Tag Archives: Tucker Carlson

The Insider reports: At the hearing, Aquilino Gonell — a former Iraq war veteran — had said in a tearful speech that “on January 6th for the first time, I was more afraid to work at the Capitol than my entire deployment to Iraq.” Carlson responded, saying: “Actually what happened on January 6, according to the video we do have, …

The Hill reports: Fox News has condemned an incident during which a man confronted Tucker Carlson at a Montana fly-fishing store over the weekend and told the prime-time host he was the “worst human being known to man.” “Ambushing Tucker Carlson while he is in a store with his family is totally inexcusable,” Fox said about the now-viral incident in …

The Huffington Post reports: When a local fly fishing guide spotted noted vaccine skeptic Tucker Carlson at a sporting goods store in Livingston, Montana, he did not waste time. “You are the worst human being known to mankind. I want you to know that,” Dan Bailey can be heard telling the Fox News host in a video posted to his …

The Insider reports: Rep. Eric Swalwell took aim at Tucker Carlson on Twitter Friday, sharing a screenshot of a testy text exchange the two shared. Swalwell, a Democrat from California, said he is refusing to return Carlson’s calls due to things the Fox News host has said about him and his family in the past. One showing a missed call …

“Is it CNN’s position now that if someone decides to refuse to get the vaccine, like I have, that I’m going to come under some sort of punishment? What does that mean? What does the stick look like in CNN’s world? Are they reporting on the news, or are they trying to actually — trying to subsidize or incentivize human …

“So if January 6th was the most dastardly attack on the Capitol building in more than 200 years, a period that has seen bombings and shootings — a lot of them in the Capitol — but if January 6th was the single worst, then why can’t we know the answers to the basic questions we just asked? “On Tuesday, Nancy …

CNN Business reports: Tucker Carlson has called the idea of vaccine passports the medical equivalent of “Jim Crow” laws. And other Fox News personalities have spent months both trafficking in anti-vaccine rhetoric and assailing the concept of showing proof of vaccination status. But Fox Corporation, the right-wing talk channel’s parent company, has quietly implemented the concept of a vaccine passport …

Media Matters has the transcript: ALEX BERENSON (GUEST): What I’ve grown to conclude over the last 12 months is that masks are very simply symbolic. All they are is a sign you are in a dangerous time and you need to listen to us. You know, if I don’t see people wearing masks, I forget to be scared and that’s …

The Washington Post reports: He attended the elite La Jolla Country Day School, where a woman entered his life whom he grew to detest. It was his first-grade teacher, whom he referred to in his book as Mrs. Raymond. He caricatured her as “a parody of earth-mother liberalism” who “wore long Indian-print skirts.” “She had little interest in conventional academic …

CNN Business reports: Tucker Carlson is furious with Fox News executives for not vigorously defending him amid his evidence-free claims that the National Security Agency spied on him in a conspiracy to destroy his TV show, according to people familiar with the matter. One of the sources described Carlson as “furious” with network executives, especially the public relations team, “for …

“I mean, if you are holding people in solitary confinement in DC jails for non-violent crimes at some point they become political prisoners. I try not to use that phrase, you know you don’t want to hype anything or sensationalize. But, at what point does it become a political prosecution?” – Tucker Carlson, comparing Joe Biden to Putin in a …

The Hill reports: Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Wednesday claimed the National Security Agency (NSA) leaked some of his private emails to journalists. Carlson made the allegation during a Wednesday morning appearance on Fox Business’s “Mornings with Maria.” “Yesterday, I learned that — and this is going to come out soon — that the NSA leaked the contents of …

Mediaite reports: Fox News’ Tucker Carlson suggested on Tuesday night that cameras be put in classrooms to “oversee the people teaching your children.” “The overwhelming majority of Americans — and pollsters have found this pretty clearly — think this is insane,” Carlson said. “They think you should judge people by what they do, not on the basis of their skin …

Politico reports: He’s one of Donald Trump’s most vociferous backers. But Tucker Carlson has told multiple people that he voted for pop star Kanye West last year instead. Shortly after the presidential election, the Fox News host started telling some program guests that he had cast his ballot for West, according to two people familiar with those conversations. Given Carlson’s …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Matt Gaetz asked an Inspector General to investigate claims made by Fox News Tucker Carlson that the National Security Agency is spying upon him in an attempt to take him off the air. “The most-watched cable news host has been stating for the last several nights that the NSA has been monitoring his communications,” Gaetz stated, “And …

Deadline reports: The National Security Agency has given Tucker Carlson a lesson in spycraft and fake news. One which looks certain to crank up the volume in the now war of words, real and imagined. In a rare social media rebuke, the agency shot down the Fox News Channel host’s recent self-described “shocking claim” that he and his prime time …

The Hill reports: Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday alleged that the Biden administration was “spying” on him in an effort to “take this show off the air.” The television personality said that the “war on terror is now being waged against American citizens.” The host went on to say that his show had heard from a “whistleblower from …

Media Matters has the transcript: The Biden administration is in no mood for negotiation with suburban homeowners — screw them, with their decent schools and crime-free streets, living in their little 1950s America. According to the principles of equity, those people must be bigots, by definition. They’re living better than people who live in densely populated cities are living, therefore …

“White rage is not a medical condition, it’s not even a legitimate academic theory. It doesn’t exist. ‘White rage’ is a racial attack. “So here, you have the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a congressional hearing leveling a race attack against American citizens, the guy who’s supposed to be protecting our country. “That is disgraceful, it’s disqualifying, …

Mediaite reports: Fox host Mark Levin called out his colleague, Tucker Carlson for leaking unflattering stories against conservatives. Speaking Thursday night on his radio show (in a clip flagged by the progressive watchdog group Media Matters), Levin — without mentioning his cohort by name — addressed the revelation brought to light by Ben Smith of The New York Times earlier …