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Tucker Carlson, the top-rated Fox News host who has built a following pushing conspiracy theories and lighting into the culture wars, on Friday flirted with a presidential run in his speech to a large gathering of Christian conservative voters in Des Moines, Iowa. Carlson used the event to blast transgender athletes, high energy prices (and wind turbines), make a glancing mention to Jan. 6 (an issue which hasn’t engaged voters on the right), before ultimately pivoting to an attack on corporate America. The speech ultimately focused on the kind of pocketbook issues that have been engaging many voters this year,...

Thursday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson sounded off on some GOP lawmakers and their staffers saying the riot at the U.S. Capitol this week by President Donald Trump supporters that resulted in multiple deaths was racist. Some Republican officials are even mulling removing Trump from office in the wake of the chaos at the Capitol. The “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host questioned what was racist about the group of people storming the Capitol Building. He went on to argue the “main problem” in the GOP is that the money class, much like across the country, “sneer” at the lower class.

Vote for Tucker Carlson on Dancing with the Stars tonight, 1 800 vote-4-03 / 1 800 868-3403 If you love Tucker on MSNBC - libertarian spokesman for America - then keep him on the show another week. He was bad, but he deserves to have fun for another week! And it makes the show fun for us. He is family, for all us libertarians!

~SNIP~ CARLSON: We think of liberals as less religious than conservatives. And all surveys of voting behavior bear that out. The more often you go to church, the more likely you are to vote Republican. Not a pejorative statement; just a fact. How is it that liberals, as you say, are every bit as religious as conservatives? COULTER: Well, it‘s a godless religion. It bears all of the earmarks, often the less attractive earmarks of the ways they attack religion, the hysteria, the intolerance, the self-righteousness. I mean, as I say at one point in the book, you never run...

Published: January 21, 2006 12:10 PM ET NEW YORK While much of the liberal blogosphere, and political figures such as Sen. John Kerry, remain inflamed over comments by MSNBC's Chris Matthews on "Hardball" on Thursday--in which he suggested that Osama bin Laden, in his latest video tape, sounded an awful lot like fillmmaker Michael Moore--The New York Times has also now been linked to Osama by another cable news pundit. On Friday night, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough weighed in on the subject, going beyond Moore to claim that bin Laden was also borrowing language or ideas from the likes of Howard...

‘Crossfire' Gets Ruffed Up By LISA DEMORAES Published on 11/3/2004 Looking for a way to put to rest any talk that “The Daily Show” faux anchor Jon Stewart had gotten the best of them when he was a guest on their show, “Crossfire's” Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson had Triumph the Insult Comic Dog hand puppet on Monday, the final full day of the presidential race. “Regular viewers of this show — both of you — know that occasionally our guests come on and insult the hosts, so we thought we'd wind up this very nasty campaign by interviewing the...

TUCKER CARLSON: This, it seems to me to defy common sense. Just let me just give you one obvious, the most obvious example. The societies that I am aware of with the highest level of religiosity just pick two, Iran and Saudi Arabia, have in fact the lowest level of dysfunctions, like the ones Mr. Paul mentions abortion, homicide, teen pregnancy, STDs, they have virtually none.

Perhaps the best way to sum up an MSNBC talk show that describes itself as "so fast - it's changing the pace of news" is by adopting the program's taste for summary judgment: "The Situation," starring Tucker Carlson, a former host of CNN's "Crossfire," is all cross and no fire. Next topic. MSNBC is the River Styx of television talk shows. These kinds of news-based programs were supposed to serve as a farm team for the network leagues, testing the talent of lesser-known commentators and reporters in a looser, more forgiving format. Lately, however, all the synergy is going south,...

"MSNBC is close to signing a deal with CNN's Tucker Carlson, paving the way for the conservative Crossfire co-host to fill the 9:00pm primetime position soon to be vacated by Deborah Norville. MSNBC staffers have been buzzing about the possibility in recent days, three sources told TVNewser. One insider speculated that Carlson's program would attract new viewers to the network, but more importantly, "it shows that MSNBC is a priority and folks are trying their darndest to make it work." Carlson feels that CNN hasn't treated him well, a source said. MSNBC executives, on the other hand, are thrilled by...

<p>So who better to call for the latest inside-the-porkway poop on which Democrat is going to win than Tucker Carlson, the co-host of CNN's "Crossfire"?</p> <p>Carlson, a fine writer and straight-talker whose book "Politicians, Partisans and Parasites" recounts his crazy career in cable news, was in Los Angeles yesterday for a little R&R when he answered the Trib's desperate call for professional analysis.</p>

Phone Wars CNN's Tucker Carlson thought he was having a bit of fun when, during a "Crossfire" segment in which he defended telemarketers, he was asked for his home number but recited the number of the Fox News Washington bureau instead. Fox retaliated by posting Carlson's unlisted Virginia number on its Web site. After his wife was deluged with obscene calls, Carlson says, he went to Fox's Capitol Hill bureau Friday to complain, and was told his number would be taken down if he apologized on the air. Fox spokeswoman Irena Briganti says Carlson was "completely irresponsible" and that the...

The two leading cable news networks, Fox News and CNN, have engaged in a tit-for-tat public battle over phone numbers. According to Fox, Tucker Carlson, co-host of CNN's "Crossfire," made a "journalistic blunder" by giving out the phone number of Fox's Washington bureau on the air when he was prodded to reveal his own home number. After Fox began receiving "numerous phone calls," according to the report, Fox posted a story on its website that included Tucker's actual home phone number. "Viewers who want to reach Carlson can, in fact, dial the television 'personality' at his Virginia home at [number]."...

<p>This is a hoot! Tucker Carlson of CNN's Crossfire frequently defends telemarketers [so I hear—don't know; don't watch CNN]. One viewer wrote challenging Carlson to give out his home number so the viewer could call him to market 'some junk in the viewer's garage.'</p> <p>So Carlson gave a number on the air—only it was not Carlson's home number. It was the number of Fox News Channel's Washington Bureau.</p> <p>So Fox published "a correction" for Carlson [with Fox tongue implanted firmly in cheek] and listed Carlson's home number!</p>

1.1 million copies total, after Simon and Schuster said they were printing 100,000 more copies after last nights supposed 'record' night at Barnes and Noble.He probably wont have to actually eat his shoe on Inside Politics, Begala will probably buy him a cake in the shape of one..