Footage shows Tucker Carlson telling ‘tiny brain’ historian ‘to go f— yourself’

The news organization, NowThis, on Wednesday released unaired footage of Fox News host Tucker Carlson telling Dutch historian Rutger Bregman to go “f— yourself.” 

The footage, released on Twitter, shows the two men talking about topics such as the news network’s role in politics and taxes on the rich. 

“I went to Davos to speak truth to power,” Bregman said of his visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “And I’m doing the exact same thing right now. You may not like it. But you’re a millionaire funded by billionaires and that’s the reason why you’re not talking about these issues.” 

{mosads}”But I am talking about these issues,” Carlson replied. 

Bregman said that Carlson was only jumping on the bandwagon, adding that he is saying now that he’s against the “globalist elite” and that it’s not “very convincing.” 

“Why don’t you go f— yourself,” Carlson said, adding that he tried to give Bregman a “fair hearing.”

“And I hope this gets picked up because you’re a moron,” Carlson said in footage that only shows Bregman. “I tried to give you a hearing, but you were too f—ing annoying.” 

“You can’t handle the criticism, can you?” Bregman responded. 

Watch Fox News host Tucker Carlson call one of his guests a ‘tiny brain…moron’ during an interview. NowThis has obtained the full segment with historian Rutger Bregman that Fox News is refusing to air. pic.twitter.com/kERYPUaGLY

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) February 20, 2019

Carlson addressed the clip on his news program Wednesday night, saying that “things went fine for the first couple minutes” of their interview before Bregman launched into an “attack on Fox News.”

“Then he claimed that my corporate masters tell me what to say on this show. That was too much,” Carlson said, adding that it led him to call Bregman a “moron” and to use profanity. 

“In my defense I would say that was entirely accurate, but you’re not allowed to use that word on television, so once I said it out loud there was no airing the segment,” Carlson said.   

Justin Wells, senior executive producer for “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” told The Hill last week that Fox News elected not to run the interview because Bregman launched a “calculated personal insult campaign.”

“Tucker is someone who appreciates many points of view,” Wells said. “Sadly, the guest turned an opportunity to have a substantive, informative discussion into an obviously calculated personal insult campaign. We were disappointed in the segment and respect our audience’s time too much to consider airing it.”

Bregman said that he chose to release the footage “because I think we should keep talking about the corrupting influence of money in politics.”

“It also shows how angry elites can get if you do that,” he said, adding that he stands behind what he said in the interview.

2/ I stand behind what I said, but there’s one thing I should have done better. When Carlson asked me how he’s being influenced by Big Business and tax-avoiding billionaires, I should have quoted Noam Chomsky.

— Rutger Bregman (@rcbregman) February 20, 2019

Bregman first claimed last week that Carlson called him a “f—ing moron” during an interview.

Bregman added that Carlson called him an “asshole” in an email after he asked when the segment would be aired on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”

“The below is a message from Tucker Carlson directly: ‘I loved what you said at Davos, so I had high hopes for our interview. But you turned out to be far dumber, more dogmatic and less impressive than I expected. You’re [a] professional academic, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but it was still disappointing. Also, for what it’s worth, you’re an asshole.'”

Okay, so now @TuckerCarlson sent me this email, after I asked him when the interview is gonna air (was supposed to be on tonight). Stay tuned. pic.twitter.com/AKaNEjm2S2

— Rutger Bregman (@rcbregman) February 12, 2019

Bregman went viral last month after he accused billionaires at the Davos forum of not paying their fair share of taxes. He also called out tech billionaire Michael Dell over his criticism of a proposed 70 percent marginal tax rate on the top earners in the U.S..

‘It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water.’ — This historian wasn’t afraid to confront the billionaires at Davos about their greed pic.twitter.com/Dd3Qjb0mhw

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) January 30, 2019

—This story was updated at 9:10 a.m. to include Carlson’s comments from Wednesday night.