![]() ![]() The New York Times is later to the party but appears to have gone all in, with multiple features in today’s edition and indications that more pieces are forthcoming. We’ve seen reports such as Esquire‘s March 2021 piece “ John Oliver Breaks Down Tucker Carlson’s Decades of White Supremacist Messaging” (obviously, based on Oliver’s HBO show which I drifted away from years ago for a variety of reasons) and Rolling Stone‘s September 2021 report “ Quiz: Can You Tell the Difference Between Tucker Carlson and an Admitted White Supremacist?“ While I’ve been vaguely aware of all this, I honestly hadn’t paid it all that much attention because Carlson has been around for so long and my views of him were formed two decades ago. Whether his newfound power allowed him the freedom to be who he always was or he is simply tapping into the zeitgeist, I have no way of knowing. ![]() Somewhere along the way, he went from a hackish Rush Limbaugh wannabe to something far darker. So, in less than five months, he went from some dude that appeared on Fox shows to being its biggest star. Just weeks later, on January 9, 2017, he replaced Megyn Kelly in the more prestigious 9pm slot and then replaced Bill O’Reilly in the 8pm slot on April 19, 2017. He got his own prime time show on November 14, 2016, just after Trump’s election, replacing Greta Van Susteren at 7pm in the lineup. Something clearly changed in the Trump era, though. He founded the Daily Caller in 2010 and continued, in my estimation, to be a joke. He appeared on PBS of all places (2004-2005) before moving on to MSNBC (2005-2008) and his present home at Fox News (2009-present). ![]() Regardless, my opinion of him remained unchained: he was a partisan hack and a lightweight.Ĭarlson never went away, of course. By the time the network fired Carlson in January 2005, I had long since given up on the show. When Tucker Carlson debuted as a CNN talking head in 2000, I thought he was an intellectual lightweight and wondered how he got to be the co-host of the network’s “Crossfire,” sitting in a seat that had previously been held but much more senior journalists. ![]()
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