Tucker Carlson
Tucker Swanson McNair Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is an American television host and conservative political commentator who has hosted the late night political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News since 2016.
Carlson began his media career in the 1990s, writing for The Weekly Standard and other publications. He was a commentator for CNN from 2000 to 2005 and co-host of the network’s prime-time news talk show Crossfire from 2001 to 2005. From 2005 to 2008, he hosted the Tucker Night Show on MSNBC. He has been working as a political analyst at Fox News since 2009, appearing as a guest or guest host on various shows prior to the launch of his current show. In 2010, Carlson co-founded the right-wing news and opinion website The Daily Caller and served as its first editor, until selling his ownership stake and leaving it in 2020. He has authored three books: Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites (2003), Ship of Fools (2018) , and the long slide (2021).
Carlson, who was a supporter of former US President Donald Trump, was described by Politico as “perhaps a vocal supporter of ‘Trump’ and ready to criticize Trump if he walks away from it”. He is also said to have influenced some of Trump’s decisions as president, including canceling Military strike against Iran in 2019, John Bolton’s impeachment, and Roger Stone’s prison sentence commuted in 2020. Carlson was a leading voice on white grievance politics.His remarks about race, immigration, and women—including slanders he made on air between 2006 and 2011—described (which resurfaced in 2019)—sometimes labeled racist and sexist, and sparked advertisers’ boycott of Tucker Carlson Tonight.As of July 2021, it was the most-watched satellite news program in the United States.
Tucker Carlson Personal Life
Carlson is married to Susan Thompson Carlson (née Andrews). They met at a Rhode Island boarding school, St. George’s School, where she was the principal’s daughter, and were married on August 10, 1991, at the school’s chapel. They have four children. Carlson is Episcopal and “loves the liturgy, though he detests the liberals who run the congregation.”
Carlson is left-handed and suffers from dyslexia.
Carlson stopped drinking alcohol in 2002, “after deciding that good nights and unpleasant mornings were improving his life.” A few years earlier, he had given up smoking (he started smoking in eighth grade, he said) and replaced cigarettes with nicotine gum, which he buys in bulk from New Zealand and “constantly chews,” and tobacco-free nicotine bags. Carlson is Deadhead (a fan of the rock band Grateful Dead); He said in 2005 that he has attended more than fifty concerts, and said in 2021 that the title of his book Ship of Fools was inspired by the Grateful Dead song of the same name. He is also a fan of Phish. His favorite song is “Suzy Greenberg“.
He was friends with Nevada brothel owner Dennis Hove and attended his funeral in 2018.
In 2018, a group of anti-corruption activists associated with “Smash Racism DC” protested outside Carlson’s home in Washington, DC. Carlson Pass has been vandalized with a spray-painted anarchist symbol.
Tucker Carlson Tonight (2016–present)
On November 14, 2016, Carlson began hosting Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News. The show’s first episode, which replaced On the Record, was [110] the network’s most-watched television broadcast of the year in its time period with 3.7 million viewers.
Tucker Carlson airs tonight at 7:00 PM. Every night until January 9, 2017, when The Carlson Show replaced Megyn Kelly at 9:00 PM. Time slot after I left Fox News. In January 2017, Forbes stated that the show “has scored consistently high ratings, with an average of 2.8 million viewers per night and is ranked second on cable news programming behind The O’Reilly Factor in December.” In March 2017, Tucker Carlson Tonight was the most watched cable show at 9:00 PM. time slot.
On April 19, 2017, Fox News announced that Tucker Carlson Tonight will air at 8:00 PM. After The O’Reilly Factor was canceled. Tucker Carlson Tonight was the third highest rated cable news program as of March 2018.
In October 2018, Tucker Carlson Tonight was the second-best prime-time news show, after Sean Hannity’s Show with Sean Hannity, with 3.2 million viewers each night. By the end of 2018, at least two dozen advertisers had begun boycotting the show after Carlson said immigration was making the country “poorer, dirtier and more divided.” According to Fox News, advertisers have only moved their ad purchases to other programs.
By January 2019, his show had fallen to third place with 2.8 million viewers per night, down six percent from the previous year. The show has lost no fewer than 26 advertisers. There were calls for Carlson to be fired from Fox News in March 2019 after Media Matters replayed his comments about women (he described them as “dogs” and “very primitive”), legal rape, and Iraqis and immigrants he introduced over several years to the Bubba the Love radio show. Sponge, but his ratings rose eight percent that week despite the boycotts. By August 2019, Media Matters calculated that some companies had fulfilled contracts to purchase their media and ad inventory in the time period, and had now begun purchases for other time periods on Fox News. At the end of 2019, Carlson placed Nielsen’s ratings of all viewers 25-54 second only to Fox’s Shawn Hannity among news programs.