Tucker Carlson Nukes Fox News and Mark Levin in Fiery Bannon Interview: ‘Trying to Knock Elderly Viewers Off Their Feet!’
Tucker Carlson dropped a scathing attack on Fox News, his former employer, while discussing the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran with Steve Bannon on Monday. In recent days, Carlson has accused Fox News personalities like Mark Levin and Sean Hannity of cheerleading for the U.S. to enter the war to help Israel against Iran.
“Well, Levin’s the funniest because he’s terrible on TV, and again I never had any problems with him at Fox. He kind of controls Hannity in this weird way. I never understood what that was about. I never really cared to learn,” Carlson told Bannon – a former Trump advisor turned MAGA podcaster.
Levin and Carlson have publicly feuded over foreign policy, trading jabs and name-calling online. The split between the two former Fox News hosts embodies the widening divide in the GOP between the more isolationist elements in the MAGA base that Carlson represents and the more traditional Republican hawks, who are more aligned with Levin.
“Sean was great to me, always nice, and so was Levin. So I just like kind of stayed away. But they didn’t want to put him on TV because he was like screechy and he’s just not a calming presence. ‘Mark Levin on TV!’” Carlson continued, mocking Levin. Carlson added:
Unless you’re literally floating in and out of consciousness and the attendant has taken the remote to go have a cigarette, you’re going to flip the channel. When Mark Levin gets on TV, it’s like listening to your ex-wife scream about alimony payments. It’s like not appealing. So they wouldn’t put him on TV. And then Sean pushed and they gave him some kind of weekend show that nobody watched.
Now I don’t have a TV, but someone who owns a TV was just telling me that he’s all over prime time. So what is that? That’s not by popular acclaim. That’s like their viewer surveys. Like, you know, we need a lot more Mark Levin. Less Jesse Watters, more Mark Levin. What they’re doing is what they always do, which is just turning up the propaganda hose to full blast and just trying to, you know, knock elderly Fox viewers off their feet and make them submit to where you want them to.
Fox News fired Carlson in the wake of its $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems for pushing debunked 2020 election fraud claims. Carlson has since stirred controversy with his online show, including claiming he was attacked by a demon that left him with physical injuries.
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