From the May 2, 2023, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show

MATT WALSH (HOST): Well, here, if you're watching this and you're waiting for the scandalous part, I hate to disappoint you but it never comes. That's it. Just Tucker Carlson saying that the Fox Nation streaming service sucks and nobody watches it and he goes on talking about how the website's a disaster and all the rest of — which is all true. It's also, you know, an employee complaining about stuff involving his employer that — will not surprise you to learn that he's not the only employee to ever do that in the history of employment. And everything that he's saying is true. So what, it's him being honest with someone who he was trying to book for an interview? And also think about the fact that there's — you know, like there's any of us in this business, there's going to be hundreds and hundreds of hours of footage like that, you know, where we're not on camera yet but the cameras are rolling and we're just sitting here and we're speaking sometimes too openly. Like for any one of us, there's tons of footage like that. And so they've been crawling through the footage of Tucker, and that's the best they can find? They're trying to find something scandalous or, whatever, embarrassing or offensive that he said when he was off camera, or rather off air but on camera. And that's what they come up with. I'm almost disappointed in Tucker. They got to find better than that. I'm sure he said — sure there's been some examples of him saying some like actually vaguely offensive things, I would hope. But that's the best they can come up with.

But the real point is, where did this video come from? How did Media Matters get this video? They don't tell us, but I think we can — the only safe assumption is that Fox News leaked the video to Media Matters. Tucker Carlson wouldn't have leaked it. He wouldn't have access to that footage anyway. He doesn't keep all the footage himself. So this is something that Fox News would have, and we can assume that Fox News leaked it. Now, the fact that the footage completely fails to make Tucker look bad is irrelevant. Really, the point is that Fox News, apparently, is leaking footage to Media Matters, like, the lowest of the low. When it comes to the left and the media and that kind of intersection, you don't get any lower than Media Matters, and that's who they're giving footage to. Should tell you something about Fox News. If you're still a Fox News viewer, you should just ask yourself, do I trust these people? The kinds of people that would kick their star host off the air and then try to embarrass him by giving footage to Media Matters?