Tucker Carlson delivers the 'perfect response' to NYT journo plotting a hit piece against conservative media



Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, and Mike Davis of the Article III Project revealed Monday that a New York Times reporter reached out to them for comment regarding an upcoming hit piece about so-called "misinformation" — the likely objective of which is to get conservative commentators demonetized or possibly removed from YouTube.

Shapiro pre-emptively attacked the paper and its apparent collaborators at the leftist outfit Media Matters, while Carlson shared screenshots of his fiery textual exchange with Times reporter Nico Grant.

"Would I like to participate in your attempt to censor me?" Carlson wrote to Grant. "No thanks. But I do hope you'll quote what I wrote above and also note that I told you to f*** off, which I am now doing. Thanks."

Grant apparently opened with an introduction and the following note to Carlson on Monday: "I wanted to give you an opportunity to comment for an upcoming article that takes a look at how political commentators have discussed the upcoming election on YouTube. We rely on an analysis conducted by researchers at Media Matters for America."

Media Matters for America is a leftist organization founded by Democratic operative David Brock. It claims to document "conservative misinformation throughout the media" and to notify "activists, journalists, pundits, and the general public about instances of misinformation, providing them with the resources to rebut false claims and to take direct action against offending media institutions."

Media Matters, now led by Angelo Carusone — the former Democratic National Committee employee who fought to get Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck ousted from Fox News and was responsible for the "#DumpTrump" campaign in 2012 — now serves as an attack dog for the Democratic Party, characterizing dissenting views as "misinformation."

'So the New York Times is working with a left wing hate group to silence critics of the Democratic Party?'

Media Matters is presently in hot water, as Elon Musk's social platform X sued the leftist organization last year for alleged defamation. Judge Reed O'Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas denied Media Matters' request to have that lawsuit dismissed in August.

Grant asked Carlson to comment on the following points, which will apparently be including in the planned Times piece:

  • "Media Matters identified 286 YouTube videos between May and August that contained election misinformation, including narratives that have been debunked or are not supported with credible evidence."
  • "Researchers identified videos posted by you in those four months that contain election misinformation."
  • "We feature a clip of you saying: '...All the sadness we've seen after the clearly stolen election. All these bad things happen, but people I know love each other more.'"

Shapiro and Davis appear to have been asked to comment on the same points but on different quotes.

'These outlets are beneath contempt.'

Grant gave away the plot with three follow-up questions, in all three cases, about the conservatives' membership in the YouTube Partner Program, their track records of demonetization, and history of notes from YouTube regarding "misinformation."

Carlson, wise to Grant's apparent scheme, responded, "So the New York Times is working with a left wing hate group to silence critics of the Democratic Party? Please ask yourself why you're participating in it. This is why you got into journalism? It's shameful."

"I hope you're filled with guilt and self-loathing for sending me a text like this," continued Carlson. "Please quote me."

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales said of Carlson's reply to Grant, "Epic."

Elon Musk tweeted, "Perfect response."

Mike Needham's forward-looking conservative think tank America 2100 tweeted, "These outlets are beneath contempt. 1) Powerful activist groups (Media Matters) put out enemy hit lists. 2) The press (New York Times) publishes the names to send a signal to Big Tech. 3) Big Tech dutifully censors the enemies. They're the enforcement arm of the Left."

Conservative filmmaker Robby Starbuck wrote, "YouTube needs to be very careful how they respond to this story or risk a massive exodus from their site. Treating right wing content creators differently is going to become increasingly an offense that loses you a lot of business. People have alternatives now."

Chris Pavlovski, the CEO of the video platform Rumble, noted, "The corporate media is on their campaign to deplatform as many conservative voices as possible. This type of activist garbage is not possible on Rumble. @TuckerCarlson, we have your back."

Blaze News reached out to Grant and Media Matters for comment as well as for their definitions of "misinformation" but did not receive responses by deadline.

Grant has set his X page to private, so that his past tweets are now protected.

Shapiro referred to the anticipated Times-Media Matters hit piece as an "October surprise."

"What, precisely, is NYT doing?" wrote Shapiro. "It's perfectly obvious: using research from Media Matters, a radical Left-wing organization whose sole purpose is destroying conservative media ... in order to pressure YouTube to demonetize and penalize any and all conservatives ONE WEEK FROM THE ELECTION."

While noting that he supported the view that Biden won the 2020 election, Shapiro emphasized that the Constitution guarantees the right of Americans to suggest otherwise.

