Jason Zengerle has published a New York Times op-ed under the headline "The Strange Afterlife of Tucker Carlson." It tells us some things worth knowing about Carlson's popularity ("Mr. Carlson’s podcast now regularly sits in the top five of Spotify’s weekly podcast rankings and occasionally even beats 'The Joe Rogan Experience' for the top spot") and about Carlson's access to Donald Trump (Zengerle reminds us that Carlson lobbied for J.D. Vance when Trump was looking for a running mate, and probably made the sale by telling Trump that if he chose either of the other two men on his short list, 'neocons" Marco Rubio and Doug Burgum, "U.S. intelligence agencies would try to assassinate him"). However, Zengerle also writes this: The people who are still paying attention to Mr. Carlson are getting an even more extreme version of him than the one they saw on Fox News. No longer subject to the guardrails of a publicly traded media company or even nominal corporate supervision, Mr. Carlson has further descended into the fever swamps. He’s described Ukraine’s Jewish president Volodymyr Zelensky as “ratlike” and a “persecutor of Christians,” accused Harvard of advocating “white genocide” and alleged that Jeffrey Epstein was murdered and former Attorney General Bill Barr covered it up. This paragraph sanewashes Fox News.read more
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