Posted on 05/01/2023 9:22:59 AM PDT by Kazan
Did Tucker Carlson’s outspoken criticism over Joe Biden’s Ukraine policy and opposition to foreign aid to the country play a role in his ouster from Fox News?
On Monday, Semafor reported that Fox News Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch held a previously unreported call with Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier this spring. The two men discussed the war and the anniversary of the deaths of Fox News journalists last March.
Zelenskyy also had a conversation with Lachlan Murdoch on the same subject. Semafor notes Zelenskyy mentioned this as an aside during a national broadcast last month.
These talks came weeks before the Murdochs pulled Tucker off the air, though he still remains under contract.
The report from Semafor also mentions that Tucker has been openly criticized by some of Zelenskyy’s top aides.
While it is unclear what role Tucker’s opposition to endless Ukrainian aid played in the Rupert Murdoch’s decision to pull him off the air, the family patriarch has long been “disturbed” by Tucker’s outspoken America First position according to the Washington Post.
Moreover, support for the Zelenskyy is a major litmus test for the Murdoch family. The family mouthpieces, The Wall Street Journal and New York Post, regularly bash politicians who dare to oppose perpetual aid to the notoriously corrupt country.
Opposition to America’s role in Ukraine is also a huge issue for Tucker. The Gateway Pundit reported in March that Tucker sent a questionnaire on the subject to every announced and potential GOP presidential candidate.
President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis aligned themselves with Tucker’s position while others like Mike Pence reiterated the Uniparty line.
Globalist politicians such as Mitt Romney (RINO-UT) openly celebrated Tucker’s downfall.
He spoke to the Hill after Tucker was ousted.
There have been some that have argued that he was setting foreign policy for the Republican Party, which I find to be bizarre. Certainly not for me.
To the primary [Republican] voter, the active participant, the grassroot voter, he’s a person they listen to and has a big influence.
Without the most powerful antiwar conservative voice on air, GOP politicians have less to fear from their voters when it comes to selling out America to foreign nations. No doubt the Murdochs are pleased over the development.
Globohomo uber alles
No doubt the Neocon cheerleaders were VERY HAPPY to see Tucker canned, as he was a thorn in their (suicidal) agenda.
Yup.
That’s the conclusion I came to.
He was undermining the Ukraine narrative. To a big audience.
Not small stuff.
So they had to take him out, make sure the money and weapons still flowed to The Project: how to own the Ukraine.
I am certainly not surprised. Americans are dumped over a coke snortin’ homo erotic dancing WEF neocon puppet.
People should turn FOX totally off just for this type of backstabbing.
Keep in mind, Murdochs are not Americans.
They remind me more of Murdaugh.
And Romney is just jealous that the people “listen” to Tucker.
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He was the last speaking the Truth on Ukraine.
Pentagon and Congress pressured FOX to remove him.
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Those Zeepers were having cheer sessions over it. Unfortunately for them, what they are cheering on is for naught.
GIBS-ME-DAT Ukrainian Money!
I mean from the VERY START, WHAT BANK or WHAT INDIVIDUAL does it go to, then where does it go!
I would BET a TON of it comes back into US POCKETS!
The Democrats must have been doing some really awful stuff in Ukraine.
It looks as if its about to get even more nasty over there now.
The war hens on here will all lay even more eggs over it.
"Semafor has received criticism for its relationship with persons or entities with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In January 2023, Voice of America reported that Semafor received sponsorship funding from Chinese e-commerce giant, Alibaba Group. The Chinese government has stakes in two of the Group's subsidiaries."Conservatives hate Zelensky so much, we are now trusting the journalist who first ran the Steele Dossier, who's company is party owned by Chinese interests?
Yeah.
That’s the whole plan.
Bad Vlad appears to be PO’d cuz he got cut out.
Guess they didn’t think he’d actually do it.
No, Vlad is upset because the liberal world order wanted to force the LGBT and Green agenda on his country and use Russian oligarchs to divert money to WEF types.
On CBN today (just had it on by happenstance) while doing chores, they had a segment on all the Russian mines left behind in all the conquered territory Ukraine will be forced to clean up. They were showing all the fields the farmers were getting blown up in, all the children’s toys that were booby trapped snd left behind, etc., and the MASSIVE COST to clean up.
FNC has become the stenographers for globalist.
Gee, a Zeeper ad hominem attack - a logical fallacy.
No evaluation of the claims themselves.
Shocked! Shocked, I tell ya!
All this reinforces how RIGHT Rush Limbaugh was to basically create his own network-—while he did answer somewhat to radio station chain’s managers, he more or less was impervious to being fired.
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