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. [256][257], In 2019 Carlson criticized Mitt Romney for supporting, in Carlson's words, "an internationalist style" of foreign policy. The arrangement was not revealed until after the not-guilty verdict. "[455], After Carlson criticized Senator Ted Cruz for calling the Capitol storming a "terrorist attack", Cruz appeared on Carlson's show on January 6, 2022, the anniversary of the event, and apologized for his words. [346] Carlson's driveway was vandalized with a spray-painted anarchist symbol, and Carlson stated that his front door was cracked. [161] The forum barred media reporters and conservatives. It means killing people". [148][149][150] Through May 2022 it was a close second to The Five, while leading in the 25-54 demographic. [307] He asked rhetorically, "the combined membership of every white supremacist group in America would they be able to fit inside a college football stadium? [34][450] Carlson also said Russian president Vladimir Putin raised "fair questions" when Putin mentioned the fatal police shooting of a rioter inside the Capitol while denying involvement in the poisoning of a Russian politician. [445] Carlson has also inaccurately stated that "[n]ot a single person in the crowd on January 6 was found to be carrying a firearm. He also criticized "lunatic Muslims who are behaving like animals", and said that any presidential candidate who vowed to "kill as many of them as [they] can" would be "elected king". [32][398] In another segment, Carlson misrepresented federal data to claim that in the previous five months around 30 people per day in the U.S. died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. That's how we got Jan. 6 in the first place. Tucker Carlson: We're being told to shut up about this. "[35][458] Conservative writers Jonah Goldberg and Steve Hayes responded to the series by severing their ties to Fox News, declaring that the series was "a collection of incoherent conspiracy-mongering, riddled with factual inaccuracies, half-truths, deceptive imagery, and damning omissions". Call the police immediately, contact child protective services. [167][168], In June 2020, Carlson sold his one-third stake in The Daily Caller to Patel for an undisclosed amount and said Neil [Patel] runs it. 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"[465] 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. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Join Tucker Carlson and his team as their cameras take you inside the issues for a new documentary news magazine, Tucker Carlson Originals, Tuckers keynote at The Family Leadership Summit, Tucker clashes with Rep. Salazar over Russia-Ukraine war and borders, Tucker goes behind-the-scenes with UFCs Dana White, Anything Can Be a Gender Preview: Transgressive Two-Part Series, First Preview Transgressive: The Cult of Confusion, Senators Push for Investigation: Cattle Mutilations, Cattle Mutilations: New Footage Revealed for the First Time, New Season Two Episode: Cattle Mutilations, OFFICIAL TRAILER Life of a Rock Star: Kid Rock, Season Two Premiere: Suicide of Los Angeles, Season Two: A detransitioners escape from gender confusion, Season Two: A one of a kind UFO investigation into cattle mutilations. "[107] Carlson said he accepted ABC's invitation to perform because "I don't do things that I'm not good at very often. [34][447][448] 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". He criticized the "chest-beaters" who promote foreign interventions, particularly Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE), and asked, "By the way, if we're still in Afghanistan, 19 years, sad years, later, what makes us think there's a quick way out of Iran? [355][356][357], After jurors found Chauvin guilty of murder, Carlson argued that they were intimidated into doing so by Black Lives Matter protests rather than being swayed by witness testimony or video of the killing of Floyd. 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[163][161], In February 2012, The Daily Caller published an "investigative series" of articles co-authored by Carlson, purporting to be an insiders' expos of Media Matters for America, the liberal watchdog group that monitors and scrutinizes conservative media outlets, and its founder David Brock. [418], In a January 2022 show, Carlson's guest Alex Berenson made misleading claims that the mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 are "dangerous and ineffective" and "need to be withdrawn from the market now", claims that Carlson left unchallenged. He also claimed to have taken positions unpopular with his audience, saying, "Most of the big positions I've taken in the past five years against the neocons, the vax and the war [in Ukraine] have been very unpopular with our audience at first. Watch it on The Roku Channel or Fox Nation on your Roku device. Tucker Carlson Originals Patriot Purge Documentary: Part 1 The domestic war on terror is here and it's coming for half of the country. "weak