"This is totally scandalous. In 2020, the legacy media shut down dissemination of the Hunter Biden laptop story and laundered the claim that it was all Russian disinformation, all to get Joe Biden elected," continued Shapiro. "In 2024, they're even more brazen: they're openly trying to intimidate YouTube, one of the most dominant news platforms in America, into shutting down anyone who isn't pro-Kamala."

Shapiro worked his way up to echoing Carlson's sentiment, concluding, "The New York Times wants comment? Here's my comment: kindly, go f*** yourself."

U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt responded by echoing the defiant, nearly assassinated Republican president, "Fight, fight, fight!"

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Tucker Carlson explains precisely why JD Vance was the right VP pick



President Donald Trump named Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) Monday as his running mate, emphasizing that as "Vice President, J.D. will continue to fight for our Constitution, stand with our Troops, and will do everything he can to help me MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN."

Vance noted in response, "What an honor it is to run alongside President Donald J. Trump. He delivered peace and prosperity once, and with your help, he'll do it again. Onward to victory!"

Tucker Carlson, who joined Trump and Vance at the Republican National Convention following the announcement, made clear earlier in the day precisely why Vance was the right pick.

Addressing a crowd Monday at the Heritage Foundation's Policy Fest, Carlson prefaced with a condemnation of the political class and the type of people he regards as its predominant constituents.

"I spent the whole day dealing with politics — this day, starting at 5 a.m. — and I ... forgot how repulsive a process it is, and how feline and ruthless the players are. It was a reminder why I don't like politicians," said Carlson, who later suggested that "deception is at the core, actually, of who they are."

'Every bad person I've ever met in a lifetime in Washington was aligned against JD Vance.'

Carlson suggested that whereas those he regularly speaks to on both sides of the spectrum are invested in their causes and mean what they say, politicians alternatively tend to be opportunists who traffic in empty rhetoric in pursuit of power. According to Carlson, the efforts by various personalities to lock down one job in particular — that of Trump's running mate — helped illustrate this point.

"There's this job. One person makes the decision, and whoever gets the job immediately has a lot of power. And it really is like waving a flank steak over an alligator," said Carlson.

While disgusted by the process and some of the prospects vying for the steak in question, Carlson intimated that Vance stood apart from the others.

"Now JD Vance is the VP pick, and I think every person who pays close attention has gotta be thrilled by that," continued Carlson. "And if you don't know much about JD Vance, I'm not even going to make a case for JD Vance. I'm going to tell you what I just saw, which is that every bad person I've ever met in a lifetime in Washington was aligned against JD Vance."

While various deep-pocketed Republican donors were actively demeaning the Appalachian populist, Rupert Murdoch reportedly launched a massive lobbying campaign to dissuade Trump from picking Vance. A source in the Trump camp apparently told NOTUS that Murdoch had been calling Trump multiple times a day to instead choose North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum for his running mate — the would-be VP pick Republican strategist Karl Rove also tried to boost over Vance.

Murdoch's personal campaign against Vance spread to two of his publications, namely the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, which both ran multiple editorials hammering Vance.

As the desperation grew and the choice neared, the campaign against Vance among establishmentarians became increasingly desperate and aggressive.

Blaze News previously reported that former Obama adviser and Democratic strategist David Axelrod said Vance should be disqualified for suggesting that Biden's inflammatory rhetoric set the stage for the attempted assassination on Trump.

Vance wrote shortly after Trump was nearly murdered by a would-be assassin, "The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination."

Axelrod wrote, "If @JDVance1 is on the short list for VP, this Tweet, sent an hour after the assassination attempt in PA, ought to disqualify him in the eyes of the Trump campaign. Wrong vibe in that moment."

"Trump probably doesn't want a shoot-from-the-hip VP," added Axelrod.

Adam Kinzinger, a former member of the House Jan. 6 committee, joined the Democratic strategist in suggesting Vance's remark was disqualifying.

Failed Republican presidential candidate Joe Walsh responded to Vance on X, writing, "What a sick, disgusting tweet. Donald Trump IS an authoritarian fascist. The Biden campaign is correct to say that. And to connect the millions of Americans who believe that to this shooting is utterly irresponsible. You’ll make a perfect Trump VP. Shame on you."

Trump's decision to ignore such statements and to ultimately pick Vance enraged Bill Kristol and his fellow travelers.

"Having turned the Republican Party into the Trump Party, [Trump is] now turning a Trumpist party into a Trumpist movement. Indeed, the selection of Vance marks the completion of the transformation of a conservative political party into an authoritarian movement," wrote Kristol. "Vance has been more consistently and fervently America First in foreign policy than Trump. He's more committed to ethno-nationalism and anti-'elite' populism than Trump. He's been more committed to destroying any non-political civil service than Trump. He's more contemptuous of the norms, institutions, and mores of liberal democracy than Trump."

