[149][150][151] Through May 2022 it was a close second to The Five, while leading in the 25-54 demographic. [42], Carlson had cameo appearances as himself in the Season1 episode "Hard Ball" of 30Rock and in a Season9 episode of The King of Queens. [184] In July 2021, Carlson told Time magazine that the Republican Party is "inept and bad at governing" and "much more effective as an oppositional force than it is as a governing party". [427] Prominent defenders of Trump criticized Carlson for his skepticism, though Powell was dropped from Trump's legal team shortly afterward. [119], On November 14, 2016, Carlson began hosting Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News. [35][444][446] Carlson's guest, Darren Beattie of Revolver News,[d] whose writing the segment was primarily based on, had been fired as a Trump speechwriter in 2018 after CNN asked the White House about his attendance at a gathering of white nationalists. [11], Carlson called the 2020 assassination of Qasem Soleimani a "quagmire". [385][395][396] Carlson's argument was called misleading because the federal database he cited, VAERS, consists of unverified public reports, some of which have been false; post-vaccine deaths can be from unrelated causes; and the CDC had found no connection between COVID-19 vaccinations and deaths based on VAERS. He also owns 11 cars and 6 luxury yachts. [47][40][48][49] Carlson's father was adopted at the age of two by upper-middle-class New Englanders, the Carlsons, an executive at the Winslow Brothers & Smith Tannery of Norwood (the oldest tannery in America) and his wife. Live Free", "President Trump got talked out of war with Iran by Fox News host Tucker Carlson: report", "An Old Paleocon Sets the Record Straight", "Is Tucker Carlson the Most Important Pundit in America? [315] In 2017, he opined that terrorism in Europe had become inevitable because of Muslims living there. [217][218][219] In 2015 he said Australian gun laws were "insane" and "childish". [20][67] In the same year, he called Democratic primary contenders cowards for not pledging to legalize same sex marriage and stated that he would support that. He shares with Donald Trump a deep reluctance to apologize for his mistakes, and he lobs insults that seem suspiciously like subconscious self-assessments: He loves to accuse his guests of "preening", and he derides "pomposity, smugness, and groupthink". [163] Carlson had earlier attempted to join the forum on May 25, 2010, but was denied by Klein. He also led Radio Marti broadcasting to Cuba, and was director of the US Information Agency and the USIA Documentary Film Service. [347] The Daily Beast commented that Carlson had devoted numerous segments to criticizing Omar, and that largely due to "right-wing attacks that have then been amplified by members of Congress and the president", Omar had been receiving death threats since her election to Congress. His fathers name was Richard Warner Carlson. "[325][326][307] According to The Washington Post, "Carlson's argument is belied by many experts and seemingly contradicted by a recent wave of deadly attacks by men motivated by those views. [481], In April 2022, The New York Times published a three-part 20,000-word investigative series on Carlson called "American Nationalist". [382][383][384][385][33], Carlson differed with Trump and some of his colleagues at Fox News in early 2020 by saying COVID-19 should be taken more seriously in the U.S.[377][386] On March 9, 2020, Carlson opened his show by saying, "People you trust, people you probably voted for, have spent weeks minimizing what is clearly a very serious problem. The episode featured Raw Egg Nationalist,[367] a pseudonymous author affiliated with Neo-Nazi publishing house Antelope Hill. [32] In September 2020, on The Rubin Report, Carlson said that, unlike TV newscasters who he said "systematically lie", he will only lie "if I'm really cornered or something", saying, "I lie. The GOP is buzzing", "Urged to Launch an Attack, Trump Listened to the Skeptics Who Said It Would Be a Costly Mistake", "Trump Commutes Sentence of Roger Stone in Case He Long Denounced", "Trump, tweeting a Tucker Carlson segment, hints of possible pardon for Roger Stone", "Tucker Carlson took a victory lap over John Bolton's ousting, after reports he lobbied Trump to fire him", "Inside Trump and Bolton's spectacular split", "How Tucker Carlson became the voice of White grievance", "How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable", "The Hate Report: What white nationalists think about Tucker Carlson", "Why Do White Supremacists Love Tucker Carlson So Much? He remained with the network as a senior campaign correspondent for the 2008 election. and jesse will be back tomorrow