men." I've added some old photos of him along with an excerpt of his old "Crossfire" appearance with Jon Stewart. [264] He called for the United States to work with Russia in the Syrian Civil War against a common enemy like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). [137], In July 2020, Carlson's head writer Blake Neff resigned after CNN Business reported that he had been using a pseudonym to post remarks that were widely described as racist, sexist, and homophobic on AutoAdmit, a message board known for its lack of moderation of offensive and defamatory content. Join Tucker Carlson and his team as their cameras take you inside the issues for a new documentary news magazine, 'Tucker Carlson Originals' Full Episode 00:01:23 The Death of Comedy [390] However, Carlson also claimed that some U.S. officials were overstating the deadliness of the virus a claim that PolitiFact called mostly false. Carlson served as editor-in-chief, and occasionally wrote opinion pieces with Patel. "[397][409] Carlson refused to say whether he has been vaccinated, responding to a reporter, "When was the last time you had sex with your wife and in what position? [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. Get 30 days FREE at checkout with promo code ORIGINALS [30][50][330][331] In an open letter to Fox News, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called for the network to fire Carlson, arguing that the talk about demographic replacement "was not just a dog whistle to racists it was a bullhorn". [116] An anonymous user going by the name "Sore Throwt" (a pun on famous Watergate informant Deep Throat) had been looking for a buyer of the tape for a week before Carlson distributed it. [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. [126], By January 2019, his show dropped to third with 2.8 million nightly viewers, down six percent from the previous year. I caught her. [114][115][116] Wright's sermons had been a controversy in Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. Carlson asked Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president, about the MS-13 massive power vacuum within the countrya gang with so much influence that the Salvadorian government even negotiates with them. [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". [234][235], Since 2018, he has promoted more populist economics,[41] attacking libertarianism, saying "market capitalism is not a religion" and portraying some Republicans as "controlled by the banks". [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. [154] He was rebuked by the U.S. military in March 2021 after he ridiculed maternity flight suits for U.S. women soldiers and described a decision by the Chinese military to build ships as "more masculine". [181], Carlson is a Republican. Tucker explores how the Biden regime is using the Capitol riots on January Sixth to paint Americans as terrorists. In the 2554 demographic, the show maintained an average viewership of just over a million, with 670,000 being between 18 and 49. [54][55] Carlson attended La Jolla Country Day School and grew up in a home overlooking the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. Carlson has stated he was only a registered Democratic voter to be able to vote in Democratic primaries in Washington, D.C. Carlson has said he did not vote for Trump in either. [447], In response to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley's defense of studying critical race theory "to understand white rage" as it concerns the storming, Carlson said, "Hard to believe that man wears a uniform. [34][450][451] One of the unindicted co-conspirators was readily identifiable as Stewart Rhodes, founder and leader of Oath Keepers, a far-right anti-government militia; another unindicted co-conspirator was likely the wife of an indicted alleged conspirator. 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". [187] Carlson campaigned for Republicans and Republican-affiliated causes during his time as a Democrat. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. "[61][70] Among liberals, Carlson's piece received praise, with Democratic consultant Bob Shrum calling it "vivid". "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. [1][38] He is the elder son of artist and San Francisco native Lisa McNear (ne Lombardi) (19452011) and Dick Carlson (1941), a former "gonzo reporter"[1][39][40] who became the director of Voice of America, president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles,[41] and more recently a director at the lobbying firm Policy Impact Strategic Communications. He supported Ron Paul's 1988 presidential candidacy, when Paul ran as the candidate for the Libertarian Party, along with his 2008 presidential candidacy, when Paul ran as a Republican. [155] The website was funded by the conservative activist Foster Friess. [6] He was said to have influenced some of Trump's decisions as president, including the cancellation of a military strike against Iran in 2019, the firing of John Bolton, and