Tucker Carlson Warns He’s Bringing His Show to Twitter, Elon Musk Clarifies They’ve ‘Not Signed a Deal of Any Kind’
Written by SOURCE on May 10, 2023
Fresh off being unceremoniously ousted by Fox News, Tucker Carlson is boasting about a resurgence.
The right-wing pundit and amplifier of white nationalism said in a video tweeted on Tuesday, “Amazingly, as of tonight, there aren’t many platforms left that allow free speech. The last big one remaining in the world, the only one, is Twitter, where we are now.”
The 53-year-old heralded Twitter as being “not a partisan site” but rather “the place where our national conversation incubates and develops,” where “everybody’s allowed.” From there, Carlson babbled about free speech and warned he’ll create a “new version of the show we’ve been doing.” He also slid in a mini-screed about how “the rule of what you can’t say defines everything. It’s filthy really and it’s utterly corrupting.”
Of Carlson’s firing, the New York Timesreported that a text message he sent “set off a panic at the highest levels of Fox on the eve of its billion-dollar defamation trial” against Dominion Voting Systems. His words (below) showed the network’s “most popular host sharing his private, inflammatory views about violence and race.”
