The Montana man who confronted Tucker Carlson in a fishing store in Livingston over vaccine misinformation says he has no regrets about calling the Fox News host ‘the worst human being known to man,’ in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com.
A DailyMail.com team tracked Dan Bailey, 38, and his wife Kascie, 36, on Saturday to the remote Middle Fork Salmon River which sits in the middle of the 2.5m acre Frank-Church River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho where the couple returned from a long-planned wilderness vacation.
Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, Dan Bailey, 38, said he had been oblivious to the furor caused by the video until Thursday when he found a message at a ranger station telling him to phone his parents due to an emergency.
When he got in touch, his parents told him they had been bombarded with calls and threatening messages and explained the clip had gone viral.
A DailyMail.com team tracked Dan Bailey, 38, and his wife Kascie, 36, to the remote Middle Fork Salmon River which sits in the middle of the 2.5m acre Frank-Church River of No Return Wilderness where the couple were enjoying a long-planned vacation
The Montana fly fisherman confronted Carlson at a fishing supplies store in Livingston, Montana the week before, where he called the Fox News host 'the worst human being ever'
Bailey said he never thought the clip would go viral and had posted it for his friends. He says he has been deluged with death threats but doesn’t regret approaching Carlson – just that his family had to deal with the aftermath without him due to his wilderness trip
But despite the avalanche of hateful messages, Bailey says he doesn’t regret accosting Carlson who he met while buying supplies for his Idaho trip.
Bailey said: ‘We were in there [the shop] buying the last two freeze-dried meals for this trip and I was checking out, and this guy walked through the front door.
‘I said, ‘are you Tucker Carlson?’ He said, ‘no but I’ll take it as a compliment’ and I said, ‘I wouldn’t’.
‘I started walking out and I heard him talk and I said, ‘you are Tucker Carlson’. I started walking towards him and I don’t even know what I said. I didn’t even know she [Kascie] was filming.’
He added: ‘I told him about the vaccine and what he’s done. The guy has done a lot of really bad things to our country and we’re in a state of really terrible, partisan nonsense and violence, and I saw the guy and I thought to myself, I’m going to say something, or I’ll regret it forever.
‘So I said something to him and that was that. Tucker Carlson talks total bull whether it’s Covid or racism or the tension in this country.
Bailey, here with his wife as they returned from a week-long vacation on the remote Middle Fork Salmon River, laughed at the idea, floated by Carlson, that he is a Californian incomer obsessed with diversity politics, telling DailyMail.com that he isn’t particularly interested in politics and was born in Wyoming
Bailey says the confrontation was totally unplanned and he had no idea his wife was filming it – which she said was to keep a record of the moment
![‘[Tucker] put his hand on my chest and I stopped. I never touched him. I didn’t threaten him. I didn’t cuss,' Bailey told DailyMail.com](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/08/01/12/46153143-9849289-image-a-10_1627816767636.jpg)
‘[Tucker] put his hand on my chest and I stopped. I never touched him. I didn’t threaten him. I didn’t cuss,' Bailey told DailyMail.com
Bailey also denied hassling Carlson in front of his children, telling DailyMail.com that the Fox host was with his eldest daughter and that she walked out as soon as he approached her father
Carlson addressed the confrontation during his show last Thursday and accused Bailey of setting the incident up
The 22-second clip begins with Bailey appearing already engaged in a conversation with the Fox News host.
Carlson whispers, 'My daughter is here,' to which Bailey says, 'I don't care man. You are the worst human being known to man. I want you to know that.'
In response, Carlson says. 'I appreciate that. I appreciate that.'
Bailey continues, 'What you have done to everybody else in this state, to the United States, to everyone else in this world. What you have done to families, what you have done to everybody else in this world. I don't care that your daughter is here. What you've done to people's families –'
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