[11], Carlson called the 2020 assassination of Qasem Soleimani a "quagmire". [13][14][15][16] He is known for circulating far-right ideas into mainstream politics and discourse. That's how we got Jan. 6 in the first place. According to Fox News, the advertisers only moved their ad buys to other programs. In January 2017, Forbes reported that the show had "scored consistently high ratings, averaging 2.8 million viewers per night and ranking as the number two cable news program behind The O'Reilly Factor in December. Buckley has English, German, Swiss, and Italian ancestry. Carlson is the eldest son of Lisa McNear, an artist, and journalist Richard Warner Carlson. [337], The evening after the segment, Carlson acknowledged that the proposed amendment was still being debated and added that no farms had yet been expropriated, though he did not admit to having made errors. don't [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". Although Fox News said Carlson was referring to Democratic leaders and not protesters, Carlson's comments on Black Lives Matter were met with rebuke. [21][22][23] It is one of the most watched cable news shows in the United States. 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. The agency denies it", "McCarthy taps Nunes to investigate NSA over claims of spying on Tucker Carlson", "Tucker Carlson sought interview with Putin at time of NSA spying claim", "Watchdog to Scrutinize Fox News Host's Claim the N.S.A. "[236][240] He attacked payday lenders, saying they "loan people money they can't possibly repay" and "charge them interest that impoverishes them"[236][233][241] He praised Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren's economic plan and called her book The Two Income Trap "one of the best books I've ever read on economics". Recordings of these segments were released online in March 2019 by the progressive nonprofit Media Matters for America. Has Putin ever called me a racist? [315] In 2017, he opined that terrorism in Europe had become inevitable because of Muslims living there. [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. [374] Carlson's promotion of inflammatory rhetoric about LGBTQ controversies[375] was scrutinized after the Colorado Springs nightclub mass shooting in November 2022. [192][13] Separately, he criticized the party's eventual nominee, Pat Buchanan. [22] 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. [119], On November 14, 2016, Carlson began hosting Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News. [48] Carlson's maternal great-great-grandfather Cesar Lombardi immigrated to New York from Switzerland in 1860. 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I certainly do it, you know, out of weakness or whatever. Carlson later said in an interview that his South Africa segment made "an argument against tribalism". He is of English, German, and one-sixth Swiss-Italian origin and is his parents oldest son. They hide his parents at Wiki, but his mother was aFischer. [485] 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. [109][110] He had a cameo appearance in the 2008 film Swing Vote, again playing himself. For other inquiries, Contact Us. [171] It received favorable reviews from Publishers Weekly and the Washingtonian, who both complimented the book for its humor. [107], Carlson was a contestant on season 3 of the reality show Dancing with the Stars, which aired in 2006; he was paired with professional dancer Elena Grinenko. [433][434][435], In February 2021, after attorney general nominee Merrick Garland pledged at his confirmation hearing to supervise the prosecution of "white supremacists and others" involved in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, Carlson alleged, "There's no evidence that white supremacists were responsible for what happened on January 6. It means killing people". "[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? [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. [15][409][482][183][483] Carlson responded by saying that he has not read "American Nationalist" and does not plan to. [33][394] In another segment, Carlson misrepresented federal data to claim that in the previous five months around 30 people per day in the U.S. died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. [193] In his 2018 book, Ship of Fools, Carlson wrote that he had adopted some of Buchanan's views. [73][74][75] Carlson's 2003 Esquire profile on his journey to Liberia alongside Reverend Al Sharpton and other civil and political rights activists would garner a nomination at the National Magazine Awards. [112][113][114], 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. [213][214][215][216] He has debated several Democrats on gun control. Also Known As: Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson Age: 53 Years, 53 Year Old Males Family: Spouse/Ex-: Susan Andrews (m. 1991) father: Richard