Tucker’s descent into the uncanny

On this episode of “Standing Room Only,” we look seriously at the question of how Tucker Carlson has managed to survive one disaster after another that would have ended almost anyone else’s career. The answer, in recent years anyway, is that he learned to get really weird with it.

Tucker has eclipsed Alex Jones as the right’s pre-eminent conspiracy theorist. I look at how he did it, how far he’s fallen from his journalist days, and how dumb his shirts have gotten.

Is Tucker’s misogyny sincere?

My guest this week is Jason Zengerle, a New Yorker writer whose has a new biography of Tucker called “Hated By All the Right People.” In this clip, I ask Jason about Tucker’s truly unhinged misogyny and we discuss how sincere it is.

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Encore song of the week: “Flip Your Face” by James Chance and the Contortions

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