Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson
Born	June 5th, 1969 (age 56)
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Susan Andrews (Since 1991)
Religion	Episcopalian

Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is an American political anchor, pundit, and television personality, who formerly hosted political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on the Fox News Channel. Upon his abrupt termination announced on April 24, 2023,^[1] Carlson was silent about the liberal censorship perhaps by agreeing to stay quiet -- which harms the conservative movement -- in exchange for a large payment by the television network.

Tucker Carlson rose to prominence as a leading conservative voice after the fall of figures like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly, gaining popularity during the COVID-19 era for his anti-establishment tone on Fox News. However, his career took a dramatic turn after his 2023 ouster from the network, following workplace controversy and internal tensions after the Dominion lawsuit.

Post-Fox, Carlson shifted sharply toward fringe and authoritarian-aligned narratives. In 2024, he traveled overseas propagating for other countries not US friendly, drawing widespread criticism. He later began promoting revisionist historians and isolationist rhetoric hostile to traditional U.S. allies.

By 2025, Carlson had aligned himself with Qatar’s state propaganda efforts, giving uncritical platforms to controversial figures with anti-Israel and pro-Islamist views. His rhetoric began echoing that of adversarial regimes like Iran’s, leading even former allies to distance themselves. Once a conservative media star, Carlson is now widely seen as a mouthpiece for regimes hostile to the West and has lost credibility among much of his former base.

Carlson formerly co-hosted Crossfire on CNN, and Tucker on MSNBC, and was one of the few good and successful anchors on MSNBC before the network strengthened its progressive stance with its "Lean Forward" campaign. Tucker is known to take more consistent stances compared to his fellow Fox commentators, many of whom are flimsy neocons^[2].

In 2010, Carlson, with Neil Patel, established online news website The Daily Caller. The website is considered to be an excellent source for conservative news and a welcome polar opposite to left-wing sources such as the Huffington Post.

Remarking in the sham indictments of President Trump and Biden regime 2024 Presidential election interference, Calson said,

After commentator Bill O'Reilly resigned from Fox News due to sexual abuse allegations, Carlson replaced him at the 8 p.m. EDT time slot. He also replaced O'Reilly as the number one rated cable TV show for that time slot.^[3] His ratings were nearly as high as O'Reilly's.^[4] In late March 2019, his show received more viewers than all of CNN's primetime hosts combined.^[5] In summer of 2020, Tucker Carlson Tonight broke the all-time record for the highest-rated program in U.S. cable news history.

Carslon has stood up to the leftist mob,^[6] and the cost of ads on his show nearly doubled despite left-wing attempts to boycott him.^[7]

On July 17, 2019, Carlson spoke for nearly an hour at a National Conservatism Conference. He discussed issues such as government and capitalism^[8].

Tucker Carlson does not support criminal justice reform^[9] .

Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has in jest long referred to Carlson as Chatsworth T. Osborne, Jr., a character on the old Dwayne Hickman CBS television series, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, played by Stephen Robert "Steve" Franken (1932-2012). Limbaugh uses the nickname to exploit his slightly younger and greater tendencies than average to New England dress and mannerisms into humorously reducing him to the stereotype of the broadly drawn situation comedy character.^[10]​

Much to the surprise of many conservatives, Carlson bashed Trump lawyer Sidney Powell during the 2020 election. Powell claimed that Carlson had spoken rudely to her, and that she never wanted to talk to him again.^[11] He claimed she offered him "no evidence", despite the fact that she could not do so until after the court trial is finished.^[12]

Though ADL, for decades have been and are doing great work fighting hate, the current head, Jonathan Greenblatt is a leftist who was a former member of Barack Obama's administration. In Oct 2022, Rabbinic Group called for CEO Jonathan Greenblatt’s resignation after it tweeted claiming that Tucker Carlson 'went full Nazi,' thus minimizes Holocaust.^[13]

For his criticism of the NATO war in Ukraine Carlson was added to the official neo-Nazi kill list.^[14]

In Feb 2023, Tucker is the highest rated TV show in cable news, with some 35 Million viewers. ^[15]

In 2023, Tucker called out the banking system in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank's demise: "We're getting moral lectures from the banks."^[16]

Tucker's first video tweet after his removal garnered 57 million views in 24 hours.^[17]

Biden presidential challenger Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. tweeted the day after Carlson's termination from Fox,

In 2024 and 2025, Carlson drew widespread condemnation for airing uncritical interviews with Holocaust revisionists and Hitler apologists on his show Tucker on X. Critics, including members of Congress, accused him of using rhetorical ambiguity to platform neo-Nazi ideology, sanitize Adolf Hitler, and legitimize historical falsehoods about the Holocaust.

Holocaust Revisionism Controversy (2024)

On September 2, 2024, Carlson hosted infamous Darryl Cooper, a self-styled historian and podcaster, who falsely portrayed Winston Churchill as the villain of World War II and framed Adolf Hitler as a misunderstood peace-seeker.^[19]

The interview triggered swift backlash. The White House denounced the episode as "Nazi propaganda."^[20] In Congress, Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY) introduced H. Res. 1543 — a resolution formally condemning Carlson’s actions for “perpetuating harmful falsehoods, fostering antisemitism, and undermining the fight against hate and bigotry.”^[21][22]

A group of Jewish House Democrats issued a joint statement declaring: “The normalization of Nazism is unacceptable and dangerous, and must be forcefully condemned.”^[23]

Ben Domenech wrote in The Spectator that Carlson’s editorial direction had become indefensible even to longtime allies, sarcastically summarizing Carlson’s revisionism as: “Why don’t we fully appreciate the total bind Adolf Hitler was in?”^[24]

