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Thoughts on Tucker Carlson’s Firing
The Conservative Treehouse ^ | April 24, 2023 | Sundance

Posted on 04/25/2023 1:50:43 AM PDT by gattaca

This is a context you won’t find elsewhere {smiles}. The phone has been blowing up…. Context and some details matter.

First, Carlson was being paid about $20 million a year by Murdoch. He had about 3 years left on his contract and will be paid the full contract amount. Carlson found out about 10 minutes before Fox Corp made the announcement. They did not “part ways,” Tucker Carlson was fired.

(Via WSJ) – Mr. Carlson, whose contract was renewed in 2021, will be paid out for the rest of his contract, people familiar with the matter said. Mr. Carlson is paid about $20 million a year, one of the people said. Mr. Carlson found out he was being let go about 10 minutes before the network announced his departure, the people said. (link)

For financial context, remember Rupert Murdoch paid Megyn Kelly $15 million (Via Harper Collins) for the 2015/2016 operation against Donald Trump. Paying $60 to $100 million to get rid of Carlson’s antagonistic voice is small money to Murdoch Inc. in the grand scheme of things. [Murdoch has also paid for Ron DeSantis to oppose Trump]

Carlson will not be asked to sign an NDA, is not bound by a “non-compete” clause following the contract nullification by Fox Corp, and will be free to do anything he wants in any venture. Additionally, he will be free to say whatever he wants about the issues at Fox and speak freely, or not, without any legal or contractual constraints. Keep all of that in mind.

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To: ClearCase_guy

He must be more convinced than ever about the decline of society and that he has been at least generally on the right track in terms of the commentary he’s been writing and cable-casting every weeknight.


21 posted on 04/25/2023 3:22:08 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: gattaca
Very interesting points are presented in this article.

The problem is that all this is speculation (albeit probably pretty accurate for the most part).

If we could see Sundance's credentials or his sources as to Murdoch's and Fox's thinking, that would be a big help.

As an aside, I am not complaining about Sundance. I'm just saying that there is so much intel around us from all directions, we don't know what to believe unless we can consider it against a backdrop of sources and methods.

22 posted on 04/25/2023 3:22:10 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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To: gattaca

BlackRock Increases Position in Fox Corporation (FOXA)

Fintel reports that BlackRock has filed a 13G/A form with the SEC disclosing ownership of 45.74MM shares of Fox Corporation, Class A (FOXA). This represents 15.1% of the company.

In their previous filing dated January 27,

Then Bongino and Tucker booted.

coinky dink -BM2


23 posted on 04/25/2023 3:23:58 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness ; Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

>This is Murdoch peeing in his own soup.<

This is Murdoch giving Dominion $800 million in seed money to keep Trump from returning to the White House.

EC


24 posted on 04/25/2023 3:34:03 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: gattaca

Will Tucker run for President?

On AM radio this morning there was speculation that he might.


25 posted on 04/25/2023 3:38:46 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: gattaca
...Carlson will not be asked to sign an NDA, is not bound by a “non-compete” clause following the contract nullification by Fox Corp, and will be free to do anything he wants in any venture....

Wanna bet he signed both anyway...

26 posted on 04/25/2023 3:40:11 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: gattaca
Murdoch has also paid for Ron DeSantis to oppose Trump


27 posted on 04/25/2023 3:42:21 AM PDT by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: RoosterRedux

Re #22: have read Sundance for years. He is a highly trustworthy reporter. He often does not divulge his ultimate sources, true, but because of his honesty and good judgment, Sundance conveys dependable information.


28 posted on 04/25/2023 3:45:13 AM PDT by Gratia
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To: mewzilla

Scary thought...

If Deep State feels comfortable enough to abandon its attempt to rehabilitate the last, best enemedia asset it burned on Election Night three years ago...

Something wicked this way comes, folks.


29 posted on 04/25/2023 3:50:07 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

Hilarious 😂


30 posted on 04/25/2023 3:51:21 AM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness ; Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat)
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To: Gratia; RoosterRedux

Wasn’t Sundance a FReeper way back when?


