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Tucker Carlson OUT at Fox News - five days after the network paid $787million to settle Dominion lawsuit
Daily Mail UK ^ | April 24, 2023 | Jennifer Smith

Posted on 04/24/2023 9:34:17 AM PDT by Morgana

Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News, after reigning over the network for nearly a decade.

In a shock announcement Monday, the network announced his departure, saying his final show was on April 21st.

'FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.

'We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,' the network statement read.

Host Harris Faulkner also announced his departure on air, saying: 'We have some news from within our Fox family. Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have mutually agreed to part ways. Tucker's last show was this past Friday.'

An interim roster of hosts will take over in his absence until a permanent replacement is chosen.

Carlson - who signed off his final show on Friday with 'that's it for us for the week, we'll be back!' - is yet to comment.

His departure comes days after Fox settled with Dominion Voting Systems which had sued for defamation, claiming hosts like Carlson knew President Trump's election fraud claims were untrue, but pushed them for ratings.

Dominion sued for $1.6billion and settled for $787million at the 11th hour, narrowly avoiding an embarrassing and highly-publicized trial where Carlson and other hosts would likely have been called as witnesses.

Among discovery submitted before the trial were text messages in which Carlson described his 'passionate' hatred of President Trump.

Carlson's show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, was the gleaming jewel of Fox's nightly line-up, drawing in 3.5million viewers every night.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: Morgana

Tucker Carlson said he was registered as a Democrat from 2006 - 2020.


41 posted on 04/24/2023 10:34:53 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Hojczyk

On Newsmax, I probably watch Tucker. I swore off Fox In Nov. 2020 and would not go there even for the Tucker program.


42 posted on 04/24/2023 10:46:54 AM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: Mastador1

I stopped watching Gutfield & the 5, for the same reason, years before I turned off Fox in Nov. 2020.


43 posted on 04/24/2023 10:56:21 AM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: uptowngirl
Tucker would change some leftist attitudes at CNN.

Don't you remember Carlson started out his first six years on CNN? He had a whole "aw shucks conservatives are bad" shtick.

44 posted on 04/24/2023 11:14:17 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Morgana

If it was mutual, then I will support Tucker. Happy for him.


45 posted on 04/24/2023 11:41:07 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: Morgana

D.C. talk show host Vince Coglianese unexpectedly took the day off today. I wonder if he has been talking to Fox.


46 posted on 04/24/2023 12:50:56 PM PDT by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)
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To: GeorgianaCavendish
Thanks very much for linking to Tucker's Heritage speech:

https://notthebee.com/article/you-have-to-watch-tucker-carlsons-keynote-at-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-heritage-foundation

You don't debate with evil.

47 posted on 04/24/2023 1:10:54 PM PDT by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)
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To: Lisbon1940

They couldn’t come to terms on a contract

That’s mutual but not really


48 posted on 04/24/2023 1:44:43 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Morgana

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49 posted on 04/25/2023 11:54:52 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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