You usually don’t expect the laughless, helpless far-leftists at activist watchdog Media Matters for America to be doing Tucker Carlson a favor. And, in all fairness, it wasn’t intentional.
But on Monday, MMFA released what writer Matt Gertz described as “a behind-the-scenes video” that has Carlson “lashing out at Fox” over Fox News’ streaming site, Fox Nation, “apparently while doing some image rehab for misogynistic social media influencer Andrew Tate.”
Now, the last part is more a matter of deduction, since Tate’s name is never actually used. The evidence of that seems to be that Carlson tells the person he’s talking to by phone on the set of “Tucker Carlson Today,” Carlson’s former Fox Nation show, that he’s acting as “a representative of the American media now, speaking to an exile in Romania and welcoming him back into the brotherhood of journalists.”
Carlson interviewed Tate in August of 2022 after Tate was kicked off of social media networks. Tate, a former mixed-martial-arts fighter, is now under house arrest on sex assault charges, according to the Spanish sports outlet MARCA. The Carlson interview took place before Tate’s arrest.
In the video, Carlson is speaking on the phone to a man who asked if Carlson could wear a sweater instead of a suit while conducting an upcoming interview. The unnamed subject of the interview was “panicky” about wearing a suit, the man on the phone said. In the Tate interview, Tate wore a T-shirt and Carlson a sweater.
“This is airing on the night-time show, and I want it to look official,” Carlson said on the phone in the leaked video, not “like bro talk.”
As for putting the interview on Fox Nation: “But nobody’s going to watch it on Fox Nation,” Carlson said. “Nobody watches Fox Nation because the site sucks. So I’d really just like to dump the whole thing on YouTube.”
FOXLEAKS: Tucker Carlson slammed Fox Nation in behind-the-scenes video https://t.co/XhQlKQVHJ1 pic.twitter.com/mKqJBuWzCw
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) May 1, 2023
“It’s hard to use that site. I don’t know why they’re not fixing it. It’s driving me insane,” Carlson continued. “And they’re like making, like, Lifetime movies. But they don’t, they don’t work on the infrastructure of the site. Like what? It’s crazy. And it drives me crazy because it’s like we’re doing all this extra work and no one can find it. It’s unbelievable, actually.”
This isn’t the first strangely prosaic media leak that someone inside Fox News seems to have orchestrated in the wake of Carlson’s summary dismissal last Monday, as Michael Brendan Dougherty noted in a piece at National Review.
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