Tucker Carlson

Federal Judge Slams Tucker Carlson For Misleading Jan. 6 Segment
A broadcast painting Jan. 6 rioters as peaceful “sightseers” was “ill-advised” and "replete with misstatements and misrepresentations” that were “too numerous to count,” Judge Royce Lamberth said.
Where Things Stand: Desperate DeSantis Zeroes In On Evangelicals With Tucker Carlson’s Help
This is your TPM evening briefing.

Ron DeSantis is struggling in the polls, and at acting like a human being in public. The Murdochs are losing patience with his flailing efforts to become the alt-Trump for voters exhausted by MAGA. He’s getting a lot of negative headlines now that his Republican-dominated state legislature back home has ended its legislative session and is therefore no longer producing anti-woke bills for him to sign into law and pump into Fox’s news cycle.

So naturally he’s turning to a key voting bloc that — at times reluctantly — got behind Donald Trump in droves in 2016 to propel him to the White House: white evangelicals. It’s an intrinsic shift for any Republican but especially for one who is banking his entire 2024 bid on what he perceives to be his unique ability to scoop up disaffected Trump voters looking for an alternative to the former president’s various disagreeable features.

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Where Things Stand: There’s No Shiny Musk-Carlson Deal
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At least, that’s what the billionaire is claiming.

Just shortly after Tucker Carlson announced in a video lauding Elon Musk’s social media platform as the only safe space left for Truth Tellers like himself that he’d be taking his “show” to Twitter, the billionaire set the record straight.

Musk — who’s been doing favors for white nationalists and giving far-right extremist rhetoric an elevated platform since his Twitter takeover — tweeted to clarify that there’s no deal with Tucker and also to maintain that he, the founding father of free speech, is not playing favorites.

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Where Things Stand: He’s Giving Up $25 Million For … That?
This is your TPM evening briefing.

Tucker Carlson is scooping up his massive viewership and taking his show to Elon Musk’s janky, zombified Twitter.

Set against the backdrop of what appears to be the inside of a rustic and masculine cabin in the wood, Carlson made the announcement with a familiar scowl and posted the video to his Twitter account Tuesday afternoon. He said a bunch of his usual stuff about the media being misleading and cable news being propaganda, while making some unsubtle digs at Fox, like:

“The best you can hope for in the news business at this point is the freedom to tell the fullest truth that you can. But there are always limits. And you know that if you bump up against those limits often enough, you will be fired for it,” he said.

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In 2020 Texts Tucker Carlson Lamented He Would Likely ‘Die’ At Fox News
Tucker Carlson Helped Broker The Deal That Got McCarthy The Speaker’s Gavel
Listen To This: What The Tuck

A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss the ousters of Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon, as well as the Supreme Court order on mifepristone.

You can listen to the new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast here.

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