Tucker Carlson speaks to Steve Bannon. (Screen shot)
On Monday morning, Tucker Carlson joined Steve Bannon’s “War Room” and launched a broadside at some of his peers in MAGA Media, accusing them of fanning the flames of war in the Middle East. Carlson singled out Mark Levin as “terrible on TV” and claimed the talk show host “kind of controls” Sean Hannity “in this weird way.” But his harshest words were reserved for his former employer, Fox News.
“What they’re doing is what they always do, which is just turning up the propaganda hose to full blast and just trying to knock elderly Fox viewers off their feet and make them submit to where you want them to,” Carlson said.
The broadside from the radical Fox host-turned-podcaster isn’t entirely new. In recent days, he’s blasted right-wing media figures for cheering on Israel’s strikes against Iran. On X, he framed the issue starkly…
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Tim Miller speaks with Terry Moran. (Screen shot via The Bulwark)
Moran's Post-Ouster Message: Terry Moran is speaking out. The ousted ABC News journalist indicated in a pair of interviews Monday that he has no regrets about the late-night X anti-Stephen Miller post that got him booted from the Disney-owned network last week. "It wasn’t a drunk tweet," Moran told…
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