the commutation of Roger Stone's prison sentence in 2020. [365], In 2022, in response to The New York Times publishing a report criticizing Carlson and his show, Carlson said that his show did not have a controversial opinion on race, saying "Our view of race is really simple. [24][25] Formerly an economic libertarian, he now supports protectionism. We can trade intimate details. [19], In a guest appearance with Alex Jones in 2015, Carlson criticized the Obama administration for "making excuses for" rioters in racially-charged anti-police protests in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, saying, "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. [472][473] On that night's program, Carlson said that he had contacted people about interviewing Putin, but did not mention it to anyone because he did not want to "rattle the Russians, and make the interview less likely to happen". Carlson said that he had been a fan of Barger since his college years, quoted Barger as saying "stay loyal, remain free, and always value honor", and added "I want to pay tribute to the man who spoke those words". 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. Market data provided by Factset. Carlson later said in an interview that his South Africa segment made "an argument against tribalism". [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. 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[75][76][77], In his early television career Carlson wore bow ties, a habit from boarding school he continued on air until 2006. [53][200][201] Carlson criticized the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, ordered by Trump in January 2020[202] and said in June 2020 that Trump had let Black Lives Matter protests go too far. Legal Statement. 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[479] Jack Shafer wrote in Politico that "When the host barks questions in your earpiece, you can't help but jolt to life like a puppet on a string", suggesting that successful guests on Carlson's show must match his quick-wittedness and unflappability. 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. Ask anyone at Fox." In an interview a month before the show began, he lamented that he would miss classes during a two-week-long MSNBC assignment in Lebanon, saying, "It's hard for me to remember the moves. "[166], In June 2017, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), a liberal watchdog organization, said The Daily Caller was paid $150,000 by Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign for its list of subscribers, whom the Trump campaign then emailed at least 25 times. [491] In 2013, Carlson said, "We still go to the Episcopal Church for all kinds of complicated reasons, but I truly despise the Episcopal Church in a lot of ways," citing his opposition to the church's support for same-sex marriage and abortion rights. [41], Carlson's 2003 interview with Britney Spears, wherein he asked if she opposed the ongoing Iraq War and she responded, "[W]e should just trust our president in every decision he makes",[80] was featured in the 2004 film Fahrenheit 9/11, for which she won a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress at the 25th Golden Raspberry Awards. [225][226] In a 2019 interview Carlson said he owns a AR-15 style rifle and said "all my guns are working-class guns". [277][278] In January 2022, Carlson stated in an interview for Axios that he "could care less [sic] if they call me a pawn of Putin", and also stated that he hoped Republican primary voters in the 2022 United States elections would vote out candidates that "believes Ukraine's borders are more important than our borders". Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox. While in the nations capital, San Salvador, Carlson took part in a ride-along with the citys police, toured a Salvadorian prison housing members of the MS-13 gang, and snagged an exclusive interview with the countrys new president - whos cracking down on the "death cult.". Season: OR Year: Season 2 S2, Ep1 18 Apr. 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. [175], Carlson has been described in the media as a conservative[90][176] or paleoconservative. Tucker Carlson Originals is an in-depth documentary series. [14][16][17][15] His remarks on race, immigration, and women including slurs he said on air between 2006 and 2011 (which resurfaced in 2019)[18][19] have at times been described as racist and sexist, and have provoked advertiser boycotts of Tucker Carlson Tonight. He remained with the network as a senior campaign correspondent for the 2008 election. He wrote "Please get her fired. 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. [36][14][35][37][15], Carlson was born Tucker McNear Carlson in the Mission District of San Francisco, California, on May 16, 1969. One gang member, who is serving a 25-year sentence, agreed to sit down with Carlson for an interview. [491][53], Carlson quit drinking alcohol in 2002. 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