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

And I think the resentment that he feels today towards what he calls legacy media or corporate media, I think a lot of it starts right there.

So at the time he gave that speech, he was already, he had just been fired from MSNBC.

And he was plotting to launch a website that eventually was called The Daily Caller.

And the...

His original vision for The Daily Caller was kind of a conservative analog to The Huffington Post.

I mean, maybe The Huffington Post more than The New York Times, but if you remember at the time, The Huffington Post was the hot website, and Tucker thought that there was a space for this on the right.

And he was working at that time to sort of gin up money for it, but also interest.

And I think he was looking for sort of young conservative writers and reporters who were not just kind of pundits or talking heads or ideologues, but who had a dedication to finding out facts.

And that was like, he went to give that speech at CPAC.

I mean, he knew what he was going to get there.

He knew he was going to get booed.

But

He thought that the negative reaction would appeal to these serious young conservatives and young conservative journalists and also appeal to sort of the D.C.

media elite.

He was still a member in good standing in that group, but I think he was trying to almost sort of say, look, I went into the wilderness on TV for a little while.

I'm coming back as a prodigal son.

I'm rededicating myself to, you know, serious journalism, facts, things like that.

And here I am.

And he got a fantastic reception.

I mean, that's, you know, I think it's hard to imagine now, but the people in Washington, the people he now attacks, I mean, they embraced him and they supported him.

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