[32] Writing for New York magazine's Intelligencer in 2019, Park MacDougald called Carlson a "Middle American radical", which he described as someone who holds populist economic beliefs; hostility to corporatocracy; fervent positions on nationalism, race, and immigration; and a preference for a strong U.S. president. He remained with the network as a senior campaign correspondent for the 2008 election. [379] Carlson criticized stay-at-home orders brought on by the pandemic, and ridiculed Anthony Fauci. 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. "[5] Carlson presents his perceived opponents "as endlessly cynical and duplicitous", and agitates his audience against them by cherry-picking and misinterpreting information, according to Philip Bump of The Washington Post. "[62][71] Among liberals, Carlson's piece received praise, with Democratic consultant Bob Shrum calling it "vivid". [155] 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". [8][9][10][11][12] Carlson has been described as a leading voice of white grievance politics. His mother McNear began life as a Bohemian, traveling the world and having adventures in France. Call the police immediately, contact child protective services. [357], Carlson aired an edited version of his interview with Kanye West over two days in October 2022 in which he called some of West's views "obviously true"; Carlson did not disclose that during his interview, West had made a number of antisemitic remarks and had claimed that his home had been infiltrated by "fake children" (child actors). [156] The website was funded by the conservative activist Foster Friess. [72] While working on a story for New York covering the Taliban, Carlson, alongside his father, was involved in a plane crash as it made its landing on a runway in Dubai on October 17, 2001. Carlson is the host of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight, the highest-rated program in US cable news history that averages a nightly audience of 4.33 million viewers. 1 commentator mainstreaming bedrock principles of white nationalism in [the U.S.]. [164][162], 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. Later Carlson would say that he did not endorse her theories on Covid. [328], Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch defended Carlson, writing that Carlson had "decried and rejected replacement theory" when he said, "White replacement theory? Carlson is the eldest son of Lisa McNear, an artist, and journalist Richard Warner Carlson. 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". [258] The Open Society Foundations, a group founded by Soros, called the film "anti-American propaganda," and its Vice President Laura Silber stated that "Carlson appears to prefer authoritarian rule, state capture of media and the courts, crony corruption and rigged elections. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. [457] In November 2021, the Daily Mail published emails from a laptop owned by Hunter Biden, which appear to demonstrate a friendship between himself and Carlson. [262][12][11] Trump fired Bolton on September 10, 2019. [333][331], In May 2022, after the 2022 Buffalo shooting, in which the shooter's manifesto (like those of some previous mass shooters) cited the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, Carlson claimed he was unfamiliar with the conspiracy theory, even though he had previously mentioned it by name on his show, and had alleged the idea of forced demographic change by Democrats over 400 times on his show. Carlson used language such as "defile", "humiliate", and "degrade" in reference to the nomination's effect on the court, likening the nomination to affirmative action and the Rwandan genocide due to Biden's public pledge to nominate a Black woman. As other media outlets fall silent or fall in line, Fox News Medias management has redoubled its commitment to honesty and freedom of speech. 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[35][444] 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. McNear. 1 In Total Viewers", "Tucker Carlson suggested immigrants make the U.S. 'dirtier' and it cost Fox News an advertiser", "Tucker Carlson thinks libertarians run the economy. The family lives a happy and life of luxury in a nineteenth-century farmhouse in Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America. [11], Carlson called the 2020 assassination of Qasem Soleimani a "quagmire". [385][395][396] Carlson's argument was called misleading because the federal database he cited, VAERS, consists of unverified public reports, some of which have been false; post-vaccine deaths can be from unrelated causes; and the CDC had found no connection between COVID-19 vaccinations and deaths based on VAERS. [117] Portions of the video had been available online since 2007. [474][475] Charlotte Alter of Time wrote that Carlson "sanitizes and legitimizes right-wing conspiratorial thinking, dodges when you try to nail him down on the specifics, then wraps it all in an argument about censorship and free speech". [157] Carlson reportedly offered his employees free junk food, an unmonitored keg, provided them with a ping pong table, and allowed them to sleep under their desks. [407][408] In May 2022, Carlson described himself as against "the vax". [60], Carlson was briefly enrolled at Collge du Lman, a boarding school in Switzerland, but said he was "kicked out". [471], Carlson's rhetorical style and debating tactics have drawn close attention from writers and other public figures. [124] Tucker Carlson Tonight was the third-highest-rated cable news show as of March 2018. [253] In late February 2022, on the eve of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Carlson described the preceding crisis as a "border dispute" and said it was "not treason, it is not un-American" to support Putin, "it's the whole point of America." [146], In the week following the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, Tucker Carlson Tonight remained the only cable news program not to see a drop in viewership, slightly increasing from where it stood one week prior and reclaiming its lead among the 2554 demographic. They married some years later in 1991 and welcomed their four kids, Dorothy being His monologue was described by The Guardian as "racially loaded" and "full of anti-immigrant rhetoric". "[412][383][413] In February 2022, Carlson supported the Canada convoy protest against COVID-19 restrictions and called it "the single most successful human rights protest in a generation". "[261] According to The New York Times, Carlson played an influential role in dissuading Trump from launching military strikes against Iran in response to the shooting down of an American drone in June 2019. [54][200][201] Carlson criticized the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, ordered by Trump in January 2020. The CMD said Carlson had a conflict of interest and had violated journalistic standards. [196] Carlson said in an interview, "by my criteria, Bush isn't much of a conservative". "[254] Carlson changed his tone after the invasion, telling his viewers on February 24, 2022, that "what Russia has done is awful" and that Putin "clearly does deserve to be punished" for invading Ukraine, while warning that the conflict could turn into a world war. [13] Sources such as CNN and The Washington Post have said Carlson promotes racism,[14][301][21][302][303] a charge he denies, saying in 2018, "I'm not a racist. Recordings of these segments were released online in March 2019 by the progressive nonprofit Media Matters for America. As other media outlets fall silent or fall in line, Fox News Medias management has redoubled its commitment to honesty and freedom of speech. Carlson refuses to speak about his mother, whom he said abandoned him and his family when he was just six-years-old. [Stewart] needed to do this. "[252][259], Carlson initially supported the Iraq War. [44] Carlson himself was named after his great-great-great-grandfather Dr. J.C. Tucker and his great-great-grandfather George W. He was a CNN commentator from 2000 to 2005 and a co-host of the network's prime-time news debate program Crossfire from 2001 to 2005. [202] Carlson said in June 2020 that Trump had let Black Lives Matter protests go too far. [106] Brian Stelter, writing for The New York Times, wrote that "during Mr. Carlson's tenure, MSNBC's evening programming moved gradually to the left. 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[305][331] In response, the ADL reiterated its call for Carlson to be fired from the network. He was a frequent guest panelist on Fox's late-night satire show Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld, made frequent appearances on the All-Star Panel segment of Special Report with Bret Baier, was a substitute host of Hannity in Sean Hannity's absence, and produced and hosted a special entitled Fighting for Our Children's Minds in September 2010. [133][134] At the close of 2019, Carlson's Nielsen ratings among all viewers 2554 placed him second only to Fox's The Sean Hannity Show among cable news shows. View our online Press Pack. [182][183][17][16] More virulent versions of the conspiracy theory have been cited by gunmen in several mass shootings targeting minorities; Carlson has denounced the attacks. Whom he said abandoned him and his family when he was just six-years-old and his brother... Supported the Iraq War not endorse her theories on Covid interest and had journalistic... 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