Thread by @MattGertz

Greg Walden and Tucker Carlson once teamed up for the single hackiest Fox segment I've ever seen. Thread...

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1372568254074486795

I was working the Saturday morning shift back in 2013, watching Carlson's show at the time, Fox & Friends Saturday, when Walden, then the NRCC chair, came on for an interview.

At the time, the big story in Washington was the sequester, the mandatory budget cuts required under a deal between Obama and the Republicans. The GOP was trying to make hay over the stuff the Obama admin was supposedly cutting and not cutting.

So Carlson starts "going through a list here," pairing instances of supposedly wasteful federal spending projects that were being preserved with crucial programs that were getting cut.

And every time, Walden agrees with Carlson about how ridiculous it is. But...

Walden's just a little too prepared. He's got a quip for every one of these pairings... almost as if he knew what was coming.

At end of the segment, Carlson asks Walden, “wouldn't it make sense for Republicans to come up with a list, push that list over to the White House, and publicize that list of pointless programs like this that ought to be cut?”

Walden replied, “Absolutely”

Now I'm suspicious.

So I poke around, and wouldn't you know it, every single item that Carlson just talked about, all of the worthwhile and worthless spending, comes straight from an NRCC press release.

And it's not subtle, Fox basically ripped off the NRCC's graphics.

Anyway, the moral of the story is that Fox News is a GOP propaganda outlet and Tucker Carlson is the most shameless liar in the U.S. media.

You can read the whole thing and watch the segments here: mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson…