00:00:04.000We dive into it from every angle and reflect on what Tucker Carlson's been able to accomplish and why they went after him.
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00:01:54.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:25.000People liked it, but it wasn't as good as what his new show would be.
00:03:29.000Around 2018 and 2019, Tucker totally redid his format.
00:03:33.000No more combative back and forth with liberals.
00:03:35.000And Tucker decided to become basically the beginning point, the thought leader of the conservative movement, the incubator of the populist right.
00:03:47.000Tucker Carlson decided to become a challenger on a mainstream network and a mainstream time with millions of viewers against neoliberalism.
00:04:00.000The legacy of Tucker Carlson, as it was written, and it will be written, of his time at Fox News, will be the most effective, poignant critique, criticizer of neoliberalism in modern American history.
00:04:15.000He transformed his monologues into thought pieces that transformed the thinking of millions of Americans, myself included, about their government.
00:04:22.000I remember in January of 2019, his first show back from break, he said, why is Amazon allowed to become a trillion-dollar company?
00:04:29.000They hate us and they hate the American people.
00:05:25.000You're supposed to say we must invade the world, invite the world, and import products that we do not need that destroy American labor and those destroy American workers and earning potential.
00:05:36.000But Tucker Carlson found those things to be objectionable.
00:05:39.000He said, why are we going to war in eastern Ukraine?
00:05:47.000Why are we having 5,000 people illegally cross into our country every single day?
00:05:51.000Why do we have these insane green card policies that favor the tech companies?
00:05:57.000And Tucker, more than anybody else, led on the issue of tech censorship.
00:06:03.000He led on the issue of restraining Google.
00:06:06.000I believe firmly, if it was not for the leadership of Tucker Carlson, I don't think that the ideological atmospherics would have been created for Elon Musk to purchase Twitter.
00:06:22.000Tucker challenged the Leviathan in both private and public life, exposed the FBI.
00:06:29.000He landed big interviews, all-star guests.
00:06:32.000He was ahead of the curve time and time again, predicting discord and nonsense.
00:06:40.000He was one of the most important voices in the midst of the COVID lockdowns.
00:06:44.000And I think if you were to say, Charlie, what was Tucker's all-star moment where I think Tucker hit his stride and he was at the crescendo of his career is when we needed him the most.
00:06:58.000While other hosts kind of went around the edges and were afraid to dive into the racial conversation, Tucker came out swinging when everyone was doing the black squares of BLM, giving $10 to Black Lives Matter.
00:07:14.000Tucker Carlson, night after night, was relentless in exposing the Marxist movement, that is Black Lives Matter.
00:07:22.000There was one broadcast I'll never forget where he said, Black Lives Matter is now a political party.
00:07:26.000It is one of the most popular movements in America.
00:07:30.000When everyone else was engaged in idolatry, Tucker melted the golden calf of BLM.
00:07:41.000Tucker Carlson almost single-handedly moved the Overton window over 60 days, where we went from a country that was worshiping BLM by the time August came and Kenosha was burned down.
00:08:39.000I'm going to have people that are defending this on my show.
00:08:43.000He had Asa Hutchinson on his show and he skewered him when Asa Hutchinson said, you know, it's in the tradition of Ronald Reagan to allow kids to take gender-altering drugs that chemically castrate themselves.
00:08:57.000In fact, Tucker Carlson coined the term chemical castration that is now ubiquitous in the trans debate.
00:09:03.000He exposed the authoritarianism during COVID while simultaneously showing how the trans thing is not going to stop.
00:09:12.000He might have single-handedly went after the Vanderbilt Children's Hospital medieval mutilation clinic more effectively than anybody else.
00:09:21.000What would it be the trans issue, the race issue, the COVID issue, the border issue, the neoliberal issue, or how about the Ukraine issue?
00:09:28.000Who else but Tucker Carlson on the mainstream network was willing to say that we should not be funding a proxy war against Russia.
00:09:58.000Tucker Carlson was the only mainstream host in the summer of 2020 and early 2021 that was willing to have program after program after program on the adverse events and side effects of the vaccine.
00:10:15.000He inspired us to think critically about these issues, about the prevailing lies and dogmas of our day, platforming voices that were otherwise suppressed and censored and putting them right into the mainstream zeitgeist.
00:10:29.000And today, April 24th, it is now announced.
00:10:33.000The biggest voice on the right, the heir, the baton informally passed from Rush Limbaugh being number one to Tucker Carlson being number one.
00:15:21.000That is one thing I will agree with the view on.
