Tucker Carlson

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Tucker Carlson (2018)

Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969 in San Francisco ) is an American journalist and talk show host. He was the host of the CNN telecast Crossfire and MSNBC -Show Tucker known. Since 2016 he has hosted Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News .

Life

Youth and Education (1969 to 1992)

Carlson was born in 1969 to banker, news presenter and diplomat Richard Warner Carlson and his wife Patricia Caroline Swanson. His ancestors include Roberta Fulbright Swanson, the sister of Senator William Fulbright , and the Swedish entrepreneur Carl A. Swanson.

After visiting the St. George's School, an under the aegis of the Episcopal Church standing private school in Middletown (Rhode Iceland) studied Carlson to 1992 at Trinity College in Hartford , Connecticut, where he met with a B. A. graduated in history. He then started working as a freelance journalist.

Carlson has been married to Susan Andrews since 1991. The marriage had four children: Lillie, Hope, Dorothy and Buckley.

Career as a journalist and television presenter

Carlson was a columnist for The New Yorker and Reader's Digest in the 1990s, and later for Esquire , The Weekly Standard , The New Republic and The New York Times Magazine .

From 2000 he took over the moderation of various program formats for the news and information channel CNN , including the program The Spin Room for several years with Bill Press and in particular the evening live discussion round Crossfire : In this, Carlson entered into dialogue as a vehement advocate of right-wing conservative standpoints with a more liberal co-moderator and one or more discussion guests.

In 2003, Carlson published the autobiographical book Politicians, Partisans and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News . In it he reported on his experiences as an employee at various US television stations.

On the Crossfire broadcast on October 15, 2004, during the then US presidential campaign, Carlson got into a battle of words with his talk show guest, comedian and host Jon Stewart . Carlson accused Carlson of a questioning technique that predominantly enabled his guests to present themselves and, above all, led to exaggerated polemics instead of a serious exchange of arguments and thus did not meet the viewer's need for information; Paul Begala and Carlson did "theater" instead of journalism. This is damaging to the USA. Carlson responded defensively, accusing Stewart of imagining him to be funnier. In January 2005, Carlson received notification that CNN would not renew his contract as the presenter of the show and would discontinue Crossfire . The then President of CNN, Jonathan Klein , justified this with the fact that Stewart's criticism was justified. Carlson claimed, however, that he quit CNN in April 2004 anyway.

From 2004 to 2005 Carlson moderated the show Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered for the station PBS. From May 2005 to March 2008 he led the MSNBC channel as anchorman through the talk show Tucker named after him (initially briefly referred to as The Situation with Tucker Carlson ), which was broadcast on weekdays at 6:00 p.m. (East Coast time zone) and finally due to bad odds. During the 2006 Winter Olympics, Carlson also hosted an afternoon program in which he tried himself out in various disciplines held during the Games. In the same year he reported from Haifa on the war raging in southern Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah .

Since May 2009 Carlson has been under contract with the right-wing conservative broadcaster Fox News . For this he often appears as a commentator or participant in discussion groups in programs such as Special Report . He also represented Sean Hannity on several occasions as the host of his show. He has been moderating Tucker Carlson Tonight since November 2016 .

Political positions and public reputation

Tucker Carlson (2012)

Carlson was seen in the US media and party landscape as a representative of moderately conservative, Republican-inclined, and sometimes libertarian positions. In the presidential election in 1988 he voted according to his own information on the program Real Time with Bill Maher on October 12, 2007 for the Republican Ron Paul , who had run for the Libertarian Party in 1988 as a presidential candidate. Roland Nelles, however, described Carlson on Spiegel Online as a "strict moderator". And for Konstantin von Hammerstein, “[Carlson's worldview] can be summed up in three words: Foreigners threaten America. That's enough for the quota. "

In his programs and magazine articles, Carlson repeatedly advocated a lean government and less state regulation, such as against a smoking ban in favor of individual responsibility, for a reduction in immigration quotas and for a restrained foreign policy in which foreign operations by the US armed forces should only be the last resort . He takes a more conservative position on abortion and spoke out against it. At the same time, however, he speaks out in favor of homosexuals' right to marriage , as he fundamentally advocates marriage as a “civilizing” force and expects this effect to also occur with homosexuals.

Carlson initially endorsed the Iraq war of 2003, but took a negative position from 2004 onwards, leading to the fact that he now regards his initial approval as a mistake. He went on to say that he would not re-elect the then incumbent President George W. Bush , but also criticized his opponent John Kerry for approving the invasion of Iraq.

