peltz_4-0">4.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-peltz_4-1">4.1</a> <a href="#cite_ref-peltz_4-2">4.2</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2019/03/11/unearthed-audio-shows-tucker-carlson-using-white-nationalist-rhetoric-and-making-racist-remarks/223105">Unearthed audio shows Tucker Carlson using white nationalist rhetoric and making racist remarks: During interviews on Bubba The Love Sponge, Carlson said he “love(s)” the idea of young girls sexually experimenting, used sexist terms to refer to a number of women, and defended statutory rape</a> by Madeline Peltz (March 11, 2019 8:01 PM EDT) Media Matters for America. </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/03/12/new-tucker-carlson-audio-released-this-time-using-racist-homophobic-language/">Fox News host Tucker Carlson uses racist, homophobic language in second set of recordings</a> by Michael Brice-Saddler & Eli Rosenberg (March 11 at 9:41 PM) The Washington Post. </li> <li id="cite_note-ecarma-6">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-ecarma_6-0">6.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-ecarma_6-1">6.1</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/tucker-carlson-justifies-fascist-takeover">Tucker Carlson Justifies the Idea of a Full-Blown Fascist Takeover: The Fox News host and a guest somehow conclude that failing to lock up Hunter Biden may contribute to Americans choosing to live under fascism in 10 to 20 years.</a> by Caleb Ecarma (March 26, 2021) Vanity Fair. </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/28/tucker-carlson-politics-fascism">Tucker Carlson is not an anti-war populist rebel. He is a fascist.</a> by Jason Stanley (April 28 2023) The Guardian. </li> <li id="cite_note-tuckermystery-9">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-tuckermystery_9-0">8.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-tuckermystery_9-1">8.1</a> <a href="#cite_ref-tuckermystery_9-2">8.2</a> <a href="#cite_ref-tuckermystery_9-3">8.3</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/tucker-carlson.php">"The mystery of Tucker Carlson"</a> by Lyz Lenz, Columbia Journalism Review, 2018 September 5 </li> <li id="cite_note-trinity-10">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-trinity_10-0">9.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-trinity_10-1">9.1</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1120&context=ivy">Ivy</a> (1991) Trinity College. </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><a href="#cite_ref-11">↑</a> Pareene, Alex (April 26, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.salon.com/2012/04/26/tucker_carlsons_downward_spiral/">"Tucker Carlson’s downward spiral"</a>. Salon.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Tucker+Carlson%E2%80%99s+downward+spiral&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Pareene&rft.aufirst=Alex&rft.au=Pareene%2C%26%2332%3BAlex&rft.date=April+26%2C+2012&rft.pub=%27%27Salon%27%27&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.salon.com%2F2012%2F04%2F26%2Ftucker_carlsons_downward_spiral%2F&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Tucker_Carlson">  </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><a href="#cite_ref-12">↑</a> Matt Stieb and Chas Danner (April 24, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/04/tucker-carlson-has-left-fox-news.html">"Why Did Fox News Fire Tucker Carlson?"</a>. The Daily Intelligencer. New York. </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><a href="#cite_ref-14">↑</a> Steinberg, Brian (April 19, 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/fox-news-tucker-carlson-bill-oreilly-1202313557/">"Fox News Will Replace Bill O’Reilly With Tucker Carlson."</a>. Variety.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Fox+News+Will+Replace+Bill+O%E2%80%99Reilly+With+Tucker+Carlson.&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Steinberg&rft.aufirst=Brian&rft.au=Steinberg%2C%26%2332%3BBrian&rft.date=April+19%2C+2017&rft.pub=%27%27Variety%27%27&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fvariety.com%2F2017%2Ftv%2Fnews%2Ffox-news-tucker-carlson-bill-oreilly-1202313557%2F&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Tucker_Carlson">  </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><a href="#cite_ref-15">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/04/tucker-carlson-promotes-racist-replacement-theory">Tucker Carlson Leans Into White-Power Hour, Promotes Racist Replacement Theory</a> by Caleb Ecarma (April 9, 2021) Vanity Fair. </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><a href="#cite_ref-16">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/15/tucker-carlson-said-immigration-makes-america-dirtier-so-an-advertiser-took-action/">Tucker Carlson said immigration makes America 'dirtier.' So an advertiser took action.</a> by Erik Wemple (Dec. 15, 2018 at 10:24 a.m. PST) The Washington Post. </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><a href="#cite_ref-17">↑</a> Paxton, Robert O. The Anatomy of Fascism. (2005) Knopf. ISBN 1400040949. </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><a href="#cite_ref-18">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/02/15/the-stupendously-dishonest-tucker-carlson/?utm_term=.9a2b07c82d67">The stupendously dishonest Tucker Carlson</a> by Erik Wemple (February 15, 2017) The Washington Post. </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><a href="#cite_ref-19">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.vox.com/videos/2019/4/3/18294392/tucker-carlson-pretends-hate-elites-populism-false-consciousness">Why Tucker Carlson pretends to hate elites: Why an “out-of-the-closet elitist” rails against the “ruling class.”</a> by Carlos Maza (Apr 3, 2019, 6:10pm EDT) Vox. </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><a href="#cite_ref-20">↑</a> See the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Carlson" class="extiw" title="wp:Dick Carlson" rel="nofollow">Dick Carlson</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><a href="#cite_ref-21">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220604013505/https://caknowledge.com/tucker-carlson-net-worth-salary-cars-house/">Tucker Carlson Net Worth $420 Million (Forbes 2022) Salary Inheritance Fox News</a> by Federick Brown (April 28, 2022) CAknowledge.com (archived from June 4, 2022). </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><a href="#cite_ref-22">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/vault/article/tucker-carlson-s-father-ties-s-f-libel-scandal-17915850.php">Before Tucker Carlson was ousted from Fox, his father triggered an S.F. libel scandal</a> by Peter Hartlaub (April 24, 2023) The San Francisco Chronicle. </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><a href="#cite_ref-24">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE">John Stewart's appearance on Crossfire</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><a href="#cite_ref-25">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cc.com/video-clips/mr122o">"YOUR SHOW BLOWS"</a>, The Daily Show, Comedy Central </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><a href="#cite_ref-26">↑</a> Howard Kurtz (January 6, 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52274-2005Jan6.html">"Carlson & 'Crossfire,' Exit Stage Left & Right"</a>. The Washington Post, p. C01. </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><a href="#cite_ref-27">↑</a> (March 26, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhiBfmfP_tw">"Tucker Carlson in 2010 on his fight with Jon Stewart: 'He humiliated himself'"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Reason_(magazine)" title="Reason (magazine)">Reason</a>TV, via YouTube. </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><a href="#cite_ref-28">↑</a> Carlson, Tucker (March 18, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-jon-stewart-went-bad">"How Jon Stewart Went Bad"</a>. The Daily Beast.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=How+Jon+Stewart+Went+Bad&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Carlson&rft.aufirst=Tucker&rft.au=Carlson%2C%26%2332%3BTucker&rft.date=March+18%2C+2009&rft.pub=%27%27The+Daily+Beast%27%27&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Fhow-jon-stewart-went-bad&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Tucker_Carlson">  </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><a href="#cite_ref-29">↑</a> Edwards, David (May 6, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rawstory.com/2014/05/fox-news-host-tucker-carlson-women-who-pay-for-mens-dinners-are-disgusting/">"Fox News host Tucker Carlson: Women who pay for men's dinners are 'disgusting'"</a>. Raw Story.