Tucker Carlson Debuts Twitter Show Saying The News Media Lies ...

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Tucker Carlson released the first episode of “Tucker on Twitter” Tuesday night, opening with a casual “hey, it’s Tucker Carlson” before moving into a discussion of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine and ridiculing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “our shifty, dead-eyed Ukrainian friend in the tracksuit” and “sweaty and rat-like.”

In the roughly ten-and-a-half minute episode, Carlson claimed that American citizens may be “the least informed people in the world.” Carlson, who was the highest-rated host in cable news before being forced out in April, insisted that “the media lie” and said that “mostly the just ignore the stories that matter.”

And what kinds of stories are being kept from us? Carlson—who said that “in journalism, curiosity is the greatest crime”—cited a widely reported claim by an Air Force veteran that the U.S. government had recovered proof of UFOs, including an intact aircraft of “non-human origin.” Carlson said of the story that “UFOs are actually real” and “in a normal country this news would qualify as a bombshell—the story of the millennium.”

Carlson noted that The New York Times NYT had several stories on Ukraine, Donald Trump, trans people and climate change, but “not one word” on “an alien species flying hypersonic aircraft over our cities.” Carlson said he would seek to bring these smothered stories to viewers via Twitter—as long as nobody tries to interfere with what he covers.

“As of today, we have come to Twitter,” Carlson said, calling his show “the shortwave radio under the blankets. We’re told there are no gatekeepers here. If that turns out to be false, we’ll leave, but in the meantime we are grateful to be here.”

The video ended with a traditional cable news “we’ll be back with much more,” but instead of adding “after the break” or “tomorrow night,” Carlson left it vague: “very soon.”

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