Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed his former employer after it removed the producer who allowed a chyron labeling President Joe Biden as a “wannabe dictator.”
In the fourth episode of his new Twitter show, Carlson addressed a chyron that appeared Tuesday night on Fox News following former President Donald Trump’s arraignment on classified document charges. The chyron, which read, “Wannabe dictator speaks at the White House after having his political rival arrested,” appeared below a split screen of Biden and Trump.
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“Those words were up for less than 30 seconds, but the effect was immediate. Inside Fox, the women who run the network panicked,” Carlson said, adding that the producer resigned within 24 hours.
Carlson explained Fox News issued an apology, saying that “the chyron was taken down immediately” and “addressed.”
“He’d been at Fox for more than a decade. He was one of the most capable people in the building,” Carlson said. “He offered to stay for the customary two weeks, but Fox told him to clear out his desk and leave immediately.”
Carlson then questioned “why the hysteria” in a lengthy diatribe that sarcastically explained why Biden could not be compared to a dictator, suggesting the contrary.
“Of course, Joe Biden’s not a wannabe dictator,” Carlson quipped. “Just because he’s trying to put the other candidate in prison for the rest of his life for a crime he himself committed doesn’t mean he has a totalitarian impulse.”
“C’mon, that’s absurd!” he continued. “It takes a lot more than jailing your political rivals to earn the title of ‘wannabe dictator.'”
Carlson suggested sarcastically that Biden could not be a dictator because “he just does not fit the profile as a man. Dictators have that look — you know one when you see one. Dictators build cults of personality around themselves, and they use those cults to deny the glaringly obvious.”
The former Fox News host offered examples, equating Biden’s personality to that of Saddam Hussein, North Korea’s Kim Il Sung, and communist dictator of Romania Nicolae Ceausescu.
Carlson also mocked how the label “could never be” for Biden, referring to government surveillance and suppression of political opponents.
When White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about the chyron label of “wannabe dictator” during a press briefing on Wednesday, she said there were “probably about 787 million things I can say about this” while adding that it was “wrong.”
Carlson’s comments follow Fox News sending the former network host a cease-and-desist letter, demanding he stop releasing shows on Twitter.
His Twitter videos continue to attract views that slay cable ratings. His first Twitter show garnered 9 million views in its first two hours. It has now been viewed 117.4 million times.
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Carlson’s latest video attracted more than 13 million views in its first 12 hours of being posted.
Fox News announced it had parted ways with Carlson on April 24. Since Carlson’s leaving, the network has suffered a decline in its key prime-time viewing audience.
