Misinformer of the Year: Tucker Carlson

A year ago, Fox News star Tucker Carlson’s January 6 “false flag” conspiracy theories roiled the network. His Patriot Purge special, which portrayed the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol as righteous patriots and the federal government’s response as a pretextual “purge aimed at legacy Americans,” created a media firestorm and had some of Fox’s most high-profile veterans telling executives he had gone too far. 

But Carlson won that power struggle: The Fox brass stood by him, and his critics either left the network, like Chris Wallace, or quietly submitted, like Bret Baier. And today, Carlson dominates Fox like...