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 he got all sorts of help and advice from, you know, people at Politico and people at CNN and all these other institutions that wanted him to succeed.

Well, Tucker, I think, very quickly realized that this vision he had for this, you know, fact-based conservative publication was not going to get any traffic.

And there was just no—there was no audience for it.

So he very quickly pivoted, and he—all the—most of the original reporters he hired left.

And he brought in a new crop of reporters, and these—

men and women were really pretty far out there ideologically.

And, you know, at the same time that this is going on, Breitbart is kind of coming onto the scene and Breitbart's having a lot of success with this really kind of inflammatory, you know, pretty much racist coverage of, you know, black on white crime.

That was kind of this obsession that Breitbart had.

And the Daily Caller mimicked that.

And the Trayvon Martin shooting, the Daily Caller really went all in on trying to besmirch Martin's reputation, basically, and portray him as, you know, a thug or a hothead or violent.

Yes.

He is looking at the web traffic.

He's looking at the metrics and he's recognizing that what the conservative base wants is racism, sexism, nativism, all these things that, you know, the Republican establishment hasn't really figured out yet.

But Tucker's figuring it out while he's running the caller.

I don't think he held power and the president of the United States to account.

I mean, if you considered power at the time fairly obscure liberal academics or activists or journalists, he did a fantastic job of holding those people to account because those were the guests he had on and those were the people that he barbecued.

And in the early days of the Trump administration, the first Trump administration –

tucker really made kind of a name for himself and got viewers by just humiliating his guests i mean he would find these debate partners who you know just couldn't sort of hold a candle to him and he would put them in these studios they weren't in the studio with him so they were kind of their face was framed against him in these two boxes and he could control the debate it wasn't like john stewart you know john stewart was there he could sort of call tucker a dick and they couldn't do anything about it right if anyone tried to call tucker a dick in this instance

Um, they would just cut the feed.

Uh, so he, you know, it was a completely unfair fight.

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