I suspect that Tucker Carlson is held in such low esteem by Leftists, Progressives and LW extremists for the same reason that Wile E. Coyote has a thing about Road Runner.
He tries and tries but Road Runner always wins.
Carlson is almost always right.
Leftists HATE that.
Now comes the claim that you can't expect to literally believe the words that come out of Carlson's mouth. And that assertion is not coming from Carlson's critics. It's being made by a federal judge in the Southern District of New York and by Fox News's own lawyers in defending Carlson against accusations of slander. It worked, by the way.
Just read U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil's opinion, leaning heavily on the arguments of Fox's lawyers: The "'general tenor' of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not 'stating actual facts' about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in 'exaggeration' and 'non-literal commentary.' "
fox has officially admitted that carlson is a lying troll. lol