Tucker Carlson has launched a tirade against the lack of “honest” US political debate in a country that he claimed “looks very much like a one-party state”, just days after being fired as the top-rated anchor of Fox News.
Carlson was among the most-watched personalities on US television until Rupert Murdoch’s TV network announced his shock exit on Monday less than a week after the company agreed to settle a defamation suit over allegations it aired false theories about US election fraud.
In a short video posted on Twitter late on Wednesday, Carlson did not directly address his departure but said he was taking a “little time off”. The TV personality instead spent the majority of it railing against the state of mainstream US media and politics.