Nick Confessore on Tucker Carlson's 'apocalyptic' rhetoric and remarkable reach

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🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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New York Times reporter Nick Confessore spent months interviewing Tucker Carlson's friends, studying Carlson's show, and checking the accuracy of the content. Confessore's resulting series, "American Nationalist," is about everything from Carlson's childhood to Fox's future as a far-right broadcaster. Everything about Carlson's show "comes back to a central narrative of elite corruption, elite hatred, how much the ruling class hates you," he says.

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0:00.0	Tucker Carlson.
0:03.6	We all know the name.
0:05.8	Is there anything more to know about the man?
0:09.3	Anything new to report?
0:12.0	Well, the New York Times says yes.
0:16.2	Carlson is a subject of a new multi-part series about his rise and his role in the GOP.
0:23.8	So what is there to learn?
0:26.0	What should all of us know about Carlson?
0:28.4	And what he represents?
0:30.9	Those are a couple of the questions.
0:32.5	For this week's Reliable Sources podcast, so let's cue the music.
0:36.9	I'm Brian Stelter and this weekly podcast is our chance to go more in-depth, talking
0:43.0	with media leaders and newsmakers about the story behind the story.
0:47.4	In this week, I want to share that behind the scene story of the New York Times new series
0:52.6	called American Nationalist.
0:55.7	It is a in-depth, frankly, long-awaited look at Tucker Carlson, his evolution over the
1:02.6	years, his rise at Fox, and what he means to the GOP, and frankly to the United States
1:09.0	into politics.
1:11.5	Nicholas Confessori is the New York Times reporter who had been working on this series
1:15.3	for months and months.
1:17.4	It began to be published last Saturday online, last Sunday in print.
1:22.3	There are two long articles and one really interesting interactive that examine Carlson's
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