Tucker Carlson became the biggest star in conservative media on Fox News.
Now he’s opening up with other commentators about his time on the top-rated network in cable news.
And Glenn Beck delivered Tucker Carlson a scary message about Fox News that he never expected.
Glenn Beck calls Fox News a source of evil
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is taking his show on the road this fall to speak with big-name guests.
The Tucker Carlson Live Tour is bringing him to basketball arenas around the country to talk about politics and life with a diverse lineup of guests that includes U.S. Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, Kid Rock, and others.
Former Fox News host Glenn Beck joined Carlson for an hour-long conversation during his stop in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Beck, like Carlson, saw his fame vault to new heights when he hosted his self-titled television show in the 5:00 pm slot on Fox News from 2009 to 2011.
His work on the show helped lead to former President Barack Obama’s “Green Jobs Czar” Van Jones resigning and brought visibility to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) scandal exposed by undercover journalist James O’Keefe.
Beck told Carlson during the event that he was glad to have left Fox News because of the fame and influence he had on his show.
“When I was at Fox, it was like you could feel the White House move,” Beck said. “I could feel the impact, and that’s pretty intoxicating. It’s so dangerously intoxicating, and I could feel it, and I didn’t like it and I left.”
“I should say, I didn’t like it because part of me really liked it,” Beck added.
“Exactly,” Carlson said in agreement.
Fox News didn’t want faith mentioned on air
Beck said that Fox News executives warned him about talking too much about faith on air and took count of the number of times he mentioned God on his show.
“I think fame and fortune is battery acid to the soul,” Beck said.
He claimed that Fox News hired someone to dig up dirt on him and the late Fox News President Roger Ailes threatened him.
Beck realized one night when he was living in New York City that he needed to give up his gig at Fox News for his spiritual health.
“I walk to the window — and I can still feel the cold glass on my forehead — and I leaned against the window, and I put my head there, and I’m looking down at the city, which is just intoxicating — if you like that kind of stuff, it’s intoxicating,” Beck recalled. “And I looked down, and I’m like, ‘How can this be your plan?’ And I heard internally, I heard, ‘If you don’t leave now, you will not leave with your soul.'”
He said the next day he went in and turned in his resignation.
Beck turned to God to overcome his struggles with alcoholism and that struggle helped with his time on Fox News.
“If it wasn’t for my alcoholism and, quite honestly, my baptism and redemption, there’s no way that I would have survived Fox,” Beck explained.
He went on to found Blaze Media, which paved the way for stars who left Fox News like Bill O’Reilly, Megyn Kelly, and Carlson to start their own independent media companies.
