The Fall of Tucker Carlson, and the Making of Candace Owens

Once a Beltway neoconservative, Tucker Carlson came to embody the angry, forgotten white man-railing at “the élites” and propagating racist conspiracy theories and the lie of the stolen election. “Unlike a lot of his colleagues at Fox News, he made news, he set the agenda,” Kelefa Sanneh, who wrote about Carlson in 2017 (www.newyorker.com/magazine/20..., says. “People were wondering, What is Tucker going to be saying tonight?” Sanneh joins Andrew Marantz (www.newyorker.com/contributor...) and David Remnick to discuss Carlson’s demise, and what comes next. And Clare Malone reports on Candace Owens (www.newyorker.com/news/annals..., the powerful right-wing influencer and provocateur who’s set her sights on the future of right-wing media-and on a younger and more female audience than that of Fox News.

[@smilebot484]

extremism is being amplified by social media.

[@maxaluta3618]

A modestly talented writer..

[@susannunes6196]

Whatever her color her background seems to have removed her affection for mankind....and possibly this lashing out requires mental health therapy

[@michaelbray109]

Like Donnie, Tucker’s use of “you” and “they” and “us” and ours” sounds inclusive for those who feel lost in today’s world ad well as being ambiguous enough to allow the listener to fill in the blanks with whatever they want to hear.

[@michaelbray109]

And it’s is emotionalised and divisive which allows manipulation to occur more easily like Goebbels has said.

[@patcomerford5596]

I found the critique of Candace Owens both captivating and unsettling. Thank you.

[@mainlyfine]

A Candace Owens puff piece

[@camille9803]

Yeah. Pretty much. Ridiculous. Or the soft bigotry of low expectations. I mean that whole bs stretch on feminism which ignores black feminism going all the way back to Sojourner Truth. An incredibly ignorant person who knows no white liberal intellectual will ever challenge her nonsense.

[@Jayseacc]

She is focused on indoctrination. Call it what it is.

[@davidtrindle6473]

Tucker & Candace are unbeatable in the business of “Anger-Tainment”

[@InfinityHS]

I’d argue Candace is even more viscous than Tucker in her very own way. It’s quite funny actually. If they was to argue Candace would win to be honest.

[@chiriviscospower]

Ok boomer 😂

[@jim2376]

Yep.

[@lavielemond]

@@InfinityHS I don't think that you were trying to explain the consistency of a specific liquid re: Candace when you previously wrote "viscous", so I'm guessing that you actually meant to write "vicious" there, my friend...?!

[@carolmiller6487]

My gosh DaveT. Couldn’t have summed it up so succinctly.

[@mukomerobicheaux6883]

the Owens part sounded like an infomercial, the kind where a "reporter" does an "interview" with an "expert" on some ridiculous product. In this case the product is Candace Owens.

[@KBtx23]

I used to watch Carlson back in the day when he seemed normal. At this point, I believe that was an act. He is one of the most malignant, hate-filled, fascist media personalities in US history. Did he ever believe anything? Other than having the power to destroy, you mean?

[@lv6524]

You mean when he was backing the Irak war ?

[@rc19531]

@@lv6524

[@Handlethis342]

@@lv6524 yeah, because that was the only opinion and conversation Tucker was having back then. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@lv6524]

@@Handlethis342 who said that ?

[@Handlethis342]

@@lv6524, you implied it by your reductionist comment.

[@cynthiamadrid1430]

GREAT KNOWLEDGE.

[@ObelixBarbatus]

I confess that I came to this discussion thinking that it would be full of vituperative language, condemnation and, worse, condescension. I was pleasantly surprised at the balanced expression of thought. How refreshing! How I wish the presidential debates could contain the same wisdom. Alas, I do not believe in that possibility.

[@AM11222]

It was a soft puff piece.

[@erinthesystem9608]

There was only *one* Phyllis Schlafly- and I had to examine my own conscience after she died. I had never before felt relief at the death of another human being, but I did feel this way when Schlafly passed.

[@treehugger79]

I’m 72 (white female). I am embarrassed by my generation. Not all of us, but way to many have fallen for a depraved human.

[@robinriebsomer4607]

I am 71. I never fell for this nor my 2 sisters and their husbands.

[@horvathsogranfume658]

based

[@maddie9185]

The moment Candace found out where the money is, that’s when she changed her views. She’s all about the money.

[@paulholman2841]

788k subscribers: 14 comments: 3.6k views. Anyone else skeptical of these numbers ?🤔

[@jrr570]

Yeap.

[@alienwarex51i3]

@@jrr570 Same story with other journalistic KZbin channels, NYT's channel is the same for example.. 4.29M subs but averaging like 20k views per video. Not suspicious, people don't watch every video that journalism channels put out like they do with other KZbinrs. They pick and choose videos with interesting stories. That's why New Yorker has 26 videos with over a million views

[@Ambigirl2011]

i cannot stand Candace Owens.

[@monicahope3615]

Oh THANK YOU. And here I thought it was just me.

[@shanefaherty7693]

It is just you that other clown doesn't count😂

[@SoaringTrumpet]

I cannot stand her either. And with regards to the previous comment, there are millions like me and the original poster.

