Posted on 03/16/2024 9:39:25 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Tucker Carlson has been pranked over Kate Middleton‘s infamous edited photo.
The former Fox News anchor was duped by British YouTubers Josh & Archie into interviewing a fake Kensington Palace whistleblower, who was prepared to dish the dirt on the doctored image.
Archie Manners posed as the Prince and Princess of Wales’ former digital content creator, who claimed he had been fired for altering the Mother’s Day image so poorly it was rumbled by the public.
The Tucker Carlson Network, which streams on Twitter (now X), accepted his story after Manners and co-conspirator Josh Pieters forged Kensington Palace employment documents.
The YouTubers’ faked letter of engagement for the whistleblower included a clause stating that the palace had a right to amputate one of his limbs should he fail his probation period.
Carlson’s people did not spot the preposterous faked document and Manners was sent to a London studio with a hotline to Carlson for the interview.
In the YouTubers’ video, Carlson is seen introducing his guest with the line: “We’ve done our best to verify that your identity is what you say it is. You’re not a fake [Alexei] Navalny or doing a prank.”
In character, Manners said: “I was fired for negligence because the editing that I did was found … the editing job was almost too big to do.”
He claimed the picture was taken by Middleton’s uncle over the holiday season and he had to edit out a Christmas tree from the background. “It is an amazing story,” Carlson is shown saying.
The presenter appeared happy with the interview, telling Manners: “That was great.” His staff later told Manners that they would stream the exchange “early next week.”
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That’s nothing.
The corporate press was duped into the Russia Collusion hoax for years, and up to the present day they can’t give it up.
Big deal. He got scammed. Congratulations to you on your being perfect.
Oh, I forgot how much you hated Tucker because he wasn’t a “UKRAINE-FIRSTER” but instead loves America and its people above all.
So someone lied to him and provided false documents that he did not recognize as such immediately? Wow, move that to breaking news. Yawn...
He didn’t stream it though, did he Einstein?
It is amazing that Tucker occupies so much space, rent free, in that tiny homonculus-like cranium of yours.
Perhaps we should examine the times of the posts, to look for bathroom breaks.
</big chuckle>
This new company will now be more aware, however, I’d say be triply aware because not just pranksters are out to get you.
Sorry, what’s the egg reference? I’m not caught up.
” infamous edited photo.”
Reminds me of the Obama photo on the bench with grandma and grandpa. Grandpa’s are had to be 5 feet long to accomplish what the photo showed.
Why? Because Obama was never actually in that photo.
I think that deserves a time out for the sheer volume of lack of critical thinking in posting. Not that lack of critical thought is uncommon here, but the volume indicates purpose of vacuousness which should be discouraged.
Tucker decided to jump on the royals bandwagon and he got burned. He should stick to UFOs and space aliens.
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