Republican strategist Karl Rove called the selection a "missed opportunity" in a Fox News op-ed.

Former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney also melted down over Vance's selection, writing, "JD Vance has pledged he would do what Mike Pence wouldn't — overturn an election and illegally seize power. He says the president can ignore the rulings of our courts. He would capitulate to Russia and sacrifice the freedom of our allies in Ukraine. The Trump GOP is no longer the party of Lincoln, Reagan or the Constitution."

Carlson emphasized that the nature and disposition of Vance's detractors spoke volumes about the former Marine.

'They thought he would be harder to manipulate and slightly less enthusiastic about killing people.'

"It's not like I think ... God's always on my side. Sometimes I'm not on God's side," said Carlson. "But I definitely know who's representing the other side."

"It's a lot easier to tell who the people who are only in it because they like, I don't know, killing other people in pointless wars," continued Carlson. "I know who those people are, and their odor is so powerful that I can smell one when he walks in the room. And every single one of those people, in a line that would extend from Milwaukee to Chicago, was lined up last week to knife JD Vance."

According to Carlson, this enmity toward Vance was not because of who he is as a person, noting he is a nice guy and one of the few in Washington with a happy marriage. Instead, the attacks were launched because "they thought he would be harder to manipulate and slightly less enthusiastic about killing people. That's it — that he would be an impediment to their exercising power and, boy, they went after him in a way I've just kind of never seen."

Carlson went on to note that the attacks on Vance and the assassination attempt on Saturday have underscored for him that the battles underway are not simply political but spiritual.

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'Castrated robots': Tucker Carlson dismantles liberal journalist in front of Aussie crowd



Tucker Carlson gave a speech Tuesday at a sold-out Australian Freedom Conference event in Canberra, one of the final stops in his Australian tour. Carlson's remarks about destructive pharmaceutical companies, woke corporations, Julian Assange's release, dishonest journalists, the obligation of governments to prioritize their own citizens above foreign nationals, and other topics — as well as his mere presence — rankled elements of the country's liberal media.

Following his speech, Carlson fielded questions, including from a pair of antagonistic journalists. Despite their efforts, neither journalist was able to successfully land their attacks.

Kat Wong, a journalist with the Australian Associated Press, opened her attack with, "So, you talked a little bit about immigration, and, in the past, you've talked about how white Australians, Americans, Europeans, are being replaced by non-white immigrants in what is often referred to as the Great Replacement Theory."

Carlson interjected: "Have I said that whites are being replaced? I don't think I said that."

"Well," responded the liberal journalist. "It's been mentioned on your show 4,000 times."

It's unclear how Wong came up with her number. It may have, however, been a gross misunderstanding of a much smaller figure. The New York Times indicated in 2022 that Carlson had broached the topic in over 400 episodes of his former program "Tucker Carlson Today."

"Really? When did I say that?" asked Carlson. "I said, 'Whites are being replaced'?"

When Wong insisted he had discussed replacement in racial terms, Carlson challenged her understanding of the facts and once more asked for a single citation. After Wong failed to produce even that, Carlson clarified his views on the matter.

'If you think that's racist, that's your problem.'

"I said, 'Native-born Americans are being replaced, including blacks,'" said Carlson. "Native-born Americans ... like black Americans have been — African-Americans have been in the United States for, in many cases, their families, over 400 years. And their concerns are every bit as real and valid and alive to me as the concerns of white people whose families have been there 400 years. So, I've never said that whites are being replaced."

After noting that Wong had started things off poorly with a lie, Carlson elaborated further on his thinking:

My concern is that the people who are born in the country are the main responsibility of its leaders. And as noted earlier, when those leaders shift their concern from the people whose responsibility it is to take care of, to people around the world — to put their priorities above that of their own citizens, that's immoral. And they are being replaced in my country, people who were born in the United States and the birth rate tells the whole story. They are not at replacement rate.

So the U.S. population is growing because we're importing people from other countries. My view is that happy people have children. And a functioning economy allows them to do that. We don't have that. So, you need to fix the economy and fix the culture, and make it so that people who want to have kids can. You don't just go for the quick sugar fix of importing new people. And if you think that's racist, that's your problem.

Wong claimed in response that she was not attempting to characterize Carlson as a racist, then proceeded to do just that as well as assign him blame for mass shootings.

"This is the same theory or, as you say, idea, that's inspired the New York, Buffalo, shooting," said the liberal journalist, clumsily echoing the Times' years-old effort to similarly blame Carlson for the mass shooting at Tops Friendly Markets in Buffalo.

