Schadenfreude overload as Fox ratings champs Tucker and Gutfeld savage CNN+, Chris Wallace, and Brian Stelter on air

American Thinker.com ^ | April 22, 2022 | Thomas Lifson

[Kaslin]

Conservatives rarely get opportunities to gloat as delicious as the rapid demise of the streaming service CNN+, reportedly the brainchild of Jeff Zucker, the now ex-head of CNN, the man who dragged the cable news pioneer far to the left. The humiliation stains not just Zucker and CNN, but also Chris Wallace, who left Fox News on a high horse, taking aim at Tucker Carlson and the prime-time opinion hosts at the cable news leader. Already shamed by the fact that Fox News Sunday ratings went up after he left, Wallace now has to contend with savage mockery by the two notable ratings champions at his former employer.

Tucker Carlson, the ratings king of cable news, gloated over CNN media critic Brian Stelter’s floating over Netflix’s decline in subscribers and stock price crash:

But Carlson’s schadenfreude was minor league compared to what Greg Gutfeld offered a few hours earlier, slamming Wallace in each segment of the show. What has to make this doubly painful for Wallace is the fact that Gutfeld’s eponymous late-night comedy is regularly beating the competition for late night comedy/talk shows, despite having a much smaller production budget and writing staff than the competition. Vis the Media Research Center’s Newsbusters, here are Gutfeld’s jabs at Wallace.

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The marketing plan failed to account for the fact that liberals are cheapskates and won’t spend their own money on things they expect to be free

Maybe Wallace should have gone to PBS+.

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And the R pansy brigade faints.

“We’re better than that! We don’t DO that!” they harrumph.

*spit*