[1][39] He is the elder son of artist and San Francisco native Lisa McNear (ne Lombardi) (19452011) and Dick Carlson (1941), a former "gonzo reporter"[1][40][41] who became the director of Voice of America, president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles,[42] and more recently a director at the lobbying firm Policy Impact Strategic Communications. He is of English, German, and one-sixth Swiss-Italian origin and is his parents oldest son. We have confirmed that. [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". [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. His fathers name was Richard Warner Carlson. "[28] From 2009 through 2015, Carlson was a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. ", "Inside Media Matters: Sources, memos reveal erratic behavior, close coordination with White House and news organizations", "Trump Campaign Secretly Paid Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller $150k for Email Blasts", "Analysis | Charity doubles as a profit stream at the Daily Caller News Foundation", "Fox News Host Tucker Carlson Cuts Ties With Conservative Media Site The Daily Caller", "Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News", "Nonfiction Book Review: POLITICIANS, PARTISANS, AND PARASITES: My Adventures in Cable News", "Tucker Carlson Gets Two-Book, Eight-Figure Deal", "Fox News star Tucker Carlson exposes 'elites' in new book". 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". 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 Bannon and Wengui set up appearances for Yan on Carlsons show to promote the theory. [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". The Fox host calls his relationship with his mother a totally bizarre situation - which I never talk about, because it was actually not really part of my life at all.. Recordings of these segments were released online in March 2019 by the progressive nonprofit Media Matters for America. It premiered on March 29 and will have new episodes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. [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. According to reports, Richard Warner Carlson and Lisa McNear are Tucker Carlsons parents. [196] Carlson said in an interview, "by my criteria, Bush isn't much of a conservative". ", "Why is the far right so against US intervention in Syria? [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. Meanwhile, a remarkable number of the companies are now bankrupt or extinct. 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[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. [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? 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. Lisa McNear is best known as the mother of Tucker Carlson, an American television host and conservative political commentator who has hosted the nightly political talk [418], After Fauci announced plans to retire in August 2022, Carlson made additional false claims that Fauci "helped create that [COVID-19] virus in the first place" by funding gain-of-function research at "various labs, including one owned by the Chinese government, a lot of biolabs in Ukraine" and then "lied in order to sell more vaccines which weren't even actually vaccines, but they did hurt a lot of people, tens of thousands." [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. [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. [163] Carlson had earlier attempted to join the forum on May 25, 2010, but was denied by Klein. Fox News U.S. [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. It premiered on March 29 and will have new episodes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. [54][488] Carlson is a Deadhead (a fan of the rock band Grateful Dead); he has attended more than fifty Dead concerts[489] and the title of his 2018 book Ship of Fools was inspired by the Grateful Dead song of the same name. 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. [132] His ratings rose eight percent that week despite the boycotts. [42] In 2001, he was appointed co-host of Crossfire, in which Carlson and Robert Novak represented the political right (alternating on different nights), while James Carville and Paul Begala, also alternating as hosts, represented the left. 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? He quoted Bush mocking Karla Faye Tucker (who was executed in Bush's state of Texas) and frequently using the word "fuck". [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. [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". "[167], In June 2017, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), a liberal watchdog organization, said The Daily Caller was paid $150,000 by Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign for its list of subscribers, whom the Trump campaign then emailed at least 25 times. "[365] He has alleged that feminists want girls to make gains at the expense of boys. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. [163] Klein offered to form a bipartisan forum with Carlson, but Carlson declined. 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. I don't approve of it". 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". 