"Come on," said Carlson. "How do they get people this stupid in the media? I guess it doesn't pay well. ... I don't mean to call you stupid — maybe you're just pretending to be."

Carlson underscored there was nothing bigoted about his views, adding that they centered on a "deep concern for Americans, actually. Americans aren't having kids because they can't afford to and nobody in charge cares. And so that's my position. That doesn't 'inspire' mass shootings."

The fertility rate in the U.S. last year was 1.784. By way of contrast, in 1960, the U.S. fertility rate was 3.7. For a population to maintain stability and replenish itself without need for an influx of foreign nationals, a fertility rate of 2.1 is needed.

To illustrate the weakness of Wong's ad hominem attacks, Carlson said that she was wearing the same shoes as Adolf Hitler and, as a result, was guilty in likeness, eliciting laughter from the crowd.

Despite the engagement clearly not going her way, Wong attempted one last rhetorical jab, asking Carlson whether he felt responsible for hate crimes supposedly inspired by his outlook. Carlson simply concluded that journalists in Australia, like in the United States, are "castrated robots reading questions from the boss."

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Paul Sakkal of the Sydney Morning Herald similarly tried to shame Tucker Carlson, but his effort also backfired.

Sakkal signaled ahead of a lengthy preamble that his interest was chiefly in Carlson's interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin, prompting Carlson to make a joke at the expense of Australians' own authoritarian leaders: "Did he make you take the COVID shot? No, he didn't."

After noting that various alleged conservatives had deemed Putin "reprehensible," Sakkal asked, "Do you feel any level of shame or regret that you were termed a useful idiot, and then, post your interview, Vladimir Putin himself said in his Russian media that he was surprised how weak your questions were."

Carlson first expressed confusion over how Sakkal could simultaneously regard Putin as evil while also taking his word at face value. Carlson then suggested his longstanding criticism of escalations in Ukraine's defensive war against Russia should not be conflated with his support for the Russian leader. He further indicated that he does not support Putin, but that even if he did, such ought to be immaterial granted free citizens in nominally free countries should be able to express support for whomever they choose.

Sakkal, unable to land his attack in-person, later attempted to do so in the Herald, penning a hit piece wherein he made sure both to reference that Carlson was a "reformed alcoholic" and allude to — but not cite — accusations of anti-Semitism.

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Instagram urges users to reconsider following Tucker Carlson in 'insane warning'



Tucker Carlson has over 3.7 million followers on Instagram. On X, he has nearly 13 million followers. While his following on X is likely far more significant because it is the ostensibly less censorious platform where Carlson routinely uploads episodes of his new show, there may be another reason to account for the delta.

Ashton DeGroot, Blaze Media's social media content coordinator, observed Monday that following Carlson is no easy feat on the Meta platform.

A perfunctory search for Carlson failed to turn up his verified account. Instead, impersonators and fan accounts flooded the results. After multiple tries, it appeared clear that Carlson's verified account would only appear if his exact handle, @TuckerCarlson, was entered into the search bar.

Upon finding Carlson's account, DeGroot found that Instagram put up one last barrier to engagement, imploring prospective followers to reconsider.

The pop-up reads, "Are you sure you want to follow tuckercarlson?"

"This account has repeatedly posted false information that was reviewed by independent fact-checkers or it went against our Community Guidelines," added the pop-up.

Blaze News did not encounter similar warning messages when test-following the accounts of various liberal personalities and publications, which have been outed peddling falsehoods and manufactured narratives.

'Luckily, people are on to this.'

The question is not, for instance, posed to potential followers of Newsweek, despite its loose relationship with the truth. Just last month, Newsweek falsely reported that Tucker Carlson had partnered with a Russian state-owned news channel, when in fact the outlet had effectively appropriated footage of Carlson's without legal permission.

Users will not similarly encounter this warning when attempting to follow Jussie Smollett, who lied incessantly about being attacked by Trump supporters in Chicago when in fact he had paid two Nigerian-born brothers to stage a fake hate crime.

"I have never seen this warning before on any account," DeGroot told Blaze News. "I was following a lot of people for [a Blaze Media account], and out of the 100+ that I followed, Tucker was the only one for whom this came up."

Screenshots taken 6/24/2024.

When asked for comment about Instagram's apparent suppression effort, Neil Patel, co-founder and CEO of the Tucker Carlson Network, told Blaze News, "Tucker has one of the largest audiences in all of media. Millions of people rely on him because they know he's trying his best to tell the truth."

"This combination of scale and independence is a serious threat to established power," continued Patel. "That is the only reason why people can't even go to a Tucker Carlson birthday post on Instagram without some insane warning."

"Luckily, people are on to this," Patel added, noting that they've elected to sidestep "big tech censors" like Instagram altogether and go straight to Tucker Carlson's website.

DeGroot similarly suspects that Instagram's efforts to dissuade people from hearing Carlson out will strike a contrarian nerve in people already familiar with him. However, "for someone who is on the fence, this could be an effective tool to keep them away."

'Today it's Tucker; tomorrow it's Blaze Media.'

"Ultimately, this is a manifestation of what Glenn [Beck] has been saying for years: The left will push conservative voices out of the public square and into the digital ghetto," continued DeGroot. "We are seeing that now with this. You will not stumble upon Tucker's content, and one day you will not stumble upon Blaze Media's content because it goes against the approved narrative and it makes the lives of those in power harder when more people hear our side."

"As a someone who works in social media and has seen the weekly, sometimes daily, changes that have taken place within Meta as we have gotten closer to the election, I feel confident in saying that this is just the beginning of the silencing of conservative voices," said DeGroot. "Today it's Tucker; tomorrow it's Blaze Media. This is why we implore the listener to become a subscriber. When you subscribe, you have direct access to the content. There is no middle man getting in the way — for now, that is.

Blaze News requested comment from Facebook on specifics related to the alleged false information Carlson shared or the guidelines he allegedly violated warranting the pop-up warning on his account. Blaze also asked about the efficacy of such suppression attempts but did not receive a reply by deadline.

This is hardly the first time Instagram or its parent company has erroneously labeled Carlson a peddler of falsehoods.

When still at Fox News in 2020, Carlson interviewed Chinese virologist Li-Meng Yan, who suggested that COVID-19 "is not from nature." While the federal government has since acknowledged the strong likelihood that the virus was made in a lab, specifically the Wuhan lab where researchers took ill in late 2019 while conducting dangerous experiments on coronaviruses, Instagram rushed to label Carlson's interview "False Information" on its platform.

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Carlson calls Newsweek's 'bull****' an attempt to 'give the Biden administration a pretext'



Newsweek joined the establishment media Tuesday in advancing falsehoods and smearing Tucker Carlson. Although the outlet has since updated its piece to reflect a disparate reality, it nevertheless maintained its insinuation that the populist commentator is deferential to the Russian regime.

Some older episodes of Tucker Carlson's show were translated for the benefit of East Slavs, then broadcast on a state-owned Russian news channel. This was done "without legal permission," according Dean Thompson, head of programming and production operations at the Tucker Carlson Network.

Newsweek beclowned itself, reframing this theft as a partnership.

Blaze News previously detailed how Newsweek's "senior news reporter" Brendan Cole falsely claimed that "the show is part of a joint project with Carlson TV, in which he will interview figures and politicians who have 'alternative views to the mainstream.'"

Cole had apparently taken the Russian government newspaper Rossiskya Gazyeta at its word and reportedly refrained from checking in with Carlson or his team.

Neil Patel, CEO of the Tucker Carlson Network, made clear that "the Tucker Carlson Network has not done any deals with state media in any country," adding that "whoever is currently pretending to be the old Newsweek brand would know that if they had checked with us before printing like news companies are supposed to do."

Newsweek's smear, packaged as an article entitled, "Tucker Carlson launches show on Russian state TV," garnered a great deal of attention and plenty of traction, serving to bolster some critics' biases in the U.S. and elsewhere.

The corresponding post on X garnered millions of impressions and hundreds of reposts, including by bloggers such as Bari Weiss as well as longtime Carlson critics like Julia Ioffe and "The Daily Show" correspondent Jordan Klepper.

'It's pretty dark.'

Even though the tweet has since been taken down and the article has been altered, the damage appears to have been done. Various blogs and publications — including the Kyiv-based Ukrainska Pravda — that ran with the claim have yet to provide corrections.

Some online exponents of Newsweek's false narrative, such as Heath Mayor of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, have even refused to cede the ground they believe they gained in the ongoing war on Tucker Carlson's character when confronted with the real story.

Tucker Carlson told Philip Melanchthon Wegmann of RealClear Politics, "Total bull**** in every way."

"Newsweek is very obviously trying to give the Biden administration a pretext to read my personal communications under FISA," continued Carlson. "It's pretty dark."

Biden recently ratified the bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, putting the government in a prime position to spy on Carlson — which may not be the first time.

Citing insights from "a whistleblower within the U.S. government," Carlson suggested in 2021 that the National Security Agency had "been monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an effort to take [his Fox News] show off the air."

