Former Fox News host told bizarre story in clip from upcoming documentary

Summary

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed he was “physically mauled” by a demon in his sleep, leaving claw marks on his body, which he says are still visible. Carlson described waking with intense pain, bleeding claw marks, and an overwhelming urge to read the Bible. He recounted the experience as confusing yet transformative, adding that while he doesn’t expect others to believe him, the incident profoundly impacted him.

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
    368·
    20 days ago

    At the time, Carlson says, he was asleep in bed with his wife – and four dogs.

    I have an alternate theory about those claw marks…

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      92·
      20 days ago

      I watched that video, and had he just stuck to being suddenly awake and having claw marks I would have thought there was something odd. But he led with having four dogs in the bed, so when he said he had claw marks…dear lord, he’s either trying too hard to play to some niche audience, or he’s really that stupid. At least make the story sound plausible…we know you can lie, why didn’t you just leave off some details here to sell it better.

      • Billiam@lemmy.world
        881·
        20 days ago

        Ever since he got kicked off Fox, he’s been making the pivot to the hard right audience, which includes the narrative that they’re in a spiritual war against the literal devil.

        It’s the same conspiracy-laden bullshit that Alex Jones pushes.

        • Rhaedas@fedia.io
          62·
          20 days ago

          It’s Jon Stewart’s fault. Tucker never recovered from that jab about the bow tie.

          • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
            41·
            20 days ago

            And he never wore a bow tie after that. Lol.
            If anything, Tucker needs another sit-down with Jon

          • Billiam@lemmy.world
            629·
            20 days ago

            And we got Trump cause Obama roasted him so hard he was afraid no one would think he was white anymore.

            Maybe ridiculing fascists isn’t the best way to treat them.

              • newenlightened@lemmy.world
                4·
                19 days ago

                i don’t understand how lemmy works. this meme obviously suggest killing fascists, which is in fact, the correct answer. but if i say “we should kill fascists” they’ll delete my comment. WTF? say it in a meme, because that’s somehow, different?

              • Billiam@lemmy.world
                59·
                20 days ago

                Yeah, I don’t know when “Trump ran for president because he was so thoroughly emasculated by Obama” and “You can’t shame the shameless out of fascism” became such hot takes.

                • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
                  13·
                  20 days ago

                  You can shame them, just not for anything they should feel shamed about. Jabs about very facile facets of their masculinity? shamed. Dragged through the ringer because they are rapists? No shame.

            • theprogressivist @lemmy.world
              163·
              20 days ago

              Ridiculing Fascists is the best way to treat them. They’re fragile little snowflakes and can not handle being the butt of the joke. Why do you think aside from journalists and politicians, comedians also get censored or imprisoned first when fascists take over?

              • Billiam@lemmy.world
                122·
                20 days ago

                So the problem with Trump is that he’s not being ridiculed enough? The orange-skinned, diaper wearing, wispy-pube-haired, tiny hands, mushroom dick, broke-ass billionaire wanna-be, so cheap he won’t even bother to have his suits tailored, neck-gina, “dumbest goddamn student I ever had”, can’t drink water, nuke hurricanes, salutes North Korean generals, paper towel throwing, bleach-drinking, UV light up the asshole, bigliest, yugliest, covfefe bunker bitch will go away if we just make fun of him?

                If you think you can stop the fascist by calling him Mango Mussolini or Agolf Shitler more, fucking go for it. Comedians get imprisoned by fascists because they hurt their feelings- but that doesn’t stop fascism, or else they wouldn’t have ended up in prison.

            • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip
              6·
              19 days ago

              Right, Trump’s fragile ego voted him into office 🤨

              There are a lot of contributing factors. Obama making fun of him might have seen him run for office, but without all the enablers along the way carrying him on he would have collapsed a few steps in, fucked off to go eat a gourmet Happy Meal and told himself (and anyone in earshot) how brave and strong he is for running in the first place.

              Ridicule may have lit the fuse, but the powder was there long before.

        • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          20 days ago

          Bowties are cool.

          The bowtie wasn’t the problem.

          It’s the person that makes it uncool.

          I’d argue that the fact that he stopped wearing the bowties when he was mocked for it says more about him than the bowties do.

          • chingadera@lemmy.world
            10·
            20 days ago

            It absolutely does. Jon knew it would have to be something low to get under his skin and he was right.

          • futatorius@lemm.ee
            2·
            16 days ago

            My dad wore a bowtie, looked very cool with it, and he also made a comment about people like Carlson: “you wish you could buy the son of a bitch for what he’s worth, then sell him for what he thinks he’s worth.”

      • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        20 days ago

        I bet it’s deliberate. Like a power play knowing his story is clearly bullshit but the morons he’s appealing to are believing it making him feel even more superior.

    • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
      10·
      20 days ago

      Dude, even small dogs can hog some serious space. 4 dogs? I’m surprised there’s any room left for the fucker and his wife. He probably got scratches falling out of bed.

    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      20 days ago

      “I went to bed and woke up next to this unconscious woman… I was in my bed with the wife and dogs at the time, so she must’ve been a demon.”

    • iAmTheTot
      6·
      20 days ago

      Holy shit I did not think the alt right could get any fucking dumber.

  • BetaBlake@lemmy.world
    1111·
    20 days ago

    Tucker Carlson and JD Vance had rough normal gay guy sex and he’s getting ahead of any story and saying it was demon assault.

    I can also take part in conspiracies

    • itsJoelle@lemmy.world
      8·
      19 days ago

      I’m not sure if this was a literal invitation, but I’ll poke my head out.

      It depends on how you interpret scripture. I was raised in a “non-literalist” faith, and some of these beliefs have come to interpret references to “demons,” and what not, being misconstrued as mental illnesses. I believe Richard Dawkins coined the phrase “God of the Gaps” which is not too dissimilar to what is happening in this case.

      So the non-faithful, along with the faithful, could still be afflicted, technically, however I’m fairly confident mental health treatment may be better for them over “driving out the demon” so to speak. Though some denominations would call it heresy for me to say that. Lmao.

      As for Tucker… I’m skeptical he cares for the Word. He certainly doesn’t act as though he does, in my view.

        • itsJoelle@lemmy.world
          4·
          19 days ago

          Maybe — such a line of thinking confuses me, and I’ve seen some stuff online similar to that before. It’s simply not helpful nor Christlike. In my view, one’s faith shouldn’t be wielded self-righteously and or in judgment of others.

          Edit: and vs or.

    • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world
      51·
      19 days ago

      Colombian here - as you might know, most people here are catholic.

      A bit of story.

      My mother says her eldest brother was like the evil on earth. He raped her younger sisters, used to beat up all of them – his younger brother grew up with serious mental issues because of that, and now we are having issues trying to get him into an asylum because, again, third world problems - stole the house and land of their parents (which wasn’t a lot, but left my mother and her sisters with nothing when their father died) and even treated violently my grandmother. I never got to know my grandparents because they died when my mother was young.

      So my mother says one night my grandmother was really ill and this person (I have never seen him, not even in pictures) arrived home and beat her up and went to sleep. Then allegedly “the spirits” (“las almas”) came when he was asleep and beat him up so hard he screamed and woke everyone up - like they could see how “the spirits” lifted him across the room and hit him violently, but never could see any of those “spirits”.

      A few weeks or months after that my grandmother died and all of my aunts had to get miserable jobs trying to survive and this bastard still showed up from time to time to steal the few bucks they could earn.

      Eventually all of them (except my uncle) got married and all of them but the elder sister never saw him ever again.

      Now I’m atheist and don’t believe in this kind of stuff, but the saying is that “the souls” do that kind of thing to really awful people. So if Carson’s incident is true (and if “the souls” exist and are able to do that), now you may have a possible explanation for that.

  • Dasus@lemmy.world
    70·
    20 days ago

    “I got attacked while I was asleep with my wife and four dogs and mauled, physically mauled.” … “I have no idea what happened.”

    lol

    • m0darn@lemmy.ca
      25·
      20 days ago

      This is the level of critical thinking that conservative pundits are exercising.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        8·
        20 days ago

        I’m actually a bit jealous of his sleeping situation. I don’t mind dogs being “dirty” and I’d prefer 4 dogs (and maybe a wife) to sleeping alone.

        • nomous@lemmy.world
          2·
          18 days ago

          Plus he’s rich so nbd to have a huge bed and have your dogs groomed every other day.

      • Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com
        2·
        19 days ago

        Knowing dogs, even if they were sleeping they’d be on their feet barking before he could fully get out of bed.

        Normal people - I bet my dog accidentally scratch me.

        Him- the devil sent his demons to scratch me!

        • Victor@lemmy.world
          1·
          19 days ago

          The way he explains this… I don’t know. There are a lot of details regarding how he explains this that makes me believe him. Believe, as in, I believe that he believes he’s telling the truth. He really believes what he is saying. He really doesn’t understand what has happened, and so forth.

          It’s all in the way he exposes this. It doesn’t seem like it’s his agenda to do so. He hasn’t tried to since it happened, and he didn’t force it in this interview, it just kind of “came up”. Among other details, e.g. “I don’t care who believes me”, etc.

          I don’t know, it’s very curious. Only God knows what happened. 😊

        • futatorius@lemm.ee
          1·
          16 days ago

          It’s all an act. Carlson is no genius, but he’s not stupid, either. This is all a show he puts on to keep the rubes engaged.

