'He rightly gets credit for shooting from the hip,' said one media expert.
"By law, the United States only has to offer 66,000 H-2B visas per year," Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson said on his show April 1."But Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has used his discretionary powers to add 35,000 extra visas. So that's a total of 100,000 workers coming to this country to take jobs during the single biggest unemployment crisis in a century. It's demented.
"We'll consider the stories downplaying in favor of a protracted government hearing, whose ending we already know," Carlson said on Jan. 28."At this moment, a serious viral outbreak is spreading across China, the world's biggest country. In just a matter of weeks, this new strain of [the] coronavirus has generated almost as many new cases as SARS did ... that is the biggest story of the day, maybe of the moment, a potential pandemic rising from Asia.
, which scored 4.2 million viewers per day in March, according to Nielsen Media Research. Not only is that more than twice the ratings of CNN and MSNBC in the same time slot, but it also surpasses the gaudy numbers that his predecessor, Bill O'Reilly, used to amass before his show was canceled three years ago over a sex scandal.
While conservatives have largely respected Carlson for many years, he may have made his first positive impression on liberals in early January while reporting on the Trump-ordered killing of Gen. Qasem Soleimani of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. After several Republican lawmakers were warning of harsh consequences should Iran retaliate, Carlson said this:"It's harder to get rich and powerful in Washington during peacetime, so our leaders have a built-in bias for war.
. He got his Fox News show in 2016, sliding into O'Reilly's coveted 8 p.m. time slot a year later after the latter's implosion. Even in the midst of advertiser defections, Carlson displayed a uniqueness that escapes other journalists by inviting his detractors on his show via a tweet that read:"Media Matters caught me saying something naughty on a radio show more than a decade ago. Rather than express the usual ritual contrition, how about this: I'm on television every weeknight live for an hour. If you want to know what I think, you can watch.
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