Carlson said the network had changed a lot and "they didn't have a role for me". I'm psyched to get to do that. [89][90] Carlson later said: "I resigned from Crossfire in April [2004], many months before Jon Stewart came on our show, because I didn't like the partisanship, and I thought in some ways it was kind of a pointless conversation. [273] Trump commuted Stone's sentence on July 10, 2020. AfriForum, a South African non-governmental organization focused mainly on the interests of Afrikaners, took credit for Carlson's and Trump's statements, saying it believed that its campaign to influence American politics had succeeded. 1 8.2 (15) Rate Los Angeles committed suicide when it elected Soros-backed District Attorney George Gascn. Carlson said Bolton was "demented" for seeking a military strike against Iran and accused him of undermining Trump by disagreeing publicly with Trump's decisions. [122], On April 19, 2017, Fox News announced that Tucker Carlson Tonight would air at 8:00p.m. following the cancellation of The O'Reilly Factor. [61][491] They were married on August 10, 1991, in the school chapel. [203] In 2021, in private correspondence he referred to Trump as a "demonic force". TUCKER CARLSON: This is being sold on social media, particularly on TikTok and Instagram and the rest, as a way of personal liberation, and it's a lie. [62][63][64] After college, Carlson tried to join the Central Intelligence Agency, but his application was denied, after which he decided to pursue a career in journalism with the encouragement of his father, who advised him that "they'll take anybody". [381][382] But by May 2020, Carlson began to publicly question the severity of the virus[383] and oppose social distancing measures. [347], Carlson concluded Tucker Carlson Tonight on July 9, 2019, with a three-minute monologue about Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN), calling her ungrateful to the United States, where she had been granted asylum, and calling her "living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country". "[41], On February 23, 2017, The Atlantic wrote that "Carlson's true talent is not for political philosophizing, it's for televised partisan combat. Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson[4] (born May 16, 1969) is an American television host, conservative political commentator and writer who has hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News since 2016. Carlson served as editor-in-chief, and occasionally wrote opinion pieces with Patel. We think all people were created by God and should therefore be judged by what they do, not by how they look. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. "[263] In 2004, Carlson wrote a commentary in Esquire accusing Bush of weakness after the September 11 attacks and in the invasion of Iraq. [334] Carlson was criticized for abbreviating a clip of Biden in 2015 describing "an unrelenting stream of immigration, nonstop" in U.S. history to remove its context. "[37] In October 2022, Carlson interviewed Kanye West, with the latter's statement that he had received the COVID-19 vaccine being omitted from two days of segments. https://bit.ly/2vaBUvASWatch more Fox News Video: http://video.foxnews.comWatch Fox News Channel Live: http://www.foxnewsgo.com/FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. [437][438][439] The following February, Dominion's legal team released texts and other products of discovery against Fox, revealing that Carslon privately doubted the false claims that the 2020 election was stolen and mocked Trump advisors, including Rudy Giuliani and Sydney Powell. We have confirmed that. [494], In September 2022, Carlson spoke at the funeral of Hells Angels president Sonny Barger. [466][e] On June 29, the NSA tweeted a rare statement of denial,[465][468] stating that Carlson has never been a target of its surveillance and it never had any intent to have his program taken off the air. [225][226] In a 2019 interview Carlson said he owns a AR-15 style rifle and said "all my guns are working-class guns". [382][381] Carlson blamed China for causing the pandemic. [86] The Atlantic suggested that Stewart's appearance was a turning point leading to how Carlson remade himself. [165] Reuters media critic and libertarian Jack Shafer, while commenting "I've never thought much of Media Matters' style of watchdogging or Brock's journalism", nevertheless sharply criticized The Daily Caller piece for relying on conjecture, absence of evidence, and inclusion of "anonymously sourced crap", adding that "Daily Caller is attacking Media Matters with bad journalism and lame propaganda. "[84][85] In 2017, The New York Times referred to Stewart's "on-air dressing-down" of Carlson as an "ignominious career [moment]" for Carlson, leading to the show's cancellation. [161] The forum barred media reporters and conservatives. Ask anyone at Fox." [479] Lyz Lenz of the Columbia Journalism Review wrote that this debate maneuver mirrors Jon Stewart's confrontation of Carlson on Crossfire in 2004, describing Stewart then and Carlson now as both "com[ing] out of the gate with an impossible line of questioning and a disingenuous defense". 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Fact checks called Carlson's argument misleading, because COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective in protecting against COVID-19 infections and severe symptoms, and universal masking helps prevent unvaccinated people from spreading the virus. [325][326], Several days after the 2019 El Paso shooting, which was committed by a man who released an anti-immigrant manifesto complaining of a "Hispanic invasion", Carlson described white supremacy as a hoax and "a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power". Stream full episodes of Tucker Carlson Originals only on Fox Nation. [391] Carlson also told Vanity Fair that he spoke to Trump about COVID-19. The judge also agreed with Fox News' defense that reasonable viewers would have "skepticism" over statements Carlson makes on its show, as he often engages in "exaggeration" and "non-literal commentary", and that Carlson is not "stating actual facts" on its show. [68][69] The piece led to bad publicity for Bush's 2000 presidential campaign. [124], In October 2018, Tucker Carlson Tonight was the second highest-rated cable news show in prime time, after The Sean Hannity Show with Sean Hannity, with 3.2million nightly viewers. He's a good reporter, he just misunderstood about how serious that was. [132][133] At the close of 2019, Carlson's Nielsen ratings among all viewers 2554 placed him second only to Fox's The Sean Hannity Show among cable news shows. [237] In 2019 on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson said America's "ruling class" are, in effect, the "mercenaries" behind the decline of the American middle class, and "any economic system that weakens and destroys families is not worth having. Legal Statement. All rights reserved. [480][481] Charlotte Alter of Time wrote that Carlson "sanitizes and legitimizes right-wing conspiratorial thinking, dodges when you try to nail him down on the specifics, then wraps it all in an argument about censorship and free speech". [260] In January 2022, Carlson released the film Hungary vs. Soros on Fox Nation. [41] By February 2010, The Daily Caller was part of the White House rotating press pool. He's Also Their Best Source", "Britney Spears: 'Trust our president in every decision', "Arts, Briefly; Accepting the Worst, in Person", "Watch Jon Stewart Call Tucker Carlson a "Dick" in Epic 2004, "A Week in Review: If You Interview Kissinger, Are You Still a Comedian? [470][f] House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy asked House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes to investigate. [318] In 2017, he opined that terrorism in Europe had become inevitable because of Muslims living there. Carlson later said in an interview that his South Africa segment made "an argument against tribalism". [332], In September 2021, Carlson again invoked the Great Replacement theory on his program, this time by name. [105] Brian Stelter, writing for The New York Times, wrote that "during Mr. Carlson's tenure, MSNBC's evening programming moved gradually to the left. 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", "Why is the far right so against US intervention in Syria? [295][third-party source needed], On November 20, 2020, The New York Times reported that Steve Bannon and Chinese businessman Guo Wengui had brought Li-Meng Yan to America to promote the COVID-19 lab leak theory, a theory which states covid was made in a Chinese laboratory and then escaped for the lab. [53][210][211] Carlson has described Roe v. Wade as "the most embarrassing court decision handed down in the last century".