[291][292][293][294], Carlson has said normalization of relations with China following President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit led to unforeseen consequences, and that America became progressively worse off for it. [96] Rachel Maddow and Jay Severin featured as guests on a rotating panel. "[410] More than 90% of Fox Corporation's full-time employees had been fully vaccinated by September 2021. [477], Carlson's rhetorical style and debating tactics have drawn close attention from writers and other public figures. [165] 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. 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. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. [332], In September 2021, Carlson again invoked the Great Replacement theory on his program, this time by name. "[202], Carlson supported Trump's expansion of the MexicoUnited States barrier, saying a wall was needed to "restore sovereignty" to the border. '"[315][316], Carlson has criticized Islam and has hosted guests on his show who do the same. [19], In a guest appearance with Alex Jones in 2015, Carlson criticized the Obama administration for "making excuses for" rioters in racially-charged anti-police protests in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, saying, "They categorize people by race in a way that, you know, you can't even imagine 30 years ago you would have said, 'Wait a second, that's like Nazi stuff. Tucker Carlson Originals (TV Series 2021- ) - IMDb Episode guide 29 Cast & crew User reviews IMDbPro All topics Tucker Carlson Originals TV Series 2021- 25 m IMDb RATING 4.5 /10 177 YOUR RATING Rate Documentary Short Tucker Carlson and his team take you inside the issues for a new documentary news magazine, 'Tucker Carlson Originals' Stars [431] 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. He also claimed to have taken positions unpopular with his audience, saying, "Most of the big positions I've taken in the past five years against the neocons, the vax and the war [in Ukraine] have been very unpopular with our audience at first. Sorry, not allowed. Tucker Carlson seems to be projecting a bit in this segment about. [351][352][353][354], Carlson claimed in 2021 that "there was no physical evidence that George Floyd was murdered by a cop" and "the autopsy showed that George Floyd almost certainly died of a drug overdose", even though two autopsies found that Floyd died from homicide caused by former police officer Derek Chauvin's kneeling on his neck for more than eight minutes. [411][412] In May 2022, Carlson described himself as against "the vax". He also said his viewers should ask themselves, "Why do I hate Putin so much? [192] In his 2018 book, Ship of Fools, Carlson wrote that he had adopted some of Buchanan's views. [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. [284][285], Carlson opposes overthrowing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and has downplayed some of the Assad regime's human rights violations in the Syrian Civil War. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. [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". [459][460] Bret Baier and Chris Wallace, prominent anchors in the network's news division, raised objections to the series to top executives of the Fox organization. [242][239] He described the business model of firms like Bain as: "Take over an existing company for a short period of time, cut costs by firing employees, run up the debt, extract the wealth and move on, sometimes leaving retirees without their earned pensions. [401][389][402][394][403] 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". [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. Tucker Carlson Originals Full Episode00:01:57 Season Two: A detransitioner's escape from gender confusion April 15, 2022 Tucker Carlson Originals Full Episode00:02:13 Season Two: The End of Men April 15, 2022 Tucker Carlson Originals Full Episode00:01:17 Season Two: A one of a kind UFO investigation into cattle mutilations April 15, 2022 Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. That's a lie. [125] 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". [163][161], 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. According to Fox News, the advertisers only moved their ad buys to other programs. [135][136], Beginning the week of June 814, 2020, Tucker Carlson Tonight became the highest-rated cable news show in the U.S., with an average of four million viewers, beating out the shows hosted by fellow Fox News pundits Hannity and Ingraham. Testosterone levels and fertility in American men are drastically declining. 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[362], Ahead of the 2020 election, in September, Carlson told viewers that Democrats were promoting mail-in voting to create "uncertainty over the outcome of the election, so they can manipulate the results". Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. PolitiFact found that none of the evidence provided by Carlson substantiated his conclusion. [95] Carlson wanted to focus on his new MSNBC show Tucker and said that although PBS was one of the "least bad" instances of government spending he disagreed with, it was still "problematic". [106], 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. I really try not to. The judge also agreed with Fox News' defense that reasonable viewers would have "skepticism" over statements Carlson makes on its show, as he often engages in "exaggeration" and "non-literal commentary", and that Carlson is not "stating actual facts" on its show. [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". [312] Neoconservative pundit Bill Kristol described Carlson's commentaries in 2018 as "close now to racism" and "ethno-nationalism of some kind, let's call it". [41] 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. [449][34] Legal experts said Carlson's claim was unfounded because prosecutors cannot describe an undercover agent as an unindicted co-conspirator. Mother Jones further observed Carlson was the only Western media pundit the Kremlin adopted in this way. [464], On June 28, 2021, Carlson said on his program that "a whistleblower within the U.S. government" informed him that the National Security Agency (NSA) was "monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air", adding, "The Biden administration is spying on us. While in the nations capital, San Salvador, Carlson took part in a