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Fox+News+host+Tucker+Carlson%3A+Women+who+pay+for+men%27s+dinners+are+%27disgusting%27&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Edwards&rft.aufirst=David&rft.au=Edwards%2C%26%2332%3BDavid&rft.date=May+6%2C+2014&rft.pub=%27%27Raw+Story%27%27&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2F2014%2F05%2Ffox-news-host-tucker-carlson-women-who-pay-for-mens-dinners-are-disgusting%2F&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Tucker_Carlson">  </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><a href="#cite_ref-30">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/06/05/to-foxs-tucker-carlson-reporting-statutory-rape/199616">no really</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><a href="#cite_ref-31">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/11/tucker-carlson-calls-women-extremely-primitive-newly-surfaced-audio/">Tucker Carlson unapologetic over ‘misogynistic’ comments on statutory rape, insults against women</a> by Allyson Chiu (March 11, 2019 at 4:42 AM) The Washington Post. </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><a href="#cite_ref-32">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thewrap.com/tucker-carlson-wont-offer-contrition-naughty-past-comments-about-statutory-rape/">Tucker Carlson Refuses to Apologize for ‘Naughty’ Past Comments About Statutory Rape, ‘C–ty’ Women</a> by Rosemary Rossi (March 10, 2019 @ 7:46 PM) Media Matters for America. </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><a href="#cite_ref-33">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thewrap.com/media-matters-teases-release-of-vile-tucker-carlson-tapes-focused-on-race-and-ethnicity/">Media Matters Teases Release of ‘Vile’ Tucker Carlson Tapes Focused on ‘Race and Ethnicity’</a> by Jon Levine (March 11, 2019 @ 7:35 AM Last Updated: March 11, 2019 @ 7:36 AM) Media Matters for America. </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><a href="#cite_ref-34">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2019/03/10/unearthed-audio-tucker-carlson-makes-numerous-misogynistic-and-perverted-comments/223092">In unearthed audio, Tucker Carlson makes numerous misogynistic and perverted comments: During interviews on Bubba The Love Sponge, Carlson said he "love[s</a>" the idea of young girls sexually experimenting, used sexist terms to refer to a number of women, and defended statutory rape] by Madeline Peltz (March 10, 2019 7:00 PM EDT) Media Matters for America. </li> <li id="cite_note-carlsonmasccrisis-35">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-carlsonmasccrisis_35-0">32.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-carlsonmasccrisis_35-1">32.1</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://theconversation.com/tucker-carlson-pulls-from-an-old-playbook-as-he-stokes-anxiety-about-a-masculinity-crisis-182185">"Tucker Carlson pulls from an old playbook as he stokes anxiety about a masculinity crisis"</a> by Conor Heffernan, The Conversation, 2022 May 12 </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><a href="#cite_ref-36">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mironline.ca/its-a-mans-world-the-worrying-trend-of-hyper-masculinity-in-world-leaders/">"It’s A Man’s World: The Worrying Trend of Hyper-Masculinity in World Leaders"</a> by Rebecka Eriksdotter Pieder, McGill International Review, 2018 November 13 </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><a href="#cite_ref-37">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-feminism-men-vs-women-wages-marriage-fox-news-sexism-crime-1278770">"Fox News' Tucker Carlson: Women Refuse To Marry Men Making Less Money, Feminism Has Negative Side Effects"</a> by Benjamin Fearnow, Newsweek, 2019 January 3 </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><a href="#cite_ref-38">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/tucker-carlson-president-highland-park-comments-disqualify-rcna37317">"Tucker Carlson's greatest fear"</a> by Ana Marie Cox, NBC News, 2022 July 10 </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><a href="#cite_ref-39">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tucker-carlson-racism-semafor-interview-b2118226.html">"Tucker Carlson admits he hates white liberal women more than anything: ‘I’m not mad at Black people’"</a> by John Bowden, Independent, 2022 July 7 </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><a href="#cite_ref-40">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cnet.com/culture/why-andrew-tate-has-been-banned-from-social-media/">"Why Andrew Tate Has Been Banned From Social Media"</a> by Daniel Van Boom, CNet, 2022 September 4 </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><a href="#cite_ref-41">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/andrew-tate-banned-traditional-masculine-values-tucker-carlson-1235352223/">"Andrew Tate Complains That ‘Traditional Masculine Values’ Got Him Banned From Internet Platforms"</a> by Todd Spangler, Variety, 2022 August 26 </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><a href="#cite_ref-42">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/technology/andrew-tate-banned-tiktok-instagram.html/">"Why Social Media Sites Are Removing Andrew Tate’s Accounts"</a> by Amanda Holpuch, New York Times, 2022 August 24 </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><a href="#cite_ref-43">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thecut.com/2022/08/andrew-tate-is-banned-from-tiktok-facebook-and-instagram.html">"Andrew Tate Has Finally Been Banned From TikTok"</a> by Olivia Luppino, The Cut, 2022 August 22 </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><a href="#cite_ref-44">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.salon.com/2023/01/01/tucker-carlson-under-scrutiny-for-defending-andrew-tate-in-the-past_partner/?ref=upstract.com">"Tucker Carlson under scrutiny for defending Andrew Tate in the past"</a> by Meaghan Ellis, Salon, 2023 January 1 </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><a href="#cite_ref-45">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tucker-carlson-andrew-tate-arrest-b2253597.html">"Clip of Tucker Carlson defending Andrew Tate resurfaces after rape and human trafficking arrest"</a> by Io Dodds, Independent, 2022 December 31 </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><a href="#cite_ref-46">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tucker-carlson-andrew-tate-interview-1234786792/">"Andrew Tate Compares Himself to Titanic Victims In Nauseating Tucker Carlson Interview"</a> by Nikki McCann Ramierz and EJ Dickson, Rolling Stone, 2023 July 11 </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><a href="#cite_ref-47">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newsweek.com/andrew-tate-tucker-carlson-twitter-interview-1812396">"Andrew Tate, Tucker Carlson Interview: Five Key Takeaways"</a> by Gerrard Kaonga, Newsweek, 2023 July 12 </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><a href="#cite_ref-48">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/conservatives-condemn-tucker-carlsons-2-5-hour-interview-with-alleged-sex-trafficking-woman-abusing-fraud-andrew-tate/">"Conservatives Condemn Tucker Carlson’s 2.5 Hour Interview With Alleged ‘Sex Trafficking Woman Abusing Fraud’ Andrew Tate"</a> by Charlie Nash, Mediaite, 2023 July 12 </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><a href="#cite_ref-49">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/what-tucker-carlson-doesnt-know-about-andrew-tate">"What Tucker Carlson doesn’t know about Andrew Tate"</a> by Conn Carroll, Washington Examiner, 2023 July 12 </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><a href="#cite_ref-50">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/tucker-carlson-slammed-military-leaders-mocking-pregnant-service-members-n1260726">"Tucker Carlson slammed by military leaders for mocking pregnant service members"</a> by Doha Madani, NBC News, 2021 March 11 </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><a href="#cite_ref-51">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/us/tucker-carlson-women-military-pentagon.html">"The Pentagon condemns Tucker Carlson’s sexist remarks about women in the military."