night. [44][51][52], In 1976, Carlson's parents divorced after the nine-year marriage reportedly "turned sour". I don't even know how. [334][182] He accused Democrats and "the left" of "pushing replacement theory", saying "there is a strong political component to the Democratic Party's immigration policy". His mother, Susan, holds a position as a board member at St. George One commentator, Jennifer Rubin, characterized these remarks as an example of white supremacy. [236][third-party source needed], In August 2021, Carlson traveled to Hungary, broadcasting from Budapest. He was included in polling at the 2008 Libertarian National Convention, with unconfirmed speculation arising that he was personally funding the effort. ", "Tucker Carlson defends Russia again as Ukraine crisis mounts", "Tucker Carlson: What the Fox News host is doing in Hungary", "Soros group pushes back on Tucker Carlson documentary", "Tucker Carlson-fueled Republicans drop tough-on-Russia stance", "Tucker Carlson, downplaying Russia-Ukraine conflict, urges Americans to ask, 'Why do I hate Putin? [485] He has said he stays in the church because he loves the liturgy and he likes the people. Experts disagree", "Tucker Carlson Thinks Lockdowns Have Nothing to Do With Flattening the Curve", "Fox News Host Tucker Carlson Says Coronavirus Lockdown is 'Punishing' Rural America, Calls it 'Mindless and Cruel', "Tucker Carlson Misleads on COVID-19 Vaccines, Masks", "Did Tucker Carlson Say Forcing Kids To Wear Masks Outside Is 'Child Abuse'? As an example, Alter wrote that Carlson did not endorse Sidney Powell's specific claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, but he did say, "The people now telling us to stop asking questions about voting machines are the same ones who claim that our phones weren't listening to us". Richard married the wealthy heiress Patricia Swanson. Carlson is the host of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight, the [357], Carlson aired an edited version of his interview with Kanye West over two days in October 2022 in which he called some of West's views "obviously true"; Carlson did not disclose that during his interview, West had made a number of antisemitic remarks and had claimed that his home had been infiltrated by "fake children" (child actors). "[318][319], In 2018, Carlson described the effects of mass immigration on the United States using the terms dirtier, poorer, and more divided[320][321] and said it "has badly hurt this country's natural landscape". [437][438] Philip Bump of The Washington Post wrote in an analysis that Carlson was blurring the lines between "being involved" and "being responsible for" to create a strawman in an effort to "undercut the public understanding of what happened and, by extension, to soften the implications for Trump and his supporters". Tuckers father, Richard Warner Carlson had forged his career in journalism and later in politics. [35][441][442] He alleged that unindicted co-conspirators in rioters' indictments were government agents, saying, "FBI operatives were organizing the attack on the Capitol on January 6, according to government documents". To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. [125], 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. [193] In his 2018 book, Ship of Fools, Carlson wrote that he had adopted some of Buchanan's views. [231][232], Since 2018, he has promoted more populist economics,[42] attacking libertarianism, saying "market capitalism is not a religion" and portraying some Republicans as "controlled by the banks". Ask anyone at Fox." That's how we got Jan. 6 in the first place. It premiered on March 29 and will have new episodes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. He also said his viewers should ask themselves, "Why do I hate Putin so much? Jones texted Carlson a link on March 16, 2020, to a now-deleted Infowars article titled Tucker Carlson Drove To Mar-A-Lago To Warn Trump Coronavirus Was A Real Why should I sit back and take that?" "[459] That same day, a producer for Carlson filed an unusually broad Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the NSA, seeking records, including "any communication between NSA officials regarding journalist Tucker Carlson", dating back to January 2019, before Biden became president. He has been a political analyst for Fox News since 2009, appearing as guest or guest host on various programs before the launch of his current show. Carlson's parents divorced after their nine year-marriage reportedly "turned sour.". 