Like all of the on-air hosts at Fox News, Tucker Carlson lies about everything, even when he’d be better served by telling the truth.
For example, on Monday evening, just hours after the announcement that Elon Musk had reached a deal to acquire social media platform Twitter, Carlson announced he was rejoining the site, even going so far as to announce it on his nightly show.
However, it turns out that Carlson lied about the reason he had returned to Twitter, according to Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson appears to have attempted to mislead his viewers as to why he is back on Twitter after a month-long break.
Carlson, who was suspended by the censor-happy platform on March 23, attributed his return on Monday to Elon Musk on his nightly show.
Carlson had his account locked for a disgusting tweet he posted suggesting that Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine — who is transgender — was a man.
The Fox News host commented on Levine’s biological sex after two other prominent accounts, those of the Babylon Bee and of Charlie Kirk, were suspended for calling Levine a “man.”
Afterwards, Fox said Carlson would refuse to delete the tweet, no matter the consequences.
And yet, he clearly did delete the offensive tweet, which led him to send out this message an hour before his Monday evening broadcast:
What happened? Once again, Mediaite explains:
Carlson’s Monday tweet appears to be the result of a decision to delete the Levine post, which no longer appears on his timeline.
So Tucker was never going to delete the tweet, but he did exactly that, which means he lied. Then he failed to admit he had deleted said tweet and pretended he was back on the platform because Musk was now the owner of Twitter.
There are lies, and then there are Fox News lies, which are always bigger, more obvious, and more pernicious.