Doubling Down: The 2025 World War II Segment

In August 2025, Carlson aired another controversial segment — this time with Dave Collum, a Cornell chemistry professor and conspiracy theorist, who questioned the legitimacy of the Allied stance in WWII and implied that aligning with Nazi Germany against Stalin might have prevented the Holocaust.^[25]

Carlson nodded in agreement as Collum declared, “I think the story we got about World War II was all wrong,” and added: “I think that’s right.” No objections were raised when Collum claimed, “One can make the argument we should have sided with Hitler.”^[26]

The episode was condemned by mainstream conservative voices. Lowry wrote that Carlson had “out-Tuckered himself,” turning his show into a platform for “ignorance and perversity masquerading as brave truth-telling.”^[25]

Activists, Commentary

The think tank Tikvah Fund published a scathing piece on Carlson’s choice of guests, identifying a “demonic impulse” behind his platforming of Holocaust denial and his rebranding of Nazi sympathizers as misunderstood dissidents.^[27]

Mocked

After known for his role in mainstreaming conspiracy theories, historical revisionism, and antisemitic tropes under the guise of "just asking questions." His nickname, “Qatarlson,” emerged in critical media coverage to highlight his increasingly favorable coverage of Gulf monarchies such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia, despite their documented human rights abuses and ties to terrorism. Memes mocking "QATARlson" have exploded online, branding Tucker Carlson as nothing more than a shameless Qatar shill. Even Donald Trump, once an ally, publicly dismissed him as “Kooky Carlson,” sarcastically remarking that even he should know Iran must never be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons. The nickname has stuck—not just for its humor, but because it captures Carlson’s rapid descent into absurdity and his reckless parroting of talking points from regimes openly hostile to the West.

Selective Platforming of Israelophobe Voices

In addition to his Holocaust revisionism, Carlson has been accused of platforming inflammatory anti-Israel voices, often without journalistic skepticism.

In December 2024, Carlson hosted IslamoChristian Munther Isaac, an anti-Zionist racist Arab "Palestinian" pastor. Isaac, whose sermons often conflate Jewish self-determination and survival with negative and harsh accusations. Watchdog groups criticized Carlson for amplifying Isaac’s inflammatory rhetoric without challenge, particularly amid rising antisemitic attacks globally.

In 2025, Carlson interviewed a former defender of Islamic terror during which armed Arab Palestinian militants occupied the church under Arafat. The guest, George Stephanopoulos' sister, a known falsifier, presented by Carlson as a “Christian peace [sic] advocate,” had previously propagated false narratives that Israeli forces had attacked the church — a claim repeatedly disproven by journalists and Vatican sources at the time. Carlson made no mention of the armed standoff or the militants’ use of the church as a human shield, omitting critical context. He also refused to interview a real native, Arab Christian who asked to, fearing it will interrupt his propaganda.

Analysts pointed out that Carlson's choice to host these individuals aligned with his broader pattern of indulging fringe anti-Israel figures while avoiding voices from the mainstream.

Gulf Influence and 9/11 Deflection

In parallel with his historical revisionism, Carlson has developed close ties with Gulf monarchies, particularly Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Critics noted his pivot away from blaming the Saudis for the 9/11 attacks, despite mounting evidence of Saudi government links to the hijackers.

In August 2025, a lawsuit by 9/11 victims’ families revealed FBI efforts to cover up a video showing Saudi agent Omar Al-Bayoumi filming landmarks in Washington, D.C., prior to the attacks.^[28] Carlson, who promoted Saudi Arabia’s “visionary future” during a business summit, simultaneously prepared a 9/11 documentary that avoided implicating the Saudis.

> “What kind of person thinks that a medieval kingdom where they have slaves is ‘what the future holds’?” asked Greenfield, accusing Carlson of using “truth-seeking” rhetoric to divert attention from Islamic extremism.^[28]

Carlson’s coziness with Qatar — a regime notorious for bankrolling Islamist terror groups like Hamas and for hosting jihadist propagandists on Al Jazeera — has led to accusations that he’s become a mouthpiece for foreign Islamic lobbying. From paid appearances at Gulf real estate forums to repeated soft-focus coverage of Qatar’s role in the region, Carlson’s critics argue that he's effectively selling out conservative values and turning a blind eye to Islamist extremis

He interviewed Qatar and Iran leaders only to promote their views, without pushback

Modern "Father Goughlin"

Tucker has been compared to venomous preacher Father Goughlin.^[29][30][31]

More so ^[31] as he was "under fire for bringing up antisemitic conspiracy theories while delivering a eulogy at Charlie Kirk's funeral.^[32] In a twist, Hitler admirer Nick Fuentes "shocks audience: "Tucker Carlson is insane - he's more Antisemitic than me".^[33]

Reception and Legacy

Carlson’s trajectory has alienated many former allies and exposed a growing alignment between far-right populism and historical revisionism. Critics argue that his "just asking questions" mantra functions as a rhetorical shield for promoting antisemitic, fascist-adjacent ideas.

Commentators have pointed out that Carlson’s framing often allows dangerous ideas to spread while evading responsibility. As one opinion piece in The New York Times concluded:

> “Sometimes it is extremely disappointing to have your worst instincts about a person rewarded.”^[34]

No wonder Carlson’s defenders in Congress were limited to the fringe of the (2) GOP, while even many figures within the pro-MAGA base distanced themselves from him — particularly regarding his positions on Iran and Gaza, which recent surveys show are increasingly out of step with both American conservatives and broad bipartisan support for Israel.^[35][36]

Furthermore, after his venomous speech at Kirk's funeral, even some right-wing extremists shunned him.