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[155], On January 11, 2010, Carlson and Neil Patel (a former aide to Dick Cheney, and former college roommate of Carlson)[6] launched a political news website titled The Daily Caller. Tucker Carlson Father People searching for Tucker Carlson s Fathers [20], In a guest appearance with Alex Jones in 2015, Carlson described the Obama administration: "They categorize people by race in a way that, you know, you can't even imagine 30 years ago you would have said, 'Wait a second, that's like Nazi stuff. [402][403] He claimed that a vaccine mandate in the U.S. Armed Forces was designed to oust "the sincere Christians in the ranks, the free thinkers, the men with high testosterone levels, and anyone else who doesn't love Joe Biden". He's a good reporter, he just misunderstood about how serious that was. [102][103][104], Tucker was canceled by the network on March 10, 2008, owing to low ratings;[105] the final episode aired on March 14, 2008. In 2010, Carlson co-founded and served as the initial editor-in-chief of the right-wing news and opinion website The Daily Caller, until selling his ownership stake and leaving in 2020. [261][283] In April 2018, Carlson questioned whether Assad was responsible for the Douma chemical attack that had occurred a few days earlier and killed dozens. Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson[5] (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. Mother Jones further observed Carlson was the only Western media pundit the Kremlin adopted in this way. [43] Carlson's brother, Buckley Peck Carlson, later Buckley Swanson Peck Carlson, is nearly two years younger[44] and has worked as a communications manager and Republican political operative. [123], 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. ", "Tucker Carlson unapologetic over 'misogynistic' comments on statutory rape, insults against women", "Fox News host Tucker Carlson uses racist, homophobic language in second set of recordings", "ADL calls on Fox News to fire Tucker Carlson over racist comments about 'replacement' theory", "Tucker Carlson's Weekly TV Ratings Rise Despite Boycotts", "Tucker Carlson ad boycott causes headaches for Fox News", "Fox News Tops May Cable News Ratings As 'The Five' Ranks No. [54][79], On June 21, 2021, New York Times reporter Ben Smith reported that Carlson was a media source for several journalists and authors including Michael Isikoff, Michael Wolff, Brian Stelter, and others who wrote critically of Donald Trump. Dorothy was born in Massachusetts, to Swedish parents. I hate racism. [106] Brian Stelter, writing for The New York Times, wrote that "during Mr. Carlson's tenure, MSNBC's evening programming moved gradually to the left. He was a frequent guest panelist on Fox's late-night satire show Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld, made frequent appearances on the All-Star Panel segment of Special Report with Bret Baier, was a substitute host of Hannity in Sean Hannity's absence, and produced and hosted a special entitled Fighting for Our Children's Minds in September 2010. Foxs talk show Tucker Carlson was born to his parents, Lisa McNear and Dick Carlson. [15][409][482][183][483] Carlson responded by saying that he has not read "American Nationalist" and does not plan to. This is my 12th year at Fox News and Ive never been more grateful to be here, Carlson said of the announcement and new duties. [42] By February 2010, The Daily Caller was part of the White House rotating press pool. Carlson is the host of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight, the highest-rated program in US cable news history that averages a nightly audience of 4.33 million viewers. [463] Carlson responded on-air that the NSA did not deny reading his emails. [42][484] They met at St. George's School, where she was the daughter of the school's headmaster and priest. Carlson is the host of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight, the highest-rated program in US cable news history that averages a nightly audience of 4.33 million viewers., the highest-rated program in US cable news history that averages a "[16] In 2021, Time said that Carlson could be the most powerful conservative in America, with Republican strategist Jeff Roe adding, "He doesn't react to the agenda, he drives the agenda. [284], When President Trump met the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the country's border with the South in June 2019, Carlson, who was touring with Trump, defended Trump's friendship with Kim. ", "The Playboy Interview With Tucker Carlson", "The Bearable Lightness of Being Tucker Carlson", "Bow tie-free Tucker Carlson steps into prime time on Fox News Channel", "Tucker Carlson Calls Journalists 'Animals.' [136][137], Beginning the week of June 814, 2020, Tucker Carlson Tonight became the highest-rated cable news show in the U.S., with an average of four million