Earlier this week, Chadwick Moore — the biographer of Tucker Carlson — claimed Fox News hosts are forbidden from mentioning the former network star. Fox News’ chief political analyst Brit Hume has thrown cold water on that allegation.
During an appearance on The Benny Show, Moore claimed “a source inside Fox who still works there told me that they are totally banned — all shows — from even acknowledging Trump will appear (with Carlson). Whatever happens on the show, if Trump breaks news, they can’t mention it. There’s been a policy in place since Tucker was taken off the air that you can’t say his name on air. He’s like Voldemort, ‘He who shall not be named’. Explicitly, everyone at Fox was told they can not mention this or what happens on it.”
He added that “people who consider themselves real journalists” at Fox News are unable to report on the news due to the “vendetta” executives have against Carlson.
After Moore’s comments went viral, Fox News contributor Brit Hume chimed in, claiming he’s never been told about the edict.
“Funny, I have heard nothing of the sort,” Hume wrote in a post to X, formerly Twitter.
On the air Wednesday evening, Hume said about the Trump/Carlson exchange “I guess he did this pre-taped interview with Tucker Carlson for presentation on Twitter. I’m interested to see how that goes and whether there’s any real news made out of that.”
The 80-year-old Hume has been a mainstay at Fox News. He joined the network in 1996 and hosted Special Report from 1998 to 2008 before moving to an analyst role with the network that he still holds today.
Carlson hosted a sit-down interview with former President Donald Trump Wednesday, published moments before his former network took the air with coverage of the first 2024 Republican Presidential debate in which Trump refused to participate. According to publicly available analytics from X, the interview has seen more than 250 million views.
