Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has announced his new show will be returning on the free speech platform Twitter.
In a short video, Carlons revealed the new show would soon be coming to the platform, which he said was now the country’s most trusted center for news.
Here is what Tucker said:
Hey, it’s Tucker Carlson. You often hear people say the news is full of lies, but most of the time, that’s not exactly right. Much of what you see on television or read the New York Times is, in fact, true in the literal sense. You could pass one of the media’s own fact checks. Lawyers would be willing to sign off on it. In fact, they may have. But that doesn’t make it true. It’s not true. At the most basic level, the news you consume is a lie, a lie of the stealthiest and most insidious kind. Facts have been withheld on purpose, along with proportion and perspective. You are being manipulated. How does that work?
Let’s see. If I tell you that a man has been unjustly arrested for armed robbery, that is not strictly speaking a lie. He may have been framed. At this point, there’s been no trial, so no one can really say. But if I don’t mention the fact that the same man has been arrested for the same crime six times before, am I really informing you? No, I’m not. I’m misleading you. And that’s what the news media are doing in every story that matters, every day of the week, every week of the year.
What’s it like to work in a system like that? After more than 30 years in the middle of it, we could tell you stories. The best you can hope for in the news business at this point is the freedom to tell the fullest truth that you can. But there are always limits, and you know that if you bump up against those limits often enough, you will be fired for it. That’s not a guess; it’s guaranteed. Every person who works in English language media understands that. The rule of what you can’t say defines everything. It’s filthy, really, and it’s utterly corrupting. You can’t have a free society if people aren’t allowed to say what they think is true. Speech is the fundamental prerequisite for democracy. That’s why it’s enshrined in the first of our constitutional amendments. 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.
Twitter has long served as the place where our national conversation incubates and develops. Twitter is not a partisan site. Everybody’s allowed here, and we think that’s a good thing. And yet, for the most part, the news that you see analyzed on Twitter comes from media organizations that are themselves thinly disguised propaganda outlets. You see it on cable news; you talk about it on Twitter. The result may feel like a debate, but actually, the gatekeepers are still in charge.
We think that’s a bad system. We know exactly how it works, and we’re sick of it. Starting soon, we’ll be bringing a new version of the show we’ve been doing for the last six and a half years to Twitter. We’ll bring some other things too, which we’ll tell you about. But for now, we’re just grateful to be here. Free speech is the main right that you have. Without it, you have no others. Free speech is the main right that you have. Without it, you have no others.
See you soon.
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As The Daily Fetched reported last week, Carlson is getting closer to allowing his top allies to go after Fox News for imprisoning him within his contract from his Fox News show, an attempt by the network to keep him on the sidelines until well after the 2024 election.
Bryan Freedman, Carlson’s attorney, said in a statement:
“The idea that anyone is going to silence Tucker and prevent him from speaking to his audience is beyond preposterous.”
According to the report, Carlson is in the process of “plotting a media empire of his own” but is unable to do anything unless Fox News releases him from the contract.
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Thank heavens!