viewers, beating out the shows hosted by fellow Fox News pundits Hannity and Ingraham. [74], In an interview for a 2021 Time profile of Carlson, a former NewsCorp executive, Alex Azam, described Carlson as having some impunity within Fox News, "because of the signal that touching him would send to the viewers that Fox never wants to lose". [373] In 2021, Carlson belittled the paternity leave taken by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, a gay man, joking that Buttigieg could be "trying to figure out how to breastfeed". [490][491], American political commentator (born 1969), Immigrants and the Great Replacement conspiracy theory (20182022), Black Lives Matter and George Floyd (20202021), Ketanji Brown Jackson Supreme Court nomination (2022), Responses to allegations of racism and comments about race. [400][401] He also likened vaccine passports to segregationist Jim Crow laws. As other media outlets fall silent or fall in line, Fox News Medias management has redoubled its commitment to honesty and freedom of speech. [88], On January 5, 2005, CNN chief Jonathan Klein told Carlson the network had decided not to renew his contract. Carlson's mother left the family when he was six, wanting to pursue a "bohemian" lifestyle. [161][42], In June 2010, The Daily Caller published excerpts from e-mails sent between members of JournoList, an invitation-only liberal forum, consisting of "several hundred journalists, academics and policy experts" launched in 2007 by Ezra Klein. [42][54], When Carlson was in first grade, his father moved Tucker and his brother to the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, and raised them there. [30] Carlson is known for some defenses of authoritarian foreign leaders, including Viktor Orbn of Hungary and Vladimir Putin of Russia;[249][250][16] Carlson's praise for Orbn included a visit and his online film Hungary vs. Soros,[251][252] and Carlson was noted for defending Putin in the lead-up to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. [287] Carlson went on to argue that "a lot of countries commit atrocities including a number that we're closely allied with". "[254] Carlson changed his tone after the invasion, telling his viewers on February 24, 2022, that "what Russia has done is awful" and that Putin "clearly does deserve to be punished" for invading Ukraine, while warning that the conflict could turn into a world war. [175] His second book, The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalism, was released in August 2021. He was criticized in India by figures such as the politician and historian Shashi Tharoor, who had written a book detailing atrocities by the British Raj. Carlson is also keeping his post as the host of his weekly primetime show, Tucker Carlson Tonight. Carlson was born Tucker McNear Carlson in the Mission District of San Francisco, California, on May 16, 1969. [128] The show had lost at least 26 advertisers. CovidMisinformation. [22] By August 2019, Media Matters calculated that some companies had fulfilled their media buy contracts and advertising inventory for the time slot and had now begun their purchases for other time slots on Fox News. ", "Tucker Carlson on why conservatives should crack down on "vulture capitalism", "Romney To Biden? 1 In Total Viewers", "Tucker Carlson suggested immigrants make the U.S. 'dirtier' and it cost Fox News an advertiser", "Tucker Carlson thinks libertarians run the economy. [54][207][208] Carlson has described Roe v. Wade as "the most embarrassing court decision handed down in the last century". According to reports, Richard Warner Carlson and Lisa McNear are Tucker Carlsons parents. 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A Year Ago", "Tucker Carlson Leads Fox News To Big Win In April Prime Time Ratings", "Tucker Carlson Leads Fox News To May Cable News Ratings Victory", "Fox News Dominates July Cable News Ratings As All Networks See Declines", "Tucker Carlson Inks New Deal With Fox; Expands Presence With Fox Nation Video Podcast & Specials", "Tucker Carlson Expands Streaming-Video Duties for Fox News Media", "Tucker Carlson debuts his first major streaming show on Fox Nation", "Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel Author Page", "Tucker: 'Conventional journalism is no safer than a start-up', "Daily Caller's Tucker Carlson takes a stand for censorship", "Mickey Kaus quits Daily Caller after Tucker Carlson pulls critical Fox News column", "Bloggers And Cable Pundits: The New Newsmakers", "Opinion: Fox News's Tucker Carlson has no business lecturing about journalism ethics", "How Will Tucker Carlson Explain the Journolist Scandal to His Fellow Conservative Journalists?
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