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Tucker Carlson is Awful, Bad for America and Untouchable
The Murdochs will never fire their top earner
I’ve written so many articles about FOX News pundit Tucker Carlson, I’m sick of doing it. I’ve written about his white supremacy, his use of propaganda and conspiracy theories, and his support of the worst president in American history.
Carlson is both a high-profile media figure and also one of the worst people in the business. If he worked at a real media outlet, he’d have been fired long ago. But he works at FOX News Channel (FNC,) where propaganda and white nationalism is the name of the game. And FNC’s owners will never fire him.
“‘He’s untouchable. He knows it, his staff knows it, everyone knows it,’ one Fox News insider said of Carlson’s standing with Fox management,” said The Daily Beast. “‘The Murdochs love him,’ one former Fox News personality said. ‘Like them, he is a rich, prep school kid born with a silver spoon who traffics in populism while living in an expensive ivory tower and never meeting in real life the people he gins up for ratings.’”