31 posted on 04/25/2023 3:53:51 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: LoveMyFreedom

Then this is the best thing that could happen.

An unconstrained Tucker that can be honest about Fox News.

The left may mock him now but they should really be scared sh*tless.


32 posted on 04/25/2023 4:06:35 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: afchief
afchief: "This was part of the Fox/Dominion deal.
He was fired because he SPEAKS THE TRUTH!!!
Total list of votes switched or lost by Dominion."

So far as I know, nobody at Fox, including Carlson, has opined on the 2020 voting legitimacy, meaning the actual casting & counting of votes.
Instead, they've talked about how Democrats got voting laws changed, perhaps illegitimately, just before the 2020 election, to make legal what had previously been illegal.

Mr. My Pillow Lindel, who fully supported claims the votes themselves were tampered with, ended up paying millions of dollars because he couldn't prove such claims.

33 posted on 04/25/2023 4:23:59 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: gattaca

Pretty plausible case here.


34 posted on 04/25/2023 4:52:24 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: gattaca

Unsurprisingly, Sundance has no idea what he’s talking about.

If and I say “if” Tucker was fired for cause as has been “alleged”, and I’m sure that is the position Fox will take, that would make his contract null and void and, in that case, he may not be entitled to any remuneration (severance) or payout of the remaining terms of his contract.

It is “alleged” that his firing had something to do with the lawsuit filed by Abby Grossberg who alleges she was bullied, subjected to sexual harassment antisemitic comments. It should be noted that Tucker’s senior executive producer, Justin Wells, has also been terminated.

Also allegedly, and again I say “allegedly”, Tucker made disparaging comments about Fox News management in communications that turned up in the discovery process in the Dominion suit that have not been made public, and that may have also played a role.

You can’t make disparaging comments to fellow employees about upper management without consequence, if that is what happened.

Also, an NDA and or a NCC would have been signed at the contract’s renewal so unless Tucker is successful in a wrongful termination suit and prove he did not break the terms of his contract, depending on the wording, the provisions of such agreements could and likely would still be enforceable.

Time will tell. I read Tucker has retained an entertainment attorney well versed in contract law and wrongful terminations, the same one I hear that Don Lemon has retained.


35 posted on 04/25/2023 4:55:38 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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To: gattaca

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36 posted on 04/25/2023 4:56:08 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: gattaca
Very few places we can go for the truth nowadays, Free Republic

FR has been overrun by Trump derangement maniacs.

37 posted on 04/25/2023 4:56:36 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: gattaca

The thing is, they think they are silencing/suppressing Tucker by firing him. If anything, I think it far more likely they have liberated him.

Independent news has been growing like crazy. The corporate media has been steadily sinking as their ancient audiences slowly die off.

Megyn Kelly
Dave Rubin
Glen Greenwald
Matt Taibi
Tim Pool
Joe Rogan
Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
Spiked
the New Culture Forum
the Danube Institute
the Epoch Times
Viva Frei
Brett Weinstein
Jesse Kelly
Victor Davis Hanson
Jack Posobiec
Steven Crowder
Triggernometry
Paul Joseph Watson
GB News
The People’s Pundit/What are the Odds

Those are some of the sources I use. Some of them are liberals and some of them are foreign, but I believe all of the above to be worth watching/listening to. They’re not just establishment propaganda unlike the corporate media. I’m sure Tucker Carlson will join that list.


38 posted on 04/25/2023 5:01:39 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: mewzilla
Wanna bet he signed both anyway...

Huh? Why would he do that?

39 posted on 04/25/2023 5:15:48 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My guitar wants to kill your mama - Zappa)
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To: MD Expat in PA

Unsurprisingly, Sundance has no idea what he’s talking about.

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You lost any sense of credibility right out of the gate with that idiotic statement.

So who are your sources that so prove Sundance wrong?

I’ll wait...


40 posted on 04/25/2023 5:28:58 AM PDT by mlitefan (Long time lurker...)
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