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"[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? [242][243], On his show, Carlson frequently hosts guests who downplay the scientific consensus on climate change,[244] and disagreed with Bill Nye on the subject. I don't like lying. Carlson refuses to speak about his mother, whom he said abandoned him and his family when he was just six-years-old. [89] CNN announced that it was ending its relationship with Carlson and would soon cancel Crossfire. [20][67] In the same year, he called Democratic primary contenders cowards for not pledging to legalize same sex marriage and stated that he would support that. [119], On November 14, 2016, Carlson began hosting Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News. Carlson was born Tucker McNear Carlson in the Mission District of San Francisco, California, on May 16, 1969. Keep calling until someone arrives. [11], Carlson called the 2020 assassination of Qasem Soleimani a "quagmire". [128] The show had lost at least 26 advertisers. "[266], Carlson has stated he does not consider Russia a serious threat to the United States. [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. He was included in polling at the 2008 Libertarian National Convention, with unconfirmed speculation arising that he was personally funding the effort. [35][444][445] One of the unindicted co-conspirators was readily identifiable as Stewart Rhodes, founder and leader of Oath Keepers, a far-right anti-government militia; another unindicted co-conspirator was likely the wife of an indicted alleged conspirator. [269] In February 2020, on his show Carlson called on Trump to pardon Roger Stone, who had been convicted of lying to Congress and witness tampering as a result of the investigation. 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. 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. Carlson is the host of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight, the Trump retweeted a clip of Carlson's segment. [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. 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? ", "Tucker Carlson defends Russia again as Ukraine crisis mounts", "Tucker Carlson: What the Fox News host is doing in Hungary", "Soros group pushes back on Tucker Carlson documentary", "Tucker Carlson-fueled Republicans drop tough-on-Russia stance", "Tucker Carlson, downplaying Russia-Ukraine conflict, urges Americans to ask, 'Why do I hate Putin? [166] Reuters media critic and libertarian Jack Shafer, while commenting "I've never thought much of Media Matters' style of watchdogging or Brock's journalism", nevertheless sharply criticized The Daily Caller piece for relying on conjecture, absence of evidence, and inclusion of "anonymously sourced crap", adding that "Daily Caller is attacking Media Matters with bad journalism and lame propaganda. [32][204], Carlson supported J. D. Vance in the 2022 Republican U.S. Senate primary in Ohio and privately persuaded Donald Trump to endorse him despite Vance's past opposition to Trump. [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. [397][385][398][390][399] In July 2021, Carlson said plans by the government to provide door-to-door vaccinations were "the greatest scandal in my lifetime, by far" and falsely described them as an attempt to "force people to take medicine they don't want or need". '"[312][313], Carlson has criticized Islam and has hosted guests on his show who do the same. [430][431], 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. The reporter of the Axios exclusive story, Jonathan Swan, later confirmed he had contacted Carlson seeking pre-publication comment, but said he had not told Carlson that anyone had shared the email contents with him. [315] In 2017, he opined that terrorism in Europe had become inevitable because of Muslims living there. [80], In 2000, Carlson co-hosted the short-lived show The Spin Room on CNN. That's a lie. As other media outlets fall silent or fall in line, Fox News Medias management has redoubled its commitment to honesty and freedom of speech. [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. ", "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.' The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. [378][377] Carlson blamed China for causing the pandemic. [178][179] [b] In 2021, Time magazine said Carlson "may be the most powerful conservative in America". [124] Tucker Carlson Tonight was the third-highest-rated cable news show as of March 2018. "[233][235] He cited parallels between the problems of inner cities and rural areas as evidence that the "culture of poverty" cited by conservatives as the cause of urban decline "wasn't the whole story", and that "Certain economic systems allow families to thrive. [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. [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. 