</a> by John Ismay, New York Times, 2021 June 21 </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><a href="#cite_ref-52">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/11/media/tucker-carlson-mocks-military-women/index.html">"Pentagon and senior members of military call out Tucker Carlson for mocking women serving in armed forces: His words 'don't reflect our values'"</a> by Oliver Darcy and Barbara Starr, CNN, 2021 March 12 </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><a href="#cite_ref-53">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/sexist-fox-news-guest-whines-about-woman-gays-serving-in-military">"Sexist Fox News Guest Whines About Women, Gays Serving in Military"</a> by Zachary Petrizzo, Daily Beast, 2021 December 18 </li> <li id="cite_note-testicletan-54">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-testicletan_54-0">51.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-testicletan_54-1">51.1</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tucker-carlson-film-mocked-homoerotic-end-of-men-b2060181.html">"Tucker Carlson’s new documentary on testosterone levels mocked for ‘homoeroticism’ and ‘testicle tanning’ segment" by Johanna Chisholm, Independent, 2022 April 18</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><a href="#cite_ref-55">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/can-tucker-carlsons-end-of-men-doc-teaser-be-real/">"Can Tucker Carlson’s Bizarrely Beefy ‘End of Men’ Teaser Be Real?"</a> by Ian Spiegelman, LA Mag, 2022 April 18 </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><a href="#cite_ref-56">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/health/tucker-carlson-testosterone.html">"Tucker Carlson Has a Cure for Declining Virility"</a> by Gina Kolata, New York Times, 2022 April 22 </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><a href="#cite_ref-57">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-testicle-tanning_n_625cd22ee4b0be72bff7a25f">"Tucker Carlson Goes Nuts For 'Testicle Tanning' And The Internet Has Questions"</a> by Jazmin Tolliver, Huffington Post, 2022 April 18 </li> <li id="cite_note-58"><a href="#cite_ref-58">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/keith-olbermann-hoax-did_n_781241">Mirkinson, Jack. "Tucker Carlson Sent Emails Posing As Keith Olbermann", Huffington Post</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-59"><a href="#cite_ref-59">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://phawker.com/2010/11/09/hot-document-stu-bykofsky-vs-keith-olbermann/">"HOT DOCUMENT: Keith Olbermann vs. Stu Bykofsky</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><a href="#cite_ref-60">↑</a> Taibi, Catherine (August 10, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-gun-safety-fox-news-friends-bathtub_n_5666262">"Tucker Carlson Criticizes Fox News' Gun Safety Report While On Fox News"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Huffington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Huffington Post">Huffington Post</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Tucker+Carlson+Criticizes+Fox+News%27+Gun+Safety+Report+While+On+Fox+News&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Taibi&rft.aufirst=Catherine&rft.au=Taibi%2C%26%2332%3BCatherine&rft.date=August+10%2C+2014&rft.pub=%27%27%5B%5BHuffington+Post%5D%5D%27%27&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffpost.com%2Fentry%2Ftucker-carlson-gun-safety-fox-news-friends-bathtub_n_5666262&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Tucker_Carlson">  </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><a href="#cite_ref-61">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121104110031/http:/www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39712-2004Aug27.html">"Republican Convention: Tucker Carlson (washingtonpost.com)"</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><a href="#cite_ref-62">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://youtu.be/PrAwgFj7ubc?t=6683">https://youtu.be/PrAwgFj7ubc?t=6683</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><a href="#cite_ref-63">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I02LGkyhjFc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I02LGkyhjFc</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><a href="#cite_ref-64">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/11541130/ns/msnbc-the_ed_show/t/situation-tucker-carlson-february/#.XKFlTphKhPY">'The Situation with Tucker Carlson' for February 23</a> NBC News. 2/24/2006. </li> <li id="cite_note-65"><a href="#cite_ref-65">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12285620/ns/msnbc-the_ed_show/t/situation-tucker-carlson-april/#.XKFnYZhKhPY">'The Situation with Tucker Carlson' for April 11</a> NBC News. 4/12/2006. </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><a href="#cite_ref-66">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newsweek.com/fox-tucker-carlson-attacks-metric-system-1442485">Video: Fox Host Tucker Carlson Attacks 'Inelegant, Creepy' Metric System that the U.S. Alone Has Resisted</a> by Shane Croucher (6/6/19 at 5:12 AM EDT) Newsweek. </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><a href="#cite_ref-67">↑</a> Belam, Martin (October 29, 2020). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/oct/29/fox-news-tucker-carlson-mocked-for-lost-in-the-mail-biden-documents-claim">"Fox News's Tucker Carlson mocked for 'lost in mail' Biden documents claim"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a>.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Fox+News%27s+Tucker+Carlson+mocked+for+%27lost+in+mail%27+Biden+documents+claim&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Belam&rft.aufirst=Martin&rft.au=Belam%2C%26%2332%3BMartin&rft.date=October+29%2C+2020&rft.pub=%27%27%5B%5BThe+Guardian%5D%5D%27%27&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fmedia%2F2020%2Foct%2F29%2Ffox-news-tucker-carlson-mocked-for-lost-in-the-mail-biden-documents-claim&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Tucker_Carlson">  </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><a href="#cite_ref-68">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/tucker-carlson-casually-suggests-to-viewers-maybe-covid-19-vaccine-doesnt-work-and-theyre-simply-not-telling-you-that/">"Tucker Carlson Casually Suggests to Viewers Maybe Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Doesn’t Work and They’re Simply Not Telling You That’"</a> by Josh Feldman, Mediaite, 2021 April 13 </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><a href="#cite_ref-69">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fauci-hits-tucker-carlsons-conspiracy-theory/">"Dr. Fauci Dismisses Tucker Carlson’s Suggestion that Vaccines Don’t Work: ‘Just a Typical Crazy Conspiracy Theory’"</a> by Colby Hall, Mediaite, 2021 April 14 </li> <li id="cite_note-70"><a href="#cite_ref-70">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/tucker-carlson-responds-to-fauci-slamming-him-for-crazy-conspiracy-theory/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark">"Tucker Carlson Responds to Fauci Slamming Him for ‘Crazy Conspiracy Theory’"</a> by Josh Feldman, Mediaite, 2021 April 14 </li> <li id="cite_note-71"><a href="#cite_ref-71">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/06/tucker-carlsons-worst-vaccine-segment-yet/">Tucker Carlson’s worst vaccine segment yet</a> by Aaron Blake (May 6, 2021 at 6:55 a.m. PDT) The Washington Post. </li> <li id="cite_note-72"><a href="#cite_ref-72">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/tucker-carlson-says-businesses-requiring-people-be-vaccinated-is-medical-jim-crow/">Tucker Carlson: Businesses Requiring People Be Vaccinated Is 'Medical Jim Crow'</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-73"><a href="#cite_ref-73">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/26/tucker-carlson-airs-his-most-dishonest-dangerous-pandemic-segment-yet/">Tucker Carlson airs his most dishonest and dangerous pandemic segment yet</a> by Philip Bump (January 26, 2022) The Washington Post. </li> <li id="cite_note-74"><a href="#cite_ref-74">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/tucker-carlson-masks-child-abuse/2021/04/27/aa7c0844-a752-11eb-bca5-048b2759a489_story.html">Tucker Carlson’s latest idiocy on masks is dangerous and hypocritical even by his usual standards</a> by Margaret Sullivan (April 27, 2021 at 11:47 a.m. EDT) The Washington Post. </li> <li id="cite_note-75"><a href="#cite_ref-75">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/04/tucker-carlson-masks-child-protective-services">"Tucker Carlson, Who Shouldn’t Be Allowed Within 2,000 Feet of Playgrounds, Tells Viewers to Call Child Protective Services on People Whose Kids Wear Masks"</a> by Bess Levin, Vanity Fair, 2021 April 27 </li> <li id="cite_note-76"><a href="#cite_ref-76">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/tucker-carlson-unmasked/618730/">"Tucker Carlson, Unmasked: The self-styled champion of individual liberty wants you to call government agents to punish Americans for their parenting."