{"id":1472212,"date":"2022-05-11T18:14:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T22:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1472212"},"modified":"2022-05-11T18:14:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T22:14:54","slug":"tucker-carlson-tells-daily-wire-why-he-decided-to-pose-as-liberal-elite-snob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tucker-carlson-tells-daily-wire-why-he-decided-to-pose-as-liberal-elite-snob\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson Tells Daily Wire Why He Decided To Pose As Liberal Elite Snob"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftucker-carlson-tells-daily-wire-why-he-decided-to-pose-as-liberal-elite-snob%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1472212&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Tucker Carlson has become one of those liberal elitists he takes to the woodshed every night on Fox News \u2013 just look at his updated Twitter profile.<\/p>\n<p>The cable news star and blue-check pundit updated his page to list all the qualifications of a charter member of the chattering class. But it probably won\u2019t shock his 5.2 million followers, who likely know Tucker Carlson sarcasm when they see it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmmy-award-winning broadcast journalist, graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School and frequent visitor to the Aspen Inst.,\u201d the profile now reads. \u201cFully vaccinated. They\/Theirs.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_380894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-380894\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fox News host Tucker Carlson has updated his Twitter profile and his fans are going to have questions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Reached by The Daily Wire, Carlson still had his tongue firmly in cheek.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI rarely talk about my time at Harvard or Yale Law; I think it speaks for itself,\u201d Carlson said. \u201cAnd of course anything Jeffrey Goldberg and I discuss at the Aspen Institute is by definition confidential, not that you\u2019d understand it anyway. So I hope my Twitter bio didn\u2019t come off as bragging. I just want to give our audience confidence in my credentials. Everything I say on television has been fully vetted by experts. It\u2019s not disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the record, Carlson has never won an Emmy, despite having worked in television for nearly 30 years and now sitting atop the cable news ratings with \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight.\u201d He graduated from Trinity College in Connecticut in 1991 with a history degree and frequently mocks the Ivy leagues as an overpriced \u201ccredentialing\u201d scam.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson has been known to ski in Aspen, his vaccination status is the subject of speculation, and he has previously never listed his pronouns, so who knows?<\/p>\n<p>Carlson regularly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/tvnewser\/friday-may-6-scoreboard-the-five-and-tucker-carlson-tonight-are-most-watched-cable-news-shows\/507016\/\">draws well over 4 million viewers<\/a> per night, more than four times the audiences of his time-slot competitors on CNN and MSNBC. The New York Times recently ran an unprecedented multi-part series on him, with headlines including: \u201cHow Tucker Carlson Reshaped Fox News \u2014 and Became Trump\u2019s Heir,\u201d \u201cHow Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable,\u201d and \u201cHow \u2018Tucker Carlson Tonight\u2019 Fuels Extremism and Fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlson responded by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1520802827823685632?s=20&#038;t=NLkBTwUdOWOR13mLDAxRMg\">tweeting a picture of him<\/a> holding up the newspaper and laughing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FJ76ULBSBG\">pic.twitter.com\/FJ76ULBSBG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1520802827823685632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When pressed, Carlson admitted the real reason for his social media mischief was the House vote Tuesday night to send $40 billion in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, even as the U.S teeters on the brink of recession and has a national debt topping $30 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat Ukraine vote made me so mad, I\u2019m desperate to amuse myself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucker Carlson has become one of those liberal elitists he takes to the woodshed every night on Fox News \u2013 just look at his updated Twitter profile.The cable news star<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1472215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1472215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}