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Posted by Ellen -7837.60pc on July 09, 2021
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Fox News is letting Tucker Carlson pretend he’s some kind of Deep State martyr, even as the network tacitly acknowledges he’s full of it.
Media Matters has a good rundown of Carlson’s latest lies:
Tucker Carlson’s week-old claim that the National Security Agency is illegally “monitoring” his “electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air” finally made it to another Fox program when he gave an interview to Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo on Wednesday. The Fox star’s incendiary allegation last Monday night had brought widespread news coverage, a rare denial from the NSA, and demands for investigations from congressional Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). But one party remained notably silent about the host’s description of a government plot to destroy his show until this morning: Fox.