Fox News host Tucker Carlson has taken shots from many over the last few weeks, but conservative radio host Howie Carr isn’t one of them.
Carlson has been criticized for his encapsulation of the January 6th Insurrection after recieving 40,000 hours of security camera footage from inside the Capitol from Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). The Fox News host said rioters were “sightseers” and that the demonstration was largely “peaceful chaos”.
During The Howie Carr Show Wednesday, Carr called Carlson a good journalist, but added that the best television news pundits often come from a newspaper background.
“Tucker Carlson — he’s trying to be a good journalist. He comes out of print. I’ve said this before — Rupert Murdoch used to tell us that,” Carr said. “We need people to come out of print, because they’re the people who know how to get the facts, how to push a story, how to make it readable, or watchable, or viewable.
“There’s something to that. However, Tucker is a good journalist. He really is a journalist in addition to being an anchor and a TV editor. But they’re attacking him, and it’s so over the top.”
Carr later added he believed that the 40,000 hours of security camera footage from the January 6th Insurrection should be given to all media outlets, and not just Carlson, saying “It’s all government footage. Technically, we the people own that footage. It’s our cameras in our building, what’s the problem with us seeing it?”
