‘I’m a Dick’: Tucker Carlson Explains to Chris Cuomo Why He Was So Mean to Him on Fox News
Tucker Carlson explained to NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo on Monday why he was so mean to him on his former Fox News show, confessing that he had a penchant for being “a dick.”
During an interview on the Tucker Carlson Network, Cuomo brought up Carlson’s previous attacks on him when he was an anchor at CNN and said, “I still wanna know why you came after me as much as you did.”
Carlson – who mocked Cuomo’s dismissal from CNN and called him “the single dumbest person ever to perform on cable news” – replied, “‘Cause I’m a dick, probably,” before laughing in a moment which first aired on NewsNation.
He added, “‘Cause it was easy. ‘Cause I don’t like CNN and I really mean that.”
“But why me?!” asked Cuomo.
“I don’t know,” Carlson replied.
After Cuomo questioned, “How can you not know? It was so intentional. It was so frequent,” Carlson explained:
I was pissed about the Covid thing, that is totally true. I didn’t buy any of this from day one, that was totally real. But thats not– what I did was not really a pure refutation of your positions on Covid. It was me taking the cheap shots, which I’m not always above, and– but you should be. You should be above them.
“Did it feel good when you would come after me like that?” pressed Cuomo, to which Carlson replied, “Felt a little dirty.”
The former Fox News host then said, “I don’t want to use any sexual metaphor, but there is one for this. It’s like something you shouldn’t be doing, but there’s kind of the animal thrill of doing something wrong.”
Cuomo shot back, “My in-laws watch you. Do you know how hard it is to deal with having your in-laws enjoy a joke that makes you wanna do, you know, bad things that are gonna cost you civil litigation money?”
Carlson concluded, “I have weaknesses, I will say. I don’t have weakness for women, I gave up drinking many years ago, but I still– I’m still beset by weaknesses of the flesh and one of them is mockery.”
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