Have you heard the new Tucker Carlson conspiracy claim? According to him, the NSA is illegally spying on him!
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Tucker Carlson, one of the most conservative, outlandish, and wackiest personalities on the Fox News Network, is notorious for spewing a boatload of nonsense day-to-day. After all, this is the man who announced on air that it was the FBI and not Donald Trump’s MAGA minions who were responsible for the January 6th attack on Capitol Hill. However, his latest claim is such a doozy, even his colleagues at Fox aren’t biting the bait.
The Tucker Carlson conspiracy was revealed last week when the host announced that a whistleblower informed him that the National Security Agency is spying on him — and is planning to leak his communications publicly in a blackmail bid to take him off the air.
“The Biden administration is spying on us,” Carlson declared to millions of Fox’s viewers. “We have confirmed that.”
Too bad Carlson appears to be the only one inside Fox News who actually believes this so-called Tucker Carlson conspiracy.
Since Carlson aired his claim, Fox News hasn’t said a single syllable about the alleged spying story. Naturally, if the US government were spying on an American journalist from any media company, the story would have been breaking news and garnering 24-hour coverage at Fox and every other news outlet across the country.
For example, when The Washington Post, CNN, and The New York Times discovered that the Trump Justice Department had seized the records of its reporters, the revelation led to weeks of coverage and a commitment from the Biden administration to end such practices.
However, no such reporting related to an alleged Tucker Carlson story has appeared on Fox or anywhere.
A Google search of Fox’s transcripts found zero coverage by the network on Tuesday morning. Nor did Carlson’s claims appear anywhere on the Fox News website. Fox’s chief executive Suzanne Scott and president Jay Wallace have not released a single statement condemning the NSA’s supposed behavior. Even “Fox & Friends,” the right-wing morning show that has repeatedly latched on to several of Trump’s conspiracy theories, hasn’t said a peep about the story.
Still, Tucker Carlson has remained undeterred and even doubled down by reiterating that not only was the NSA spying on him, but it was conspiring to take him off of the air for “political reasons.”
Hmmm…
Could it be that Tucker Carlson has uttered so many lies that, like Trump, he eventually begins to actually believe them? Or, perhaps Tucker Carlson is all “tuckered” out and badly in need of a vacation!
Could it be that Tucker Carlson has uttered so many lies that, like Trump, he eventually begins to actually believe them? Or, perhaps Tucker Carlson is all “tuckered” out and badly in need of a vacation! […] -DJ
Yes. and Yes.
AND it could also be a sinister but smart move on Tucker’s part to try to keep his job. A preemptive strike (if you will) against Fox, prompted by his paranoia (and/or “whispers” behind his back) that’s convinced him that Fox wants to get rid of him (is fed-up with his twisted azz) and has some “secret” plan to do so in the very near future.