Tucker Carlson made some wild claims overnight about his attempts to secure a potential interview with Boris Johnson. The pair are involved in a spat over the Ukraine war, off the back of Carlson’s fawning ‘interview’ with Putin…
According to Johnson’s team, a million dollar donation solely to Ukrainian veterans’ organisations was floated. As it turned out, negotiations were scuppered by the killing of Alexei Navalny, with Johnson’s side standing the idea down given the latest Kremlin crime. Meanwhile, the battle over support for Ukraine on Capitol Hill still rages, with the Biden White House blaming the Ukrainian loss of the crucial town of Avdiivka on reluctant Republicans who have been blocking further military and financial support. It’s still a debate Guido would love to see one day…
Last night, an interview with Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin aired, the first Western journalist to speak with Putin since Russia invaded Ukraine. If you were hoping to watch something enlightening, you may be disappointed…
The interview started with Putin slapping down Carlson’s suggestion that his invasion of Russia was because of worries about the US: “Are we having a talk show or a serious conversation?“. To be fair, Tucker was more of a Jimmy Fallon than a Jeremy Paxman…
After a half an hour rant on the history of Russia from Putin, the Russian President took a break to mock Carlson for trying to join the CIA, taunting him saying, “thank God they didn’t let you in“. Carlson’s silence makes one wonder if that was a career path he should have pursued instead…
Fresh from being fired by FOX at the end of last month, Tucker Carlson has now announced that his show will be resuscitated, in some shape or form, on Twitter. The announcement video, now with over 73 million views, was posted as his website proclaimed ‘TUCKER IS BACK’. Complete with a photo of Tucker holding a gun.
Tucker added:
“At the most basic level the news you consume is a lie. A lie of the stealthiest and most insidious kind. Facts have been withheld on purpose, along with proportion and perspective. You are being manipulated… We’re just grateful to be here. Free speech is the main right you have. Without it, you have no others.”
Musk responded to Carlson’s declaration of love with the terms and conditions, pointing out fire exits and loos:
“On this platform, unlike the one-way street of broadcast, people are able to interact, critique and refute whatever is said. And, of course, anything misleading will get @CommunityNotes. I also want to be clear that we have not signed a deal of any kind whatsoever. Tucker is subject to the same rules & rewards of all content creators. Rewards means subscriptions and advertising revenue share (coming soon), which is a function of how many people subscribe and the advertising….”
It’s not surprising Musk wants to keep his distance from conspiracy-loving Carlson…
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The statement from Fox News has Guido worried:
NEW YORK — April 24, 2023 — FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.
Mr. Carlson’s last program was Friday April 21st. Fox News Tonight will air live at 8 PM/ET starting this evening as an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named.
Guido is not worried much that Tucker Carlson has been binned – he had long shifted from being a conventional strongly conservative voice to someone prone to conspiracy, weak on American global leadership in foreign affairs and increasingly kooky. It is the promise to have his primetime slot hosted by “rotating FOX News personalities” that has Guido worried. Technically speaking Piers Morgan is “a FOX News personality” on the channel’s digital streaming “Fox Nation” platform.
Surely he would not consider getting Piers to do for Fox News what he has done for Talk TV? If Guido could be so bold as to remind Rupert Murdoch*, before Piers became an anti-woke infotainer he is today he had an unsuccessful show on CNN where he campaigned for gun controls. Something that is satanically anathema to the viewership of Fox News…
*Worth a shot, @guidofawkes is one of a handful of accounts Murdoch follows on Twitter.
Toe-curling watch last night from the White House as poor Joe Biden was effortlessly upstaged by his younger, slicker, and more lucid predecessor. Kamala Harris seemed to forget her boss even existed as Obama triumphantly high-fived everyone within orbit. As Tucker Carlson put it, “make it stop, it’s awful”…
