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Chris J. Karr's avatar

I don't know enough to to say whether the accusation here is true or false - and am unlikely to get any useful corroborating evidence out of Carlson or the NSA - but I'm curious what you make of the reports that while Carlson's beating this spying drum during FOX News' opinion hours, the folks working in the actual newsroom don't want to touch his claims with a ten-foot pole:

"The highest-rated Fox News host is reportedly 'extra pissed' at his employer for not vocally championing his far-fetched allegations against the federal government. Since Tucker Carlson claimed two weeks ago that he is being secretly spied on by the National Security Agency in an attempt to take him off the air, the network has largely ignored his supposed revelations both from a PR standpoint and in its coverage—silence that suggests not even Fox News is buying the surveillance narrative. A perceived lack of support from colleagues and network executives—the top two of which have not issued statements of public support or decried the NSA’s alleged behavior—has Carlson 'furious' that Fox, especially its PR team, is “not backing him up,” one source told CNN, adding: 'Tensions are sky high.'"

Fake news or does the Deep State extend so deeply into FOX News itself that Carlson can't get his fellow folks there to jump on the kind of story that would otherwise be bleeding red meat to throw up on their front page and lead their news segment with? In the absence of any hard evidence one way or the other, why should I take Carlson's self-interested claims more seriously than the silence of the actual reporters in that organization?

[1] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/07/tucker-carlson-is-reportedly-pissed-at-fox-news-for-not-backing-his-nsa-claims

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Rob's avatar

I try to be fair and level headed, but Tucker Carlson is hated outside Fox News sycophants because he is a noun that starts with the letter a that makes up stuff and tries to spin agenda driven opinion as facts with senseless gorp like white people are under attack and vaccines are bad.

I realize this story is about something more (don’t use words like blindingly obvious as a suggestion if you hope to invoke any sort of persuasion), but I’m not able to get past the words: Tucker Carlson.

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