{"id":1920092,"date":"2023-04-27T10:42:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T14:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-tucker-carlson-reemerges-targets-us-media-and-political-system\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T10:42:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T14:42:35","slug":"watch-tucker-carlson-reemerges-targets-us-media-and-political-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-tucker-carlson-reemerges-targets-us-media-and-political-system\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Tucker Carlson Reemerges, Targets US Media and Political System"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fwatch-tucker-carlson-reemerges-targets-us-media-and-political-system%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=1920092&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--><div>\n<p>(Reuters)\u2014Former Fox News star<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Tucker\u00a0<\/span><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Carlson\u00a0<\/span>surfaced publicly on Wednesday for the first time since abruptly leaving the network this week, releasing a videotaped statement in which he criticized the state of public discourse on U.S. television.\t<\/p>\n<p><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Carlson\u00a0<\/span>in the videotaped statement did not directly address his departure from Fox, where he hosted the highest-rated cable news program in the key age demographic on the most-watched U.S. cable news network.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he took aim at American media and the U.S. political system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both political parties and their donors have reached consensus on what benefits them and they actively collude to shut down any conversation about it,&#8221;<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Carlson\u00a0<\/span>said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Suddenly the United States looks very much like a one-party state. That&#8217;s a depressing realization, but its not permanent,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where can you still find Americans saying true things?,&#8221;<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Carlson\u00a0<\/span>asked. &#8220;There aren\u2019t many places left, but there are some.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite signing off the roughly two-minute clip with the words &#8220;see you soon,&#8221;<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Carlson\u00a0<\/span>did not give any hints of his next move.<\/p>\n<p><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Carlson\u00a0<\/span>and Fox parted ways less than a week after parent company Fox Corp settled for $787.5 million a defamation lawsuit in which<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Carlson\u00a0<\/span>played a starring role.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reported on Wednesday that a tipping point for Fox executives may have been private messages containing what the paper called &#8220;highly offensive and crude remarks&#8221; by<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Carlson<\/span>. The Wall Street Journal reported that<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Carlson\u00a0<\/span>called a senior executive the &#8220;c-word.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dominion Voting Systems said in its lawsuit that<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Carlson\u00a0<\/span>allowed debunked election-fraud claims about the voting-technology firm to air on his show, while casting doubts on the plausibility of those claims in some of the private messages.<\/p>\n<p><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Carlson\u00a0<\/span>is also key to additional legal battles facing Fox, including a lawsuit filed by his former head of booking, Abby Grossberg, who said Fox coerced her testimony in the Dominion case.\t<\/p>\n<p>Grossberg last month accused network lawyers of pressuring her to provide misleading testimony and said Fox exposed her and others to rampant sexism and misogyny. Fox fired Grossberg, saying her legal claims were &#8220;riddled with false allegations against Fox and our employees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Heather Timmons and Gerry Doyle)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters)\u2014Former Fox News star\u00a0Tucker\u00a0Carlson\u00a0surfaced publicly on Wednesday for the first time since abruptly leaving the network this week, releasing a videotaped statement in which he criticized the state of public discourse on U.S. television. 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