Because what you say is not true. Tucker never pushed the Dominion stuff. He tried to get Sidney Powell on his show and she refused. He called her a nut, both publicly and privately. He has talked about certain parts of the election that were rigged (the mules, Mark Zuckerberg's illegal influence, suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, etc.). He has been consistent.
Reportedly, Tucker said one thing about stolen elections, etc. to his viewers and opposing remarks to his co-workers and in private.
And then he was fired!
According to what I read he has hired Bryan Freedman a high-profile attorney with plans to sue Fox for wrongful termination. Guess we will have to wait to see what that exposes and how it is resolved.
Rubin was asking Carlson about CNN anchors like Brian Stelter, Chris Cuomo, and Don Lemon — he called them "clown people" — who “just lie again and again.”
Here’s what Carlson said:
“I guess I would ask myself, like, I mean, I lie if I’m cornered or something. I lie. I really try not to. I try never to lie on TV. I just don’t — I don’t like lying. I certainly do it, you know, out of weakness or whatever, but to systematically lie like that, without asking yourself, why am I doing this?”Tucker Carlson stated on November 8, 2022, in election night coverage on Fox News:
“Electronic voting machines didn't allow people to vote” in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Tucker Carlson
stated on June 10, 2022, in in a TV segment:
“Not a single person in the crowd on January 6 was found to be carrying a firearm. Not one.”
Indiana Man Pleads Guilty to Carrying a Gun and ...
Department of Justice (.gov)
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Jun 17, 2022 — WASHINGTON –
An Indiana man pleaded guilty today to carrying a loaded gun on Capitol grounds and assaulting law enforcement officers during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Mark Andrew Mazza, 57, of Shelbyville, Indiana, pleaded guilty in the District of Columbia to assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon and
carrying a pistol without a license.Is Tucker's truthfulness a case of semantics?
Now comes the claim that you can't expect to literally believe the words that come out of Carlson's mouth. And that assertion is not coming from Carlson's critics. It's being made by a federal judge in the Southern District of New York and by Fox News's own lawyers in defending Carlson against accusations of slander. It worked, by the way.
Just read U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil's opinion, leaning heavily on the arguments of Fox's lawyers: The "'general tenor' of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not 'stating actual facts' about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in 'exaggeration' and 'non-literal commentary.' "https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-believe-the-facts-tucker-carlson-tells-you-so-say-fox-s-lawye