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Remembrance of R.N.C.s Past

News and notes on the conservative media scene, and its metaphorical resonance, in Milwaukee and beyond.

tucker carlson
On Thursday, Carlson ascended the stage to rapturous applause, delivering a 12-minute speech that weaved together praise for Trump, crass humor about Biden’s age, and a characteristically dark and foreboding vision of a world under Democratic tyranny. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
July 20, 2024

On Wednesday morning, in a hotel lobby just steps away from the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Rupert Murdoch inadvertently found himself standing steps away from Tucker Carlson, the impish and still-influential-ish right-wing showman he had abruptly defenestrated from Fox News some 15 months earlier. Carlson waved and smiled, Murdoch appeared not to notice, and then the mogul’s entourage moved to shield him from view. Alas, life is an infinite string of missed connections—ô toi que j’eusse aimée!—and we are left only to imagine what might have been.