[@merriemelodies7830]

She can't stand herself; it's the biggest part of her problem.

[@damonbernard2802]

Smart conversation

[@rc19531]

Really ???

[@damonbernard2802]

@@rc19531 it was Intelligent

[@srami004]

Is it me or are some of these provocateurs are the way that they are due to some past trauma?

[@srami004]

@@jackspring7709 Tucker Carlson’s mom abandoned the family. Candace Owens got dumped.

[@cherylj7460]

I personally believe Owens is an opportunist. Convenient cultural bs…🤪

[@W81Researcher]

Exactly she is a joke to the party and dividing us.

[@ubiktd4064]

This aged well

[@fredbungy8622]

This answers the question, "What would a male version of The View sound like?" Rest assured, gentlemen, no matter how long you live nobody will spend 40 minutes talking about any of you on a podcast.

[@Wonderfeel__]

Even though Candace is talking about respecting her feminine nature, I’m getting a strong impression that her feminine side is very repressed. She seems to lack empathy big time, seems to have a repressed feeling nature, and is just stuck in spouting terse and divisive rhetoric. It would be a genuine gift to her audience, if she were to actually have more respect for her feminine qualities… Which is of course a valuable choice in each of our lives! 💜

[@kristydelapena7149]

Oooh okay

[@muoian]

Thank you for this piece . His devotee comments here speak for themselves

[@killerDIRK1]

Get comfortable being uncomfortable.

[@cherylj7460]

No. Owens would not succeed in front of tuckers audience. Nope.

[@jenniferstone2975]

Candace Owens - HARD PASS.

[@chrisharder4854]

😂😂😂..who even cares

[@danielpincus221]

The fact is that many parts of the country have become dirtier and more dangerous. The question is why.

[@williamj.crofts41]

Thank you sir you have had the best answer of all time!!

[@KrunoslavStifter]

Dude, the only thing failing is the legacy media. Tucker will be just fine. As of Candace, she is artificially prompted and can only reach so many people.

[@Mdp67]

Tucker will flourish on his own!

[@carlettesouthern-robert2992]

Great Radio Hour Program, thankyou!😊

[@cherylj7460]

They wore what?

[@WaltPowellEnt]

lol Tucker fell? Tuckers beating most news stations in the ratings and he is not even on fox news anymore.

[@ronaldcoleman1210]

Does anybody actually read the new yorker

[@madreep]

I would be so ashamed if Candace Owens was my daughter

[@damienkurast]

Candace is pure class. You basically told your children that your love for them is politically conditioned.

[@madreep]

@damienkurast no. I sure didn't. My love for my kids doesn't change just because they have their own thoughts and ideas. I encourage them to. If my daughter was to speak like Candace Owens I would be mortified and disappointed. But I would still love her.

[@williamj.crofts41]

Yes ma'am I am so with you

[@lizannewhitlow1085]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@itsallfunandgames723]

"Fall" was a bit of cope, now wasn't it?

[@DGiovanni]

"The Fall of Tucker Carlson" oof that title didn't age well did it?

[@Dawn737]

Oh, you wish! Why not do a more accurate video about the fall of Fox News? They lost nearly half their viewers when they fired Tucker Carlson. People only tuned in to that network to see him!

[@Don-md6wn]

White supremacists tuned in to watch him.

[@iammoody2478]

Excuse me do you have any grey poupon?

[@geneadams9017]

These New Yorker guys are eulogizing Tucker Carlson as if they now have the joy of stomping on his grave. We shall soon see the second coming of Tucker Carlson.

[@Elena-rt9yu]

Well u can go and shine his shoes if u want, or some other way, you think he should be celebrated. But the rest of the world, finds him Dispicable. Free speech and 😅free thinking society

[@geneadams9017]

@@Elena-rt9yu I'm just saying his enemies have not destroyed him ---he will re-emerge larger than ever, you will see.

[@horvathsogranfume658]

cope

[@Handlethis342]

@@geneadams9017, what imaginary enemy are you talking about?? Through his own words and attitude, Tucker destroyed himself.

[@Buttercup697]

Where’s Bill O’Reilly?

[@hr9336]

Candace Owens doesn’t mince words and she’ll usually say what everyone is thinking.

[@AraKantardjian]

this didnt age well, lol. Tucker is 100x bigger than ever...

[@paulchristopher7377]

😂

[@TheWakeupsheeple]

Hmmm, this didn't age well. aaaahahahahaha.

[@mwoods8988]

Candace Owens does hit pieces on policies and people she or her allies want to attack, willfully misrepresents situations, and ignores inconvenient truths. And I can't blame her research team for Candice repeating lies that were debunked a year or more earlier, because the truth is widely known. Her being black could appeal to Fox News Channel, but not to Tucker's viewers. With the topics she currently chooses, I think she'd have sparse advertisers, similar to Tucker's.

[@kevinblankenburg4816]

Tucker Carlson will take his audience with him. I would love to see him on the Daily Wire.

[@poetcomic1]

This is a made-t-order hit piece.

