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.
Yes clearly Murdoch is a neo con warmonger. His side would have had us remove Assad and allow Syria to turn into another failed state.
Ukrainian dictator Zelensky was elected by 72% of electoral vote in 2019.
FReepers support Tucker over Zelensky.
And Zelensky is tied at the hip with Soros, Vindman, etc.
He wasn’t elected in the US so who gives a RATs behind?
Conservatives support Tucker over Zelensky.
Tucker shed the bit in his mouth.
When rhe first 12 comments are all pro Russia and to an article posted by a frequently posting Pooty Pal we know where this is coming from. When Gateway Pundit provides an article titled “Ukranian Dictator Zelensky” about an elected official whose term has not yet expired, we can guess where GP is coming from. Does anyone know where Cullen Linebarger is coming from?
There’s a lot of money, technology and power in the arms business.
War is big business.
Does anyone know where Cullen Linebarger is coming from?
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hint: Cullen Linebarger titled this article not GP.
Never the less GP chose to run it even though the designation of an elected leader who is still serving his term as “Dictator” is careless editorial choice.
Editor just agreed with the author - else it would have been shopped elsewhere. No careless, intentional.
“””Zelensky ran on and was elected to be the peace candidate in Ukraine.”””
So you post an article describing him as the “dictator” of Ukraine.
It was such a top secret meeting that Zelensky mentioned it in a national TV broadcast.
I guess you don't think Xi Jinping is dictator, either.
First, he is in his first term as the elected president, and second, he didn’t do that.
Yes, that’s after half the country split off following the American led coup resulting in making Russians like the Jews of Nazi Germany.
Watch Ukraine On Fire by Oliver Stone on Youtube
You and your fellow neocons truly in alternate universe and everything in it is a lie.
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