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I see both sides, and I came down on the side of Dinesh. There is never a circumstance where someone gets to use something that doesn’t belong to them without permission and Dinesh said no, and FOX banned him.

I like Tucker although I never watch him or anyone else on FOX, but fair is fair and this wasn’t fair.

There is no objective evidence that the content would have been used w/o attribution. You are placing a lot of faith in the exchange as reported by Dinesh. How does he know the content they wanted to cut. No corroboration of that and much less detail than the exchange with the producer. The conversation as reported does not support Dinesh's assertions.

One of Tucker's producers--a guy named Alex--told me they couldn't run the 90 second trailer. They wanted to use just 45 seconds. Turned out they wanted to cut out my name, Salem Media, and any reference to the movie
Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza

3h So basically they wanted to steal our content and pretend like they had produced it. I politely said no. I had earlier clarified with Alex that they should either use the full teaser trailer or not. Yet my refusal to let them go ahead provoked the following exchange

Note also as per Dinesh Justin Wells: "We booked Catherine ages ago. The segment came through her. The trailer and everything happened this week. We wanted to help you out. We would have made reference to the film. Absolutely...

The producer was rude but I would attribute some of that to Dinesh upending the timing for the segment at the last minute and not in good faith. He accused rather than asked, demanded at the last minute based on his own paranoia. Really a stupid move. There are many steps between letting someone steal your content and telling them to go to hell without even asking if they would be attributing the clip. Prima donna behavior.