"Maybe like 10 years," the gang member responded. And they call other people traitors because they're mouthing the talking points of Putin." The premiere episode of the show, which replaced On the Record,[119] was the network's most watched telecast of the year in the time slot, with 3.7million viewers. The stock price is down. [92] The show launched on June 18, 2004, and was, according to The New Yorker, "part of a broader effort to push PBS further to the right ideologically". Carlson reportedly told Trump that if he listened to his hawkish advisors and went ahead with the strikes, he would not win re-election. 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. "[269] In December 2019, he falsely claimed that immigrants were responsible for making the Potomac River "dirtier and dirtier". [21] By August 2019, Media Matters calculated that some companies had fulfilled their media buy contracts and advertising inventory for the time slot and had now begun their purchases for other time slots on Fox News. [127] The show had lost at least 26 advertisers. Testosterone levels in American men are collapsing. 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". Most people don't care and don't want to get involved in it. [311] University of Michigan professor Alexandra Stern has written that Carlson propagates demographic fear. [295][third-party source needed], On November 20, 2020, The New York Times reported that Steve Bannon and Chinese businessman Guo Wengui had brought Li-Meng Yan to America to promote the COVID-19 lab leak theory, a theory which states covid was made in a Chinese laboratory and then escaped for the lab. According to Vox, it promoted conspiracy theories about Soros and suggested that criticism of the Hungarian government was a function of jealousy from the political left. [318] In 2017, he opined that terrorism in Europe had become inevitable because of Muslims living there. Greenblatt responded that Carlson's saying this made it "worse, because he's using a straw man voting rights to give an underhanded endorsement of white supremacist beliefs while ironically suggesting it's not really white supremacism". 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. "[367] He has alleged that feminists want girls to make gains at the expense of boys. [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. "[455], After Carlson criticized Senator Ted Cruz for calling the Capitol storming a "terrorist attack", Cruz appeared on Carlson's show on January 6, 2022, the anniversary of the event, and apologized for his words. [6] He was said to have influenced some of Trump's decisions as president, including the cancellation of a military strike against Iran in 2019, the firing of John Bolton, and the commutation of Roger Stone's prison sentence in 2020. [392][393][394][395][396][397] He questioned why the CDC was advising vaccinated people to continue mask-wearing and distancing in April 2021, saying, "maybe [the vaccine] doesn't work, and they're simply not telling you that". [156] 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. He's not just a pig, he's stupid! [108][109] He had a cameo appearance in the 2008 film Swing Vote, again playing himself. "[41] Carlson has repeatedly promoted a conspiracy theory that Democrats are seeking "demographic replacement" to increase their voter base, and in 2021 he described this as "the Great Replacement", using white nationalist terminology. [472][473] On that night's program, Carlson said that he had contacted people about interviewing Putin, but did not mention it to anyone because he did not want to "rattle the Russians, and make the interview less likely to happen". Legal Statement. ", "Why is the far right so against US intervention in Syria? [274], Carlson asserted in December 2019 that "Putin, for all his faults, does not hate America as much as many of these people do", referring to liberals. A 2019 Suffolk University poll named FOX News as the most trusted source for television news or commentary, while a 2019 Brand Keys Emotion Engagement Analysis survey found that FOX News was the most trusted cable news brand. [491] In 2013, Carlson said, "We still go to the Episcopal Church for all kinds of complicated reasons, but I truly despise the Episcopal Church in a lot of ways," citing his opposition to the church's support for same-sex marriage and abortion rights. ", and said he "just went crazy on" a Fox executive over Heinrich's reporting. [198], Writing for Politico in January 2016, Carlson expressed his support for Donald Trump's candidacy and his positions, such as his proposed "Muslim ban", and criticized the other Republican candidates for not similarly making immigration a core issue. [111][112][113], On the eve of then-President Barack Obama's first debate with Mitt Romney in October 2012, Carlson publicized a 2007 video recording of then-Senator Obama criticizing the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina and complimenting his pastor at the time, Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Bannon and Wengui set up appearances for Yan on Carlsons show to promote the theory. [89][90] Carlson later said: "I resigned from Crossfire in April [2004], many months before Jon