Tucker Carlson’s Former Head Writer at Fox Pans His New Show: ‘It Had to Be Said’

The former head writer of Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News took aim at former boss Tucker Carlson.

On Monday, Carlson posted the latest episode of The Tucker Carlson Encounter on X, in which he interviewed X/Twitter personality Catturd2. The video is a far cry from Carlson’s status as the host of the most-watched cable news show less than one year ago.

After Carlson’s episode dropped, a contributing editor for The American Conservative quote-tweeted the show and posited that the ex-Fox host selects his interview subjects based on how many followers they have. Gregg Re, who wrote for Carlson’s Fox program, replied approvingly.

“If Tucker had been on the air we’d have a timely, live, and fiery monologue on the border/fencing SCOTUS,” wrote Chris Brunet. “[D]epressing — it’s such a transparent strategy, ‘lets just interview the accounts with a bunch of followers so they RT'”.

In a reply, Re stated that “you’re one of the few people willing to say it out loud, but it needed to be said”.

Re also liked a tweet from Mediaite’s Isaac Schorr, who expressed additional criticism of Carlson, though Re’s profile notes that “RT’s and likes are not endorsements.”

“Personally, I’m enjoying Tucker’s more overt embrace of what he is: The most desperate member of the herd, not its leader,” Schorr wrote.

Fox News fired Carlson in April of last year shortly after the network settled a $787.5 million defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems. Carlson and other hosts and guests suggested or outright claimed Dominion helped rig the 2020 election against then-President Donald Trump.

During the case, a filing by Dominion revealed that Carlson referred to a senior Fox News executive as a “cunt.”