Tucker Carlson

2022 - 4 - 19

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That Tucker Carlson Testicle Tanning Video Is Goop for Bros (Daily Beast)

TNA hosts Molly Jong-Fast and Andy Levy break down Tucker's testicle-tanning bit, James Carville goes after Dems, and an expert explains why some Hispanics ...

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I take little interest in men's balls. Unlike Tucker Carlson … (The Guardian)

The Fox News pundit is promoting an unusual solution for the apparent crisis in masculinity – testicle tanning to boost testosterone, writes Arwa Mahdawi.

Much of the man’s time is currently spent peddling racist and hateful ideas to large swathes of the US. If we can get him to embrace “bromeopathy” instead, if we can turn him into the male equivalent of Gwyneth Paltrow, we can minimise his harm. The broadcaster has a new documentary coming out called The End of Men which, as far as I can gather, is all about how men aren’t as tough as they used to be and don’t produce as much sperm as they used to do, and how we’re all going to die because of this. Far better that he sells luxury testicle tanners on his own version of Goop than peddles hate on Fox News. While Carlson’s visual metaphors are inspired, the meat of his documentary appears to be anything but. I say “as far as I can gather”, because the documentary’s trailer, a condensed version of which just went viral on Twitter, doesn’t contain a coherent argument, just lots and lots of crotch shots. One of McGovern’s ideas to increase testosterone was red light therapy or “testicle tanning”, which he described as a “bromeopathic” therapy.

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Experts warn Tucker Carlson-promoted 'testicle tanning' is USELESS (Daily Mail)

Experts warn that the practice of 'testicle tanning' will do little to boost T levels or raise sperm counts.

All three experts note that the actual danger of the process is relatively low. Dr Helen Bernie (left), of Indiana University, told DailyMail.com that there is no evidence to suggest testicle tanning can boost ATP levels in a way that helps T production. Bernie also notes that their may be a placebo affect at play here. Dr Amin Herati (right), of Johns Hopkins University, points to growing rates of obesity, diabetes and more as reason for falling sperm counts Carlson and an expert he brings on then discuss how this process can help save masculinity by raising testosterone (T) levels. Other experts tell DailyMail.com the same.

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Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson gets trolled for his show on ... (WION)

Prominent Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson is being ridiculed on Twitte over his new series on mascuinity. Carlson has a large following among American voters ...

What appears to be a machine emits orange light obscuring his private parts. Carlson has a large following among American voters who lean towards right of the nation's political spectrum. Prominent Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson is being ridiculed on Twitte over his new series on mascuinity.

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Tucker Carlson Exposes His Insecurities In 'The End Of Men' Trailer (Forbes)

A trailer for a documentary produced by Fox News host Tucker Carlson titled "The End of Men" is indistinguishable from satire.

They go on to reestablish order, and so the cycle begins again." For men like Tucker Carlson, masculinity can be reduced to a mere aesthetic; Tucker’s documentary trailer is packed with images of topless men wrestling, chopping wood and firing guns. In some cases, this has led to dividing men into fictional sub-categories like Alpha, Beta, and the recently introduced “ Sigma male.”

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Tucker Carlson's Testicle Tanning 'Very Misleading,' Health Experts ... (Newsweek)

Urologist Petar Bajic said red light therapy, which Tucker Carlson dubbed "testicle tanning," would be "a waste of money."

There are a number of safe and effective treatments for low testosterone which are all covered by insurance for men who have this condition." "Some folks have suggested a mechanism involving victim D, but for men with normal vitamin D, there's no evidence that making that level higher with light therapy has any impact on testosterone levels. He added: "There's a lot of misleading information out there. Swan said the fall appeared to parallel declines in sperm count and that there was "good agreement" that obesity, lack of exercise and "binge drinking" played a role in both trends as well as the presence of chemicals, called anti-androgens, that can lower the body's testosterone. That clip is very misleading." In a viral clip about the Fox Nation episode, Carlson spoke to Andrew McGovern—billed as a "fitness professional"—about supposed ways men could increase their testosterone levels.

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Even Kid Rock Is Confused by Tucker Carlson's 'Testicle Tanning ... (Loudwire)

It's a process where one shines a light directly on their testicles, as purported fitness professional Andrew McGovern explained to Carlson on last Friday's ( ...

When addressed, the musician, who was listening in on the McGovern segment, responded, "Dude, stop! "Open your mind, Bobby!" Carlson quipped back, referencing Rock's real name of Robert Ritchie, before replying more seriously. Rock, who railed against cancel culture with Carlson last month, appeared on the same program.

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Stephen Colbert Mocks Tucker Carlson For His Testicle Tanner (Pajiba)

Testicle Tanner is something I never thought I would have to write. Maybe if I was at a summer camp? Some other kid has a wardrobe malfunction, ...

Next guest up for Tucker is Kid Rock, who seems befuddled by the previous segment on testicle tanning. If that sounds insufferable, and it should, you’ll be happy to learn that part of the doc included a pitch for testicle tanning. Some other kid has a wardrobe malfunction, and now everyone calls him Testicle Tanner for the rest of the summer?