When pressed about the Newsweek report, Carlson told CNN's Hadas Gold, "It's all fake, obviously, like most stories in American news media. Of course I have no partnership with Russia. The first I'd heard anything about this was [this] morning."

Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson responded, "It's important to note that this alarming incident appears to be more than 'fake news' — as if that wasn't bad enough — but a deliberate attack on Tucker Carlson and his media business."

"Newsweek, as is so much of the media today, is a pawn in a much larger game. It is clear that some in the federal government want to surveil him, if they don't already, because of his dissenting political views. This is dangerous stuff. Honest media outlets cannot continue allow this sort of thing to keep happening. We must work together to fight back," added Peterson.

Journalist Glenn Greenwald, host of "System Update," noted, "This original Newsweek headline predictably went viral, claiming Tucker Carlson has 'launched' a new program on Russia state TV. The 'edited' article now makes clear the whole story is bull**** — false — but it was an irresistible McCarthyite smear."

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This is not the first time Carlson has been accused of collaborating with Russian state television to broadcast his show. The BBC's Francis Scarr spotted an ad for the Russian translation of Carlson's program, noting in September, "Russian state TV's rolling news channel Rossiya 24 seems to say that Tucker Carlson has landed himself a new job there."

In the face of a similar wave of outrage and ridicule, Carlson told the Financial Times' Max Seddon, "I have no idea what you're talking about. I've never heard of this, or the channel. Of course I'm not hosting a show on Russian television. That's absurd. Please."

"More Russia-related bull****. There's so much I can't keep up," added Carlson.

Blaze News has reached out to Dean Thompson for further comment and will update this article in the event of a response.

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These are Glenn Beck’s initial thoughts following his interview with Tucker Carlson



Yesterday, Glenn Beck had the opportunity to conduct the first interview with Tucker Carlson following the commentator’s return from Russia to interview Vladimir Putin.

Today, Glenn sits down with Pat Gray to share his thoughts on his time with Tucker.

“I think it went really well,” says Glenn. Prior to the interview, “I really didn't know where [Tucker] stood on Russia,” and “as I pushed him on it, he really flipped.”

“He's so tired of having to be clear on absolutely everything when he thinks some things are just understood.”

In essence, Tucker told Glenn: “I'm an American, I don't care about any other country other than America ... If this is what this crappy, communist country can do, what the hell [is America] doing?” and explained that Russia was actually far nicer than it’s being portrayed in the media and that our biggest concern should be the rapid devolution of the United States.

Another topic of conversation was Tucker’s inexplicable ability to relate to the common man despite growing up in the political sphere of Washington, D.C.

“I said, ‘You grew up in Washington, D.C. Your dad ... was part of the machine,”’ Glenn recounts. “‘How is it you escaped all this elitism — because you are kind of elite — and yet you relate to the people?”’

“‘I don’t,’ [Tucker] said. ‘I am the elite ... but because I grew up around them, I know them, and I know them by name ... I despise them.”’

“He said, ‘I love America, and I hate the people who are running it,”’ Glenn explains.

Even though people have essentially called Tucker “Vladimir Putin’s b****” following his controversial interview, “he's not,” says Pat. “He’s just pointing out that we've let our country go to ruin ... and it's partly because of the oppression that they have in Russia.”

Glenn confirms that this is entirely true.

“[Tucker] said, ‘I’m not saying we should be Russian. We should be pissed off that the Russians have this,”’ referring to how nice and in-tact Russia actually is, ‘“while we have tent cities”’ in America.

“He’s absolutely right,” says Glenn.

Tucker also took a similar approach when Glenn broached the subject of Alexei Navalny’s mysterious and sudden death.

“He said, ‘Why does that matter so much to Americans? … I don’t care about Navalny. I care about what’s happening here in America.”’

In sum, Tucker told Glenn, “‘I don't care about the internal politics of Ukraine; I don't care about the internal politics of Russia ... How does that affect us?”’

“He’s right,” agrees Pat.

To hear more of Glenn’s thoughts on his interview with Tucker, watch the clip below.


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Glenn Beck’s First Thoughts After His Tucker Interview

Glenn Beck’s First Thoughts After His Tucker Interview

Glenn Beck and Tucker Carlson consider whether American decline is by design and a prelude to authoritarian rule



Tucker Carlson revealed in a spirited conversation Tuesday with nationally syndicated radio host and co-founder of Blaze Media Glenn Beck that his tour of foreign nations has little to do with those destinations and everything to do with the United States — a nation he would like see restored to greatness or at the very least boosted back to the domestic and international prowess it apparently enjoyed circa 1993.

During his first interview in the U.S. since his return from Russia, the titular head of the Tucker Carlson Network broached various topics with Beck, nearly all linked back to the health and integrity of the United States.

