", and said he "just went crazy on" a Fox executive over Heinrich's reporting. [421] In July 2022, Carlson stated that "it's looking likely that the vaccine might suppress the immune system," citing a widely-criticized review of VAERS data in Food and Chemical Toxicology and a misrepresented data table from a study in The Lancet; the lead author of the latter study, Dr. Peter Nordstrm, clarified that the paper did not show any of what Carlson claimed. [424][425][426][427] On his show, he mentioned the names of purportedly dead individuals who voted in Georgia; investigative reporting subsequently found that some of the individuals whom he claimed to be dead were in fact alive. 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"[257] 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. [4][29] Carlson has promoted conspiracy theories on topics such as demographic "replacement",[30][31][15] COVID-19,[32][33] and the January 6 United States Capitol attack;[34][35] and has been noted for false and misleading statements about those topics and a number of others. [464], On June 28, 2021, Carlson said on his program that "a whistleblower within the U.S. government" informed him that the National Security Agency (NSA) was "monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air", adding, "The Biden administration is spying on us. 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[54][55] Carlson attended La Jolla Country Day School and grew up in a home overlooking the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. The End of Men: With Tucker Carlson. However Carlson still hosted her on his show for a second appearance. "Anyone who resists the gang is killed," Carlson added. The premiere episode of the show, which replaced On the Record,[119] was the network's most watched telecast of the year in the time slot, with 3.7million viewers. Carlson accused President Joe Biden of "eugenics" and changing "the racial mix of the country", and said, "this policy is sometimes called the Great Replacement the replacement of legacy Americans, with more obedient people from faraway countries". [88] CNN announced that it was ending its relationship with Carlson and would soon cancel Crossfire. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. [453][454] Republican House members Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene quickly embraced Carlson's story about FBI involvement in the Capitol attack, and Republican congressman Paul Gosar entered the Revolver News story into the Congressional Record during a House Oversight Committee hearing. Market data provided by Factset. 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[42] Carlson's brother, Buckley Peck Carlson, later Buckley Swanson Peck Carlson, is nearly two years younger[43] and has worked as a communications manager and Republican political operative. [197], He expressed his disappointment with the Republican nominee for the 2012 election, Mitt Romney, and the healthcare reform he signed in 2006 as governor of Massachusetts, which contained an individual mandate, saying, "out of 315 million Americans, the Republican Party managed to find the one guy who couldn't run on Obamacare". "weak men." I've added some old photos of him along with an excerpt of his old "Crossfire" appearance with Jon Stewart. Tucker Carlson Originals, a news series is available to stream now. Most people don't care and don't want to get involved in it. [242][239] He described the business model of firms like Bain as: "Take over an existing company for a short period of time, cut costs by firing employees, run up the debt, extract the wealth and move on, sometimes leaving retirees without their earned pensions. [172] His first book in the series, Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution, was released in October 2018,[173] and debuted at No. [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. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. "As noted in your deposition released yesterday, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and other Fox News personalities knowingly, repeatedly, and dangerously endorsed and promoted the Big Lie that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election. [24][25] Formerly an economic libertarian, he now supports protectionism. [14][413][488][182][489] Carlson responded by saying that he has not read "American Nationalist" and does not plan to. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Thriving families make market economies possible. [110], In May 2009, Fox News announced that Carlson was being hired as a Fox News contributor. [376] Carlson's promotion of inflammatory rhetoric about LGBTQ controversies[377] was scrutinized after the Colorado Springs nightclub mass shooting in November 2022. Seriously. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. [181], Carlson is a Republican. "[61], Further into his career in print, Carlson worked as a columnist for New York magazine and Reader's Digest; writing for Esquire, Slate, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, The Daily Beast, and The Wall Street Journal. [7], In 2019, Carlson lobbied Donald Trump to fire his national security advisor, John Bolton. Become a member today for exclusive content & more! Later Carlson would say that he did not endorse her theories on Covid. 