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KID ROCK Mocks TUCKER CARLSON Over 'Testicle Tanning' (BLABBERMOUTH.NET)

Kid Rock seemed dumbstruck after appearing on Tucker Carlson's show following a segment on testicle tanning. Over the weekend, the Fox News host a...

Next guest up for Tucker is Kid Rock, who seems befuddled by the previous segment on testicle tanning. "I don't know what the hell's going on in this world," Kid Rock responded. One of the solutions McGovern offered was red light therapy, which includes "testicle tanning."

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Suckered by Tucker (The Nation)

I tuned in to watch The End of Men Monday night but only got a sliver—enough to know Carlson is in a full-on crisis of masculinity.

“Chester the Molester can park himself in front of a grade school,” he claims, and then tells of “a guy who smokes meth right outside of a grade school in Venice.” Finally, there’s a segment on Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, one of the “strong men”—a totalitarian—Carlson admires. Oh, and he delighted in calling me a “cunt” to a coworker back in 2010, mocking him for working for a woman, and telling him I needed to get laid. We see explicit, sickening videos of mutilated cattle, and then the butchers tell him it’s probably the work of “extraterrestrials.” And there’s a segment trashing Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, who is too soft on crime for Carlson’s taste. “It’s a failure of male leadership–I mean adult leadership,” he caught himself. “I went back with someone I knew and grabbed the guy,” he told MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Dan Abrams. “Hit him against the stall with his head, actually!” The two other men howled with laughter, seeming not to entirely believe the macho story from the pampered bow-tied rich kid. “Hard times make strong men,” we’re told, while “weak men make hard times.” It’s all about Carlson’s white male panic and fear of being a “weak man.” You can see it in the paranoia behind his adoption of the “great replacement” theory—that Democrats want non-white immigrants to replace white Americans. Earlier, we saw it in his bizarre 2007 claim to have once beaten up a gay man for coming on to him in a public restroom. That’s OK—more time for Tucker, whose venture into what he calls documentaries shows his employers’ investment in him. He closed by telling her, “Thank you for your commitment to evidence-based science.” I’m starting a punk rock band and it’s called ‘Testicle Tanning’ and that’s the end of it.” Carlson chides him, “Open your mind!” But the host is laughing, too—another tell that so much of what he spews is for shock value. He provides no evidence of either (though there is some research showing average testosterone levels have fallen slightly in men over the past 50 years, largely because of obesity and smoking). Featuring the conspiracy-crazed Kennedy as his science guy shows the seriousness of Tucker’s project. It did include the ludicrous scene that shocked and then amused everyone who watched the trailer: a naked white man, arms out to make a cross, enjoying what looks like a giant iPhone that’s beaming red light at his testicles. The Fox host acknowledges his viewers’ likely skepticism about his solution, admitting that half of them might be saying, “‘Testicle tanning?

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Fox's Tucker Carlson has a misguided diagnoses for the modern man (MSNBC)

Fox host Tucker Carlson presents "The End of Men," a new episode in his Fox series "Tucker Carlson Originals," focusing on his perceived crisis of ...

As a result, today the CDC has determined that every single person in the United States has a measurable level of phthalates in their body.” According to a 2019 study by the University of Newcastle, in Australia, the average person could be ingesting 5 grams of plastic per week, which is the equivalent of eating a credit card every seven days, so of course this impacts men’s bodies. But it isn’t exactly new; Carlson appears to be taking a page taken from regressive anti-feminist male spaces like the “ manoshere,” an online community whose members obsessively warn men to check and increase their levels of testosterone. This school of thought includes something he refers to as “testicle tanning,” depicted in the trailer as a bright red light shining on the body of a naked man standing on some sort of rock. “It’s testicle tanning, but it’s also full-body red-light therapy, which has a massive amount of benefits,” McGovern says in the clip. Fox News host Tucker Carlson took a break from praising Russian President Vladimir Putin to tease a trailer for his new season of “Tucker Carlson Originals,” a digital series on Fox News' streaming channel.

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Newmax host pleads with Tucker Carlson to stop providing Russia ... (Media Matters for America)

Eric Bolling: “Clips from Tucker's show were to be used ad nauseam night after night on Russian state TV. The Russians see Tucker Carlson as their ally”.

But, Tucker, you don't want to be associated with this, certainly you don't want to be -- it to be part of your legacy to be associated with a war criminal, an evil madman committing blatant genocide and atrocities just across the ocean. You don't want to be associated with that in any way. ERIC BOLLING (HOST): But, when Russia's war on Ukraine started, Putin and his propaganda-drivers felt that that was their moment to run with an American TV anchor whose comments could be used to support their own narrative and prop up their propaganda machine.

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Newsmax Host Eric Bolling Implores Tucker Carlson To Stop Siding ... (HuffPost)

"You've gone too far," Eric Bolling told his former Fox News colleague.

“But isn’t it possible to make that point without seeming to be on Putin’s side?” he asked. Bolling, who left his longtime hosting gig at Fox News in 2017 after he was investigated for alleged sexual harassment of multiple female colleagues, said he agreed with Carlson that “most Americans don’t want to get further involved in Ukraine.” Bolling similarly called out Carlson earlier this month and again criticized the right-wing personality on Tuesday for supporting Russian President Vladimir Putin and his disinformation campaign to justify the invasion of Ukraine.

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