Heavy Digger (@Lightntruth)

TUCKER CARLSON - Did he just attack the NSA as he's CIA? After college,Carlson tried to join the Central Intelligence Agency, but his application was denied, after which he decided to pursue a career in journalism with the encouragement of his father, who advised him that "they'll take anybody."[26][51] CNN (2000–2005) Main article: Crossfire (American TV program) Paul Begala (left) and Thomas McDevitt with Carlson in 2012 In 2000, Carlson co-hosted the short-lived show The Spin Room on CNN.[26] In 2001, he was appointed co-host of Crossfire, in which Carlson and Robert Novak represented the political right (alternating on different nights), while James Carville and Paul Begala, also alternating as hosts, represented the left.[26] During the same period, he also hosted a weekly public affairs program on PBS, Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered. PBS (2004–2005) Carlson was hired to helm a new program for PBS in November 2003, Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered, which ran synchronously with Carlson's Crossfire gig on CNN.[68] The show launched on June 18, 2004, and was, according to The New Yorker, "part of a broader effort to push PBS further to the right ideologically".[69][70] Carlson announced he was leaving the show roughly a year after it had started on June 12, 2005, despite the Corporation for Public Broadcasting allocating money for another season of the show.[71] Carlson said he wanted to focus on his new show, Tucker, on MSNBC, and said that although PBS was one of the "least bad" instances of government spending he disagreed with, it was still "problematic".[71] MSNBC (2005–2008) Main article: Tucker (2005 TV program) Carlson in 2007 Carlson's early evening show, Tucker (originally titled The Situation With Tucker Carlson), premiered on June 13, 2005, on MSNBC.[72] Rachel Maddow and Jay Severin featured as guests on a rotating panel.[72] He also hosted a late-afternoon weekday wrap-up for the network during the 2006 Winter Olympics.[73][non-primary source needed] In July 2006, he reported live for Tucker from Haifa, Israel, during the 2006 Lebanon War between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. While in the Middle East, he also hosted MSNBC Special Report: Mideast Crisis.[74][non-primary source needed] Carlson was one of several reporters who reported from the scene of the Virginia Tech campus in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shooting on April 17, 2007.[75][non-primary source needed] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson#Early_life_and_education