Tag Archives: Tucker Carlson

The Daily Beast reports: Tucker Carlson is “shitting himself” over the possibility that texts between him and far-right conspiracy loon Alex Jones will leak, a source close to the Fox News star told Confider. Carlson and the raving Infowars ranter trade text messages on a daily basis, according to two people familiar with their relationship.  If made public, these sources …

Media Matters has the transcript: He has resurfaced. He showed up in Washington, D.C. the other day, looking like a guy who lives in the men’s room at your public library, eating imaginary insects out of the air. And he was there to get, for some reason, into a shouting match with the senior editor of Human Events called Jack …

Media Matters has the transcript: Tonight, Biden gave a speech boasting that he’s killed an al Qaeda figure in Afghanistan. Great. Feel safer? Of course you don’t. Nobody does. And the reason nobody feels safer is Biden’s response to the disaster in Afghanistan. Rather than pause and learn from it, maybe fire the people responsible for it, not simply the …

Mediaite reports: Tucker Carlson announced the results of a Twitter poll he held asking respondents to choose a new name for monkeypox, a viral disease that can cause fever, muscle pain, lesions, and other symptoms. There has been an effort to change the name of monkeypox due to stigmas associated with it in certain communities. Carlson said he objected to …

Media Matters has the transcript: Political speech is not a crime in America. It has never been a crime in America. Even if extremists use your words to justify their violence, you cannot be arrested for their deeds because we have a First Amendment. Political speech is sacrosanct, period. The Supreme Court has ruled on this many times. It’s at …

The Hungary Daily News reports: “We [Hungarians] are not a mixed race, and we do not want to become a mixed race either” – this is what Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said during his address in Central Romania today. Beforehand, he slammed Western European countries and politicians for encouraging illegal migration and mixing their population. He said that Western-European …

The Insider reports: Steve Bannon lashed out at the House January 6 committee hours after being found guilty of contempt of Congress on Friday. Speaking to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Bannon warned committee staffers that Republicans would have their own committee if they returned to power. “We have to have a real January 6 committee, including to get to …

“It’s just absolutely shameful, absolutely shameful that the other channels played this crap without pushing back in even the mildest way. ‘Oh, it’s news.’ It’s not news and your job in journalism is to hold the powerful accountable. It’s not to do their bidding or put their lies on TV unedited in prime time, which is what every other channel …

“Here’s one of Barack Obama’s beachfront compounds. As you can see, it’s now underwater. But wait, it’s not underwater. Actually, it’s fine. “And Obama knew it would be fine. In fact, Obama spent more than $10 million to buy it and that tells you how much he believes in global warming: not at all, it turns out. “Actually, no one …

The Huffington Post reports: Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host and racist “replacement” theory proponent, brought his familiar message that the “ruling class” wants to manipulate everyday Americans to a high-profile stop Friday on the Republican presidential nomination circuit. In 42 minutes of meandering remarks with frequent tangents to attack his favorite targets and punctuated with his trademark cackle, Carlson …

“In the past year, the United States has experienced blackouts in some of our biggest states. Why? Because they’re relying more and more on renewables, places like California and even Texas. Just yesterday, in order to avoid a blackout, the largest grid operator in the state of Texas begged residents to turn up their thermostats — no more A/C for …

The Hill reports: Fox News host Tucker Carlson swatted away suggested ties to white supremacist ideology when pressed about the rhetoric on his nightly show during a tense interview at an event on Thursday. “I’ve never had a white supremacist work for me. I don’t think I’ve ever talked to a white supremacist,” Carlson said during event hosted by Semafor, …

“So, why didn’t anyone raise an alarm? Well, maybe because he didn’t stand out. Maybe because there are a lot of young men in America who suddenly look and act a lot like this guy. “And of course, they’re angry. They know that their lives will not be better than their parents’. They’ll be worse. That’s all but guaranteed. They …

Media Matters has the transcript: TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Why is there no Fox News in Brazil? CNN is here, you got over 50 million votes in the last election. CNN’s a political player here, so is Globo, but there’s no TV channel for your voters? JAIR BOLSONARO (GUEST): Well, if I could, you know, launch — appeal to you — …

Mediaite reports: Tucker Carlson told viewers on Tuesday the water supply in the United States will be laced with SSRIs – selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors – in an effort to placate an increasingly dissatisfied population. Hosting his show from Rio de Janeiro, Carlson continued harping on his personal bugbear of low fertility rates in the U.S. “You have to wonder, …

Mediaite reports: Former Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark gave an interview with Tucker Carlson after the FBI raided his house on Wednesday. Carlson called the raid “Soviet.” “It is,” responded Clark, who explained that agents searched his house for three and half hours. Clark added, “I just think we’re living in an era that I don’t recognize and increasingly, Tucker, …

Media Matters has the transcript: Yesterday the FDA announced it’s planning to remove virtually all nicotine from cigarettes. Now nicotine is not the thing that gives you cancer. Nicotine is the thing — it’s addictive but it also increases mental acuity but they’re taking that out. According to the Wall Street Journal, the agency will also ban Juul e-cigarettes. Now …

Media Matters reports: TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): So where does this leave the rest of us? Well, as long as selective enforcement of the law is the policy of the Biden administration, no American should feel obligated to follow Joe Biden’s gun regulations, because why would you? If the law is clearly illegitimate, it’s not even being applied to people who …

Media Matters has the transcript: TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): In Florida, the police can seize guns from people who pose a “significant danger” based on “any relevant evidence.” Huh. That’s it. Any relevant evidence. The law raises some obvious questions. The most obvious is if you can seize people’s guns without proving that they committed a crime, why can’t you imprison …

Media Matters has the transcript: TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Professional sports were a masculine domain. Any expression of masculine sensibility, the traditional masculine virtue is now illegal so the left just kind of came in and took over professional sports. That seems like what happened. CLAY TRAVIS (GUEST): You’re 100% right. Masculine virtues apparently include pretending that the Capitol riot was …