Tucker Qatarlson

I'm hard pressed to recall a conservative personality who has morphed so dramatically from an insightful (and occasionally boisterous) commentator to shameless grifter quite like Tucker Carlson. 

When Carlson had his own show on Fox News, I tuned in occasionally. If there was a show for conservatives looking for red meat, Tuck definitely filled that need. But in my estimation, his credibility began to fade in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. Specifically he, like a good number of righties, questioned the legitimacy of Joe Biden's defeat of President Donald Trump. But in retrospect, it appeared to be a grift when it was revealed that he actually blasted Trump's delusion over the 2020 results. But that's what grifters do. They fill an in-demand role (which is oftentimes lucrative) regardless if it aligns with their principles. As such, Tuck was more than willing to pour gasoline on the fire of election denialism in order to be enriched. 

Carlson also seized on what he perceived as conservative disdain for American support of Ukraine's proxy war against Russia, despite the fact the former was attacked by the latter in early 2022. His softball interview in Moscow with Russian president Vladimir Putin and then hyping the country's grocery stores and subway systems had a very "Mussolini made the trains run on time" vibe to it. 

But perhaps his most stupefying behavior has been his constant bashing of America's ally Israel and then decrying a possible American strike against Iran's nuclear capability. Tuck seemed to ignore the Iranians constant threats to annihilate our ally (and even America). He then attempted to fortify his case with a softball interview of the Iranian president while aggressively going after Sen. Ted Cruz for (**checks notes**) not knowing the population of  "the country you seek to topple." Uh, memo to Tuck: it was about destroying Iran's nuclear prowess, not regime change. 

And finally, we get to Tucker's latest odd obsession: that tropical paradise known as.....Qatar? And don't you dare try to tell him otherwise. 

Tucker Carlson is toast.

He preaches America first and calls himself a “Christian man,” yet he is obsessed with Qatar.
Meanwhile he is literally shopping for property in a country where Christians cannot buy land to build a church.

Qatar will not allow you to buy land for a… pic.twitter.com/wR7tEmfolC

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) December 7, 2025

In addition to multiple grifts, Tuck has apparently taken up strawman construction as a new hobby. When he shares how much he likes it in Qatar, he seems to get overly defensive when he says "By the way, I'm an American. I can go wherever I want and speak to anyone I want to because I'm a free man. That's the promise of my country." Uhhh, OK? I mean, I agree with all of that, which means people like myself can freely accuse you of being a propagandist. So what's the issue here? He then followed up that declaration with an accusation by stating "And some are seeking to change that and to put our population into mental bondage." Change what? Your ability to speak to anyone you want? Who's seeking to change that? Name names, Tuck. 

The truth of the matter is Tuck's most fervent opponents on the right believe passionately that the best way to defeat objectionable speech (like the pap Tucker spews) is with fact-filled dissension. If anything, his most outspoken conservative critics like Ben Shapiro and Erick Erickson want Tuck to continue saying what he's saying so as to be able bring the discourse to the public at large. And then let the people decide. Isn't that also a promise of your country, Tuck?

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