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. MacDougald identified this form of radicalism as the ideological core of Trumpism. [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? I take the death penalty very seriously. "[62][71] Among liberals, Carlson's piece received praise, with Democratic consultant Bob Shrum calling it "vivid". [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. The GOP is buzzing", "Urged to Launch an Attack, Trump Listened to the Skeptics Who Said It Would Be a Costly Mistake", "Trump Commutes Sentence of Roger Stone in Case He Long Denounced", "Trump, tweeting a Tucker Carlson segment, hints of possible pardon for Roger Stone", "Tucker Carlson took a victory lap over John Bolton's ousting, after reports he lobbied Trump to fire him", "Inside Trump and Bolton's spectacular split", "How Tucker Carlson became the voice of White grievance", "How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable", "The Hate Report: What white nationalists think about Tucker Carlson", "Why Do White Supremacists Love Tucker Carlson So Much? Tucker Carlson's father Richard Warner Carlson Credit: C-Span He also led Radio Marti broadcasting to Cuba, and was director of the US Information Agency and the USIA Documentary Film Service. That's how we got Jan. 6 in the first place. While, his mother, Lisa McNear was an artist. Mother Jones further observed Carlson was the only Western media pundit the Kremlin adopted in this way. [464][f] House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy asked House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes to investigate. One commentator, Jennifer Rubin, characterized these remarks as an example of white supremacy. Richard married the wealthy heiress Patricia Swanson. "[477] Bump argued in 2022 that compared with other television anchors, Carlson is loath to acknowledge factual errors in his commentary. 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. [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. [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. [96], Carlson's early evening show Tucker (originally titled The Situation With Tucker Carlson) premiered on June 13, 2005, on MSNBC. Putin does hate America", urging him to "stop attacking Americans & defending Putin". [54] His trademark scowl lets viewers "share his disdain" toward opposing views, foreshadowing a "scathing rebuttal". [163] The e-mails leaked by The Daily Caller, which detailed efforts to, according to Carlson, "formulate the most effective talking points in order to defeat Palin and McCain and help elect Barack Obama president",[165] also contained statements by The Washington Post's Dave Weigel "wishing for the death of Rush Limbaugh" among other controversial remarks which The Washington Post considered "untenable", leading to his resignation. He also led Radio Marti broadcasting to Cuba, and was director of the US Information Agency and the USIA Documentary Film Service. don't [42][484] They met at St. George's School, where she was the daughter of the school's headmaster and priest. Tucker Carlson has over 13 real estate properties. [361][358] Philip Bump of The Washington Post wrote that Carlson had presented "a very specific version" of West's remarks that "mirrored Carlsons rhetoric on race and politics". [5][27] In 2004, he renounced his initial support for the Iraq War,[28][29] and has since been skeptical of U.S. foreign interventions. "[42], On February 23, 2017, The Atlantic wrote that "Carlson's true talent is not for political philosophizing, it's for televised partisan combat. Carlson took four-hour-a-day ballroom dance classes to prepare. [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". [39] Carlson is of English, German and one sixteenth Swiss-Italian ancestry. [42][54], 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. His former time slots, 6:00p.m. and 9:00p.m., were subsequently occupied by two liberals, Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow." [62][485] They were married on August 10, 1991, in the school chapel. [13][14][15][16] He is known for circulating far-right ideas into mainstream politics and discourse. [261] In May 2019, after Robert Mueller gave a statement saying the Special Counsel investigation on Russian interference in the 2016 election did not exonerate President Donald Trump of obstruction of justice, Carlson called Mueller "sleazy and dishonest". [348], 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". 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[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". [158], In interviews, Carlson said The Daily Caller would not be tied to ideology but rather "breaking stories of importance",[159] and "We're not enforcing any kind of ideological orthodoxy on anyone. Tucker Carlson, Father|Richard Warner Carlson. Dorothy Carlsons parents, Tucker Carlson and Susan Andrews, knew each other since they were in tenth grade. [28][29], Carlson was reportedly floated as a potential candidate for the Libertarian nomination in the 2008 presidential election. I consider that heroic at a time like this.. They have three daughters, namely Hopie Carlson, Lilie Carlson, and Dorothy Carlson. [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. [363], In 2022, in response to The New York Times publishing a report criticizing Carlson and his show, Carlson said that his show did not have a controversial opinion on race, saying "Our view of race is really simple. His full name is Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson as known as
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