Tucker Carlson On Journalists: "I Really Hate Them"

Tucker Carlson

Mainstream US journalists are “cowards”, the Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on Friday, without naming any such reporters whom he also called “cringing animals not worthy of respect”.

The Guardian reports the primetime host also called others in his chosen field “small-minded, status-obsessed, insecure, not that bright, just not impressive”.

“It just makes me sick,” he said. “I really hate them.”

Carlson was speaking to Outkick, a sports and pop culture website. His complaints included that mainstream journalists’ work was not “aimed upwards”.

“I just can’t overstate how disgusted I am,” he said, “not simply by the details of the lying of the medium, but disgusted by the emphasis. The media is basically Praetorian Guard for the ruling class, the bodyguards for Jeff Bezos. That’s the opposite of what we should have.

“I really hate them for it, I’ll be honest.”

Carlson has been broadly supportive of Donald Trump in and out of power, last October famously hosting a bizarre interview after the then president recovered from a bout with Covid-19.

Carlson is seen in some quarters as a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2024, should Trump chose not to run.

In an echo of controversy over comments in which he said immigration made America “dirtier”, the Fox News host also told Outkick: “Unrestrained mass immigration has also put a huge strain on the natural world.

“Just the amount of pollution and litter and destruction that’s generated by the movement of hundreds of thousands of people, unrestrained, across the border. That’s not a small thing to me. But you never hear that. I’ve never heard anybody mention that. And it’s so awful.”

Fox News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.