Before the duo delved too deeply into matters directly affecting the U.S., Beck pressed Carlson on recent critiques over his Russian reportage, for which critics have pulled the Cold War term "useful idiot" out of retirement; forced parallels to the Soviet propaganda peddled by the New York Times' Pulitzer-winning Walter Duranty; made accusations of economic illiteracy; and, in the case of Bill Kristol, demanded Carlson's exile.

Carlson recently interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin, then joined Muscovites in traversing the Soviet-constructed Moscow Metro system, wherein he marveled at the Russian capital's apparently clean and orderly underground.

Carlson also visited a grocery store in hopes of ascertaining firsthand whether sanctions on the Slavic nation have had an impact on citizens' shopping experience.

"Coming to a Russian grocery store, the 'heart of evil,' and seeing what things cost and how they live — it will radicalize you against our leaders," Carlson said in the video. "That's how I feel, anyway: radicalized. We're not making any of this up, by the way. At all."

Beck told Carlson Tuesday that it would not be hard to replicate such cleanliness and order if one would allow for the kind of totalitarian overreach and bloodletting seen in nations like North Korea; that behind such glimmers of utopia lurk monstrous systems alien to America.

"There's a lot of people on the right and the left that are both saying, 'Screw the Constitution. We need a radicalized leader,'" said Beck. "When you look at Orban, I think Orban is great for his country. That's not our system. ... Moscow might be great. Love to visit. That's not our system," said Beck. "The only path forward for America is through the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution."

Carlson agreed, making expressly clear over the course of the interview that contrary to recent complaints leveled against him, he is neither a flack for Putin nor a fan of strongman authoritarianism. Rather, he suggested that the point of his foreign travels was to shake Americans out their resignation to the very domestic trends steering America off the path Beck mentioned and toward authoritarianism.

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"The people that run our country are destroying it, and they're doing it on purpose," said Carlson. "With what they've done at the border: completely changing the population, letting millions and millions of people who have no connection to the United States, can't possibly help our economy, can't possibly unify our very fractured civic culture ... whose loyalty and knowledge of the United States is completely in question. In fact, their identities are in question."

Carlson indicated that this engineered demographic upheaval is taking place amidst an imported opioid epidemic, costly multilateral initiatives abroad that overstretch the U.S., manufactured race hatred, and lawlessness.

He suggested to Beck that the destruction under way and the disenchantment that follows are altogether a means to break down resistance to a potential statist overcorrection and authoritarian regime.

"We have the laws. They're not being enforced on purpose. ... And of course the reason is because people will lose faith in liberal democracy, and they will welcome a strongman, and that's exactly what this about," said Carlson.

While quick to attribute this program to the left, Carlson also credited the "quisling right on Capitol Hill."

"The communists did it. It's the color revolution. And it's Cloward-Piven," said Beck. "It's happening right in front of our eyes."

According to Carlson, the result and aim of this alleged project is that "people are just going to give up. They're not going to vote, [thinking], 'They're going to steal the elections, just as they stole the last one,' which they did — sorry."

"And they're going to steal the next one, and people are just going to be like, 'You know what? I don't even care. I just totally give up. This is crazy. Just get the bums off my street. Some guy just exposed himself to my daughter, or my nephew just died of a fentanyl OD. Make it stop,'" continued Carlson.

"I don't want that. I want to live in the country we lived in in 1993 or 1985. Not ancient history. Post-Civil Rights Act. We can do that. Let's do it right now," added Carlson.

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Kyle Rittenhouse tells Tucker Carlson liberal reporters are worse than Antifa



Kyle Rittenhouse discussed the fallout of his fateful 2020 encounter with leftist guerillas in the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, in a recent interview with Tucker Carlson. The 20-year-old survivor of the BLM riots, a target both of leftist violence and of liberal propaganda, indicated the latter is the greater threat to the country.

What's the background?

On Aug. 25, 2020, Rittenhouse, then 17 years old, shot three radicals who mobbed him during a leftist riot in Kenosha. He successfully sent two of his attackers — a domestic abuser with multiple convictions and a convicted, violent child molester — to the morgue and disarmed a third who had advanced on him with a loaded weapon.

Although initially charged with homicide, attempted homicide, and reckless endangering, Rittenhouse was ultimately acquitted in November 2021.

Throughout and even after his trial, liberal reporters and talking heads trafficked in false claims about Rittenhouse. While he opened fire in self-defense and with great restraint, he was characterized as a murderer. While his deceased attackers were white, he was routinely accused of killing black men and being a racist.

