Tucker Carlson’s No Good, Very Bad Week 

It’s been a shit week for Tucker Carlson, and it’s not over yet. 

Monday and Tuesday were controlled by bipartisan criticism versus the host for his transparent attempt to reword the truth of Jan. 6. After costs weeks combing through more than 44,000 hours of Capitol security video from the Jan. 6 riots, Carlson’s lies about the tape were too careless for even Republican leadership to safeguard. 

On Tuesday night a brand-new set of evidentiary files connected to the Dominion Voting Systems character assassination lawsuit versus Fox dropped, capturing Carlson in the crosshairs. 

In the filing, Carlson and his fellow primetime hosts praise each other over the power they hold at Fox, and disparage their coworkers. Carlson even presumes regarding ask host Sean Hannity to assist get one the network’s White House correspondents fired. 

Text messages with coworkers likewise exposed Carlson confessing that he “passionately” hates former President Trump, and revealing relief at his impending ousting from workplace. The host yields that there’s no fact to Trump’s claims of scams and election theft. “We are very, very near to having the ability to neglect Trump most nights” he composes, “I really can’t wait.”

The brand-new files put the disingenuousness of Fox’s heading host on complete screen, with invoices exposing the contempt he holds for his audience and colleagues. Now, the network frontman has no option however to power through it. 

On Wednesday night Carlson provided an unusual sector applauding Trump for his “vibrant” brand-new 2024 platform. We can just think if that sector was recommended by Fox executives currently straining to conserve their degrading relationship with the previous President. 

Last week, Trump had a veritable meltdown over a deposition offered by Fox Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch in the course of the Dominion suit. Murdoch confessed that hosts on the network aired incorrect claims about the election and declared citizen scams, which business executives might have stepped in to avoid their broadcast. 

With every file release originating from the suit and every episode Carlson airs in its aftermath, Murdoch’s admission comes into clearer focus. While the suit concentrates on conspiracy theories concerning Dominion that were aired and promoted by the network, the ramifications of Fox’s election false information are even more substantial than a possible damages examine. Despite everything, the network still can’t stop its greatest stars from with confidence pushing air. 

On Monday night, Carlson reasserted the now common conservative belief that the “2020 election was a severe betrayal of American democracy offered the realities that have actually given that emerged about that election. No truthful individual can reject it.” The exact same claim sustained the Jan. 6 rioters effort to avoid President Joe Biden from being licensed as president-elect—a claim we now understand Carlson independently acknowledged was false.

Carlson then invested every night of this week quadrupling down on his efforts to modify the Jan. 6 riot in the U.S. Capitol as an unfair persecution of “meek and organized” travelers, who dealt with the Capitol with “respect.”

Nevermind individuals who smeared shit on the walls, or the more than $1.5 million in damage done to the structure. 

“We dislike vandalism, we dislike attack,” Carlson informed audiences Wednesday. “Was it a violent insurrection? It was not.” 

Despite having access to 10s of countless hours of video, Carlson’s tirade was hardly worthwhile. The host right away fell back to attempted and real, largely debunked claims about figures like Officer Brian Sicknick, and “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley. 

Determined to extend his Jan. 6 propaganda into a multi-day phenomenon, Carlson has, as typical, dedicated a substantial quantity of time to berating his critics. He called legislators, consisting of members of his own celebration, who pressed back on his lies “sociopaths” in league with the Democrats. Carlson likewise firmly insisted that it was really everybody else who was cherry-picking video to “persuade Americans that Jan. 6 was something that it wasn’t.” 

Fox and Carlson are professionals at evading responsibility, a well cultivated routine that has actually permitted them to provide bold-faced lies to their audiences for many years. All throughout, the internal characteristics of the network have actually been shrouded in reports and bits from unnamed sources ready to provide a quote. Through the release of the Dominion files, a level of openness Fox would have never ever willingly consented to has actually been attained, and it appears like Carlson’s trousers are being flamed to a crisp.