Susan AndrewsTucker Carlson / Spouse (m. 1991)
Tucker CarlsonOther political affiliationsDemocratic (2006–2020)MovementConservatism PaleoconservatismSpouse(s)Susan Andrews ​ ( m. 1991)​Children410 more rows
Susan AndrewsTucker Carlson / Wife (m. 1991)
Richard Warner CarlsonTucker Carlson / FatherRichard Warner Carlson is an American journalist, diplomat and lobbyist who was the director of the Voice of America during the last six years of the Cold War. At the same time, he led Radio Marti broadcasting to Cuba, and was director of the U.S. Information Agency and the USIA Documentary Film Service. Wikipedia
Hopie CarlsonLillie CarlsonDorothy CarlsonBuckley CarlsonTucker Carlson/Children
43Â years (July 9, 1978)Jesse Watters / Age
Jill RhodesSean Hannity / Spouse (m. 1993–2019)
Jesse WattersNoelle Watters / Spouse (m. 2009–2019)
Lisa McNearTucker Carlson / Mother
Despite his concerns about his family’s safety, Carlson made a point to call out the hypocrisy of the “soulless robot editors” at the Times for trying to call this “incitement to violence” journalism.
They want this show off the air.”. Carlson has good reason to fear. In 2018, his family faced a slew of attacks on their home after a “left-wing journalist” released the address to his house in Washington, D.C. One night, Antifa members “vandalized” Carlson’s home and “threatened” his wife while he was away.
One night, Antifa members “vandalized” Carlson’s home and “threatened” his wife while he was away. The Carlson family also received death threats via mail and more Antifa visits, which eventually forced them to move. “It felt cowardly to sell our home and leave…but in the end, that’s what we did,” Carlson explained.
The New York Times is threatening Tucker Carlson with publicizing where his family lives. In his most recent segment of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News, Carlson announced The New York Times is set to release an “intrusive” story about where he lives to demonstrate that they “want this show off the air.”
When Carlson was in first grade, his father moved Tucker and his brother to the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego , California, and raised them there.
Early life and education. Carlson at the Buckley School in 1975. Carlson was born Tucker McNear Carlson in the Mission District of San Francisco, California, on May 16, 1969. He is the elder son of artist and San Francisco native Lisa McNear ( née Lombardi) (1945–2011) and Dick Carlson (1941–), a former " gonzo reporter " who became the director ...
In 2019 on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson said America's " ruling class " are, in effect, the " mercenaries " behind the decline of the American middle class, and "any economic system that weakens and destroys families is not worth having. A system like that is the enemy of a healthy society.".
On April 19, 2017, Fox News announced that Tucker Carlson Tonight would air at 8:00 p.m. following the cancellation of The O'Reilly Factor. Tucker Carlson Tonight was the third-highest-rated cable news show as of March 2018.
By October 2020, Tucker Carlson Tonight averaged 5.3 million viewers, with the show's monthly average becoming the highest of any cable news program in history at that point. In the 25–54 demographic, the show maintained an average viewership of just over a million, with 670,000 being between 18 and 49.
Carlson is of English, German and Swiss - Italian ancestry. In 1976, Carlson's parents divorced after the nine-year marriage reportedly "turned sour". Carlson's father was granted custody of Tucker and his brother. Carlson's mother left the family when he was six, wanting to pursue a " bohemian " lifestyle.
In August 2018, Carlson alleged that the South African government was targeting white farmers because "they are the wrong skin color" and falsely said the country's president had changed the constitution to allow land thefts from whites during ongoing land reform efforts. CBS News, Associated Press, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal described Carlson's segment (with guest Marian Tupy of the Cato Institute) as false or misleading, because violence against farmers had reached an all-time low and the reforms had yet to pass and were primarily aimed at land that had fallen into disuse.
That anchor, Shepard Smith, quit mid-contract shortly after Carlson went after him. Now comes the claim that you can't expect to literally believe the words that come out of Carlson's mouth. And that assertion is not coming from Carlson's critics.
Carlson has been accused of hyperbolic, vicious and unfounded claims about women, people of color and immigrants in the past. This year, his audiences have made his show the top-rated program in the history of cable news. He maintains the backing of Fox Corp. Executive Chairman and CEO Lachlan Murdoch.
The National Enquirer tabloid bought McDougal's story for $150,000 during the 2016 campaign and then buried it to protect Trump from any fallout. More than two years later, in December 2018, Carlson began presenting Trump as the victim of extortion.
Tucker Carlson appears to be made of Teflon. Fox News' top-rated host has been repeatedly accused of anti-immigrant and racist comments, which have cost his political opinion show many of its major advertisers. Yet Carlson endures in his prime-time slot.
It wasn't publicly known that David Pecker, then the CEO of the tabloid's parent company, had promised Trump he would help keep stories about extramarital affairs from seeing the light of day. Carlson and Fox never corrected that significant error, as The Washington Post 's Erik Wemple underscored.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson "is not 'stating actual facts' about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in 'exaggeration' and 'non-literal commentary,' " U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil wrote. Fox News host Tucker Carlson "is not 'stating actual facts' about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in 'exaggeration' ...