Columnist and Contributing Editor at the Spectator, and frequent former guest on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Chadwick Moore talks about his new book about the former Fox News pundit "Tucker" available now for preorder.
Tucker was dismissed in April 24th, 2023 and has not been on air since due to his noncompete agreement.
Describing the new book, Moore said that "We started this over a year ago and I'd actually finished in March. And then, of course, the news broke and I've interviewed him a few times since he was kicked off the show on Fox and updated the book and have some new chapters about that. But it's a biography about his life and then also about the aftermath of what happened when he was kicked off Fox."
On how Tucker and the public feels about Tucker's firing, Chadwick said that "He was appointment television for millions of people. People scheduled their entire evenings around watching his show, and since he's left, they've felt sort of a chasm in their lives. I think a lot of people have. And he's very much since I spoke to him, he's in high spirits. He has very high self esteem, but he's really jonesing to get back to work. He misses working. He wants to be talking and connecting again with his audience, and he can't do that right now. He's still an employee of Fox News as we speak. He's still under contract. He's being paid to not have a program.A nd what he wants more than anything is to get out of that as quickly as possible so we can start his new show back."
Speaking on the matter of his childhood, Moore said that "Well, he has a really interesting childhood, very interesting childhood and very interesting family. And his father, Dick Carlson, who's a really fascinating and colorful guy, got to know him pretty well in writing this book. He was a journalist as well, and he and his son are very similar. But Tucker came from a long line of dysfunction and abandonment in both his from his mother's side of the family and his father's side of the family. His mother was this California heiress. His dad was an orphan, and his mother left and abandoned the family when Tucker was just six years old, and he never saw her again after that."
On the matters of his show style, Chadwick said that "He was really this force that came along at a perfect time where so many people were experiencing this shift in the political paradigm and right and left don't mean the same things as they used to. Conservative and Liberal. Democrat and Republican. Our issues in this country have gone so much more beyond that. And Tucker Carlson was really such a vehicle for that and a voice for that. He spoke to so many people."
One of the largest news involving Tucker is that he is planning on coming back to Twitter. On May 9th, Tucker tweeted a video announcing his move to Twitter right after his lawyers told Fox News executives that since Fox News employees broke promises "intentionally and with reckless disregard for the truth", he should be released from his contract.
If you are interested in preordering Chadwick's book, you can preorder it at tuckerthebook.com
Listen to more from 97.1 FM Talk: