Posted on 05/09/2023 4:39:58 PM PDT by bitt
In a surprise video uploaded to Twitter on Tuesday, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson announced he will be doing his new show on Twitter.
Tucker accused Fox News of fraud and breach of contract, according to Axios.
Tucker Carlson, two weeks after being ousted by Fox News, accused the network Tuesday of fraud and breach of contract — and made a host of document demands that could precede legal action.
The aggressive letter from his lawyers to Fox positions Carlson to argue that the noncompete provision in his contract is no longer valid — freeing him to launch his own competing show or media enterprise.
On Tuesday, Carlson announced he would be bringing his show to Twitter,.
“Starting soon we’ll be bringing a new version of the show we’ve been doing for the last six and a half years to Twitter,” he said in the video. “We bring some other things too, which we’ll tell you about. But for now we’re just grateful to be here. Free speech is the main right that you have. Without it, you have no others.” The intrigue: The Twitter move would seem to technically violate Carlson’s contract with Fox, but his lawyers’ letter effectively holds that Fox breached the contract first.
Sources told Axios that Carlson’s lawyers sent their letter before he took to Twitter to announce his new show. Tucker in the video stated “starting soon we will be bringing a new version of the show we’ve been doing for the last six years and a half years to Twitter.”
Besides announcing his return Tucker stated “at the most basic level the news you consume is a lie. A lie of the stealthiest and most insidious kind.”
Tucker would go on to say Twitter is the last remaining place in the world where free speech is allowed.
WATCH:
We’re back. pic.twitter.com/sG5t9gr60O
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) May 9, 2023
...more
Elon Musk had mentiond making twitter into a venue for a network of it’s own....this might be where it starts....will be very intersting as things progress.
Just got the announcement on my phone! So exciting!!
and could be syndicated to other cable channels such as Newsmax, OANN.
Correction: The 2nd guarantees all other rights.
Yep! Seems to be the plan.
This made me laugh...
The other show hosts on Fox are now “dead men (and women) walking.” Gutfeld, in particular, would be wise to figure out a way to jettison his contract at Fox and join Tucker, since I see him as probably the only other host that has the audience to chart his own course. The rest are just clinging to the Titanic hoping against all reason that it will somehow right itself, and Hannity is just too dumb and blinded by his own reflection to realize what is happening.
Babylon Bee???
I bet it will be syndicated. This is going to leave a scar on cable and MSM news.
Waters could be a good transfer too.
No, I'm just having fun making memes. 😎
I wonder if Mark Steyn can use this approach to increase his audience.
That’s a good point, but I wonder how much of Jesse’s success came from his show’s positioning as the lead-in to Tucker. In an on-demand, rather than scheduled, format I don’t know how he would do. I do think he has the right instincts, though, and has been getting bolder as time has passed.
Cable is a dead man walking
yep
Just a reminder that this clown:
Admitted he didn’t believe his own shows.
Claimed he was forced into making those shows because of insane MAGA.
Says he actually hated Trump and hoped he’d disappear.
Tucker is probably one of the main reasons why they lost the defamation suit against Dominion.
Just remember that these TV Talking Heads are first and foremost entertainers.
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