GOP lawmakers praise Tucker Carlson’s new show on Twitter.

Tucker Carlson Returns to Media Platform

GOP lawmakers and conservative media commentators are celebrating the return of Tucker Carlson, who was recently fired by Fox News. Carlson’s show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” was the second most-watched cable TV show with over 3 million viewers. In a video posted on Twitter, Carlson announced that he is sidestepping establishment media and is preparing to bring his commentary and insight to a show that will be broadcast on the social media and networking site, Twitter.

Free Speech is the Main Right You Have

Carlson did not say when the program will begin, how long an episode will be, or if he and Elon Musk had worked on or completed an agreement for the show. The anchor teased the new format will be like “the show we’ve been doing for the last six-and-a-half years.” Carlson added, “Free speech is the main right you have. Without it, you have no others.”

Republicans React to Carlson’s Return

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) quickly retweeted the Carlson video on her Twitter feed along with the message, “I can’t wait for @TuckerCarlson’s new show on Twitter. The truth will be unstoppable.” Two Republican senators stopped to talk in the Capitol Building to The Epoch Times about their thoughts on the Carlson news. Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.) told The Epoch Times, “I think it’s great that people are out there, telling him to help get their ideas out.” Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) said, “Whatever he’s done in life, he’s been pretty successful at. I am sure that he will be successful.”

Concerns About Media

Media insiders who recently spoke to The Epoch Times said they feel that the recent episode of Fox News firing an all-star in Carlson is evidence that all of the media, including a cable channel long a favorite of conservatives, has become a servant of a global and highly educated elite. The insiders said those who run global corporations and large sectors of government, and who push policies that undermine and are at odds with hopes and priorities of Middle America and at least half of the country’s population.

• Batya Ungar-Sargon, deputy editor at Newsweek, said that the polarization between those in the middle to lower class who have not gone to college and those making public policy and drafting the narrative of corporate culture is widened and made more intractable by an emerging journalist class.
• The new sector of journalists, as Ungar-Sargon explained, work in an industry where the narrative is controlled by a small group of people who are not representative of the broader population.

Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News star who now has her own show on YouTube, is a big fan of Carlson. Since Fox News fired Carlson, Kelly has been proclaiming that he was going to land a major media commenting gig. She has also been unsparing in her attacks on Fox News. Kelly followed Carlson’s announcement, tweeting: “Tucker flips Fox News the middle finger and takes his show to Twitter and @elonmusk. Right on!”