In the spring of 2011, Carlson moderated the debate on the candidates for the office of chairman of the party organization of the Republicans (GOP) , which was usually supervised by journalists close to the party , which resulted in the election of Reince Priebus as the new chairman. His relationship with the Bush administration, on the other hand, had been tense since an incident during the 1999–2000 presidential election campaign: In 1999, Carlson had a conversation with the then presidential candidate of the Republican party, George W. Bush . According to his report, Bush is said to have mocked Karla Faye Tucker, who was sentenced to death in Texas and whose pardon Bush had refused to pardon as Texas governor. Bush continued to swear "like a truck driver". This led to a falling out with the campaign management of George W. Bush.

In 2007 he starred in the episode The Manhattan Project (season 9, episode 10) of the sitcom King of Queens .

Publications

  • Politicians, Partisans and Parasites. My Adventures in Cable News. Warner Books, 2003, ISBN 0-446-52976-1 .
  • Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution , 2018, ISBN 978-1501183669 .

Web links

Commons : Tucker Carlson  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tucker Carlson in the Notable Names Database (English)
  2. ^ Diane Snider: Omaha Innovators 2009: Carl A. Swanso. In: omahahistory.org. Archived from the original on February 26, 2012 ; accessed on August 8, 2019 .
  3. ^ Dragons Head to Washington. St. George's School, March 12, 2016, accessed June 1, 2018 . St. George's School: Tucker Carlson, Class of 1987. In: Classmates. Retrieved June 1, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Jon Stewart: His Best Moments in Videos. In: Spiegel Online . August 6, 2015, accessed August 10, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Jon Stewart 'Crossfire' Transcript: Stewart Slams Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala. In: politicalhumor.about.com. October 15, 2004, archived from the original on July 18, 2007 ; accessed on August 8, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Bill Carter: CNN will wancel 'Crossfire' and cut ties to Commentator. In: The New York Times . January 6, 2005; Archived from the original on July 31, 2015 ; accessed on August 8, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Chris Ariens: Tucker Canceled; Other Programming Changes Ahead. In: MSNBC / mediabistro.com. March 9, 2008, archived from the original on February 16, 2012 ; accessed on August 8, 2019 .
  8. ^ Brian Stelter: Tucker Carlson Turns 40, Moves to Fox News. In: The New York Times. May 15, 2009, archived from the original on December 5, 2009 ; accessed on August 8, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Jack Mirkinson: Tucker Carlson Backtracks On Michael Vick: 'Of Course I Don't Think He Should Be Executed'. In: Huffington Post . January 4, 2011, archived from the original on January 7, 2011 ; accessed on August 8, 2019 .
  10. ^ Tucker Carlson Tonight. In: Fox News. Accessed August 8, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Roland Nelles: On the way to the US border: Good wall, bad wall. In: Spiegel Online. January 31, 2019, accessed August 10, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Konstantin von Hammerstein: US Ambassador Richard Grenell has maneuvered himself offside in Berlin: Little Trump. In: Spiegel Online. January 12, 2019, accessed August 10, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Evan Dashevsky: Tucker Carlson: Smoking Like a True Patriot. In: Smoke Magazine Online. 2008, archived from the original on November 28, 2010 ; accessed on August 10, 2019 .
  14. ^ A b Tucker Carlson: Transcript: Republican Convention. In: The Washington Post . August 30, 2004, archived from the original on April 23, 2014 ; accessed on August 10, 2019 : "For instance, I'm utterly opposed to abortion, which I think is horrible and cruel."
  15. ↑ 'Tucker' for July 24. In: MSNBC . July 24, 2007, archived from the original on June 27, 2008 ; Retrieved on August 10, 2019 (English, transcript): "I thin [k], marriage has been a great thing for me, and I think it'sa really civilizing force, and I think it would be a civilizing force for gay people too. "
  16. ↑ Joe Hagan: Newly dovish, Tucker Carlson Goes Public (Tucker Carlson turns against the war). In: LibertyPost.org. May 12, 2004, accessed on August 10, 2019 (English): "I think it'sa total nightmare and disaster, and I'm ashamed that I went against my own instincts in supporting it," he said. "It's something I'll never do again."
  17. ↑ Kerry Lauerman: “You burn out fast when you demagogue”. In: Salon.com . September 14, 2003, accessed on August 10, 2019 : “What about your profile of George W. Bush in Talk in 1999? That had to be the most damaging profile of him yet written - swearing like a truck driver, making fun of Karla Faye Tucker's death penalty appeals, mimicking her saying, 'Don't kill me!' - because of its high profile, and because of your access to him. Did that bring you flak from conservatives? "
  18. ↑ King of Queens (1998-2007): Manhattan Project in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Carlson, Tucker
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carlson, Tucker Swanson McNear (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and talk show host
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco