Tucker Carlson is one of the most beloved media personalities today. This week, Tucker shared the heartbreaking news that his father, Richard Warner Carlson, passed away this week at the age of 84. Carlson, known for his sharp wit and fearless takes on everything from woke lunacy to D.C. corruption, stepped back from his daily commentary to honor a man whose influence clearly shaped him — not just as a journalist, but as a man.
Tucker’s announcement came in the form of a beautifully written obituary posted to X, where he described his father’s final moments with the kind of raw honesty and respect rarely seen in public life anymore. “He refused all painkillers to the end and left this world with dignity and clarity,” Tucker wrote, “holding the hands of his children with his dogs at his feet.”
That sentence alone says everything about the grit and grace of the Carlson patriarch — a man who, according to his son, lived a colorful and sometimes chaotic life before finding purpose and peace in family, faith, and truth.
Richard Carlson’s life story reads like something out of a novel. Arrested for grand theft auto at 17, kicked out of high school twice, and then enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps — that’s the kind of redemption arc that would terrify today’s Ivy League elites. After serving his country, he became a sea cargo merchant and then an investigative journalist, a real one, before getting injured in the 1965 Watts riots. That didn’t stop him — he went on to raise his sons with discipline, curiosity, and a relentless belief in right and wrong.
Obituary for my father.
Richard Warner Carlson died at 84 on March 24, 2025 at home in Boca Grande, Florida after six weeks of illness. He refused all painkillers to the end and left this world with dignity and clarity, holding the hands of his children with his dogs at his… pic.twitter.com/4lMygMkSIT
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) March 26, 2025
Tucker’s tribute paints his father as a principled, free-thinking man who believed in God, devoured books like oxygen, and instilled the values of toughness, loyalty, and intellectual honesty in his children. Those traits are clearly alive and well in the Carlson family. Buckley Carlson, Tucker’s brother, has worked in Republican politics, and Tucker’s own son, also named Buckley, now works on Vice President J.D. Vance’s White House press team. That’s a conservative dynasty in the making, rooted not in privilege, but in purpose.
In a world full of cheap outrage and virtue signaling, Tucker Carlson’s pause to mourn and honor his father reminds us what actually matters — family, legacy, and the values that carry from one generation to the next. Rest in peace, Richard Carlson. You raised a warrior.
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