On Monday, June 28th, Fox host Tucker Carlson dropped a bomb mid-show, announcing he’d been approached by a “whistleblower” who told him he was being spied on by the NSA.
“The National Security Agency is monitoring our electronic communications,” he said, “and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air.”
The reaction was swift, mocking, and ferocious. “Carlson is sounding more and more like
InfoWars host and notorious conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones,” chirped CNN media analyst Brian Stelter.
Vox ripped Carlson as a “serial fabulist” whose claims were “evidence-free.”
The Washington Post quipped that “in a testament to just how far the credibility of
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