Former Fox Information host Tucker Carlson wasn’t an enormous fan of Fox Nation, regardless of his second present that aired on the right-wing community’s on-line subscription website.
Actually, he thought it “sucks,” in keeping with footage obtained by progressive watchdog group Media Issues.
“I don’t need to be a slave to Fox Nation, which I don’t suppose that folks watch anyway,” he mentioned within the clip.
Fox Information unexpectedly dropped Carlson final week, days after the community agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Programs.
Media Issues mentioned the video was recorded final yr, probably as Carlson ready for a phase with right-wing social media influencer Andrew Tate. The dialog came about a couple of months earlier than Tate was arrested in Romania on suspicion of human trafficking and different allegations.
Carlson needed the interview to air on his nighttime present on Fox Information, and never on Fox Nation, the place he complained “no one” would see it.
“No person watches Fox Nation as a result of the location sucks. So I’d actually like to only dump the entire thing on YouTube,” he mentioned. “I’m simply annoyed with it. It’s exhausting to make use of that website. I don’t know why they’re not fixing it. It’s driving me insane.”
He added:
“We’re like working like animals to provide all this content material, and the folks in control of it, whoever that man’s, no matter his title is, like, they’re ignoring the truth that the location doesn’t work. And I feel it’s like a betrayal of our efforts. That’s how I really feel. So I, in fact, I resent it.”
Carlson, a conspiracy theorist recognized for selling white nationalist and different extremist views, hosted a present known as “Tucker Carlson In the present day” for Fox Nation. He additionally did a collection of on-line specials on matters equivalent to testicle tanning to increase testosterone ranges, a supposed liberal plot to get folks to eat bugs, and a prolonged little bit of revisionist historical past defending the Jan. 6 rioters.
See the complete behind-the-scenes video, as posted by Media Issues, beneath:
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