Tag: Tucker Carlson

‘You falsely smeared my wife’: Eric Swalwell reveals furious text exchange with Tucker Carlson

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On Friday, The Daily Beast reported that Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) posted screenshots of an angry argument between him and Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who wanted to get him on the phone for a call.

“Tucker, I’m hesitant to do that. You falsely smeared my wife on Tuesday and she’s getting death threats,” said Swalwell, referring to a retracted Fox News story alleging that Swalwell’s campaign funneled money to a business employing his wife. “That’s way out of bounds. She’s a pregnant mom of a 4-year-old and a 2-year-old. Hit me all you like. But to go after her. That’s just wrong.”

“Carlson responded by calling the Democrat a ‘coward’ and then apparently phoning him a few minutes later,” reported Blake Montgomery. “Swalwell tweeted, ‘I’m just not that into you.'” Continue reading.

Ex-Fox News Reporter Rips Tucker Carlson: ‘Leading Lemmings To Their Own Slaughter’

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Ex-Fox News Reporter Rips Tucker Carlson: ‘Leading Lemmings To Their Own Slaughter’

Former Fox News reporter Carl Cameron on Monday called out Tucker Carlson’s doubtful diatribes against COVID-19 vaccines, saying his ex-colleague at the conservative network was “gaslighting” viewers for ratings and revenue.

“It’s about ratings and ratings ultimately become revenue, and that’s the name of the game,” Cameron told CNN’s “New Day” about personalities on Fox and other hyperpartisan media outlets that have questioned the shots. Vaccine resistance has now become a GOP rallying cry, even though the shots have been shown safe and effective.

“Whoever gets the most clicks on social media, makes the most money, gets the most fame, gets the most attention and that type of activity is not journalism,” Cameron continued. “It’s not news. It’s gaslighting. It’s propaganda.” Continue reading.

Tucker Carlson’s first grade teacher busts him for lying about her: ‘That’s the most embellished thing I ever heard’

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Tucker Carlson’s first grade teacher called him out for lying about her.

The Fox News broadcaster blamed the teacher, whom he identified as Mrs. Raymond, for his longtime hatred for liberals, calling the educator “a parody of earth-mother liberalism” who “wore long Indian-print skirts” and was so terrible at her job that his wealthy father was forced to hire a private tutor, but the Washington Post tracked her down for comment.

“Oh my God,” said retired teacher Marianna Raymond. “That is the most embellished, crazy thing I ever heard.” Continue reading.

How Tucker Carlson became the voice of White grievance

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Tucker Carlson huddled in a low-ceilinged dungeon that had served as a holding pen for Africans bound for enslavement in the United States. It was a July day in 2003 in Ghana, and Carlson stood alongside some of America’s most prominent civil rights leaders.

The conservative commentator, who at the time co-hosted the CNN show “Crossfire,” walked through the memorial, where a guide told how the shackled Africans who did not perish during the voyage were sold as human chattel in America.

The civil rights leaders prayed, cried and sang “We Shall Overcome.” They peered toward the sea from the Door of No Return. But Carlson seemed strangely detached, according to two of the civil rights leaders who were present. Continue reading.

Scoop: Tucker Carlson sought Putin interview at time of spying claim

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Tucker Carlson was talking to U.S.-based Kremlin intermediaries about setting up an interview with Vladimir Putin shortly before the Fox News host accused the National Security Agency of spying on him, sources familiar with the conversations tell Axios. 

Why it matters: Those sources said U.S. government officials learned about Carlson’s efforts to secure the Putin interview. Carlson learned that the government was aware of his outreach — and that’s the basis of his extraordinary accusation, followed by a rare public denial by the NSA that he had been targeted.

  • Axios has not confirmed whether any communications from Carlson have been intercepted, and if so, why. Continue reading.

Damning CNN Supercut Reveals Who Tucker Carlson Really Sounds Like Now

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The Fox News host sounds a lot like America’s most notorious conspiracy theorist.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson is starting to sound a lot like right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. 

CNN on Sunday played a supercut of Carlson’s rhetoric matching that of the Infowars host — Both think the government is spying on them, both have pushed conspiracy theories about the coronavirus vaccines, and both have claimed the FBI was behind the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, which was carried out by pro-Trump insurrectionists. 

The network’s Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy also found a clip that suggests the two may be coordinating: Continue reading.

Tucker Carlson says the NSA is spying on him. Is that even plausible?

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It’s highly unlikely, but it’s possible if the Fox host was speaking, knowingly or not, to foreigners under surveillance.

WASHINGTON — Fox News’ Tucker Carlson said this week that the National Security Agency is spying on him as part of a plan to knock his show “off the air.”

The NSA promptly denied the allegations, saying it focuses exclusively on “foreign targets.” Critics dismissed Carlson’s claim as a cynical attempt to rile up his conservative viewers who have made him the most watched host on cable news.

But is there any way that Carlson’s allegations are true, or partially accurate? Continue reading.

Why Is Tucker Carlson Still On TV After Advertisers Have Fled?

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Remember when bigoted Fox News hosts were forced to take unscheduled ‘vacations’ when their hateful speech kicked up controversy and advertisers, feeling pressure from outraged consumers, would head for the exits? It’s been a long-standing Fox News tradition, as a way to cool the marketplace temperature and ride out storms. 

In 2018, Laura Ingraham hastily left for “a pre-planned vacation” as advertisers started fleeing her show after she mocked a Parkland school shooting survivor online. The year before, Sean Hannity suddenly vanished from the airwaves when advertisers began dropping his time slot when he kept fueling an ugly conspiracy theory about the murder of Seth Rich, a former Democratic National Committee staffer.

And last summer, Tucker Carlson announced a “long-planned” vacation that weirdly started on a Tuesday night, just as high-profile advertisers were ditching him after CNN discovered that Carlson’s head writer had spent years pseudonymously posting wildly vulgar, KKK-like rants online. Continue reading.

Tucker Carlson sounds increasingly frantic as Fox News refuses to corroborate his claim about the NSA

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson dropped a bombshell allegation on his Monday night show: The National Security Agency, he said, was “monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air.”

He added: “We have confirmed that.”

Has it, in fact, been confirmed? Throughout the day Tuesday, many observers noted that the serious accusation seemed surprisingly absent from the dominant narratives on the rest of Fox News, even though it would seem to be a major story of interest beyond just the single hour Carlson hosts if it were true. But it appeared the news division of the network — traditionally considered separate from opinion shows like Carlson’s — couldn’t back up the claim. Continue reading.

Russian media uses Tucker Carlson to make propaganda about white Americans being subjected to ‘mass humiliation’

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Russian propagandists see a new opportunity to reach out to supporters of former President Donald Trump by pitching their country as the last refuge for besieged white people.

The Daily Beast’s Julia Davis reports that the Kremlin appears intent on “turning Russia into the land of ultimate political incorrectness, the world’s anti-woke capital” where aggrieved conservatives can escape to feel “normal” again.

Russian propagandists have found that Fox News host Tucker Carlson is particularly useful to their initiative, as his show portrays white Americans as under dire and persistent threat from minorities. Continue reading.