The rallies in front of the PSOE headquarters on Ferraz Street in Madrid against the amnesty law and the government – still in office – of Pedro Sánchez bring together, night after night, thousands of people in ultra protests. Among those present are figures from the extreme right who attend the demonstrations, some of them arriving from other countries, as is the case of Tucker Carlson, the ultra media guru and former Fox presenter.
The one who until this April was the star presenter of the prime-time program Fox News Tonight appeared at the rallies accompanying the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal. “In Madrid,” he wrote on his X Carlson account, attaching a photograph in which he is seen next to the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, at a demonstration.
In the image, Abascal comes out with a microphone attached to his shirt, which seems to indicate that Carlson has traveled to Madrid to make a program about the demonstrations of the right-wing movement. Other Vox politicians appear alongside them, such as Pepa Millán, VOX spokesperson in Congress, and Juan García Gallardo, vice president of the Junta de Castilla y León.
The "guru" of the far-right press, Tucker Carlson, fired from Fox News and who now has his own talk show on Pedro Sánchez has agreed with the Catalan independentists.
The presenter's fame did not prevent him from being fired from the network he was on, sentenced for his own lies. The most famous news anchor on American television, as well as one of the most liars and ultras, left Fox at the end of April 2023. He did so a week after Rupert Murdoch's network agreed to pay 787.5 million euros to the electronic vote counting company Dominion Voting Systems for having falsely accused it of participating in the also false electoral fraud reported by Donald Trump after losing in the 2020 presidential election against Joe Biden.
From his platform, Carlson not only gave rise to the alleged electoral fraud—refuted repeatedly by the judges—but also specialized in launching messages against climate change (such as when he stated live that climate change is a liberal invention “ like racism”), justify the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2020; spread false and distorted theories about covid-19 and vaccines; attack the feminist and lgtbiq movement; and spread other conspiracy theories and racist messages. And not only that, but he has received other complaints from co-workers, who accuse him of creating a “misogynistic and discriminatory” work environment.
Despite all the signs, it was a specific message that ended up destroying Carlson's career at Fox, as The New York Times revealed shortly after his firing. "A couple of weeks ago, I was watching a video of people fighting in the streets of Washington. A group of Trump guys surrounded an antifa kid and started beating the shit out of him. It was three on one, at least. Jump over "A guy like that is dishonorable, obviously. It's not how white men fight," began the message, which was private, but which became part of the Dominion case summary.
"Yet," Carlson continued, "I suddenly found myself rallying the mob against the man, hoping that they would hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the boy. I could taste it. Then, somewhere deep inside me brain, an alarm went off: this is not good for me. I am becoming something I don't want to be. The disgusting Antifa is a human being. As much as I despise what he says and does, as much as I'm sure I would hate him "Personally, if I knew him, I shouldn't gloat over his suffering. I should be upset about it..."
After his time at Fox and a brief time of media silence, Carlson returned to the fray. He now has a weekly program on Elon Musk's social network in which he has interviewed, among others, former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) and the libertarian candidate for the Presidency of Argentina, Javier Milei.
When Carlson traveled to Buenos Aires to speak with Milei, the politician accused Pope Francis of having an affinity for "murderous communists" and of being on the side of "bloody dictatorships."
