Instead of trying to stem the haemorrhage of mainstream viewers, listeners and readers, Western media as a part of its relentless attempt to smear Hungary as an authoritarian state has been lying about Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson’s weeklong trip to the country.

Tucker Carlson, one of the most influential figures on the American right will be broadcasting his top-rated prime-time show on Fox News from Hungary On Saturday he is to speak at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium Festival in Esztergom, outside Budapest.

A slew of mainstream media outlets in the West label the youth festival, which features speakers spanning the entirety of Hungary’s political spectrum and covers topics on academics, culture, music, and personal growth, as a ‘far-right conference’. 

Carlson’s admiration for Hungary, its national-conservative government, and Viktor Orbán has been a constant source of irritation for Western liberals. In 2019, liberal journalists wrote a series of angry hit pieces on the Fox News anchor after he praised Orbán’s pro-family policies, which offers tax breaks and bonuses for married couples to have children.

Carlson also slammed unelected, neoliberal bureaucrats in Brussels and leftist professionals working Washington D.C.-based think-tanks who advocate for population replacement migration.

‘Instead of helping the native population have more children, the Hungarian government, they say, should import a replacement population from the Third World. Viktor Orbán has a different idea. Instead of abandoning Hungary’s young people to the hard-edge libertarianism of Soros and the Clinton Foundation, Orbán has decided to affirmatively help Hungarian families grow.’

‘Orbán’s government is giving young women $35,000 low-interest loans when they get married for the first time,’ Carlson continued. ‘If these women have three children with their husbands, the loans are forgiven completely. If they have a fourth child, they’re exempt from income tax the rest of their lives.’

In addition to having a great deal of live music which will feature a plethora of popular Hungarian bands and singers, the festival has a wide array of stage discussions on topics of public interest and public affairs, electronic dance music DJs, interactive exhibitions, and live coverage of the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Apart from Carlson’s speech, which is titled, The world according to Tucker Carlson, several of the discussions, which Western hacks claim are ‘far-right’ in nature, include topics such as:  ‘Successful woman in the world of film architecture and gastronomy’; The role of literature in preserving native language and culture; Nationalism versus supra-nationalism; AI and human nature; Budapest Hollywood, the future of the Hungarian film industry; Is the ground getting hotter under our feet? Global challenges of climate change; and the truth about modern architecture. 

The international press, in its most recent attempt to blacken Hungary’s international reputation has propagated the falsehood that the recently passed ‘Child Protection Act‘, which stiffens penalties of convicted paedophiles and gives the families the exclusive right to educate their kids on sexual matters, unfairly targets the LGBT community.

The fact nearly 80 per cent of Hungarian MPs (157 of 199) voted in favour of the new law has been ignored by western media inky-fingered hacks who report on the topic, since it renders the reasoning behind their narrative that Hungary is a de-facto authoritarian state.

As per usual, the European Union has acted in accordance with the false narrative presented by the international press. Days after the law was adopted and the media’s anti-Hungarian smear campaign began the European Commission, the union’s executive branch, initiated infringement proceedings against Hungary. Yet, only 13 EU mostly insignificant member states, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Spain, Sweden, and Latvia, signed off on a resolution that condemned Hungary’s new law.

Responding to the European Commission’s actions and President Von der Leyens provocative words, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said: ‘The recently adopted Hungarian bill protects the rights of children, guarantees the rights of parents and does not apply to the rights of persons over 18 years of age-related to sexual orientation, so it does not contain any discriminatory elements. The statement by the president of the European Commission is shameful because it is based on untrue allegations,’ Orbán added.

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