Things you likely don't know about Tucker Carlson, and be wary of

* His mom left and moved to France when he was 6. She hasnt seen him since. His younger brother hyphenated his name to incorporate the stepmoms maiden name into his
* His stepmom is a niece to democrat Sen William Fulbright
* His dad was president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
* He tried to join the CIA after college, and was declined
* He was a CNN commentator, but quit because his expected role (on the right) was too partisanv -- "I resigned from Crossfire in 2004 because I didn't like the partisanship, and I thought in some ways it was kind of pointless"
* New York Times reported that Carlson was a media source for several journalists and authors, including Michael Isikoff, Michael Wolff, Brian Stelter
* He said he decided to work for the Weekly Standard, because working at the American Spectator was for "wing nuts"
* He interviewed W and turned in into a hit piece on Bush for his "enthusiasm" about the lethal injection of Karla Tucker, and saying "frick" too much
* Carlson stated that he is "not comfortable with the death penalty under any circumstances"
* He called Democratic primary contenders cowards for not pledging to legalize same sex marriage, and stated that he would support that
* He has worked at Readers Digest, New York Times magazine, the Daily Beast, Slate, Esquire, PBS, CNN, and MSNBC. When leaving PBS he said, "PBS was one of the "least bad" instances of government spending"
* He won an award for traveling with Rev All Sharpton to Liberia for a story
* Brian Stelter, writing for The New York Times, reported that prior to being fired, "Mr. Carlson's evening programming moved to the left."
* Carlson was hired by Neil Patel (a former aide to Dick Cheney) to launch a political news website titled The Daily Caller
* The Center for Media and Democracy, a liberal watchdog organization, said The Daily Caller was paid $150,000 by Donald Trump for its list of subscribers. The watchdog said Carlson had violated journalistic standards.
* Tucker ended up at FoxNews until he was fired after a lawsuit was filed and discovery of his private texts and emails. Several of which mocked FoxNews, Trump, and his supports, and its MAGA ideology
* Carlson once wrote that Trump was "the single most repulsive person on the planet" and that the Reform Party consisted of "a bunch of wackos". He later criticized the party's eventual nominee, Pat Buchanan
* He was previously registered as a Democrat in Washington, D.C., from 2006 to 2020
* Carlson voted for W in the 2000 election. Carlson told Salon that some conservatives suspected he was "secretly liberal" because he liked John McCain so much. Carlson said in another interview, "by my criteria, Bush isn't much of a conservative anyway"
* Following the 2020 election, Carlson told people he had voted for Kanye West