For my money Tucker Carlson has the best conservative interviews right now. I didn’t care for him when I was younger or even on Fox News. But his recent stuff I’ve found both entertaining and informative. Is there anything about him or his past (other than the bow tie incident) that I should know about?
The main issue I've seen, and this is just my personal opinion, is he tends to yes-man his interviewees.
This isn't to say that an interviewer should interrogate their guests, but some well delivered, courteous questions to verify what they're saying and get additional detail before moving on is helpful for the viewer to decide if they want to believe what's being said. Follow-up on basic facts during or after is also worth doing, and he often doesn't.
The one that highlighted this for me was his interview with Andrew Tate where Tate said it was all completely unjustified, he was not charged with sex trafficking (or something like that) and it was all bullshit.
During, Tucker went "wow I can't believe that that's so corrupt" etc as he always does.
I'm paraphrasing because I watched it a long time ago, but you get the idea.
In any case, what did I find after looking up information on the case later? Tate was lying out his ass, and Tucker didn't try to verify anything he said to see if it was actually true.
Which I consider the job of a journalist, even if it's just through building rapport and asking good questions that give them enough rope to hang themselves with (funnily enough, as much of a midwit as he is, Rogan is usually good at doing this unless it relates to aliens and then he becomes completely useless).
I still watch Tucker, but I keep it in mind while watching. Double check what his guests say before believing it. Because, as far as I've seen, Tucker won't if it supports his own biases.
I do overall find him generally likeable and funny regardless, and do appreciate his willingness to talk to people others won't.
Basically I take them as "Jovial, friendly conversations with a local conservative that show what story the person being interviewed wants to get across without much interruption", not fact finding missions or investigative journalism or anything more than that
