"[364], Carlson is an opponent of feminism. [358], On August 18, 2017, during a debate about whether web hosting companies should do business with racist sites like The Daily Stormer, Carlson said "I'm not defending white supremacy. In February, Carlson signed a new multiyear deal with the streaming service Fox Nation. [145] In 2020, Tucker Carlson Tonight and The Sean Hannity Show became the first cable news programs to finish a full year with viewership in excess of four million. [432], 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. [29], On September 19, 2017, journalist Stephen Rodrick wrote in a GQ profile of Carlson: "On his show, Carlson mocks and verbally body-slams those who disagree with him, a passel of easy marks such as Democratic politicians, well-meaning liberal activists, and young reporters. [330], In September 2021, Carlson again invoked the Great Replacement theory on his program, this time by name. '"[312][313], Carlson has criticized Islam and has hosted guests on his show who do the same. [37], Carlson's use of hyperbole as a rhetorical device was cited by Fox News in its successful defense in 2020 of a slander lawsuit by Karen McDougal, after Carlson incorrectly argued in 2018 that Donald Trump had been a victim of extortion by McDougal. [42] Carlson and Begala later recalled that Stewart and one of the book's co-authors, Ben Karlin, stayed at CNN for more than an hour after the show to discuss the issues he had raised on the air, with Carlson saying, "It was heartfelt. "[381], In 2021, Carlson ran segments that misrepresented the safety of COVID-19 vaccines and asserted that U.S. officials were "lying" about them. Michael Jensen, a senior researcher at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, called it "political propaganda that is meant to rally a support base that has shown a willingness to mobilize on the basis of disinformation and lies. [97] He also hosted a late-afternoon weekday wrap-up for the network during the 2006 Winter Olympics. Richard married the wealthy heiress Patricia Swanson. [54][79], On June 21, 2021, New York Times reporter Ben Smith reported that Carlson was a media source for several journalists and authors including Michael Isikoff, Michael Wolff, Brian Stelter, and others who wrote critically of Donald Trump. His full name is Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson as known as [5], During remote interviews, Carlson's producers will keep his face close-up onscreen so viewers can watch him react, often in disbelief. His mother, Susan, holds a position as a board member at St. George [245][246][247][248], Carlson is skeptical of foreign intervention, has expressed regret for his public support of the U.S. invading Iraq in 2003, and has said "the U.S. ought to hesitate before intervening abroad". WebTucker Carlson has four children in total with his wife, Susan Carlson. McNear. It premiered on March 29 and will have new episodes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. He is of English, German, and one-sixth Swiss-Italian origin and is his parents oldest son. "[440], In June 2021, Carlson promoted a conspiracy theory alleging that the Capitol storming was a "false flag" FBI operation intended to "suppress political dissent". [384] Later Carlson falsely called Fauci "the guy who created Covid". He was included in polling at the 2008 Libertarian National Convention, with unconfirmed speculation arising that he was personally funding the effort. [129][130] 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,[19][131] Iraqis, and immigrants. Meanwhile, Tucker's father, Richard Carlson, was once the President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, according to WNYC, a banker, investigative journalist, [125], In October 2018, Tucker Carlson Tonight was the second highest-rated cable news show in prime time, after The Sean Hannity Show with Sean Hannity, with 3.2million nightly viewers. I don't believe it in. Has Putin ever called me a racist? Tucker Carlsons date of birth is 16 May 1969. Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States. [69][70] The piece led to bad publicity for Bush's 2000 presidential campaign. [168][169], 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. As an example, Alter wrote that Carlson did not endorse Sidney Powell's specific claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, but he did say, "The people now telling us to stop asking questions about voting machines are the same ones who claim that our phones weren't listening to us". "[393][405] 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? 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[28] Carlson did not vote in the 2004 election, citing his souring on the Iraq War, his disillusionment with the once small-government Republican Party, and his disappointment with President Bush and like-minded conservatives. [136][137][478], According to the Encyclopdia Britannica, Carlson has been "recognized for his success in helping to bring far-right viewpoints and vocabulary into the mainstream of American politics" through his promotion of "extreme positions on a range of political and social issues, for his embrace of white nationalism, for his support of authoritarian leaders of other countries, and for his regular reliance on arguably false or misleading claims, including baseless conspiracy theories" and for "exert[ing] an unusual influence on Republican Pres. ", "The Playboy Interview With Tucker Carlson", "The Bearable Lightness of Being Tucker Carlson", "Bow tie-free Tucker Carlson steps into prime time on Fox News Channel", "Tucker Carlson Calls Journalists 'Animals.' His monologue was described by The Guardian as "racially loaded" and "full of anti-immigrant rhetoric". [42], 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",[81] 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. Keep calling until someone arrives. AMERICAN conservative television host Tucker Carlson has been apart of Fox News for over a decade. He then worked as an opinion writer at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper in Little Rock, Arkansas, before joining The Weekly Standard news magazine in 1995. [21][22][23] It is one of the most watched cable news shows in the United States. I certainly do it, you know, out of weakness or whatever. