Did he REAAALLLY get “turned down” by the CIA and end up in a cheesy bow tie on CNN and then to Fox?? hmmm kek
After college, [Carlson] tried and failed to persuade the CIA to employ him; the real-life agency, unlike its fictional counterparts, prefers not to hire young men who are gabby and insubordinate. Instead, he got a job in Little Rock, working for Paul Greenberg, the exacting editorial-page editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. [The New Yorker]
https://theweek.com/speedreads/689969/tucker-carlson-tried-join-cia