</a> by David A. Graham, Atlantic, 2021 April 27 </li> <li id="cite_note-77"><a href="#cite_ref-77">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://youtu.be/usu3-3VW_z0">Tucker Carlson Keeps Flipping His Opinion On Masks</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-78"><a href="#cite_ref-78">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://theweek.com/tucker-carlson/1009278/tucker-carlson-complains-new-mms-mascots-are-less-sexy">"Tucker Carlson complains new M&M's mascots are 'less sexy'"</a> by Grayson Quay, TheWeek, 2022 January 22 </li> <li id="cite_note-79"><a href="#cite_ref-79">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2023/01/13/tucker-carlson-is-once-again-mad-about-woke-mms/?sh=49ae63085607">"Tucker Carlson Is, Once Again, Mad About ‘Woke M&Ms’"</a> by Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 2023 Jan 13 </li> <li id="cite_note-80"><a href="#cite_ref-80">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.salon.com/2023/01/13/tucker-carlson-is-once-again-enraged-by-woke-mandms-lack-of-appeal/">"Tucker Carlson is once again enraged by "woke M&M's" lack of sex appeal"</a> by Ashlie D. Stevens, Salon, 2023 January 13 </li> <li id="cite_note-82"><a href="#cite_ref-82">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/judge-rules-fox-news-tucker-carlson-not-source-of-news-defamation-suit-mcdougal-trump.html">Judge Rules Fox News' Tucker Carlson is Not a Credible Source of News</a> (5 Sept 2020, 6:28 AM) Slate </li> <li id="cite_note-83"><a href="#cite_ref-83">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sunjournal.com/2020/11/10/tucker-carlson-exposed-his-life-in-bryant-pond-in-a-2018-newspaper-column/">Tucker Carlson exposed his life in Bryant Pond in a 2018 newspaper column</a> by Steve Collins (November 11, 2020) Sun Journal. </li> <li id="cite_note-84"><a href="#cite_ref-84">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fws.gov/law/migratory-bird-treaty-act-1918">Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918</a> U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. </li> <li id="cite_note-85"><a href="#cite_ref-85">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.kwch.com/content/news/Taking-an-eagles-feather-could-get-you-a-100000-fine-and-a-year-in-jail-490671881.html">Taking an eagle's feather could get you a $100,000 fine and a year in jail</a> (Aug. 12, 2018 at 9:14 AM PDT) KWCH. </li> <li id="cite_note-86"><a href="#cite_ref-86">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/TheGoodLiars/status/1526316309989957632?lang=en">"Tucker Carlson. Old school racism. Middle school haircut."</a> by @TheGoodLiars, 5/16/2022 </li> <li id="cite_note-87"><a href="#cite_ref-87">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://beta.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/18/advertisers-flee-tucker-carlson-brands-himself-mr-dirtier/?outputType=amp">https://beta.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/18/advertisers-flee-tucker-carlson-brands-himself-mr-dirtier/?outputType=amp</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-88"><a href="#cite_ref-88">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/harvey-milk-democratic-clubs-response-to-tucker-carlson-f-you">S.F.’s Harvey Milk Democratic Club has two words for Tucker Carlson</a> by Tony Bravo (April 25, 2021Updated: April 26, 2021, 12:43 am) The San Francisco Chronicle. </li> <li id="cite_note-89"><a href="#cite_ref-89">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-california-third-world-country-latin-american-immigrants-2018-3">http://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-california-third-world-country-latin-american-immigrants-2018-3</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-90"><a href="#cite_ref-90">↑</a> Bump, Philip. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/17/tucker-carlson-identifies-the-actual-threat-to-american-democracy-hispanic-voters/?utm_term=.391a3adc605b">Tucker Carlson identifies the actual threat to American democracy: Hispanic voters</a>. <a href="/wiki/Washington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Post">Washington Post</a>. July 17, 2018. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1018979195974832128">(video clip)</a> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> I don’t think Russia is our close friend or anything like that. I think of course they’re trying to interfere in our affairs. They have for a long time. Many countries do, some more successfully than Russia, like Mexico which is routinely interfering in our elections by packing our electorate. </blockquote> </li> <li id="cite_note-91"><a href="#cite_ref-91">↑</a> some would consider this ironic <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02_nC9B0vvU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02_nC9B0vvU</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-92"><a href="#cite_ref-92">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://thinkprogress.org/tucker-carlson-promotes-white-nationalist-social-media-site-f5d1bb156d1d/">https://thinkprogress.org/tucker-carlson-promotes-white-nationalist-social-media-site-f5d1bb156d1d/</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-93"><a href="#cite_ref-93">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-ilhan-omar-living-proof-way-we-practice-immigration-has-become">"Tucker Carlson: “Ilhan Omar is living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country”</a> by Media Matters Staff, Media Matters, 2019 July 9 </li> <li id="cite_note-94"><a href="#cite_ref-94">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-face-fox-news-just-gave-his-full-endorsement-white-nationalist">Tucker Carlson, the face of Fox News, just gave his full endorsement to the white nationalist conspiracy theory that has motivated mass shootings</a> by Nikki McCann Ramirez (04/09/21 10:35 AM EDT) Media Matters for America. </li> <li id="cite_note-95"><a href="#cite_ref-95">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/20/why-tucker-carlsons-recent-embrace-great-replacement-is-different/">Why Tucker Carlson’s recent embrace of ‘great replacement’ is different</a> by Philip Bump (July 20, 2022 at 3:31 p.m. EDT) The Washington Post. </li> <li id="cite_note-96"><a href="#cite_ref-96">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.adl.org/news/media-watch/adl-letter-to-fox-news-condemns-tucker-carlsons-impassioned-defense-of-great">"ADL Letter to Fox News Condemns Tucker Carlson's Impassioned Defense of "Great Replacement Theory"</a>, Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO of the ADL, letter to Fox News </li> <li id="cite_note-97"><a href="#cite_ref-97">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/tucker-carlson-s-great-replacement-fox-news-segment-uses-newer-ncna1263880">"Fox News star Tucker Carlson's 'great replacement' segment used a new frame for an old fear"</a> by Casey Michel, NBC News, 2021 April 12 </li> <li id="cite_note-98"><a href="#cite_ref-98">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-tucker-carlson-george-floyd-death-1568615">Tucker Carlson Says George Floyd Died of Drug Overdose in Video Watched 3 Million Times</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-99"><a href="#cite_ref-99">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/adl-warns-twitter-against-working-with-obvious-antisemite-tucker-carlson">ADL Warns Twitter Against Working With ‘Obvious Antisemite’ Tucker Carlson</a> by Justin Baragona (Jun. 08, 2023) Daily Beast. </li> <li id="cite_note-100"><a href="#cite_ref-100">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngr4bNZsPeQ">The Media’s Obsession With Donald Trump’s Sex Life & More - SOME MORE NEWS</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-101"><a href="#cite_ref-101">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-04-30/tucker-carlson-major-advertisers">"Column: The Tucker Carlson mystery — how does his show survive without major advertisers?"