Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson has strongly condemned the network and other Right-wing media, calling them “a complete disservice to our country” for peddling “non-fact-based conspiracy theories” and “outright dangerous rhetoric” to attract high ratings.
Speaking to CNN’s Jim Acosta, Carlson pointed to the network’s Jan. 6 insurrection coverage and repeated, pro-Russian statements made by Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
“I think it’s a complete disservice to our country,” she said. “I think it’s a big difference between having a conservative opinion and having one that supports conspiracy theories.”
Carlson left the network in 2016 after co-hosting Fox & Friends and anchoring The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson. She says she was fired after turning down the sexual advances of former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes.
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“We’re seeing not only the fallout from fake news during the Trump era [to] what happened on Jan. 6,” she told Acosta. “But now it’s moving into other areas, not just news. Now it’s hitting science, the vaccines.”
“Now it’s into Cold War politics,” she said of Tucker Carlson, who has questioned why the U.S. isn’t supporting Russia over Ukraine.
“The idea that we are talking about whether or not we should support Ukraine or Russia — there wouldn’t be a Republican on the planet that five years ago would have said they supported Russia over Ukraine,” she said.
“Conservative television news is certainly not the conservative news that was out there even five years ago,” she added.
SamB
Fox is fake, CNN is fake, MSNBC is fake. They’re all peddling an agenda. Of course a bitter ex-employee of a place that specialized is fake news, should not be trusted either. She was fine taking the paycheck when she worked there.
Chrisk
Of course Fox is fake. They only claim to be an entertainment channel. Nice false equivalency though.
Cam
Awwww, the right wing troll desperately tries to equate dangerously anti-American, domestic terror supporting FOX News with the other networks.
Your troll game is sad and weak.
David Feinberg
My post below was supposed to be a response to this post.
johncp56
You squeak just like a FOX fan! in denial and blame all the rest of the same altered facts go away
James Hart
For years, Gretchen Carlson peddled right-wing propaganda on Fox. Now, she’s disgusted with Fox’s behavior. Reminds me of the commandant in “Casablanca” who was “shocked” that there was gambling in Rick’s Place.
Mehki
Your comment is just filled with butaboutism, while trying to sound fair.
Pure transparent BS…
Ronbo
I hope the wokers don’t react by attacking her for telling the truth. FOX also opened the door WIDE for the woken to call for censorship. FOX is a double-negative, and that’s not positive for anyone but the extremists pushing anger, hate and division.
Cam
@Ronbo,
I was wondering when you’d slip up. You were trolling under this screename for a while, then started pretending to be reasonable. But I knew you’d slip up again….and here you are crying about the “Woken”.
As always, your troll game is sad and weak.
Kangol2
“Wokers”? Please, stop mainlining right-wing claptrap, Ronbo!
Manray
Jesus you’re a hopelessly.dumb Sad little asswipe. Pathetic.
Robothedestroyer
“The woken?” Good lord…
Jim
Fascism is an insidious disease.
Cam
I absolutely love the fact that Roger Ailes was brought down by one of the women he thought he could harass.
Mister P
The FCC should have some teeth to go with it’s mission. News organizations have a responsibility to the public to tell the truth.
Telling lies for profit is for Hollywood not news organizations.
David Feinberg
Fox, MSNBC and CNN are all part of the Commercial Media. (Not mainstream media, which is a phony concept.) Commercial Media exists to get viewers to watch commercials, and they are have an incentive to spin the news in a way that accomplishes that goal.
What’s special about FOX is that we now know at least two of their stars said one thing privately to Trump and are saying the opposite to their audiences. Let’s call that for what it is, “Fake Commentary.”
SamB
We know that Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon were both recently exposed as crooked as well. The left media is no better than Fox.
Mack
But we know SamB watches the podcasts where EVERYTHING is made up to support their viewers’ stupidity.
SamB
Mack: You didn’t know Chris Cuomo was fired for trying to help his brother during the scandal? You can look that up because it’s true. And Don was giving Jesse Smollett info he got through his “journalism” contacts. Is that not a breach of ethics? Are those two things made up?
Cam
@SamB
Ohhh, is the right wing troll trying to deflect and thinks nobody will notice? You’re STILL trying THAT tactic?
I mean, I know Russia is broke and being run by a former office coffee boy, but I wish they would PLEASE spend a little bit more and hire some better trolls. You’re just terrible at this.
cuteguy
Unlike CNN, Fox News is not shown in other countries bc it’s not News. That’s why CNN is allowed in other countries
CNY1983
are there any updates on the gay men who made that hysterical video in praise of melania trump? thats a reunion show i’d like to see.
scotshot
They are all members of Log Cabin Republicans. Knowing that would you subject yourself to exposure from them.
radiooutmike
I love these former employees of awful places like Fox. Oh rly Gretchen, Fox is bad and doing a disservice to the country? Was this also during your tenure?