More than seven months after leaving the network, former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson has revealed the real position of his former employer about the tape from January 6.
In a podcast conversation that was made public on Thursday, Carlson informed presenter Roseanne Barr that Fox’s management “really didn’t like” the way he covered the Capitol intrusion on January 6 because he said the alleged uprising was a “lie” and a “set-up.”
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“A bunch of people quit over that,” he said.
“They were so outraged because I said it seems like there were probably a lot of feds in the crowd on Jan. 6.”
“Oh yeah, buttloads,” Barr replied.
“And now it turns out, of course, there were way more than I even imagined,” Carlson continued.
“The whole thing was a complete set-up. The whole thing was a lie, and it was used to put people in prison for expressing their constitutionally protected rights.”
More than 1,200 Americans who were connected to the 2021 protests in the Capitol have been detained on allegations of violence and damaging government property. These details clarify his remarks.
Carlson revealed that Fox “strongly disagreed” with him when he questioned the official line of events surrounding the Russia-Ukraine war on live air, in addition to his reporting from January 6.
Disclosing the specific restrictions on his program was a secret that not even the news network would discuss.
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See why his employers would not put the lines he could not cross in writing.
“I’d always say, write it down for me. Oh, I can’t say that? Send me a text, I’ve got a bad memory. Oh, I can’t be conservative on a conservative TV channel?” he said.
“Just write that down for me, if you would, just so I can have it as a reference point.”
He continued by stating that Fox was “very nice to me the entire time I was there,” notwithstanding their differences over his coverage of Ukraine and January 6.
The pundit admitted that he was shocked when he was fired in late April, but after “taking three steps back,” he no longer felt shocked.
“First of all, television is like that. People get fired,” he said. “There are all kinds of lines that no one will explain explicitly.”
Since the program’s June premiere, Carlson has interviewed a number of prominent figures in the conservative media, including former president Donald Trump, Candace Owens of “Daily Wire,” and many more. Carlson currently broadcasts his own news program on X.