</a> by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2021 April 30 </li> <li id="cite_note-102"><a href="#cite_ref-102">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/tucker-carlson-russia-far-right-rcna12932">"It’s not just Tucker Carlson. The right’s soft spot for Putin is also well documented."</a> by Ja'han Jones, MSNBC, 2022 January 21 </li> <li id="cite_note-103"><a href="#cite_ref-103">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mitt-romney-russia-geopolitical-foe_n_1380801">"Mitt Romney: Russia Is 'Our Number One Geopolitical Foe'"</a> by Luke Johnson, Huffington Post, 2012 March 26 </li> <li id="cite_note-104"><a href="#cite_ref-104">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-justifying-invasion-ukraine-221440645.html">Yahoo News</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-slateprop-105"><a href="#cite_ref-slateprop_105-0">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/12/tucker-carlson-is-americas-most-watched-kremlin-propagandist.html">"Tucker Carlson Is America’s Most Watched Kremlin Propagandist"</a> by William Saletan, Slate, 2021 December 10 </li> <li id="cite_note-106"><a href="#cite_ref-106">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/25/us-europe-russia-gas-supplies-energy">"US finalizing plans to divert gas to Europe if Russia cuts off supply"</a> by Julian Borger, Guardian, 2022 January 25 </li> <li id="cite_note-107"><a href="#cite_ref-107">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-asks-why-would-we-take-ukraines-side-and-not-russias">"Tucker Carlson: ‘Why Would We Take Ukraine’s Side and Not Russia’s?’"</a> by Justin Baragona, Daily Beast, 2021 November 10 </li> <li id="cite_note-108"><a href="#cite_ref-108">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-war-russia-ukraine">"Tucker Carlson: We're moving closer to war with Russia",</a> transcript of "Tucker Carlson Tonight", Fox News, January 21 2022 </li> <li id="cite_note-109"><a href="#cite_ref-109">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/01/21/remarks-by-president-biden-on-increasing-the-supply-of-semiconductors-and-rebuilding-our-supply-chains/">"Remarks by President Biden On Increasing the Supply of Semiconductors And Rebuilding Our Supply Chains"</a>, press conference transcript, 2022 January 21 </li> <li id="cite_note-110"><a href="#cite_ref-110">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-ukraine-russia-chinese-government">"Tucker Carlson: Our attention to Ukraine drives Russia into alliance with the Chinese government"</a>, Tucker Carlson Tonight transcript, 2022 January 20 </li> <li id="cite_note-111"><a href="#cite_ref-111">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/us/politics/republicans-ukraine.html">"Republican Rift on Ukraine Could Undercut U.S. Appeals to Allies"</a> by Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 2022 January 26 </li> <li 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id="cite_note-118"><a href="#cite_ref-118">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newsweek.com/russian-analyst-tucker-carlson-one-american-who-shouldnt-killed-1775593">"Russian Analyst: Tucker Carlson Is 'One American' Who Shouldn't Be Killed"</a>, Newsweek, 22 January 2022 </li> <li id="cite_note-119"><a href="#cite_ref-119">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tucker-carlson-fact-checked-kremlin-putin-interview-1234963327/">"Kremlin All But Admits Tucker Carlson Is a Useful Idiot"</a> by Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 2024 February 7 </li> <li id="cite_note-putininterviewreuters-120">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-putininterviewreuters_120-0">116.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-putininterviewreuters_120-1">116.1</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-gave-tucker-carlson-an-interview-because-he-differs-one-sided-media-2024-02-07/">"Kremlin confirms Putin gave 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He’s already doing the bidding of the Kremlin"</a> by Oliver Darcy, CNN, 2024 February 7 </li> <li id="cite_note-abcputininterview-122">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-abcputininterview_122-0">118.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-abcputininterview_122-1">118.1</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/tucker-carlson-interview-vladimir-putin/story?id=104870731">"Tucker Carlson to interview Vladimir Putin"</a> by Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 2024 February 7 </li> <li id="cite_note-123"><a href="#cite_ref-123">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-sanctions-eu-putin-interview-1867655">Tucker Carlson Could Face Sanctions Over Putin Interview</a> by David Brennan (Feb 07, 2024) Newsweek. </li> <li id="cite_note-reasontuckergrocery-124"><a href="#cite_ref-reasontuckergrocery_124-0">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://reason.com/volokh/2024/02/16/tucker-carlson-vs-the-evidence-of-russians-voting-with-their-feet/">"Tucker Carlson vs. the Evidence of Russians Voting with their Feet"</a> by Ilya Somin, 2024, February 16 </li> <li id="cite_note-125"><a href="#cite_ref-125">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-shopping-cart-russia-2024-2">"Tucker Carlson gets roasted for praising decades-old shopping cart tech in Russia"</a> by Dominick Reuter, Business Insider, 2024 February 16 </li> <li id="cite_note-126"><a href="#cite_ref-126">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-mocked-praising-russian-grocery-stores-1870396">"Tucker Carlson Mocked for Praising Russian Grocery Stores"</a> by Rachel Dobkin, Newsweek, 2024 February 16 </li> <li id="cite_note-127"><a href="#cite_ref-127">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russians-spending-food-doubles-following-ukraine-war-un-food-agency-2022-04-08/">"Russians' spending on food doubles following Ukraine war, U.N. food agency says"</a> by Maytaal Angel, Reuters, 2022 April 8 </li> <li id="cite_note-128"><a href="#cite_ref-128">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistics-charting-the-essentials/food-prices-and-spending">"Food Prices and Spending"</a>, USDA Economic Research Service, US Department of Agriculture </li> <li id="cite_note-129"><a href="#cite_ref-129">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://share.america.gov/russias-top-talent-fleeing-to-other-countries/">"Russia’s top talent fleeing to other countries"</a> by Michael Laff, ShareAmerica, 2023 August 3 </li> <li id="cite_note-130"><a href="#cite_ref-130">↑</a> (September 24, 1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?152331-1/news-review">"Washington Journal / News Review"</a>. 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Twitter, via archive.today. </li> <li id="cite_note-166"><a href="#cite_ref-166">↑</a> Andreas Koureas (September 11, 2024). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://nationalinterest.org/feature/debunking-tucker-carlson%E2%80%99s-darryl-cooper-interview-212703">"Debunking Tucker Carlson’s Darryl Cooper Interview"</a>. The National Interest. </li> <li id="cite_note-168"><a href="#cite_ref-168">↑</a> Baragona, Justin (August 6, 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-white-supremacy-is-a-hoax-and-not-a-real-problem-in-america">"Tucker Carlson: White Supremacy Is a ‘Hoax’ and ‘Not a Real Problem in America’"</a>. The Daily Beast.