{"id":507,"date":"2023-05-01T19:56:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T01:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2023-05-01T19:56:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T01:56:33","slug":"lawrence-jones-in-tucker-carlson-slot-tries-cringeworthy-gotcha-interview-on-asa-hutchinson-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/lawrence-jones-in-tucker-carlson-slot-tries-cringeworthy-gotcha-interview-on-asa-hutchinson-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Jones in Tucker Carlson Slot Tries Cringeworthy Gotcha Interview on Asa Hutchinson &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oh my goodness. Lawrence Jones got a big chance this week at Fox News. He&#8217;s filling the Tucker Carlson slot for the week, essentially a chance to try out to replace Carlson, whom the network fired last week. Jones opened tonight&#8217;s show by interviewing GOP Presidential Candidate, Gov. Asa Hutchinson &#8211; the former Governor of Arkansas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/themaxburns\/status\/1653192905706594304\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jones was just bizarre in his questioning of Hutchinson. He looked like a man who was trying to hard. He tried to come out like a tough guy in his interview, but he came off as awkward and over-the-top. Poor Gov. Hutchinson barely got a word in edge-wise before Lawrence was interrupting him, telling him, &#8220;That&#8217;s the old Republican Party. It&#8217;s a new party now!&#8221; This even after Hutchinson said he is pro-life, believes there are only two genders, stands for tax cuts etc. It was like, &#8220;What in the world is going on?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lawrence Jones, hosting Tucker&#39;s old hour on Fox News this week, is not great at this <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ITMv7OyxVH\">pic.twitter.com\/ITMv7OyxVH<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1653190951492304897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopefully, the rest of the week will go better. I like Lawrence, but this made him look not ready for primetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my goodness. Lawrence Jones got a big chance this week at Fox News. He&#8217;s filling the Tucker Carlson slot for the week, essentially a chance to try out to replace Carlson, whom the network fired last week. Jones opened tonight&#8217;s show by interviewing GOP Presidential Candidate, Gov. Asa Hutchinson &#8211; the former Governor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30","category-asa-hutchinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}