Tucker Carlson was once the most-watched primetime host on the most conservative cable news network. But after a recent interview he conducted on his new X/Twitter show, more conservatives are abandoning him.
The Daily Beast reported that following Carlson's interview with the Rev. Munther Isaac, pro-Israel conservatives have lost patience with the far-right pundit. Like his interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Carlson gave a soft, lengthy interview to Isaac — an Lutheran pastor in Bethlehem, which is in the Israeli-occupied West Bank — and lent him a platform to repeatedly attack the Netanyahu regime in Israel while Carlson agreed with him.
"It would be pretty easy for Republicans in the US Congress to say we support the government of Israel. But if you touch a single Christian, harm a single church, prevent any Christian from practicing his religion, you’re done. Not a single dollar will come from the US Congress for you," Carlson said. "If you wake up in the morning and decide that your Christian faith requires you to support a foreign government, blowing up churches and killing Christians. I think you’ve lost the thread."
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Carlson's remarks angered prominent conservative Christians who back Israel, including Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), who declared: "This is who Tucker is: a click-chaser."
"Tucker’s MO is simple: defend America’s enemies and attack America’s allies. There isn’t an objective bone left in that washed up news host’s body," he tweeted. "Tucker will eventually fade into nothingness, because his veneer of faux intellectualism is quickly falling apart and revealing who he truly is: a cowardly, know-nothing elitist who is full of s—."
X influencer AG Hamilton — a pseudonym for an attorney who writes for the conservative National Review — had similar thoughts in a lengthy post to the platform. He suggested that Carlson's concern about Christians under attack was hollow given that he didn't "have a word to say" about the oppression of Christians in other countries. He added that Tucker's "whole shtick" was feeding his audience a pre-conceived narrative and presenting it as an objective interview.
"He presents a question then suggests an implied answer using dishonest or partial facts, then insists he’s selling his audience a truth instead of feeding them obvious BS," Hamilton tweeted.
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Carlson's decision to interview Munther Isaac also attracted criticism from one of his former Fox News colleagues. After Hamas' October 7 terror attack that killed approximately 1,200 Israelis and resulted in hundreds of hostages being taken, Isaac suggested that the Natanyahu regime owned responsibility for the attack, attributing it to the Nakba (the Arabic word for the establishment of the Israeli state and displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians). NewsNation host Leland Vittert — a former Fox host — slammed Carlson's interview as irresponsible journalism.
"Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda chief, would be proud," Vittert said after showing Carlson's remarks. "Again, Tucker's a smart guy, yet he's taking the side of terrorists. There's no other explanation than his unabashed hatred of Jews."
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