Tucker Carlson, who recently branded himself as a leading anti-elitist, had previously labeled himself as an “out-of-the-closet elitist,” and separately said that he is “100 percent [Rupert Murdoch’s] bitch.” The two quips are part of a trove of newly unearthed recordings from 2008 to 2011 that haven’t previously been reported.

The Fox News host made the comments on the shock-jock radio program “The Bubba the Love Sponge Show,” where he appeared regularly from 2006 to 2011. They are starkly different from Carlson’s recent attempts to brand himself as an anti-elite, anti-capitalist commentator on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” one of the most-watched shows on cable news.

In January, Carlson, who frequently traffics in white nationalist rhetoric, delivered a 15-minute monologue in which he railed against America’s ruling class. Carlson slammed both parties, saying that Americans “are ruled by mercenaries who feel no long-term obligation” to the people they rule, and that Republican leaders would have to be fools to worship market capitalism. “Under our current system, an American who works for a salary pays about twice the tax rate of someone who’s living off inherited money and doesn’t work at all,” he said. “We tax capital at half of what we tax labor. It’s a sweet deal if you work in finance, as many of our rich people do.”

Over the last two days, Media Matters for America, a watchdog organization, has released a trove of audio that included racist and misogynistic comments Carlson made on the same radio program. In those segments, Carlson appeared to defend statutory rape, called for the elimination of rape shield laws, and made suggestive comments about underage girls. He has so far refused to apologize, instead flippantly saying that he was caught “saying something naughty.”

“Rather than express the usual ritual contrition, how about this: I’m on television every weeknight live for an hour,” Carlson said in a tweeted statement. “If you want to know what I think, you can watch.” On his program Monday night, Carlson said Fox News is standing behind him despite the resurfaced recordings. The network confirmed this to be true, but it hasn’t released an official statement saying so. Fox News did not return The Intercept’s request for comment.

Carlson has worked for Fox News since 2009, first as an analyst and then as a host of the weekend show “Fox & Friends.” In 2016, he got his own weeknight show on the cable network, where he reportedly rakes in millions of dollars a year. During his radio appearances over the last decade, Carlson boasted about his wealth, which he amassed as a trust-fund kid.

When asked on “Bubba the Love Sponge” in 2008 how he pays his bills, Carlson replied that he’s “extraordinarily loaded” just from “inheritance from my number of trust funds.”