For instance, after his acquittal, Whoopi Goldberg of ABC's "The View" claimed Rittenhouse had murdered two people. Failed congressional candidate Cenk Uygur similarly repeatedly called Rittenhouse a murderer. Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg used his platform to designate the shootings murders long before a jury had reached a decision. Harper's Bazaar pushed the claim that he was a "frontline mercenary for white supremacy" while the Associated Press played up the narrative that his case was tied up matters of race and inequality. MSNBC correspondent Joy Reid, devastated by Rittenhouse's successful defense and obsessing over his race, leaned especially hard into him, drawing parallels between Rittenhouse and "slave catchers."

Nicholas Sandmann, another young man defamed by the liberal media, noted in an op-ed for the Daily Mail, "Kyle was almost immediately labelled a 'white supremacist' and a 'domestic terrorist.' ... The attacks on Kyle came from the national news media, just as they came for me. They came quickly, without hesitation, because Kyle was an easy target that they could paint in the way they wanted to."

The greater of two evils

Carlson asked Rittenhouse who his greatest supporters and detractors were in the aftermath of the BLM riot in Kenosha.

"My biggest supporters have been Christians," said Rittenhouse. "Those have been my biggest supporters and mostly a lot of people who believe in the rule of law."

He later singled out Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) as the lawmakers who steadfastly supported him throughout the ordeal, even prior to his acquittal.

Rittenhouse suggested his biggest detractors have alternatively been "people who don't really have a sense of what's going on. They'll be like reporters from left-leaning news companies."

Carlson pressed the issue, asking, "Who do you think, long-term, has been worse for the country: Antifa or liberal reporters?"

Without hesitation, fired back, "Liberal reporters. Liberal reporters essentially encouraged Antifa and enabled them."

Rittenhouse cited CNN as an example of a liberal outlet that has excused leftist violence and destruction. He specifically referenced CNN national correspondent Omar Jimenez's infamous coverage of the BLM riot in Kenosha, wherein the network juxtaposed footage of an inferno unleashed on the city by rioters with a graphic that read, "Fiery but mostly peaceful protests after police shooting."

"What is a mostly peaceful but fiery protest?" asked Rittenhouse. "That's not a peaceful protest. That's mass arson."

Carlson responded, "And that's obviously a lie. But then it's not an ordinary lie. It's a lie that abets evil; that allows evil things to happen, violence to happen. Kind of tells you a lot."

Rittenhouse intimated in the interview that whereas leftist guerillas' negative potential and antipathies are localized, liberal reporters' antagonism scales with their audiences.

"What they write goes into other people's heads," said Rittenhouse. "I would say most of America is independent, slightly left-leaning, slightly right-leaning. That's most of America. ... They believe in the Constitution and they just want to see a good country. But then you have left-leaning reporters who villainize me and say all these false things to where everyday people sometimes believe that."

Carlson later asked, "Since you're one of the very few people who's actually seen what this kind of violence looks like — you know, they tried to murder you — are you concerned that we're coming in for more of this?"

"I can definitely see in the future that more of this will play out, more of this will happen, especially if the politicians who are running this country are still in office and they continue to enable it, and they continue to encourage violence, encourage rioting. I could definitely see more riots and more violence in the future," said Rittenhouse.

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'The corporate media lied too much. And it killed them': Tucker Carlson launches subscription streaming service



Tucker Carlson, a conservative media figure who started releasing videos on social media earlier this year after his popular Fox News Channel program was suddenly nixed, has announced the launch of a company, the Tucker Carlson Network, a subscription streaming service that costs $6 per month for an annual subscription or $9 per month for a monthly subscription.

"The corporate media lied too much. And it killed them," Carlson declared in a video posted on the TCN X account.

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"We've decided that we need something new. Something relentlessly honest that the corporate gatekeepers can't touch," Carlson noted in another video.

"There's only one solution to a propaganda spiral like the one we're living through, and it's telling the truth about the things that matter — clearly and without fear. That's our job. We plan to do it every day, no matter what," text on the website reads.

Carlson, who has been posting content on X, told Megyn Kelly during an appearance on her program that "the X stuff is not going away," noting that he has "been amazed by what a great platform it's been."

One of the benefits for members of Carlson's platform will be an "Ask Tucker" section where people can pose questions for Carlson to answer. "People often ask Tucker for personal advice. Now, as a member, you can ask him any question — and he'll respond," the website states.

People are already signing up for Carlson's new platform.

"Just signed up for @TCNetwork. At six bucks a month, it's cheaper than a pint at my favorite pub," J Michael Waller tweeted.

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"I subscribed to @TuckerCarlson⁩ new project and you should too," Julie Kelly posted.

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