Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson released a video statement on Wednesday night, in which he hinted at his future plans following his abrupt exit from the network. He also took the time to blast legacy media for stifling debate on important issues affecting the American public.
“One of the first things you realize when you step outside the noise for a few days is how many genuinely nice people there are in this country. Kind and decent people. People who really care about what’s true,” Carlson said in a video posted to his Twitter account. “The other thing you notice when you take a little time off is how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are. They’re completely irrelevant, they mean nothing. In five years, we won’t even remember that we had them.”
Carlson went on to blast America’s corporate media for collectively focusing on such nonsense instead of the “big topics” that will affect the future of everyday Americans.
“The undeniably big topics, the ones that will define our future, get virtually no discussion at all,” Carlson said. “War, civil liberties, emerging science, demographic change, corporate power, natural resources. When was the last time you heard a legitimate debate about any of those issues? … Debates like that are not permitted in American media. Both political parties and their donors have reached consensus on what benefits them, and they actively collude to shut down any conversation about it.”
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