Tucker Carlson is 'furious' at Fox News executives for not supporting his NSA spying claims

[brooklynite]

CNN

(CNN Business)Tucker Carlson is furious with Fox News executives for not vigorously defending him amid his evidence-free claims that the National Security Agency spied on him in a conspiracy to destroy his TV show, according to people familiar with the matter.

One of the sources described Carlson as "furious" with network executives, especially the public relations team, "for not backing him up."

"Tensions are sky high," the person said.

Another source pointed out that Carlson has "always had tension with" management, but said right now he's "extra pissed."

[multigraincracker]

1. He needs to just quit

and focus on his presidential campaign.

[dawg day]

8. VICE presidential campaign.

Of course he'll never challenge his king.

[Walleye]

2. Being filthy rich is never enough for these people, They to spend their time ruining our democracy

[Effete Snob]

3. I cannot figure out what's wrong with that boy

If it is indeed true that he was reaching out to Putin for an interview, then it should come as no surprise that the NSA was doing its job by monitoring the communications of persons in Putin's circle.

If, however, the Russians then decided to have some fun with Carlson by providing his emails through another channel back to him with the claim that it "came from the NSA", then it is remarkable that he is too stupid to understand he's being played with.

[machoneman]

6. So who said it? "Something ain't right in that boy's head".

Thought it was a movie quip. And it did predate King of the Hill btw.

[brewens]

18. There have been many. Foghorn leghorn had a few lines like that. I think there is a King of the Hill

episode called "That Boy Ain't Right".

[dawg day]

9. Other reporters have gotten interviews with Putin

Without going through spies.

[Effete Snob]

11. ...and have likely had their international communications intercepted

It doesn't matter. If you are corresponding with Russian officials of any sort, you can assume that those communications are subject to surveillance. Period.

The United States monitors international communications generally and, in particular, communications from or on behalf of foreign government actors.

This whole thing is absolute silliness.

[TheBlackAdder]

15. Yep. Anything that leaves the continental USA, AK & HI, including hosted websites, are scanned.

.

This might have even been one of the issues with BlackBerry, hosting in Canada.

Everything that leaves the USA is scanned and much of it archived.

.

[riversedge]

4. suck on it tucky.

[BeyondGeography]

5. Gotta hand it to Tucker for staying on-brand

He knows the only alternative to upping the insanity ante is growing irrelevance in nutjobville. Knowing Fox, they’re happy to play along.

[captain queeg]

7. Isn't Paul Ryan on the Fox board nowadays?

[-misanthroptimist]

10. Does anything strike less fear in the hearts of people...

...than an angry Tucker Carlson? Seriously. "Oh, baby-man is angry. Everybody watch out...er, I mean...whatever."

[Klaralven]

12. There are a number of ways his communications could have been legally intercepted by NSA

Scoop: Tucker Carlson sought Putin interview at time of spying claim

https://www.axios.com/tucker-carlson-putin-interview-surveillance-c9952d7c-33d7-45e9-be68-2ba4c3817f98.html

For example, if he emailed a Russian in the US who then forwarded it to a contact in Russia. It would be perfectly normal for NSA to intercept that.

[lindysalsagal]

13. LOL. Maybe Vlad doesn't own faux noise after all!

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Their legal defense, accepted by the court, was that reasonable viewers are all skeptical

of any claim by Carlson. His idiocy previously forced them to have that as their public position; they can't abandon it now by taking him seriously.

I think the rest of the media should be reminding people of this much more often whenever discussing anything Carlson claims.

[Marcuse]

16. Tucker's show is a sitcom.

[Initech]

17. Because he made that shit up?

[LiberatedUSA]

19. Do his viewers understand...

...how rich and pampered he is? Everything he tells them to do or suggests they do, isn’t anything he is doing or will do himself.

Oh wait, I forgot about their love of Trump. Except Tucker is actually rich.

He doesn’t do this because he needs the money.