The Fox News host was mocked on Twitter Monday after he summed himself up during a speech about California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).
“He’ll say anything,” Carlson said of Newsom. “Words have nothing to do with reality. There’s no hope if you’re portraying something real. You’re just using words as a tool to gain power. That’s scary.”
“It’s dishonestto the core,” added Carlson, the disinformation-slinging host whose own Fox News attorney has argued that “every reasonable viewer” should take it with a grain of salt.
Carlson attacked Democrats in a series of interviews he gave to MSNBC, during which he discussed, among other subjects, gun reform and attacks on LGBTQ+ people and abortion rights.
Carlson made the comments after circulating excerpts from the interview. In, Newsom criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for signing a law allowing Floridians to carry concealed guns without a permit, days after a mass shooting at a school in Nashville, Tennessee, last month.
Fox News is being sued for $1.6 billion by Dominion Voting Systems. The company has accused major networks and hosts of giving airtime to a Trump 2020 election conspiracy, including the hijacking of voting machines, despite knowing they were fake.
In private texts revealed in Dominion’s court filing, the Fox News host and executive effectively lamented that honesty about the 2020 election alienated viewers. That belief appeared to prompt some hosts — including Carlson — to push their differing views on air to those voiced in person. Carlson, for example, has said privately that he hates Trump.
Which, according to Twitter users, is like saying “literally anything” to “get power.”