[211][212], Carlson has opposed gun control and the assault weapons ban. We think all people were created by God and should therefore be judged by what they do, not by how they look. He was criticized in India by figures such as the politician and historian Shashi Tharoor, who had written a book detailing atrocities by the British Raj. "[202], Carlson supported Trump's expansion of the MexicoUnited States barrier, saying a wall was needed to "restore sovereignty" to the border. [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". [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. [115][116][117] Wright's sermons had been a controversy in Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. [132] His ratings rose eight percent that week despite the boycotts. [56][486] Carlson is left-handed and dyslexic. [157] 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. [147][148] It remained the most-watched news-related cable show as of mid-2021. [25][4][26] Formerly an economic libertarian, he now supports protectionism. He is the elder son of artist and San Francisco native Lisa McNear (ne [149][150][151] Through May 2022 it was a close second to The Five, while leading in the 25-54 demographic. [192][13] Separately, he criticized the party's eventual nominee, Pat Buchanan. "[364], Carlson is an opponent of feminism. [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. [172][171], 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. He also said, "Everyone wants to make a racial issue out of it, 'Ooh, the white replacement theory.' No, no, no, this is a voting rights question. His mother, Lisa [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". Carlson was born Tucker McNear Carlson in the Mission District of San Francisco, California, on May 16, 1969. "They really dislike our country. Although Fox News said Carlson was referring to Democratic leaders and not protesters, Carlson's comments on Black Lives Matter were met with rebuke. [376], 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. [20], In a guest appearance with Alex Jones in 2015, Carlson described the Obama administration: "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. 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. [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. According to Fox News, the advertisers only moved their ad buys to other programs. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and others said that Carlson was endorsing the Great Replacement, a white nationalist conspiracy theory that claims white people are being systemically replaced through declining white birth rates and high rates of immigration. "[42], On February 23, 2017, The Atlantic wrote that "Carlson's true talent is not for political philosophizing, it's for televised partisan combat. [292][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,[293][294] and referred to the former CEO of The Walt Disney Company, Bob Iger, as a "propagandist" for the Chinese Communist Party. [54] 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. The CMD said Carlson had a conflict of interest and had violated journalistic standards. [358][359][360] Footage of the omitted answers, leaked to Vice News, was scrutinized in light of West's tweets shortly after the interview that he was "going death con 3" against Jewish people. [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. Throughout his career as a journalist, Richard has worked as a newspapers reporter, a wire service reporter, magazines writer, TV and radio correspondent and documentary filmmaker. [386] However, Carlson also claimed that some U.S. officials were overstating the deadliness of the virus a claim that PolitiFact called mostly false. [226][227][228] At trial Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all charges. Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson[5] (born May 16, 1969) is an American television host, conservative political commentator and writer who has hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News since 2016. [366] He used the words pig and cunt to describe several individual women in remarks from 2006 to 2011 on the radio show Bubba the Love Sponge. [287] Carlson went on to argue that "a lot of countries commit atrocities including a number that we're closely allied with". Carlson is also keeping his post as the host of his weekly primetime show, Tucker Carlson Tonight. He then worked as an opinion writer at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper in Little Rock, Arkansas, before joining The Weekly Standard news magazine in 1995. [7] Carlson's commentaries did not uniformly praise Trump, but he had frequent scorn for Trump's critics; some commentators called Carlson an exemplar of "anti-anti-Trump" arguments. Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States. 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[295], 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". [57] His father owned property in Nevada, Vermont, and islands in Maine and Nova Scotia. [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. [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? [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". Here you have an employee of the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school, sending an invitation apparently on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party to recruit [315] In 2017, he opined that terrorism in Europe had become inevitable because of Muslims living there. In the 2554 demographic, the show maintained an average viewership of just over a million, with 670,000 being between 18 and 49. I don't believe it in. 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