Jason Zengerle

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211 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 29 Jan

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The New Yorker Radio Hour · How Tucker Carlson Became the Prophet of MAGA · 23 Jan 2026 podcast

I thought he was a really talented writer and a pretty brave reporter.

He was willing to take on sacred cows in the conservative movement.

I mean, he wrote a profile of George W. Bush when Bush was still governor of Texas, was the presumed frontrunner in the presidential race.

And Tucker wrote this subtly kind of devastating profile that showed Bush to be callow and

kind of stupid and stubborn and all these things that, you know, if you paid attention would have revealed Bush, all the things that made him kind of a bad president.

Tucker's always been very good about seeing where things are going.

He kind of skates to where the puck is going to be.

And I think that he first did that when he left print journalism.

I think he recognized maybe before some other people like myself that if he wanted to attain the fame and fortune and power that he clearly did, he was not going to be able to do that in print.

So he left his job as a pretty promising young magazine writer and moved into cable news.

Not really.

He was actually kind of one of the more non-ideological members of the staff.

He was more of a journalist, of a reporter, than an ideologue.

I mean, it was a real powerhouse staff.

I mean, you had, you know, Bill Kristol, David Brooks, Charles Krauthammer, and Tucker was the guy who was kind of more interested in storytelling.

No, he was absolutely part of mainstream media and absolutely a member of the Washington political and media establishment.

One of his youngest members, but certainly a member.

He was friends with all of the various anchors and swells.

He was good buddies with the people on the Hill.

He considered himself a key cog in that ecosystem.

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