Just who is Tucker Carlson?

Agnes Erickson writes, “Tucker McNear Swanson Carlson was born in San Francisco in 1969, the oldest of two boys. The media may have been a popular dinner table topic for him growing up as his father, Dick Carlson, was a former CEO for The Corporation of Public Broadcasting (via Columbia Journalism Review). His mother Lisa McNear Carlson, left the family when Carlson was six. Not much is publicly known about why she left, as Carlson describes the circumstances as a, “totally bizarre situation — which I never talk about, because it was actually not really part of my life at all” (via The New Yorker). Four years later, his father married Patricia Swanson of the Swanson frozen dinner family.”