ride-along with the citys police, toured a Salvadorian prison housing members of the MS-13 gang, and snagged an exclusive interview with the countrys new president - whos cracking down on the "death cult.". [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. [463] 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. [27][28], Carlson was reportedly floated as a potential candidate for the Libertarian nomination in the 2008 presidential election. [31] In 2021, he was included in the Time 100, Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. [122], On April 19, 2017, Fox News announced that Tucker Carlson Tonight would air at 8:00p.m. following the cancellation of The O'Reilly Factor. [31] Elaina Plott in The Atlantic summed up Carlson's style as "a gleeful fuck you" to his opponents. [443][444] Philip Bump of The Washington Post wrote in an analysis that Carlson was blurring the lines between "being involved" and "being responsible for" to create a strawman in an effort to "undercut the public understanding of what happened and, by extension, to soften the implications for Trump and his supporters". [272] 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. Stream all episodes of the new documentary news magazine. [330], Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch defended Carlson, writing that Carlson had "decried and rejected replacement theory" when he said, "White replacement theory? [209], Carlson opposes abortion and has said it is the only political issue he considers non-negotiable. To watch the full episode head over to FoxNation. [14][413][488][182][489] Carlson responded by saying that he has not read "American Nationalist" and does not plan to. Watch Tucker Carlson Originals Online | Stream Fox Nation Join Tucker Carlson as he takes you inside the issues of the day. [485][486], 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. The investigative series documents Carlson's rise to prominence and his rhetoric on immigration, race relations and the COVID-19 pandemic. "[416][387][417] 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". [337][338][339][340][341] CBS News, Associated Press, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal described Carlson's segment (with guest Marian Tupy of the Cato Institute) as false or misleading, because violence against farmers had reached an all-time low and the reforms had yet to pass and were primarily aimed at land that had fallen into disuse. [88] CNN announced that it was ending its relationship with Carlson and would soon cancel Crossfire. Market data provided by Factset. [270][271], Peter Beinart of The Atlantic said Carlson has been an "apologist for Donald Trump on the Russia scandal". He quoted Bush mocking Karla Faye Tucker (who was executed in Bush's state of Texas) and frequently using the word "fuck". Tucker Carlson Originals is an in-depth documentary series. As Carlson mocks other men maybe he should look in the mirror. [171][170], In May 2017, Carlson, represented by the literary and creative agency Javelin, signed an eight-figure, two-book deal with Simon & Schuster's conservative imprint, Threshold Editions. Bush claimed that "Mr. Carlson misread, mischaracterized me. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. [295][third-party source needed] He criticized LeBron James for speaking out against Daryl Morey, the latter having tweeted in support of the 20192020 Hong Kong protests,[296][297] and referred to the former CEO of The Walt Disney Company, Bob Iger, as a "propagandist" for the Chinese Communist Party. The Tucker Carlson Originals series will also debut in April, and continue monthly. [93][94], Carlson announced he was leaving the show roughly a year after it started on June 12, 2005, despite the Corporation for Public Broadcasting allocating money for another show season. [469] Carlson responded on-air that the NSA did not deny reading his emails. [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. [365], 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. "[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. 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[197], He expressed his disappointment with the Republican nominee for the 2012 election, Mitt Romney, and the healthcare reform he signed in 2006 as governor of Massachusetts, which contained an individual mandate, saying, "out of 315 million Americans, the Republican Party managed to find the one guy who couldn't run on Obamacare". [131] His ratings rose eight percent that week despite the boycotts. 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Fox Nation's latest installment of 'Tucker Carlson Originals' sees the host traveling to Sal Salvador, El Salvador, to learn all he can about the 'death cult.'. [87], On January 5, 2005, CNN chief Jonathan Klein told Carlson the network had decided not to renew his contract. [375] In 2021, Carlson belittled the paternity leave taken by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, a gay man, joking that Buttigieg could be "trying to figure out how to breastfeed". [447], In response to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley's defense of studying critical race theory "to understand white rage" as it concerns the storming, Carlson said, "Hard to believe that man wears a uniform. Become a member today for exclusive content & more! 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host previews Fox Nation special 'Transgressive', Tucker Carlson joined "Fox & Friends" Thursday to preview his "Tucker Carlson Originals" Fox Nation special "Transgressive: Cult of Confusion," which examines the transgender movement in America and exposes the dangers and threats to children. "[442] PolitiFact rated Carlson's claim false, because several rioters had known ties to white supremacist groups, according to court records and congressional testimony by law enforcement leaders, and video and photos from the incident showed white supremacist symbols prominently displayed. [110], In May 2009, Fox News announced that Carlson was being hired as a Fox News contributor. [86] The Atlantic suggested that Stewart's appearance was a turning point leading to how Carlson remade himself. [53] A few years earlier he quit smoking cigarettes (a habit dating to eighth grade) and took up nicotine gum, which he "chews constantly", and nicotine pouches. [43][50][51], In 1976, Carlson's parents divorced after the nine-year marriage reportedly "turned sour".