Tucker Carlson & the politics of testosterone

Tucker is Tucker Carlson and Testosterone is the male sex hormone.  Tucker and Fox News have repeatedly said that strengthening the male hormone is the answer to many of our country’s ills.  Those problems include open borders, required masks, climate worries, excessive government spending, high taxes and welfare.  

Tucker is the leading powerhouse for many conservatives. Five nights a week, he offers his populist message to millions of Fox News viewers. He tells them that the people who run our country are “a senile man and an imbecile”; that our military leadership, in the person of Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is “not just a pig, he’s stupid”; and that in our schools, “children are being taught by some of the most ignorant people in the country.”  He honors Florida’s Governor DeSantis’ “Don’s say gay.”

In early April, Carlson’s program surpassed Hannity as the highest-rated primetime cable news show.   Fox News averaged 2.46 million viewers in primetime in February and Tucker was the winner.* Tucker has condemned mask laws and claimed that the last presidential election was rigged. He denounces Critical Race Theory because it disturbs our youth.

Tucker’s documentary extols the virtues of strength and exercise and berates America’s “soft, chubby children.” It’s no surprise that Fox suggests that the answer to all of our problems is testosterone. The channel is heavily invested in the idea that a decrease in testosterone is making men more liberal. Many of its  advertisers sell pills that promise to increase testosterone.

Tucker has many of Donald’t traits.  Both are gifted speakers who can sell anything. The decline of newspapers and book reading, and the power of the internet can explain why lies are so widely spread. Truth is a rare commidity.

The crime surge and extreme numbers of mass killings are not the result of too little testosterone but of too much. Weak magistrates don’t put killers onto the streets.  Joblessness, inflation, failed job training, and poverty do.

Not all conservatives worship Tucker but most have caught his cold:  Real men don’t recycle, pick up trash in the street or help old ladies cross the road.  Real men tip waiters lightly, mock the handicapped, and grab women between their legs.

Tom Klein

Bowling Green

*The letter as originally posted had an incorrect number of viewers.