Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly fumed about Tucker Carlson, taking several shots at the journalist during a discussion with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo.
Asked for his feedback on the host’s interview with Carlson in which the two former rivals engaged in a lengthy, respectable debate, O’Reilly was sharply critical. And while acknowledging that the back and forth was a big success, he told Cuomo that he would “never do it” the same way.
“I would never in a million years do it because my thrust as a journalist is clarity. So I want to know why Tucker Carlson believes what he believes,” O’Reilly said. “I know why he presents the way he does. I know that because when he took over for me in 2017, he inherited an 8 o’clock slot where 4,200,000 viewers watched the first quarter of 17, he couldn’t hold it, nobody could have, and if you want to say I’m bragging, fine.”
Bill O’Reilly got really testy when Chris Cuomo confronted him with the fact that Tucker Carlson had a larger audience in the same timeslot as the O’Reilly Factor. pic.twitter.com/gdZPwUHb1d
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 14, 2024
“No, because the research says he had the biggest audience in the history of cable television,” Cuomo shot back, bursting the former star’s bubble. “Tucker Carlson had the biggest audience in the history of cable television… I have the proof. They could put it up on the screen if you want.”
“You believe what you want to believe; I just gave you the truth. Tucker Carlson fell off a million one in a year from what I did,” huffed O’Reilly. So he had to change, and he did, and he did it in a very sincere way. He wasn’t a phony, all right? He’s not contrived.”
“He said You know what? I’m going to reflect the grievance of a certain amount of people in America and I’m going to do what Black Lives Matter does. I’m going to pipe that grievance in, get people emotionally involved with me in my program, and they’ll watch, and it worked,” he said, likening Carlson to the Marxist-inspired, anti-white militant movement.
“He never topped what I did, didn’t come close to topping it, but he was the highest-rated show,” he added.
O’Reilly later parroted leftists and neocons who have been griping for weeks about Carlson’s interview with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and the newsman’s observations about the quality of life in Moscow compared to deteriorating domestic U.S. cities.
TC Shorts: The Moscow Subway Station pic.twitter.com/xX8qRrda3X
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 14, 2024
“If he had said it to me, I would have said, ‘You know, you sound like Charles Lindbergh in 1938 who went over to Germany and was very impressed how orderly it was, how clean it was,” he said, tossing out the obligatory reference to Hitler.
“There wasn’t any graffiti. There wasn’t any anything. Everybody did what they were told to do and totalitarian regimes can make that happen fairly easily,” sniped the 74-year-old pundit, who seems to still be living in days of yore when America’s major cities had not yet become the crime-ridden hellholes of the 21st century.
“Now, are you impressed with the totalitarian regime?” O’Reilly asked, criticizing Cuomo. “That would have been my question, because I want to know why Tucker Carlson has presented Putin and his government in a fairly benign way. Okay? That’s what I wanna know. I’m a journalist and I’m curious.”
Whatever Carlson’s audience was at Fox News, he has completely blown it away after taking his show to X where he’s free from the establishment network’s meddling. His interview with Putin has racked up over 210 million views, a far larger audience than cable television.
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