On a beautiful spring morning, as Tucker Carlson, the former host of Fox News, was getting ready to take a stand for the First Amendment and speak out against censorship, he received disappointing news. He discovered that his passionate defense of freedom would not be heard. Exactly one year later, on Wednesday, Carlson’s biographer, Chadwick Moore, shared on his website the opening monologue that Carlson had intended to deliver on April 24, 2023.
Unfortunately, the episode never made it to air. After sending the script to Fox News, Carlson was informed that he had been canceled by the network.
“Carlson planned to tease the first part of a one-hour interview with former Capitol Police chief Steven Sund. In that interview, which Fox owns and refused to air, Sund revealed federal law enforcement and Democratic members of Congress were aware of impending violence during the January 6 election integrity protests but vetoed assistance to cops on the ground,” Moore wrote.
“More chilling, and perhaps darkly ironic, Carlson planned to discuss members of the government lobbying to have his show taken off the air,” he wrote.
Ever since that time, Carlson has persistently expressed his views, disregarding the norms of mainstream media, just like during his conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. However, twelve months ago, he delivered a strong rebuttal to remarks made by Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who accused him of encouraging the type of violence that the government should quell, in relation to his support for the defendants involved in the Capitol incursion on January 6, 2021.
“We have very real issues with what is permissible on air,” AOC declared on former White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s MSNBC show back in early 2023.
“And we saw that with Jan. 6, and we saw that in the lead up to Jan. 6. And how we navigate questions — not just a freedom of speech but also accountability for incitement of violence — this is the line that we have to really explore through law as well,” she said.
“I believe that when it comes to broadcast television, like Fox News, these are subject to federal law, federal regulation in terms of what’s allowed on air and what isn’t,” the congresswoman said.
“When you look at what Tucker Carlson and some of these other folks on Fox do, it is very, very clearly incitement of violence — very clearly incitement of violence. And that is the line that we have to be willing to contend with,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
You can see the segment below:
Tucker’s response pushed back HARD.
“Sandy Cortes did just an interview with Jen Psaki, in which she demands that authorities pull our show off the air,” Carlson wrote.
“Members of Congress aren’t allowed to talk like this,” he said. “The constitution of the United States prohibits it. American citizens have an inalienable right to critique and criticize their political leaders. Our politicians are not gods. They’re instruments of the public’s will. They serve the rest of us, not the other way around.
“For that obvious reason, politicians can never censor our speech or try to control what we think. That unchanging fact is the basis of our founding documents, of our political system and of our personal freedoms.
“As a former government official who claims now to be a journalist, Jen Psaki should know this, and defend America’s foundational principle. She refuses. Instead, Psaki nods along like a fan as Sandy Cortez calls for law enforcement to shut down news programming.”
Tucker continued driving the point home, and you can read the full, never before released monologue HERE.