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Tucker+Carlson%3A+White+Supremacy+Is+a+%E2%80%98Hoax%E2%80%99+and+%E2%80%98Not+a+Real+Problem+in+America%E2%80%99&rft.atitle=&rft.aulast=Baragona&rft.aufirst=Justin&rft.au=Baragona%2C%26%2332%3BJustin&rft.date=August+6%2C+2019&rft.pub=%27%27The+Daily+Beast%27%27&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Ftucker-carlson-white-supremacy-is-a-hoax-and-not-a-real-problem-in-america&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Tucker_Carlson">  </li> <li id="cite_note-169"><a href="#cite_ref-169">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlsons-descent-white-supremacy-timeline">"Tucker Carlson's descent into white supremacy: A timeline"</a> by Madeline Peltz with research contributions from Nikki McCain Ramirez. Published on October 28, 2018. Updated April 7, 2023. Published by Media Matters for America. </li> <li id="cite_note-170"><a href="#cite_ref-170">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-tucker-no-race-politics-better-than-others-its-all-poison">"Tucker: No race politics is bett"</a> by Tucker Carlson, Fox News, 2022 May 16 </li> <li id="cite_note-171"><a href="#cite_ref-171">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/17/buffalo-shooting-fox-news-tucker-carlson-great-replacement-theory">"Fox News suddenly goes quiet on ‘great replacement’ theory after Buffalo shooting"</a> by Adam Gabbatt, Guardian, 2022 May 17 </li> <li id="cite_note-172"><a href="#cite_ref-172">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/06/tucker-carlsons-sloppy-effort-leverage-highland-park-shooting/">"Tucker Carlson’s sloppy effort to leverage the Highland Park shooting"</a> by Philip Bumo, Washingtong Post, 2022 July 6 </li> <li id="cite_note-173"><a href="#cite_ref-173">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/why-tucker-carlson-blames-women-highland-park-parade-shooting-n1296853">"Tucker Carlson blames women and prescription drugs for the Highland Park shooting"</a> by Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBCV, 2022 July 6 </li> <li id="cite_note-174"><a href="#cite_ref-174">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-children-destroyed-by-this">"TUCKER CARLSON: Children are being destroyed by this"</a>, Tucker Carlson, Fox News, 2022 November 21 </li> <li id="cite_note-175"><a href="#cite_ref-175">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-no-healthy-society-tolerate-pedophilia">"TUCKER CARLSON: No healthy society can tolerate pedophilia"</a> by Tucker Carlson, 2022 November 22 </li> <li id="cite_note-176"><a href="#cite_ref-176">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/21/metro/congressional-leaders-urge-doj-action-after-threats-against-boston-childrens/">"Congressional leaders urge DOJ action after threats against Boston Children’s Hospital"</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-177"><a href="#cite_ref-177">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.masslive.com/police-fire/2022/10/canadian-man-charged-with-bomb-threats-against-boston-childrens-hospital.html">"Canadian man charged with bomb threats against Boston Children’s Hospital"</a> by Will Katcher, MassLive, 2022 October 24 </li> <li id="cite_note-178"><a href="#cite_ref-178">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-anti-lgbtq-colorado-shooting_n_637d8fbce4b006c42d38e2de">"Tucker Carlson Segment Torched After Guest's 'Grotesque' Take On Club Q Shooting"</a> by Josephine Harvey, Huffington Post, 2022 November 23 </li> <li id="cite_note-179"><a href="#cite_ref-179">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-guest-says-attacks-like-club-q-wont-stop-until-we-end-this-evil-agenda">"Tucker Guest: Expect More Attacks Like Club Q ‘Until We End This Evil Agenda’"</a> by William Vaillancourt, Daily Beast, 2022 November 23 </li> <li id="cite_note-180"><a href="#cite_ref-180">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-gun-tucker-carlson-pumps-brakes-on-armed-transgender-people">"Pro-Gun Tucker Carlson Pumps Brakes on Armed Transgender People"</a> by William Vaillancourt, Daily Beast, 2023 March 24 </li> <li id="cite_note-181"><a href="#cite_ref-181">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tucker-carlson-accuses-transgender-community-targeting-christians-1234705993/">"Tucker Carlson Says Trans People Hate Christians Because They Won’t Accept Them as ‘Gods’"</a> by Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 2023 March 29 </li> <li id="cite_note-182"><a href="#cite_ref-182">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-turns-nashville-shooting-into-war-between-trans-people-and-christians">"Tucker Turns Shooting Into Apocalyptic War Between Trans People and Christians"</a> by William Vaillancourt, Daily Beast, 2023 March 28 </li> <li id="cite_note-183"><a href="#cite_ref-183">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-says-trans-movement-natural-enemy-christianity-1791016">"Tucker Carlson Says Trans Movement 'Natural Enemy' of Christianity"</a> by Giulia Carbonaro, Newsweek, 2023 March 29 </li> <li id="cite_note-184"><a href="#cite_ref-184">↑</a> Alex Kaplan (March 30, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/4chan/4chan-anti-trans-hoax-about-trans-day-vengeance-spread-twitter-various-right-wing-figures">"A 4chan anti-trans hoax about 'Trans Day of Vengeance' spread from Twitter to various right-wing figures, including Tucker Carlson"</a>. Media Matters for America. </li> <li id="cite_note-185"><a href="#cite_ref-185">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/20/business/media/tucker-carlson.html">Tucker Carlson Calls Journalists ‘Animals.’ He’s Also Their Best Source. His platform on Fox News made him a big player in Donald Trump’s circle. Off camera, he shapes the coverage of Trump’s world and Fox’s own internal politics.</a> by Ben Smith (Published June 20, 2021; Updated June 21, 2021, 9:30 a.m. ET) The New York Times. </li> <li id="cite_note-186"><a href="#cite_ref-186">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/12/raj-shah-fox-trump/">Ex-Trump aide at Fox wrestled with election lies, network’s interests: Documents show Fox Vice President Raj Shah privately derided the White House’s narrative of a stolen election. But he also pushed back on efforts to dispute the claims.</a> by Rosalind S. Helderman & Josh Dawsey (March 12, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT) The Washington Post. </li> <li id="cite_note-187"><a href="#cite_ref-187">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/05/tucker-carlson-capitol-riot-wasnt-racist-fbi-uh-wrong/">"Opinion: Tucker Carlson: Capitol riot wasn’t racist! FBI: Uh, wrong."</a> by Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 2021 March 5 </li> <li id="cite_note-188"><a href="#cite_ref-188">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tucker-carlson-fox-capitol-riot-b1827929.html">"Tucker Carlson slammed for ‘full-throated’ defence of Capitol rioters including ‘zip tie guy’"</a> by Gustaf Kilander, Independent, 2021 April 07 </li> <li id="cite_note-189"><a href="#cite_ref-189">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5NO-n0e64w">Tucker: Did Dorsey admit Twitter's role in Capitol riot?</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-190"><a href="#cite_ref-190">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-worst-attack-our-democracy-160-years-how-about-immigration-act-1965">"Tucker Carlson: “The worst attack on our democracy in 160 years? How about the Immigration Act of 1965?”"</a> by Media Matters Staff, Media Matters, 2021 April 29 </li> <li id="cite_note-191"><a href="#cite_ref-191">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-capitol-attack-jan-6-rally-runner_n_61afb97de4b01fcf12b89bd9">"Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 'Agent Provocateur' Is A Big Tucker Fan And An Amateur Cardinals Mascot"</a> by Ryan J. Reilly, Huffington Post, 2021 December 9 </li> <li id="cite_note-192"><a href="#cite_ref-192">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/10/tucker-carlson-shoddy-quest-find-jan-6-provocateurs/">"Tucker Carlson and the desperate, shoddy search for Jan. 6 ‘provocateurs’"</a> by Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 2021 December 10 </li> <li id="cite_note-193"><a href="#cite_ref-193">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/tucker-carlson-fox-news-january-6-fascism-1251277/">"Tucker Carlson’s ‘Patriot Purge’ Is Too Crazy to Believe — and Too Dangerous to Ignore"</a> by Jason Stanley, Rolling Stone, 20201 November 2 </li> <li id="cite_note-194"><a href="#cite_ref-194">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/21/business/jonah-goldberg-steve-hayes-quit-fox-tucker-carlson.html">"Two Fox News Contributors Quit in Protest of Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 Special"</a> by Ben Smith, New York Times, 2021 November 21 </li> <li id="cite_note-195"><a href="#cite_ref-195">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/ted-cruz-begs-tucker-carlson-terrorists-january-6-capitol-police.html">"Ted Cruz Begs Tucker Carlson’s Forgiveness for Being Mean to Violent Insurrectionists"</a> by Jonathan Chiat, NYMag, 2022 January 6 </li> <li id="cite_note-196"><a href="#cite_ref-196">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/06/tucker-carlson-slams-ted-cruz-republicans-calling-jan-6-capitol-riot-a-violent-terrorist-attack/">"Tucker Carlson mocks Ted Cruz, Republicans for saying Jan. 6 was a ‘violent terrorist attack’"</a> by Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 2022 January 6 </li> <li id="cite_note-198"><a