[38] Carlson is of English, German and one sixteenth Swiss-Italian ancestry. This came in the wake of Carlson's remarks criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement, which had caused some companies to pull their advertising from the show, including The Walt Disney Company, T-Mobile, and Papa John's. [41], Carlson had cameo appearances as himself in the Season1 episode "Hard Ball" of 30Rock and in a Season9 episode of The King of Queens. "[255][262], Carlson initially supported the Iraq War. It's definitely not just the flu. He's Also Their Best Source", "Britney Spears: 'Trust our president in every decision', "Arts, Briefly; Accepting the Worst, in Person", "Watch Jon Stewart Call Tucker Carlson a "Dick" in Epic 2004, "A Week in Review: If You Interview Kissinger, Are You Still a Comedian? [324] Talking about Hazleton, Pennsylvania, where Hispanics had quickly become a majority of the population, Carlson said it was "more change than human beings are designed to digest". A 2017 Gallup/Knight Foundation survey also found that among Americans who could name an objective news source, FOX News was the top-cited outlet. 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Floyd had drugs in his system when he died, but medical professionals determined this did not cause his death. PolitiFact found that none of the evidence provided by Carlson substantiated his conclusion. "[465] That same day, a producer for Carlson filed an unusually broad Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the NSA, seeking records, including "any communication between NSA officials regarding journalist Tucker Carlson", dating back to January 2019, before Biden became president. [384] 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? According to Jon Cohen in Science, "Carlson took facts out of context and cited long-debunked studies or reports to attack Fauci. [470][f] House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy asked House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes to investigate. 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[408] On a day when two Fox News hosts, Steve Doocy and Sean Hannity, urged viewers to get vaccinated to protect against the surging Delta variant of the coronavirus, Carlson said, "There are a lot of people giving you medical advice on television and you should ignore them. He is the elder son of artist and San Francisco native Lisa McNear (ne Lombardi) (1945-2011) and Dick Carlson (1941-), a former "gonzo reporter" who became the director of Voice of America, president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles. When asked how he entered the U.S., the man casually explained that he just took the train., RISING CRIME AND MURDERERS WALKING FREE: 'TUCKER CARLSON ORIGINALS' EXPOSES WINDY CITY CRISIS. Carlson broadcast a trailer that suggested the January 6 attack was a government false flag operation to implicate the right wing, with one speaker asserting that "the left is hunting the right". [57], In 1979, Carlson's father married divorce Patricia Caroline Swanson, an heiress to Swanson Enterprises, daughter of Gilbert Carl Swanson and niece of Senator J. William Fulbright. [4][26] In 2004, he renounced his initial support for the Iraq War,[27][28] and has since been skeptical of U.S. foreign interventions. The world belongs to the weird! "[329], In April 2021, Carlson argued that the Democratic Party "is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World". By what name was Tucker Carlson Originals (2021) officially released in Canada in English? A band of local Mainers unite to take on the corporations and their corrupt leaders. Derek Reimer, pastor at Mission 7 Ministries in Calgary, was arrested and charged on Thursday for mischief and causing a disturbance after he was . [307] He asked rhetorically, "the combined membership of every white supremacist group in America would they be able to fit inside a college football stadium? "[61], Further into his career in print, Carlson worked as a columnist for New York magazine and Reader's Digest; writing for Esquire, Slate, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, The Daily Beast, and The Wall Street Journal. Tucker Carlson Today is an in-depth interview program featuring a single in-studio guest for nearly an hour. [212], Carlson wrote in 2000 that capital punishment "deserves more vigorous debate",[213] and in 2003 told Salon, "I'm opposed to the death penalty as I am adamantly opposed to abortion". Stream full episodes of Tucker Carlson Originals only on Fox Nation. or redistributed. [181][182][16][15] More virulent versions of the conspiracy theory have been cited by gunmen in several mass shootings targeting minorities; Carlson has denounced the attacks. [445] Carlson has also inaccurately stated that "[n]ot a single person in the crowd on January 6 was found to be carrying a firearm. [237] In 2019 on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson said America's "ruling class" are, in effect, the "mercenaries" behind the decline of the American middle class, and "any economic system that weakens and destroys families is not worth having. Later Carlson would say that he did not endorse her theories on Covid. [195] 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". [14][16][17][15] His remarks on race, immigration, and women including slurs he said on air between 2006 and 2011 (which resurfaced in 2019)[18][19] have at times been described as racist and sexist, and have provoked advertiser boycotts of Tucker Carlson Tonight. [49][50] Carlson is also a distant relative of Massachusetts politicians Ebenezer R. Hoar and George M. Brooks and is a great-great-great-grandson to Californian rancher Henry Miller. No, no, this is a voting rights question." [59], Carlson was briefly enrolled at Collge du Lman, a boarding school in Switzerland, but said he was "kicked out". [434][435], In July 2021, Carlson suggested that "there actually was meaningful voter fraud in Fulton County, Georgia, last November" despite the state's election results being validated via both hand and machine recounts. 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"Tucker Announces New Book That Includes Section Grilling His Own Publisher", "For Fox News, Life After Bill O'Reilly Will Feature Tucker Carlson", "Tucker Carlson: A Buckley for Our Time? [424][425][426][427] On his show, he mentioned the names of purportedly dead individuals who voted in Georgia; investigative reporting subsequently found that some of the individuals whom he claimed to be dead were in fact alive. Keep calling until someone arrives. Market data provided by Factset. [41][53], When Carlson was in first grade, his father moved Tucker and his brother to the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, and raised them there. The episode featured Raw Egg Nationalist,[369] a pseudonymous author affiliated with Neo-Nazi publishing house Antelope Hill. The arrangement was not revealed until after the not-guilty verdict. Testosterone levels and fertility in American men are drastically declining. One gang member, who is serving a 25-year sentence, agreed to sit down with Carlson for an interview. Market data provided by Factset. 2021-10-21T00:00:00Z 18 mins; 7. [335][333], 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. He also denied allegations from the Times about obsessing over ratings, saying that "I've never read the ratings a single day in my life. Carlson and his team recently launched the two flagship programs on the network's streaming service, Fox Nation, in 2021. [380], Carlson aired segments warning about COVID-19 in the first months of 2020, and reportedly influenced then-President Trump to take the virus more seriously. [174] His second book, The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalism, was released in August 2021. [23], Carlson is a vocal opponent of progressivism and critic of immigration, and has been described as a nationalist. [31] In 2021, he was included in the Time 100, Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. [342][338][339][343][341][344][345], Following the Carlson segment, President Trump tweeted that he had instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to "closely study the South Africa land and farm seizure and large scale killing of farmers". "Tucker Carlson's new book topples Woodward from No. [298], After the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, Carlson opined that the British Empire, although "not perfect", had brought civilization to regions it occupied with "decency unmatched by any empire in human history". [311] University of Michigan professor Alexandra Stern has written that Carlson propagates demographic fear. [194] Carlson told Salon in 2003 that some Washington conservatives suspected he was "secretly liberal" because he liked John McCain. [31] 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. [384][385] In 2021 and 2022, he repeatedly aired segments casting doubt on masks and vaccines, and falsely accused National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci of contributing to the creation of the virus. 23-year-old woman to Tucker: I regret transitioning as a teen Fox News 10.3M subscribers Subscribe 3.9M views 9 months ago #Tucker #FoxNews Helena Kerschner tells Tucker Carlson on why she. The rest of us have been told to shut up about it because we're being mean to some oppressed community if we say this. Carlson compared Assad's war crimes during the Syrian Civil War to Saudi Arabia's war crimes in Yemen. McNear. 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