Tucker Carlson

The Fox News host chewed out a powerful House Republican over his suspicions about an anonymous quote in the Daily Beast.

Instead, the network has expanded his footprint, [announcing a deal in February 2021 to extend his reach on the streaming service Fox Nation](https://press.foxnews.com/2021/02/fox-nation-to-launch-new-exclusive-content-with-tucker-carlson). If the White House didn’t deliver, Haberman reports, Carlson said he would “press the issue publicly,” which translated into a series of rants on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” in February 2020. Tucker Carlson laughed off the resulting furor, [telling an interviewer](https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/03/31/daily-callers-tucker-carlson-still-chuckling-about-misogyny/?itid=lk_inline_manual_25), “If my brother committed mass murder, I would not criticize him in public.” A poignant example occurred in July 2020, after freelance journalists on assignment for the New York Times attempted to report a feature story about Carlson’s life in Maine. Night after night on his eponymous program, Carlson trashes enemies with factual heedlessness and a bias toward the jugular — on-air abuses of power, in effect. Unattributed remarks about a given congressman, to be sure, don’t rank up there with Watergate and WikiLeaks — yet for better or worse, they’re the lingua franca of political reporting in the nation’s capital. And by the standards of contemporary discourse, the comment qualifies as the political equivalent of a no-pads workout. For one thing, there are oodles of “GOP strategists” who could have opined about the political dimensions of Banks’s decision to hire Buckley Carlson. In assessing that intra-party contest, the Daily Beast included this criticism of Banks from an unnamed GOP strategist: “Deep down, he dies to be liked by the Establishment. The Daily Beast article was published before dawn on Friday. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), who in 2019 hired Carlson’s son, Buckley, as an aide. The quote pertained to Rep.

The Fox News host allegedly lashed out at Rep. Tom Emmer after someone made an anonymous dig at his son's employment in Rep. Jim Banks' office.

[Tom Emmer](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/tom-emmer/) (R-Minn.) after an anonymous source [told the Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-trumpworlds-dark-obsession-with-the-gop-whip-race) that Emmer’s potential rival for GOP leadership positions, Rep. In May, the former president’s son accused Republican Conference Chair Rep. These baseless accusations are meant to distract and divide Republicans,” Michael McAdams, communications director for the National Republican Congressional Committee, told Axios. Carlson allegedly accused Emmer’s office of having planted the quote, and demanded that either he reveal who on his staff was responsible for the dig against Buckley, or Carlson would blame him personally. [Tucker Carlson](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/tucker-carlson/) is raging at the suggestion that his son, 25-year-old Buckley Carlson, could be benefiting from nepotism. “Chairman Emmer and his staff have never attacked any other members’ staff.

In the story, an anonymous “GOP strategist” described Rep Banks as hiring Buckley Carlson to curry favour with Republican power brokers. "Deep down, he dies to ...

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Minnesota's 6th District Rep. Tom Emmer has found himself the subject of attacks from some prominent party members and supporters, with Fox News host Tucker ...

In his request, he said the grant "strives to serve as a social justice measure." on Sunday tweeted the following allegations concerning Emmer: "It was bad enough that RINO Tom Emmer had his henchmen attack Tucker Carlson's 25 year old son to the Daily Beast, but now Emmer is trying to throw the staff of another member of Congress under the bus to cover his own ass??? shared the news that Emmer had recently requested a grant for funding for work on the Minnesota Highway 65 corridor, a major route connecting his district to the Twin Cities. In a statement issued to Bring Me The News by Emmer's office, NRCC spokesperson Michael McAdams said: "Chairman Emmer and his staff have never attacked any other members' staff. Our focus is on retaking the majority and firing Nancy Pelosi." What a pathetic coward."