[@mwoods8988]

Every time you mention Tucker's great ratings, you should mention his sparse advertisers. For the timeslot, iewership is down, but is ad revenue up?

[@jimmcmanmon]

Carlson segment was a big nothing. The Owens segment was very interesting.

[@olsonjeremyd]

Boooo. Unsupported character assassination. Support your arguments with facts, sir, if you wish to have any impact. This screed has all the heft of a rubber squeaky hammer.

[@BFG_10G]

I love the harshness of Candace. No more coddling. We need more people in our society calling out the nonsense. I did read the article, and although I didn't agree with it all, I can say that it was fair.

[@advocacynaccountablity]

Candace isn't a "truth teller" she just isn't empathetic, and has gone one very particular way after being hurt. Many do. It's the way of rigid superiority. Judging as a way of making money. Ridiculous.

[@BFG_10G]

@@advocacynaccountablity You are free to your own opinion. 😊

[@user-fk7sk9ut1t]

@@advocacynaccountablity wrong, shes smart and speaks hard truths that you don't want to accept

[@horvathsogranfume658]

candace owns is a ret&rd who is liked by other ret&rds

[@BFG_10G]

@@horvathsogranfume658 The joy of calling someone a reta*d, while being unable to spell her name properly.

[@deniseclevenstine1712]

Sounds like a candidate for president in the US these day for at least half of the country

[@friscosbt.2408]

Tuck will run as VP 2024, no matter for whomas he does not care, just so he can run 2028

[@England_en_Geurre]

wtf I love candace owens now

[@Handlethis342]

We all have our fetishes. Some like little boys, you like Owens. Same difference.

[@AM11222]

Because this was a puff piece about her most likely

[@sharontuttle3000]

I can't stand her

[@BlowinFree]

TEAM TUCKER 🖕

[@nativecompanion1562]

Wow. That was a lot of identity politics.

[@marciterrana3621]

Tucker Carlson has not Fallen.

[@arturobayangos1223]

The fall of Tucker for TELLING THE TRUTH . I agree with new Yorker .

[@christinerobinson9372]

Arturo, Tucker himself said that not one word he said on air was true. He never meant for you to hear that confession.

[@horvathsogranfume658]

ur a sheep arturo

[@NoName-rf2us]

I hope people are smart and understand that this is a character assassination and not reporting.

[@jrr570]

Yeap.

[@Don-md6wn]

"That's not how white men fight." - Tucker Carlson

[@horvathsogranfume658]

nah, cope tho, u tucker sucker

[@carolinemaybe]

It’s just using their own words therefore it is reporting. Murdoch has made people not understand what the media are supposed to do.

[@gregorypeterson9]

Don't you need character before someone can assassinate it.

[@MJ-hg1mk]

This isn't bad, for a group of east coast limo libs.

[@wellokayyes1266]

The New Yorker wishes their ratings were as high as Tucker’s and at the same time have no idea why they are not.

[@grouchomarxist666]

You think quality is measured by popularity? In that case, the music of Brittney Spears is superior to the music of Mozart. The Bridges of Madison County is a better novel than The Grapes of Wrath. Is Candace Owens is better journalist than William Grieder?

[@jrr570]

Totally agree! What happened to the New Yorker? Sad.

[@Don-md6wn]

Tucker got his ratings spewing white supremacy. Not everybody is willing to do that for money.

[@carolinemaybe]

That’s because their audience aren’t part of a cult.

[@Matt-ck3pp]

Whatever network/channel Tucker Carlson is on, he will be a hit. God Bless Tucker Carlson!

[@michaelcapeless3268]

Yes, hypocrisy is not as highly valued as it ought to be in America.

[@cleatington]

@@michaelcapeless3268

[@chiriviscospower]

Ayeeee 👍

[@grouchomarxist666]

That's because the untutored masses have always preferred someone who lies to them and assures them that their failings and grievances are someone else's fault. No one will ever go broke underestimating MAGAmerica.

[@jrr570]

Tucker is a truth teller. Some can’t handle it.

[@michaeljaffrey7958]

How can anyone take this bias seriously.

[@comicbookchris3509]

"Fall of Tucker Carlson"??? LOLOLOL Tucker will Rise to even greater heights like Never before!! He's been talking with Elon, posted on Twitter the other day....If he goes with Twitter....You haters will have coronaries!!

[@Don-md6wn]

Your boy Elon is driving Twitter into the ground.

[@privacylock855]

No, W?O th Fox platfomr. he can't reach his audience.

[@comicbookchris3509]

@@privacylock855 I don't know where he is going, but my bet is with Twitter. If he does Elon will back him bigly. He just did a long interview with Elon a month ago and just did his one post FOX message on Twitter recently . There are over 1.3 billion Twitter accounts, but only 237.8 million of them are monetizable monthly active users.Mar 1, 2023

[@mikestiffler7921]

Tucker carlson rules!! Speaker of the truth!!

[@carolinemaybe]

You’ve been conned. I’m so sorry. All Cucker has done is use fear and anger to make money. That’s it.

[@katediehl4836]

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