Former Fox News host told bizarre story in clip from upcoming documentary

Summary

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed he was “physically mauled” by a demon in his sleep, leaving claw marks on his body, which he says are still visible. Carlson described waking with intense pain, bleeding claw marks, and an overwhelming urge to read the Bible. He recounted the experience as confusing yet transformative, adding that while he doesn’t expect others to believe him, the incident profoundly impacted him.

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
    305·
    4 days ago

    At the time, Carlson says, he was asleep in bed with his wife – and four dogs.

    I have an alternate theory about those claw marks…

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      74·
      4 days ago

      I watched that video, and had he just stuck to being suddenly awake and having claw marks I would have thought there was something odd. But he led with having four dogs in the bed, so when he said he had claw marks…dear lord, he’s either trying too hard to play to some niche audience, or he’s really that stupid. At least make the story sound plausible…we know you can lie, why didn’t you just leave off some details here to sell it better.

      • Billiam@lemmy.world
        761·
        4 days ago

        Ever since he got kicked off Fox, he’s been making the pivot to the hard right audience, which includes the narrative that they’re in a spiritual war against the literal devil.

        It’s the same conspiracy-laden bullshit that Alex Jones pushes.

        • Rhaedas@fedia.io
          52·
          4 days ago

          It’s Jon Stewart’s fault. Tucker never recovered from that jab about the bow tie.

          • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
            35·
            4 days ago

            And he never wore a bow tie after that. Lol.
            If anything, Tucker needs another sit-down with Jon

          • Billiam@lemmy.world
            523·
            4 days ago

            And we got Trump cause Obama roasted him so hard he was afraid no one would think he was white anymore.

            Maybe ridiculing fascists isn’t the best way to treat them.

              • Billiam@lemmy.world
                47·
                4 days ago

                Yeah, I don’t know when “Trump ran for president because he was so thoroughly emasculated by Obama” and “You can’t shame the shameless out of fascism” became such hot takes.

                • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
                  9·
                  3 days ago

                  You can shame them, just not for anything they should feel shamed about. Jabs about very facile facets of their masculinity? shamed. Dragged through the ringer because they are rapists? No shame.

            • theprogressivist @lemmy.world
              121·
              4 days ago

              Ridiculing Fascists is the best way to treat them. They’re fragile little snowflakes and can not handle being the butt of the joke. Why do you think aside from journalists and politicians, comedians also get censored or imprisoned first when fascists take over?

              • Billiam@lemmy.world
                71·
                4 days ago

                So the problem with Trump is that he’s not being ridiculed enough? The orange-skinned, diaper wearing, wispy-pube-haired, tiny hands, mushroom dick, broke-ass billionaire wanna-be, so cheap he won’t even bother to have his suits tailored, neck-gina, “dumbest goddamn student I ever had”, can’t drink water, nuke hurricanes, salutes North Korean generals, paper towel throwing, bleach-drinking, UV light up the asshole, bigliest, yugliest, covfefe bunker bitch will go away if we just make fun of him?

                If you think you can stop the fascist by calling him Mango Mussolini or Agolf Shitler more, fucking go for it. Comedians get imprisoned by fascists because they hurt their feelings- but that doesn’t stop fascism, or else they wouldn’t have ended up in prison.

        • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
          16·
          4 days ago

          Bowties are cool.

          The bowtie wasn’t the problem.

          It’s the person that makes it uncool.

          I’d argue that the fact that he stopped wearing the bowties when he was mocked for it says more about him than the bowties do.

      • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        4 days ago

        I bet it’s deliberate. Like a power play knowing his story is clearly bullshit but the morons he’s appealing to are believing it making him feel even more superior.

    • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
      9·
      4 days ago

      Dude, even small dogs can hog some serious space. 4 dogs? I’m surprised there’s any room left for the fucker and his wife. He probably got scratches falling out of bed.

    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      “I went to bed and woke up next to this unconscious woman… I was in my bed with the wife and dogs at the time, so she must’ve been a demon.”

  • BetaBlake@lemmy.world
    801·
    4 days ago

    Tucker Carlson and JD Vance had rough normal gay guy sex and he’s getting ahead of any story and saying it was demon assault.

    I can also take part in conspiracies

  • Dasus@lemmy.world
    53·
    4 days ago

    “I got attacked while I was asleep with my wife and four dogs and mauled, physically mauled.” … “I have no idea what happened.”

    lol

    • m0darn@lemmy.ca
      23·
      4 days ago

      This is the level of critical thinking that conservative pundits are exercising.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 days ago

        I’m actually a bit jealous of his sleeping situation. I don’t mind dogs being “dirty” and I’d prefer 4 dogs (and maybe a wife) to sleeping alone.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      The fun is this for me is the thought that a supernatural force attacked you in your sleep, you claim it to be a Christian/religious force, and yet at no point does he acknowledge/reflect that maybe his actions may cause scrutiny by his religious beliefs.

      Thought process?: “My God created everything, including deamons sent to attack me personally, clearly I am doings gods work”

      • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        Yeah seriously! Why does it have to be a Christian supernatural force? It could just be Baba Yaga “reaching out” as it were, to a kindred spirit.

        Why couldn’t it be the fae trying to pull him into their world? Or perhaps an evil yokai finally tracked him down?

        Maybe his original soul escaped the mirror dimension and was trying to claw its way back into his body!

  • rsuri@lemmy.world
    17·
    3 days ago

    People are saying it’s the dogs, but given that it’s Tucker Carlson I think it’s far more likely that he’s just flat out lying.

  • thefartographer@lemm.ee
    19·
    4 days ago

    I see he’s taking a page from Alex Jones’s bible.

    Anyway, what are the chances that someone’s going to come forward that Carlson assaulted them and they fought back? Just asking questions.

  • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
    18·
    4 days ago

    But, man, you’re never going to get any truth from us. We’ll tell you anything you want to hear; we lie like hell. We’ll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer, or that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker’s house, and no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don’t worry, just look at your watch; at the end of the hour he’s going to win. We’ll tell you any shit you want to hear. We deal in illusions, man! None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds… We’re all you know. You’re beginning to believe the illusions we’re spinning here. You’re beginning to think that the tube is reality, and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube! This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God’s name, you people are the real thing! WE are the illusion! So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off! Turn them off right in the middle of the sentence I’m speaking to you now! TURN THEM OFF… [collapses in a prophetic swoon as the audience erupts in thunderous applause]

    Howard Beale, Network (1976)

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      That movie was so very prescient. This -

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuBe93FMiJc

      You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won’t have it!! Is that clear?! You think you’ve merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance!

      You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels.

      It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU WILL ATONE!

      Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?

      You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

      What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state – Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.

      We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there’s no war or famine, oppression or brutality – one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.

      And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.