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. Tucker and his team take their cameras to Maine and investigate a corrupt "green energy" plot designed to make foreign corporations rich by destroying one of the most beautiful places in America. [95] Carlson wanted to focus on his new MSNBC show Tucker and said that although PBS was one of the "least bad" instances of government spending he disagreed with, it was still "problematic". This came in the wake of Carlson's remarks criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement, which had caused some companies to pull their advertising from the show, including The Walt Disney Company, T-Mobile, and Papa John's. [79], In 2000, Carlson co-hosted the short-lived show The Spin Room on CNN. In other comments, Carlson argued that the unrest following Floyd's killing stemmed from a desire for ideological domination, rather than genuine opposition to police brutality. In January 2017, Forbes reported that the show had "scored consistently high ratings, averaging 2.8 million viewers per night and ranking as the number two cable news program behind The O'Reilly Factor in December. Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox. [87], On January 5, 2005, CNN chief Jonathan Klein told Carlson the network had decided not to renew his contract. [272] In February 2020, on his show Carlson called on Trump to pardon Roger Stone, who had been convicted of lying to Congress and witness tampering as a result of the investigation. [73], 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". [239], Carlson has criticized hedge funds (singling out the Republican donor Paul Singer in 2019) and private equity (in criticizing Mitt Romney, former CEO of Bain Capital). [212], Carlson wrote in 2000 that capital punishment "deserves more vigorous debate",[213] and in 2003 told Salon, "I'm opposed to the death penalty as I am adamantly opposed to abortion". Keep calling until someone arrives. [266], In a July 2018 interview about Russian involvement in U.S. elections, Carlson claimed that Mexico had interfered in U.S. elections "more successfully" than Russia by "packing our electorate" through mass immigration. The arrangement was not revealed until after the not-guilty verdict. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. [148][149][150] Through May 2022 it was a close second to The Five, while leading in the 25-54 demographic. [314] Carlson also stated that he had "zero sympathy" for the people of Iraq. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, In an illuminating new episode of "Tucker Carlson Originals," Tucker and his Fox Nation documentary team dive deep into the psychology and science of transgender people, highlighting the. MacDougald identified this form of radicalism as the ideological core of Trumpism. [61][491] They were married on August 10, 1991, in the school chapel. [154], On January 11, 2010, Carlson and Neil Patel (a former aide to Dick Cheney, and former college roommate of Carlson)[5] launched a political news website titled The Daily Caller. Tucker Carlson Today is an in-depth interview program featuring a single in-studio guest for nearly an hour. [120], Tucker Carlson Tonight aired at 7:00p.m. each weeknight until January 9, 2017, when Carlson's show replaced Megyn Kelly at the 9:00p.m. time slot after she left Fox News. [267] This assertion was disputed by journalist Philip Bump, who wrote that the number of Mexicans in the U.S. had decreased since 2009 and asked rhetorically: "What good has it done Mexico to have a number of its citizens move to the United States and gain the right to vote? [436], In August 2022, Carlson was deposed as part of a lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News over false claims of voter fraud made about the company. "Gangs are only 1% of our population herebut they control a lot of territories," Bukele told Carlson. "[269], Carlson has stated he does not consider Russia a serious threat to the United States. or redistributed. [128][129] There were calls to fire Carlson from Fox News in March 2019 after Media Matters resurfaced remarks he had made over several years to the radio show Bubba the Love Sponge concerning women (calling them "like dogs" and "extremely primitive") and statutory rape,[18][130] Iraqis, and immigrants. [196] Carlson spoke at Ron Paul's independent Rally for the Republic convention, opposite the official 2008 Republican National Convention, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which served as a "message of revolt to the Republican Party" and a general celebration of Paul's policy proposals. 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'? Carlson and his team recently launched the two flagship programs on the network's streaming service, Fox Nation, in 2021. [86] The Atlantic suggested that Stewart's appearance was a turning point leading to how Carlson remade himself. Tucker Carlson seems to be projecting a bit in this segment about. Carlson said of the interview, "I thought I'd be ragged for writing a puffy piece. You can't do this to kids. [456], In late October 2021, "Patriot Purge", a three-part series produced by Carlson, was released on the Fox Nation streaming service. 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