Former Fox host Tucker Carlson has issued his first statement following his departure from Fox News earlier this week.
On Wednesday, Carlson posted a two-minute video to Twitter at exactly 8:01 pm, the same time that his former show Tucker Carlson Tonight would air. The video comes just two days after Fox News announced that the network had parted ways with Carlson, whose program was one of the top-rated primetime shows on Fox News. Later that day, CNN announced that it had fired longtime opinion host Don Lemon.
“One of the first things you realize, when you step outside the noise for a few days, is how many genuinely nice people there are in this country, kind and decent people, people who really care about what’s true and a bunch of hilarious people,” he said in his opening monologue.
According to The Christian Post, Carlson called the experience “heartening” and noted that these kinds of people make up the majority of the American population.
“Most of the debates you see on television are unbelievably stupid,” he asserted.
“They’re completely irrelevant. They mean nothing. In five years, we won’t even remember that we had them,” Carlson said. Conversely, he cautioned that “the undeniably big topics, the ones that will define our future, get virtually no discussion at all: war, civil liberties, emerging science, demographic change, corporate power, natural resources,” he added.
Carlson continued his video by pointing out that “it’s been a long time” since Americans have seen “a legitimate debate about any of those issues. Debates like that are not permitted in American media. Both political parties and their donors have reached consensus on what benefits them, and they actively collude to shut down any conversation about it.”
“Suddenly, the United States looks very much like a one-party state. That’s a depressing realization but it’s not permanent. Our current orthodoxies won’t last. They’re brain dead. Nobody actually believes them. Hardly anyone’s life is improved by them. This moment is too inherently ridiculous to continue, and so it won’t.”
“The people in charge know this,” and “that’s why they’re hysterical and aggressive,” the former news host continued.
While “they’ve given up persuasion” and are “resorting to force,” Carlson believes that “it won’t work.”
“When honest people say what’s true calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful,” he said. “At the same time, the liars who have been trying to silence them shrink and they become weaker. That’s the iron law of the universe: true things prevail.”
“Where can you still find Americans saying true things?” he asked. “There aren’t many places left but there are some, and that’s not enough. As long as you can hear the words, there is hope.”
While Carlson did not directly address his firing from Fox nor his future plans, he ended the video by saying, “see you soon,” hinting that he will continue his media career in some shape or form.
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Milton Quintanilla is a freelance writer and content creator. He is a contributing writer for CrosswalkHeadlines and the host of the For Your Soul Podcast, a podcast devoted to sound doctrine and biblical truth. He holds a Masters of Divinity from Alliance Theological Seminary.