  • rsuri@lemmy.world
    51·
    20 days ago

    People are saying it’s the dogs, but given that it’s Tucker Carlson I think it’s far more likely that he’s just flat out lying.

  • LEDZeppelin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    49·
    20 days ago

    Sounds like he assaulted someone and that news is about to come out. He is preempting that.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9·
      20 days ago

      The fun is this for me is the thought that a supernatural force attacked you in your sleep, you claim it to be a Christian/religious force, and yet at no point does he acknowledge/reflect that maybe his actions may cause scrutiny by his religious beliefs.

      Thought process?: “My God created everything, including deamons sent to attack me personally, clearly I am doings gods work”

      • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
        4·
        20 days ago

        Yeah seriously! Why does it have to be a Christian supernatural force? It could just be Baba Yaga “reaching out” as it were, to a kindred spirit.

        Why couldn’t it be the fae trying to pull him into their world? Or perhaps an evil yokai finally tracked him down?

        Maybe his original soul escaped the mirror dimension and was trying to claw its way back into his body!

  • irish_link@lemmy.world
    241·
    19 days ago

    If this is true, what did he do to deserve this. This doesn’t just happen to a good god fearing person. So I guess the real question is, what did he do to deserve this.

    This doesn’t just happen to a good god fearing person. Why would this happen if he DIDN’T deserve this. Clearly he lost favor with the good lord and has opened himself up to the devil to be possessed by a demon.

    • MellowSnow@lemmy.world
      17·
      19 days ago

      As someone who was raised in a very evangelical household: the (non)-answer is that it happened to him in order to tempt him or test him or some shit. If it happens to a non-god-fearing individual, it’s deserved, otherwise it’s God’s plan all along. Because moving the goal posts is just way too easy.

      The real answer is Tucker Carlson is either actually insane or hardcore grifting, but I’m probably preaching to the choir here going down that rabbit hole lol.

      • irish_link@lemmy.world
        31·
        19 days ago

        I figured my comment would be countered with “justification” as to why. Not you but your explanation and yea preaching my friend.

      • futatorius@lemm.ee
        1·
        16 days ago

        He’s grifting. He’s no snake-juggling meth-mouthed shitkicker, they’re just part of his audience.

    • agnomeunknown@lemmy.world
      10·
      19 days ago

      No you see he is like Job in the Bible!!! He’s so righteous God is testing him with demons!!!

      -his fans probably

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        4·
        18 days ago

        Job has to be one of the more disgusting stories in the Bible… It was the one that I read/was taught about in church as a teen that first made me go “wait a second…”.

        From the first time I heard that story, it never sat well with me, and not a single adult was ever able to give me a satisfactory explanation for why it was OK for god to straight up destroy this poor man’s life (a man who was already super dedicated to this god), including literally killing his innocent family, over some petty bet with the actual devil.

        That really opened my eyes to what the OT god really was in that book, and I did not like what I saw.

        • futatorius@lemm.ee
          1·
          16 days ago

          Job is a great work of literature, except that its authors chickened out at the end and close it out by saying “But God can kick nine kinds of shit outta ya, so you’d better just say your hosannas and quit bitching.” Up to that point, there’s a lot in it.

      • irish_link@lemmy.world
        3·
        19 days ago

        True. I know there will always be a justification and it would be a hard fight to change the minds of those who are being grifted.

      • futatorius@lemm.ee
        1·
        16 days ago

        I guess Carlson’s soul isn’t worth enough to send a succubus. All he’s worth is a backscratcher.

  • thefartographer@lemm.ee
    22·
    20 days ago

    I see he’s taking a page from Alex Jones’s bible.

    Anyway, what are the chances that someone’s going to come forward that Carlson assaulted them and they fought back? Just asking questions.

  • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
    21·
    20 days ago

    But, man, you’re never going to get any truth from us. We’ll tell you anything you want to hear; we lie like hell. We’ll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer, or that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker’s house, and no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don’t worry, just look at your watch; at the end of the hour he’s going to win. We’ll tell you any shit you want to hear. We deal in illusions, man! None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds… We’re all you know. You’re beginning to believe the illusions we’re spinning here. You’re beginning to think that the tube is reality, and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you! You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube! This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God’s name, you people are the real thing! WE are the illusion! So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off! Turn them off right in the middle of the sentence I’m speaking to you now! TURN THEM OFF… [collapses in a prophetic swoon as the audience erupts in thunderous applause]

    Howard Beale, Network (1976)

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      20 days ago

      That movie was so very prescient. This -

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuBe93FMiJc

      You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won’t have it!! Is that clear?! You think you’ve merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance!

      You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels.

      It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU WILL ATONE!

      Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?

      You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

      What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state – Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.

      We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there’s no war or famine, oppression or brutality – one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.

      And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.