Tucker Carlson gives speech at Sonny Barger’s funeral in Northern California – By Katie Dowd (SFGATE) / Sept 27, 2022
It was a mismatch for the ages: Generationally wealthy San Franciscan Tucker Carlson speaking in front of the Hells Angels, America’s most famous outlaw motorcycle gang.
On Saturday, the Fox News pundit took to the stage at the funeral of Sonny Barger, the man who founded the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels in 1957. Barger, 83, died of liver cancer at his Livermore home in late June.
The funeral was heavily attended; thousands of bikers descended on Stockton for the 6-hour affair. According to Carlson, he was invited to the funeral and “cleared [his] schedule” to get from “Maine to Stockton.”
In his speech, Carlson said that he and his college roommate “had always been fans of Sonny Barger.” Carlson went to boarding schools in Switzerland and Rhode Island before attending Trinity College, a private liberal arts school in Connecticut. He then quoted Barger’s final statement to the public, which was released after his death.
