Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson is an American conservative television presenter and political commentator. He has hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News since 2016. He was a CNN commentator from 2000 to 2005, and co-host of the network’s prime-time news debate program Crossfire from 2001 to 2005. In 2010, Carlson co-founded and served as the initial editor-in-chief of the conservative news and opinion website The Daily Caller, until selling his ownership stake and leaving in 2020.
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Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson is an American conservative television presenter and political commentator. He has hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News since 2016. He was a CNN commentator from 2000 to 2005, and co-host of the network’s prime-time news debate program Crossfire from 2001 to 2005. He would later host the nightly program Tucker on MSNBC from 2005 to 2008. In 2010, Carlson co-founded and served as the initial editor-in-chief of the conservative news and opinion website The Daily Caller, until selling his ownership stake and leaving in 2020. Carlson has written two books: a memoir titled Politicians, Partisans and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News ; and Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution. Carlson was born in San Francisco, California. His paternal grandparents were Richard Boynton and Dorothy Anderson, teenagers who placed his father in an orphanage where he was adopted when he was two years old by the Carlsons. He is the elder son of Richard Warner Carlson, a former Voice of America, president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles. In 1979, Carlson’s father married divorcée Patricia Caroline Swanson, an heiress to Swanson Enterprises. When Carlson was in first grade, his father moved Tucker and his brother to La Jolla, California, and raised them there. His father owned property in Nevada, Vermont, and islands in Nova Scotia and Maine, but he says he was “kicked out” of secondary school.
After college, Carlson tried to join the Central Intelligence Agency, but his application was denied after he decided to pursue a career in journalism. He later worked as a reporter at the Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock, Arkansas, and later as a fact-checker for The Heritage Foundation. He also has a brother, Buckley Peck Carlson, who is nearly two years younger. Carlson’s mother left the family when Carlson was six, wanting to pursue an \”bohemian\” lifestyle. In 1976, his parents divorced after the nine-year marriage reportedly \”turned sour. \” Carlson’s parents divorced in 1976, and Carlson’s dad was granted custody of Tucker and he also has an older brother. As of 2020, Tucker Carlson tonight is the most-watched cable news show in the United States. Carlson’s controversial statements on race, immigration and women have led to advertiser boycotts against the show. A vocal opponent of progressivism, Carlson has been called a nationalist. Originally a proponent of libertarian economic policy and a supporter of Ron Paul, Carlson would come to criticize the ideology as being ‘controlled by the banks’ and became an active adherer to protectionism. He has also espoused anti-interventionalist views, renouncing his initial support of the Iraq War the year after it was declared. He says he wants to be self-disciplined to the degree that I think is necessary to find satisfaction.
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