Reject the Evidence Of Your Own Eyes and Ears

NYT: “You’ve been talking on your show about whether Trump is the Antichrist”

Tucker Carlson: “I have not said that”

NYT: *plays clip of him saying that* pic.twitter.com/L0sUQnfhpb

— Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) May 2, 2026

      Tucker Carlson really is a skeevy piece of shit. I think we all knew that back before he got a cushy gig on Fox, back when Jon Stewart single-handedly heckled him off the air. Today, Lulu Garcia-Navarro of the New York Times interviewed Carlson  It was a wide-ranging interview about his career and so forth. Then Garcia-Navarro asked him about recent comments he'd made on his podcast about Donald Trump being the anti Christ.

     "On the day after Easter, you noted he did not put his hand on the Bible during his swearing-in ceremony as president ..."

     "Correct."

      "And I'm quoting, 'Maybe he didn't put his hand on the Bible because he affirmatively rejects what's inside that book. And then on a recent show, you went further, saying, 'Here's a leader who is mocking the gods of his ancestors, mocking the god of gods, and exalting himself above them. Could this be the antichrist?'"

     "I don't know where those words come from, but they never left my lips."

     At this point, Garcia-Navarro would've been justified pulling a Warner Wolf by snapping her fingers and saying, "Roll the tape." 

     Which was what the NY Times did on its Twitter feed.

     And this strikes at the heart of the right wing mind, or what passes for it- a sneering contempt for our intellects, our judgment, our ability to distinguish falsehoods from truth, our very perceptions. Carlson knew he was being videotaped on his own podcast, he knew that a place like the NY Times could call it up on a moment's notice. He knew he'd be caught in a shameless lie but he didn't care.

     And he didn't care because right wingers are utterly incapable of feeling shame, they don't care if their lies are exposed to the withering, disinfecting light of day. The narrative is everything, the lie is everything. It's like clinging to a leaky life raft.

     And perhaps he knew that Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire had just laid off half its staff and that his little media empire would be next if he incurred Trump's wrath for calling him the anti Christ.