Stewart came on our show, because I didn't like the partisanship, and I thought in some ways it was kind of a pointless conversation. [265][11][10] Trump fired Bolton on September 10, 2019. Thriving families make market economies possible. [132][133] 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. [287], When President Trump met the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the country's border with the South in June 2019, Carlson, who was touring with Trump, defended Trump's friendship with Kim. [61][491] They were married on August 10, 1991, in the school chapel. [175], Carlson has been described in the media as a conservative[90][176] or paleoconservative. '"[315][316], Carlson has criticized Islam and has hosted guests on his show who do the same. To watch the full episode head over to FoxNation. [7][8][9][10][11] Carlson has been described as a leading voice of white grievance politics. [239], Carlson has criticized hedge funds (singling out the Republican donor Paul Singer in 2019) and private equity (in criticizing Mitt Romney, former CEO of Bain Capital). [56][39] In 1984, his father unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Republican Mayor Roger Hedgecock in the San Diego mayoral race. [68][69] The piece led to bad publicity for Bush's 2000 presidential campaign. Putin does hate America", urging him to "stop attacking Americans & defending Putin". [116] Portions of the video had been available online since 2007. Legal Statement. Mother Jones further observed Carlson was the only Western media pundit the Kremlin adopted in this way. Red light therapy. Owned by FOX Corporation, FNC is available in nearly 90 million homes and dominates the cable news landscape, routinely notching the top ten programs in the genre.Watch full episodes of your favorite showsThe Five: http://video.foxnews.com/playlist/longform-the-five/Special Report with Bret Baier: http://video.foxnews.com/playlist/longform-special-report/Fox News Primetime: https://video.foxnews.com/playlist/on-air-fox-news-primetime/Tucker Carlson Tonight: http://video.foxnews.com/playlist/longform-tucker-carlson-tonight/Hannity: http://video.foxnews.com/playlist/longform-hannity/The Ingraham Angle: http://video.foxnews.com/playlist/longform-the-ingraham-angle/Fox News @ Night: http://video.foxnews.com/playlist/longform-fox-news-night/Follow Fox News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FoxNews/Follow Fox News on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoxNews/Follow Fox News on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foxnews/ [209], Carlson opposes abortion and has said it is the only political issue he considers non-negotiable. He also criticized "lunatic Muslims who are behaving like animals", and said that any presidential candidate who vowed to "kill as many of them as [they] can" would be "elected king". Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. Carlson began his media career in the 1990s, writing for The Weekly Standard and other publications. 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. [236][26] In an interview, he said that economic and technological change that occurs too quickly can cause widespread social and political upheaval, and praised President Theodore Roosevelt, saying his intervention in the economy in the early 1900s may have prevented a communist revolution in the United States. This otherworldly episode of Tucker Carlson Originals takes the team across the country to find out if the truth is out there. The week a train derailment poisoned an entire town in Ohio, the transportation secretary, the man in charge of preventing train derailments, held a press conference attacking White construction . [41][58] Though Patricia remained a beneficiary of the family fortune, the Swansons had sold the brand to the Campbell Soup Company in 1955 and did not own it by the time of Carlson's father's marriage. [126], By January 2019, his show dropped to third with 2.8 million nightly viewers, down six percent from the previous year. [390] However, Carlson also claimed that some U.S. officials were overstating the deadliness of the virus a claim that PolitiFact called mostly false. Legal Statement. 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"[366], Carlson is an opponent of feminism. [350], Carlson cast doubts on the intentions of Black Lives Matter protesters in the wake of the murder of George Floyd by a police officer, saying in June 2020, "it is definitely not about black lives, and remember that when they come for you, and at this rate, they will". Join Tucker Carlson and his team as their cameras take you inside the issues for a new documentary news magazine, 'Tucker Carlson Originals' Tucker Carlson Originals - watch online: streaming, buy or rent Legal Statement. "[107] Carlson said he accepted ABC's invitation to perform because "I don't do things that I'm not good at very often. And the rest of us have been so intimidated by the screaming of the activists and the highly funded lobbies they have in Washington. In 2010, Carlson co-founded and served as the initial editor-in-chief of the right-wing news and opinion website The Daily Caller, until selling his ownership stake and leaving in 2020.