Greg Gutfeld, a host at Fox News, took to Twitter to defend his former colleague, Tucker Carlson, against criticism from what he called “hall monitor failures”, who aim to destroy the ex-host of Fox News. Gutfeld’s response came after leaked videos surfaced, which were disseminated primarily by Media Matters for America, a frequent target of Carlson’s.
The videos purported to show Carlson speaking when he thought the cameras were not recording. However, Gutfeld did not buy Media Matters’ interpretation of the leaked material.
He tweeted that “apparently everyone understands nonsense banter between segments except for hall monitor failures bitterly chronicling the lives of the far more successful.”
Geraldo Rivera, who sometimes co-hosts The Five with Gutfeld, offered an unfavorable critique of Carlson, stating, “While I don’t want anyone to suffer, it’s clear that Tucker Carlson’s distorted conspiracy theory about January 6th was complete nonsense, as I previously mentioned. After losing the election, President Trump instigated a rebellion that aimed to subvert our constitutional process.”
“You’re a class act, Geraldo. A real man of the people,” Gutfeld tweeted in response.
Lara Logan, a former FOX Nation alum, also weighed in, saying that Gutfeld was not harsh enough on Media Matters. This was not the first time Gutfeld came to Carlson’s defense, having joked on The Five just hours after Carlson’s abrupt exit from Fox News that Carlson would run for president.
