Megyn Kelly caller on Tucker Carlson: “He'll just keep making a claim over and over ... until it's taken as fact”
Caller: “When you repeat it for propaganda purposes, people will take that as factual”
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Megyn Kelly caller on Tucker Carlson: "He'll just keep making a claim over and over... until it's taken as fact"
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From the February 26, 2026, edition of SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up Show
EMILY JASHINKSY (HOST): Michael, you're on the Megan Kelly wrap up show. What's in your mind?
CALLER: I could talk about the Tucker interview, which is really interesting because I put myself somewhere in the middle on how I view Tucker — not a fan, don't dislike him or hate him. But he — if you notice, he does something that Candace — who I'm not a fan of — he does something Candice Owens does very well. He'll just keep talking over someone or he'll just keep making a claim over and over and just laughs until it's taken as fact.
Like today, what he did with the interview, he just kept saying, “Oh, Benjamin Netanyahu, he just has Trump use -- you have to speak to him to speak to Trump. You have to speak to him to speak to Trump.” He offers no facts on that. He says, oh, foreign leaders have told me this, and he just keeps saying it.
So when you repeat it for propaganda purposes, people will take that as factual. He understands how to do that just like Owens does. The left does this very well.
There's no proof that Netanyahu is telling anyone that you have to speak to him to speak to President Trump. And Tucker does a lot of this stuff. Oh, go ahead. I'm sorry, Emily.
JASHINSKY: No, no, no. I was just going to offer a counterpoint, and it's actually kind of a question too, which is when -- Tucker's been all around the Middle East recently, which is interesting. He's been in, like, Qatar and other places. And I wonder for me, just as a journalist, when I hear him say world leaders have told him that, that does seem newsworthy and like evidence that he's citing. It seems interesting to me that he's saying other people have told him that, but you don't see that as like strong evidence, Michael, I'm guessing?
CALLER: Well, no. OK, here's two points there, right? It's newsworthy to report his claims, right? But he does something that's really interesting after that is what I'm pointing towards. He'll just keep repeating the same thing over if you notice --
JASHINSKY: Oh I see.
CALLER: until he looks like, oh, it must be true. It's some yell the truth or yell what you want as your facts louder than they could yell back.
And Tucker does this, and one of the reasons why he does this, if you and — we're not going use the interview with Putin as a point of reference because nobody's -- there may be two people, [Bill] O'Reilly, Megyn, and maybe one or two other people that successfully hold an interview with Putin. He's a trained intelligent operative with real world experience, so we're not going to hold that against Tucker, that terrible interview.
I'll use a frame of reference that Megyn interviewed and so did Tucker. Looney tune, but a really smart guy named Lucian Greaves. Church of Satan wanted to put the goat up next to the 10 Commandments. Megyn let him down a rabbit hole. Really great interview she had with him. Tucker just laughs and goes, ha ha ha he he and yells and screams over him, kind of like what he did to Ted Cruz. Granted, Cruz wasn't ready for that interview, but Tucker continues to say, “But you want to go to war with Iran. You want to go to war with Iran.” Cruz has never said that. Tucker does this. He knows how to do it.
So I'm just putting that out there. Yeah. I don't think Tucker's necessarily antisemite. I think it's wrong the way people are portraying that as well. He has a lot of questions to ask, but he is a little too chummy with Qatar and other places in the Middle East.