Sitting down with MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber,” Hollywood heavyweight Rob Reiner had some reaction to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, slamming him for not having “range” as an interviewer and — even more Worse – snickered for being a “high-pitched maniacal”.
In the segment seen in the video above, Melber sets up his questions for Reiner by indicating that Fox’s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems must have come after a careful deliberation, requiring the network to It’ll cost more: settling for that huge sum or taking the cases to court and getting Carlson and his allies to take the stand.
“In a legal sense, journalists make mistakes. Mistakes in good faith are not punished by lenient defamation judgments—it is dishonesty, or to use the terminology of the art of law, malicious and reckless mistakes,” Melber said. said, adding that the settlement came as the judge “clearly … turned against him on some important factual rulings.”
“And then you say, ‘Oh, why would you pay $700, $800 million?’ He continued. “Well, anyone who’s ever seen a court case or been around one knows sometimes because you think you’re going to end up paying even more than that. So if you go with Murdoch Tucker on the stand and talk about, ‘Oh, so you guys, this is a huge hoax, you’re lying, you’re lying to your audience, you go back and you yuk it’s your super yacht And then you go back and lie again, ‘Maybe it’s going to cost them both with the audience they’re currently suffering.
A similar determination would have been effective Monday with Carlson’s dismissal from Fox News, the host said.
Melber then pulled up three clips of Carlson demonstrating on-air rhetoric that would surely be used against him — and therefore Fox News — if his lawsuit with Dominion was taken to trial. One showed Carlson saying that the fact that Tennessee Representative Justin J. Pearson “wasn’t white” “which is probably how he got into Bowdoin [College] In the first place.” Another host said that “too many college freshmen pretend to be members of the opposite sex” in what appeared to be a segment on policies related to trans Americans. And a third called her the secretary of transportation. Mocking Pete Buttigieg for asking to take paternity leave through fits of laughter.
Melber then tapped Reiner for his reaction to those Carlson clips.
“Yeah, uh, you know, he’s on the air, and maybe he really feels that way, but it’s hard to tell,” Reiner said, indicating that Carlson might be making a play for the cameras. “From Fox’s point of view, it’s all a financial decision. They decide, you know, is it going to cost us more money to keep him or is it going to cost us more money to get him out? And it’s going to come Only time will tell.”
Then the dig got a little personal when Melber asked Reiner if he thought Carlson was a “good actor – when you look at the giggle, for example.”
“No. The thing about Tucker, if you watch him carefully, not only does he have a high-pitched hysterical laugh all the time, but he has the same exact expression when you see him listening to a guest. Nothing ever changes,” Reiner said staring dead-eyed into the camera. “That’s what he does. That’s what he does for everyone. So their range, as they say, isn’t quite from A to B. This is a narrow range.