href="#cite_ref-198">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.salon.com/2022/01/15/tucker-carlson-has-history-of-promoting-oath-keepers-member-faces-capitol-riot-sedition-charges_partner/">"Tucker Carlson has history of promoting Oath Keepers member who faces Capitol riot sedition charges"</a> by Meaghan Ellis, Salon, 2022 January 15 </li> <li id="cite_note-199"><a href="#cite_ref-199">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-praises-alleged-oath-keeper-charged-sedition-thoroughly-loyal">"Tucker Carlson praises alleged Oath Keeper charged with sedition as “a thoroughly loyal American”"</a>, Media Matters staf, Media Matters, 2022 January 14 </li> <li id="cite_note-200"><a href="#cite_ref-200">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-blasts-brazils-rigged-election-1772688">"Tucker Carlson Backs Jair Bolsonaro, Blasts Brazil's 'Rigged Election'"</a> by Jack Dutton, Newsweek, 2023 January 10 </li> <li id="cite_note-201"><a href="#cite_ref-201">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-riot-tucker-carlson-backs-bolsonaro-supporters-b2259154.html">"Tucker Carlson under fire for backing Brazil Bolsonaro riot"</a> by Shweta Sharma, Independent, 2023 January 10 </li> <li id="cite_note-202"><a href="#cite_ref-202">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/tucker-carlson-previews-amazing-interview-with-bolsonaro-who-bears-no-resemblance-to-how-hes-portrayed-in-u-s-media/">"Tucker Carlson Previews ‘Amazing Interview’ with Bolsonaro, Who ‘Bears No Resemblance’ to How He’s Portrayed in U.S. Media"</a> by Michael Luciano, Mediaite , 2022 June 29th </li> <li id="cite_note-203"><a href="#cite_ref-203">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/28/kevin-mccarthy-tucker-carlson-jan-6-footage/">"McCarthy defends Carlson’s access to Jan. 6 footage, calls media ‘jealous’"</a> by Jacqueline Alemany, Marianna Sotomayor and Leigh Ann Caldwell, Washington Post, 2023 February 28 </li> <li id="cite_note-204"><a href="#cite_ref-204">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230307033206/https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-releases-exclusive-jan-6-footage-says-politicians-media-lied-about-sicknick-qanon-shaman">"Tucker Carlson releases exclusive Jan. 6 footage, says politicians, media lied about Sicknick, 'QAnon Shaman'"</a> by Joseph A. Wulfsohn, Fox News, 2023 March 6, archived on 2023 March 7 </li> <li id="cite_note-nprcarlsontapes-205">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-nprcarlsontapes_205-0">198.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-nprcarlsontapes_205-1">198.1</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.npr.org/2023/03/07/1161686255/fox-tucker-carlson-jan-6-security-tapes-mcconnell-manger">"Senate Republican Leader McConnell slams Fox and Tucker Carlson for Jan. 6 portrayal"</a> by Claudia Grisales, NPR, 2023 March 7 </li> <li id="cite_note-206"><a href="#cite_ref-206">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/07/gop-capitol-jan-6-mccarthy-carlson/">"The GOP backlash on Tucker Carlson"</a> by Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 2023 March 7 </li> <li id="cite_note-207"><a href="#cite_ref-207">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/07/jan-6-footage-tucker-carlson-brian-sicknick-family">"‘Sleaze-slinging’ Fox News denounced by family of January 6 officer who died"</a> by Martin Pengelly, Guardian, 2023 March 7 </li> <li id="cite_note-208"><a href="#cite_ref-208">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/capitol-police-chief-tears-tucker-carlson-claims-officer-brian-sicknic-rcna73813">"Capitol Police chief tears into Tucker Carlson for claims about Officer Brian Sicknick"</a> by Frank Thorp V and Rebecca Shabad, NBC News, 2023 March 7 </li> <li id="cite_note-209"><a href="#cite_ref-209">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-bash-tucker-carlson-lying-jan-6-violence-1234692024/">"Even Republicans Are Bashing Tucker Carlson for Lying About Jan. 6 Violence"</a> by Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone, 2023 March 7 </li> <li id="cite_note-slatetuckerprivate-210">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-slatetuckerprivate_210-0">203.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-slatetuckerprivate_210-1">203.1</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/tucker-carlson-text-messages-dominion-lawsuit-fox-news.html">"Tucker Carlson’s Dominion Text Messages Are a Thing of Beauty"</a> by Jeremy Stahl, Slate, 2023 February 17 </li> <li id="cite_note-211"><a href="#cite_ref-211">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64886188">"Tucker Carlson said he hates Trump 'passionately', lawsuit reveals"</a> by BBC News, 2023 March 8 </li> <li id="cite_note-212"><a href="#cite_ref-212">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/business/media/tucker-carlson-trump.html">5 Times Tucker Carlson Privately Reviled Trump: ‘I Hate Him’: The Fox host’s private comments, revealed recently in court documents, contrast sharply with his support of conservatives on his show.</a> by Katie Robertson (March 8, 2023) The New York Times. </li> <li id="cite_note-barger-213">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-barger_213-0">206.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-barger_213-1">206.1</a> See the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Barger" class="extiw" title="wp:Sonny Barger" rel="nofollow">Sonny Barger</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-214"><a href="#cite_ref-214">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/17/sonny-barger-obituary">Sonny Barger obituary</a> by Michael Carlson (no relation) (July 17, 2022) The Guardian. </li> <li id="cite_note-215"><a href="#cite_ref-215">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/sonny-barger-funeral-carlson-speech-17470009.php">Tucker Carlson gives speech at Sonny Barger's funeral in Northern California</a> by Katie Dowd (Sep. 27, 2022) SFGATE. </li> <li id="cite_note-216"><a href="#cite_ref-216">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220926184650/https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/watch-tucker-carlson-tribute-hells-angels-motorcycle-club-founder-sonny-barger">Tucker Carlson speaks at tribute to Hells Angels founder Sonny Barger</a> by Julia Johnson (September 26, 2022 02:28 PM) The Washington Examiner (archived from September 26, 2022). </li> <li id="cite_note-217"><a href="#cite_ref-217">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221001110951/https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1574391939243380740">BREAKING: Tucker Carlson make surprise appears to deliver tribute at funeral of Hells Angels biker gang founder in California</a> by Jack Posobiec (6:34 AM · Sep 26, 2022) Twitter. </li> <li id="cite_note-carlsoncreationist-218">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-carlsoncreationist_218-0">211.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-carlsoncreationist_218-1">211.1</a> <a href="#cite_ref-carlsoncreationist_218-2">211.2</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mediaite.com/podcasts/tucker-carlson-completely-dismisses-darwins-theory-of-evolution-citing-no-evidence-with-joe-rogan-its-not-a-new-idea/">"Tucker Carlson Completely Dismisses Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, Citing ‘No Evidence’ with Joe Rogan: ‘It’s Not a New Idea!’"</a> by Zachary Leeman, Mediaite, 2024 April 22 </li> <li id="cite_note-219"><a href="#cite_ref-219">↑</a> Russo CAM, André T. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6428117/">Science and evolution.</a> Genet Mol Biol. 2019 Feb 28;42(1):120-124. doi: 10.1590/1678-4685-gmb-2018-0086. PMID: 30816905; PMCID: PMC6428117. </li> <li id="cite_note-220"><a href="#cite_ref-220">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/26/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news-satire">There is no Tucker Carlson on tonight</a> by Alexandra Petri (April 26, 2023 at 7:15 a.m. EDT) The Washington Post. </li> <li id="cite_note-221"><a href="#cite_ref-221">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tucker-carlson-leaving-fox-news/">"Tucker Carlson is leaving Fox News, network announces"</a> by Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 2023 April 24 </li> <li id="cite_note-222"><a href="#cite_ref-222">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tucker-carlson-fox-news-final-show-b2325876.html">"Was Tucker Carlson caught off guard by Fox News exit? His final show would suggest so"</a> by Rachel Sharp, Independent, 2023 April 24 </li> <li id="cite_note-wpcarlsonout-223">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-wpcarlsonout_223-0">216.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-wpcarlsonout_223-1">216.1</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/04/24/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/">Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News after Dominion lawsuit disclosures</a> by Jeremy Barr & Sarah Ellison (April 24, 2023) The Washington Post. </li> <li id="cite_note-224"><a href="#cite_ref-224">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-04-24/tucker-carlson-is-out-at-fox-news">"Tucker Carlson departs Fox News, pushed out by Rupert Murdoch"</a> by Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 2023 April 24 </li> <li id="cite_note-225"><a href="#cite_ref-225">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/business/media/tucker-carlson-dominion-fox-news.html">"On Eve of Trial, Discovery of Carlson Texts Set Off Crisis Atop Fox"</a> by Jim Rutenberg, Jeremy W. Peters and Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times, 2023 April 26 </li> <li id="cite_note-226"><a href="#cite_ref-226">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/24/business/media/tucker-carlson-abby-grossberg-lawsuit.html">"In a Lawsuit, Tucker Carlson Is Accused of Promoting a Hostile Work Environment"</a> by Katie Robertson, New York Times, 2023 April 24 </li> <li id="cite_note-227"><a href="#cite_ref-227">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/business/media/tucker-carlson-text-message-white-men.html">"Carlson’s Text That Alarmed Fox Leaders: ‘It’s Not How White Men Fight’"</a> by Jeremy W. Peters, Michael S. Schmidt, and Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 2023 May 2 </li> <li id="cite_note-228"><a href="#cite_ref-228">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.salon.com/2023/04/28/tucker-carlsons-unreleased-texts-were-so-fox-news-didnt-think-it-was-survivable-reporter/">"Tucker Carlson’s unreleased texts were so bad Fox News didn’t think it was “survivable”: reporter"</a> by Tatyana Tandanpolie, Salon, 2023 April 28 </li> <li id="cite_note-229"><a href="#cite_ref-229">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.salon.com/2023/05/10/tucker-carlson-accuses-fox-of-fraud-as-he-reportedly-snubs-25-million-to-flee-to-twitter/">"Tucker Carlson accuses Fox of fraud as he reportedly snubs $25 million to flee to Twitter"</a> by Igor Derysh, Salon, 2023 May 10 </li> <li id="cite_note-230"><a href="#cite_ref-230">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/07/tucker-carlson-ufos-twitter-fox-news/">"Tucker Carlson becomes just another social-media conspiracy theorist"</a>. The Washington Post, June 7, 2023. </li> <li id="cite_note-231"><a href="#cite_ref-231">↑</a> David Bauder (December 11, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://apnews.com/article/tucker-carlson-streaming-service-a782bd14a17250cef45ee084562664dd">"Former Fox host Tucker Carlson is launching his own streaming network with interviews and commentary"</a>. The Associated Press. </li> <li id="cite_note-232"><a href="#cite_ref-232">↑</a> Michael Sainato (December 11, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/11/tucker-carlson-network-subscription-streaming-service">"Tucker Carlson to launch his own $72-a-year subscription streaming service"</a>. The Guardian. </li> <li id="cite_note-233"><a href="#cite_ref-233">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.meidastouch.com/news/tucker-carlson-on-flat-earth-theory-im-open-to-anything">Tucker Carlson on Flat Earth Theory: "I'm Open to Anything". Carlson: "There's been so much deception that you can't trust your preconceptions"</a> by J.D. Wolf (Dec 16, 2023) Meidas Touch. </li> <li id="cite_note-234"><a href="#cite_ref-234">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://flatearth.ws/sniper">Long-Range Snipers and the Coriolis & Eötvös Effects</a> FlatEarth.ws. </li> <li id="cite_note-235"><a href="#cite_ref-235">↑</a> "LP: Newly Dovish, Tucker Carlson Goes Public (Tucker Carlson turns against the war)" </li> <li id="cite_note-236"><a href="#cite_ref-236">↑</a> "Republican Convention: Tucker Carlson (washingtonpost.com)" </li> <li id="cite_note-237"><a href="#cite_ref-237">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/04/media/fox-news-iran-soleimani/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/04/media/fox-news-iran-soleimani/index.html</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-238"><a href="#cite_ref-238">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/01/07/one-trumps-most-vocal-critics-iran-fox-newss-tucker-carlson/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/01/07/one-trumps-most-vocal-critics-iran-fox-newss-tucker-carlson/</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-239"><a href="#cite_ref-239">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26432056/tucker-carlson-fox-news-interview-rutger-bergman/">"Behold the Tucker Carlson Interview Where He Got Owned So Bad He Refused to Air It"</a> by Jack Holmes, Esquire, 2019 February 20 </li> <li id="cite_note-240"><a href="#cite_ref-240">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/08/17/the-opinionated-journalist/4340b332-e33d-442b-b681-fbb97cffee71/">"The Opinionated Journalist"</a> by Howard Kurtz, Washington Post, 1999 August 17 </li> <li id="cite_note-242"><a href="#cite_ref-242">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/06/tucker-carlson-is-hurting-america-again/563138/">"Tucker Carlson Is Hurting America Again"</a> by Conor Friedersdorf, Atlantic, 2018 June 20 </li> <li id="cite_note-243"><a href="#cite_ref-243">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/07/18/how-the-right-became-addicted-to-conspiracies/">"How the right became addicted to conspiracies"</a> by Nicole Hemmer, Washington Post, 2018 July 18 </li> <li id="cite_note-244"><a href="#cite_ref-244">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archives.cjr.org/feature/the_great_right_hype.php">"The Great Right Hype"</a> by Joel Meares, Columbia Journalism Review, 2011 July/August </li> <li id="cite_note-245"><a href="#cite_ref-245">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/163567/tucker-carlson-profile-lost-mind">"How Tucker Carlson Lost It"</a> by Alex Shephard, New Republic, 2021 September 16 </li> <li id="cite_note-246"><a href="#cite_ref-246">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/14/fox-news-host-tucker-carlson-i-lie">"Fox News host Tucker Carlson tells interviewer: ‘I lie’"</a> by Martin Pengelly, Guardian, 2021 September 14 </li> <li id="cite_note-247"><a href="#cite_ref-247">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-fox-news-too-big-to-cancel-911-calls-2021-4">"Why Tucker Carlson is too big for Fox News to cancel"</a> by Jake Lahut, Business Insider, 2021 April 28 </li> <li id="cite_note-248"><a href="#cite_ref-248">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/12/how-tucker-carlsons-racist-rhetoric-gives-new-life-trumpism/">"Tucker Carlson shows what mass-marketed racism looks like"</a> by Michael Gerson, Washington Post, 2021 April 12 </li> <li id="cite_note-249"><a href="#cite_ref-249">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanberr/2020/08/29/why-fox-news-pays-a-price-to-stick-by-tucker-carlson/">"Why Fox News Pays A Price To Stick By Tucker Carlson"</a> by Jonathan Berr, Forbes, 2020 August 29 </li> <li id="cite_note-250"><a href="#cite_ref-250">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://theintercept.com/2019/03/12/tucker-carlson-tapes-rupert-murdoch/">"Tucker Carlson on Rupert Murdoch in 2010 Radio Segment: 'I'm 100 Percent His Bitch'"</a> by Aida Chavez, Intercept, 2019 March 12 </li> <li id="cite_note-251"><a href="#cite_ref-251">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://gizmodo.com/tucker-carlson-thinks-climate-change-is-a-conspiracy-to-1847158016">"Tucker Carlson Thinks Climate Change Is a Conspiracy to Shrink Your Kids"</a> by Dharna Noor, Gizmodo, 2021 June 23 </li> <li id="cite_note-252"><a href="#cite_ref-252">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" 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O'Brien, Bloomberg Opinion, 2021 April 21 </li> <li id="cite_note-253"><a href="#cite_ref-253">↑</a> Quinn, Melissa (April 25, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tucker-carlson-leaving-fox-news/">"Tucker Carlson is leaving Fox News, network announces"</a>. 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