Warner Carlson mother: Lisa McNear day on "the five." Birth Name: Tucker McNear Carlson. [97] He also hosted a late-afternoon weekday wrap-up for the network during the 2006 Winter Olympics. [35][444][446] Carlson's guest, Darren Beattie of Revolver News,[d] whose writing the segment was primarily based on, had been fired as a Trump speechwriter in 2018 after CNN asked the White House about his attendance at a gathering of white nationalists. [292][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. [161][42], In June 2010, The Daily Caller published excerpts from e-mails sent between members of JournoList, an invitation-only liberal forum, consisting of "several hundred journalists, academics and policy experts" launched in 2007 by Ezra Klein. 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? Tucker Carlson guest dresses as trans teacher with giant prosthetic breasts to ridicule Ontario school drama Rebel News' David Menzies calls out Halton District School Richard Warner Carlson, a former gonzo reporter who has been the owner of the Voice of America, president of the The Washington Post called these comments racist. [484] They have four children. According to businessinsider.com, Tucker Carlson was born in San Francisco into a wealthy family. He characterized the protests as "nearly a year of burning and looting and murder by BLM". [24], Carlson is a vocal opponent of progressivism and critic of immigration, and has been described as a nationalist. [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. [138], In July 2020, Carlson's head writer Blake Neff resigned after CNN Business reported that he had been using a pseudonym to post remarks that were widely described as racist, sexist, and homophobic on AutoAdmit, a message board known for its lack of moderation of offensive and defamatory content. [57] His father owned property in Nevada, Vermont, and islands in Maine and Nova Scotia. He also led Radio Marti broadcasting to Cuba, and was director of the US Information Agency and the USIA Documentary Film Service. [126] By the end of 2018, the show had begun to be boycotted by at least 20 advertisers after Carlson said immigration makes the country "poorer, dirtier and more divided". "[16] In 2021, Time said that Carlson could be the most powerful conservative in America, with Republican strategist Jeff Roe adding, "He doesn't react to the agenda, he drives the agenda. [284][285] In November 2019, Carlson repeated this claim and queried whether the attack had happened at all. [124] Tucker Carlson Tonight was the third-highest-rated cable news show as of March 2018. [89] CNN announced that it was ending its relationship with Carlson and would soon cancel Crossfire. [400][401] He also likened vaccine passports to segregationist Jim Crow laws. [74], In an interview for a 2021 Time profile of Carlson, a former NewsCorp executive, Alex Azam, described Carlson as having some impunity within Fox News, "because of the signal that touching him would send to the viewers that Fox never wants to lose". Carlsons parents reportedly divorced in 1976 after their nine-year marriage. [339], In November 2018, a group of antifa activists associated with the "Smash Racism D.C." group protested outside Carlson's Washington, D.C., home. [447][448] Republican House members Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene quickly embraced Carlson's story about FBI involvement in the Capitol attack, and Republican congressman Paul Gosar entered the Revolver News story into the Congressional Record during a House Oversight Committee hearing. Richard is a retired American journalist and Both the three-times-a-week podcast and the Tucker Carlson Originals are set to debut in April on Fox Nation. ", "Tucker Carlson on why conservatives should crack down on "vulture capitalism", "Romney To Biden? Why should I sit back and take that?" [220][221] In March 2018 he criticized Donald Trump for comments supporting gun control after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. "[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. Who are Tucker Carlsons parents? [427] Carlson said "what Powell was describing would amount to the single greatest crime in American history", but that Powell became "angry and told us to stop contacting her" when he asked for evidence of widespread voter fraud. It's definitely not just the flu. [121], Tucker Carlson Tonight aired at 7:00p.m. each weeknight until January 9, 2017, when Carlson's show replaced Megyn Kelly at the 9:00p.m. time slot after she left Fox News. We can trade intimate details. Putin does hate America", urging him to "stop attacking Americans & defending Putin". [142], By October 2020, Tucker Carlson Tonight averaged 5.3 million viewers, with the show's monthly average becoming the highest of any cable news program in history at that point. 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