00:15:23.000He was more powerful than anybody else since the death of Rush Limbaugh in reshaping the rights, in moving the Overton window, in pushing forward positive narratives, in challenging Operation Mockingbird.
00:15:39.000And I could say this as somebody who knows Tucker very well.
00:16:19.000Remember when we found out that our own government, the NSA, was targeting Tucker Carlson and spying on him?
00:16:26.000Tucker had to deal with constant hostility.
00:16:29.000He would get harassed on airplanes, harassed at fishing shops in Montana.
00:16:33.000He was practically driven from his home in DC that he loved living in because the activists and the terrorists came after his family and his wife.
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00:17:53.000I eat well and do other things as well.
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00:20:13.000The fact that you could have on one of the few cable news channels, which is in 100 million homes, or like 115 million homes, somebody that is as conservative and effective as Tucker Carlson is undeniably important.
00:20:30.000Tucker will succeed wherever he goes, and he will keep on speaking the truth.
00:20:33.000But having another Fox News that is able to reach as many people as Fox was is very hard.
00:20:57.000I'm sad to say that the news on Friday was also the great Dan Bongino is done at Fox News.
00:21:04.000Dan Bongino could not come to terms and they move on.
00:21:09.000So both Dan Bongino and Tucker Carlson within 72 hours have moved on.
00:21:15.000I do want to just say for all of you in the Real America's voice audience that are pretty fired up about this.
00:21:21.000I want to make sure we're enlisting you to tell your friends about Real America's voice.
00:21:27.000We need to get more people to know about Salem Radio Network.
00:21:30.000We need to get more people to know about our podcast.
00:21:32.000There is a massive disruption right now happening in conservative media.
00:21:35.000If you're pleased about what we're doing on this program, what Steve Bannon is doing, what John Solomon is doing, if on radio, if you're pleased with what Dr. Gorka is doing or Prager or Gallagher or Brandon Tatum, tell them about these alternative media channels.
00:24:11.000You see, what makes Tucker unique, this is very important, is that for a period of time when people were not trusting Fox very much, it's a fact.
00:24:24.000During the Dominion stuff, the network needed Tucker Carlson more than Tucker Carlson needed the network.
00:24:32.000And Tucker largely was able to, he was the glue that kept a lot of the base trust together of people that kept on coming back to the network and Fox Nation.
00:27:49.000But it does bring me to a place of sadness, though, because if you actually look at the demographics of Tucker, you know who he was influencing?
00:27:59.000A lot of Democrats watch Tucker's show.
00:28:01.000A lot of Independents watch Tucker's show.
00:28:03.000A lot of 18 to 29-year-olds watch Tucker's show.
00:30:46.000So when Stelter and Laman or Chris Cuomo, Fredo, leave, they have no audience because they were so dependent on the distribution piping of the network.
00:31:01.000Tucker is not dependent on the distribution piping.
00:31:05.000He was keeping the network largely afloat.
00:31:12.000He was keeping the network strong, especially in a time they needed it.
00:31:17.000I don't know how Fox is going to deal with this.
00:31:20.000They still have some fabulous people there.
00:32:38.000Last week, you remember, Fox News settled this massive defamation lawsuit with Dominion voting systems over the election lies that it promoted.
00:32:46.000Unclear, of course, whether this is related.
00:32:48.000It's kind of hard to imagine that these coincidentally these things happen.
00:32:51.000Tucker Carlson was sowing doubts about the U.S. election results just up until the last few weeks.
00:32:57.000So it's possible that there was a relationship there, but really big news.
00:33:02.000And I should also point out that they've stuck with him really through quite a lot.
00:33:05.000Like he has promoted conspiracy theories about the vaccines.
00:33:09.000He has said things that are just blatantly anti-immigrant.
00:33:12.000He has, like I said, promoted doubt about the 2020 election.
00:33:17.000They have stuck with him throughout all of this.
00:33:19.000Yeah, you can't ask questions about the vaccine.
00:33:22.000You got to, yeah, they stuck with him through that.
00:33:31.000The positive is this is going to be a hit, but honestly, it's better that this is happening now in 2023 than a year from now.
00:33:38.000It's better that this is happening in 2023.
00:33:42.000We need to have our media situation pretty figured out for a presidential year.
00:33:46.000It's actually okay that it's happening in 2023.
00:33:49.000If there was an ideal time, if you were to say, hey, we would want a massive reshuffling and reconfiguration of conservative media, you would pick April 2023, like right there, in between the midterms, in between the midterms and the presidential.
00:34:04.000And you've all this kind of horse race stuff that's just kind of nauseating.