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and others said that Carlson was endorsing the Great Replacement, a white nationalist conspiracy theory that claims white people are being systemically replaced through declining white birth rates and high rates of immigration. [162] The forum barred media reporters and conservatives. [54][207][208] Carlson has described Roe v. Wade as "the most embarrassing court decision handed down in the last century". [470] The New York Times observed there was a distinction between Carlson's communications being intercepted by the NSA and intercepts of foreigners who were discussing Carlson. He praised the country and its prime minister, Viktor Orbn, for rejecting asylum seekers on its border, and ridiculed the idea that Orbn was authoritarian. [473] 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". [349][350][351][352], Carlson claimed in 2021 that "there was no physical evidence that George Floyd was murdered by a cop" and "the autopsy showed that George Floyd almost certainly died of a drug overdose", even though two autopsies found that Floyd died from homicide caused by former police officer Derek Chauvin's kneeling on his neck for more than eight minutes. [264] 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? [132] His ratings rose eight percent that week despite the boycotts. [197] 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. I'm psyched to get to do that. This is my 12th year at Fox News and Ive never been more grateful to be here, Carlson said of the announcement and new duties. [7] Carlson's commentaries did not uniformly praise Trump, but he had frequent scorn for Trump's critics; some commentators called Carlson an exemplar of "anti-anti-Trump" arguments. [19] In 2022, Carlson released The End of Men, a Tucker Carlson Original alleging a decline in American masculinity. 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In September 2020, federal judge Mary Kay Vyskocil[136] dismissed the lawsuit, citing her acceptance of Fox News' defense that Carlson's extortion claims were opinion based and not "statements of fact". [31][51][328][329] 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". So, eventually, Dorothys mom and dad started dating since their high school days. [119], On November 14, 2016, Carlson began hosting Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News. And they call other people traitors because they're mouthing the talking points of Putin." [155], On January 11, 2010, Carlson and Neil Patel (a former aide to Dick Cheney, and former college roommate of Carlson)[6] launched a political news website titled The Daily Caller. [417] 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. "[38] In October 2022, Carlson interviewed Kanye West, with the latter's statement that he had received the COVID-19 vaccine being omitted from two days of segments. Carlson served as editor-in-chief, and occasionally wrote opinion pieces with Patel. Foxs talk show Tucker Carlson was born to his parents, Lisa McNear and Dick Carlson. Carlson's parents divorced after their nine year-marriage reportedly "turned sour.". Lombardi and Ethel Rogers Peck). Throughout his career as a journalist, Richard has worked as a newspapers reporter, a wire service reporter, magazines writer, TV and radio correspondent and documentary filmmaker. [328], Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch defended Carlson, writing that Carlson had "decried and rejected replacement theory" when he said, "White replacement theory? Later Carlson would say that he did not endorse her theories on Covid. "[252][259], Carlson initially supported the Iraq War. [347] The Daily Beast commented that Carlson had devoted numerous segments to criticizing Omar, and that largely due to "right-wing attacks that have then been amplified by members of Congress and the president", Omar had been receiving death threats since her election to Congress. But they're wrong. 1 commentator mainstreaming bedrock principles of white nationalism in [the U.S.]. [196] After saying on Fox News in 2010 that Michael Vick "should have been executed" for dog fighting, Carlson stated that he is "not comfortable with the death penalty under any circumstances". Tucker Carlson exposes how Attorney General Merrick Garland is making his family rich by directing the DOJ to go after parents who protest school boards. He asked Max Boot to "tell me how many Americans in the United States have been murdered by terrorists backed by Iran since 9/11? "[160] Columnist Mickey Kaus quit after Carlson refused to run a column critical of Fox News's coverage of the immigration policy debate due to his contractual obligations to Fox News. 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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? Carlson is the eldest son of Lisa McNear, an artist, and journalist Richard Warner Carlson. [60], Carlson was briefly enrolled at Collge du Lman, a boarding school in Switzerland, but said he was "kicked out". [332] 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. [479][480], Tina Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair and a former colleague of Carlson, said: "Tucker is a tremendously good writer and I always thought it was a real shame that he kind of got sucked into this TV mania thing. Tucker Carlson Father People searching for Tucker Carlson s Fathers [380] Carlson defended protests against lockdowns in rural areas, saying, "The threat to rural America from this virus is minuscule, so why are we punishing the people who live outside the cities? [181] Carlson is noted for circulating white nationalist views and terminology into mainstream political discourse, in particular, repackaging the fringe racist "replacement" conspiracy theory into a version that accuses Democrats and "elites" of forcing demographic change. Dorothy Carlsons parents, Tucker Carlson and Susan Andrews, knew each other since they were in tenth grade. A year after the invasion of Iraq, he began criticizing the war, telling The New York Observer: "I think it's a total nightmare and disaster, and I'm ashamed that I went against my own instincts in supporting it. 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. Carlson compared Assad's war crimes during the Syrian Civil War to Saudi Arabia's war crimes in Yemen. It premiered on March 29 and will have new episodes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. [451] Fact-checkers found the series contained numerous falsehoods and conspiracy theories. [32] In September 2020, on The Rubin Report, Carlson said that, unlike TV newscasters who he said "systematically lie", he will only lie "if I'm really cornered or something", saying, "I lie. "[62][71] Among liberals, Carlson's piece received praise, with Democratic consultant Bob Shrum calling it "vivid". 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