Fox News anchor, Tucker Carlson, is nationally known as an ultra-conservative on primetime news. Carlson first started the big job right after the 2016 election, which started his frenzy of promoting the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. To this day, he has been spinning stories to make the Republicans look better, while also trying to make the Democrats look much worse. Because that job is insanely difficult, Carlson has to lie… a lot.
During and after the January 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol building in 2021, Carlson was the first voice to defend the “peaceful protestors.” Keep in mind, ten people, both rioters and officers, died as a result of the event. Four of those ten people were officers who committed suicide after the attacks. Former President Trump’s response was three hours too late, as he didn’t call the attackers off until he was forced to. Carlson became the live defender of the attacks on his show from then to present day, even suggesting Antifa, a left-wing anti-fascist and anti-racist group, was the real attacker.
I ask myself how he sleeps at night knowing he’s just spewing lie after lie to his audience. It turns out that he didn’t sleep that well because text messages were released between him and co-workers that showed he actually wasn’t a big fan of Former-President Trump. One Carlson text on January 4, 2021, read, “We are very very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights, I truly can’t wait.” Carlson then texted other Fox News hosts, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity, the same day about how Trump denied the 2020 election results, “I hate [Trump] passionately … What he’s good at is destroying things. He’s the undisputed world champion of that. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong,” and later, “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There really isn’t an upside to Trump.”
Tucker Carlson is an example of how easily the media can give extremely biased and sometimes false information to a large audience. Every claim made on the news won’t always be true, but wow. News anchors and reporters have the power to say anything they want, sometimes resulting in brainwashing a large group of people. Carlson is making an estimated $35 million per year. At this point, it shows that even if the anchor says it, they themselves might not even believe it. Be careful what you believe, because anyone on your television making a bold statement could be extremely unreliable.
- Jacob Francy
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