Posted on 04/24/2023 8:59:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Update (2114ET): After an entire day wondering why in the hell Fox News would can the highest-rated cable news host in the world, ever, the New York Times comes out with this;
Who:
The decision to let Mr. Carlson go was made on Friday night by Lachlan Murdoch, the chief executive of Fox Corporation, and Suzanne Scott, chief executive of Fox News Media, according to a person briefed on the move. Mr. Carlson was informed on Monday morning by Ms. Scott, another person briefed on the move said.
Why?
[T]he power that Mr. Carlson, 53, wielded outside Fox News could not insulate him from a growing list of troubles inside the network related to his conduct on and off the air, some of which had been grating on Mr. Murdoch and his father, Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corporation, who co-founded the network in 1996, according to the two people with knowledge of the company’s decision.
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The host, a polarizing and unpopular figure at the network outside of his own staff, was exposed as part of a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems as a bully who denigrated colleagues and sources, often in profane and sexist language, and called for the firing of Fox journalists whose coverage he disliked. He has also drawn condemnation from the right and left for his role in fostering a revisionist account of the assault on the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
So he was mean to people?
We also know that last week, Tucker attacked Big Pharma in one of his monologues.
3 days ago: Tucker’s opening monologue calls out mainstream media’s role in pushing the Covid vaccines despite their high risk for serious side effects and death
Today: Tucker is no longer with Fox
This is the power of Big Pharma pic.twitter.com/r5fVaZJt3d — DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 24, 2023
Fox fires @TuckerCarlson five days after he crosses the red line by acknowledging that the TV networks pushed a deadly and ineffective vaccine to please their Pharma advertisers. Carlson’s breathtakingly courageous April 19 monologue broke TV’s two biggest rules: Tucker told the… — Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) April 24, 2023
Oh, there's more:
One early point of contention was Mr. Carlson’s 2021 documentary, “Patriot Purge,” which advanced the conspiracy theory that the attack that day was a so-called false flag operation designed to discredit the former president and his political movement. Lachlan Murdoch was said to have been caught off guard by the program, which also led two conservative Fox News contributors to quit in protest, Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes.
In March, Mr. Carlson edited down tens of thousands of hours of footage from the attack given to him by Speaker Kevin McCarthy and used them to falsely portray the rioters as people Mr. Carlson called “mostly peaceful” onlookers who had innocently ambled into the Capitol. The broadcast drew a rebuke from Senator Mitch McConnell, who is a friend of Rupert Murdoch’s and said Mr. Carlson had drawn “offensive and misleading conclusions.”
So he showed the public the January 6th footage and dared question the event.
There are few people in media who have their own independent following loyal to them.
Tucker is one of them. If he goes to an independent platform, his audience will be even bigger and his voice more influential.
Fox needed Tucker way more than Tucker needed Fox. — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 25, 2023
The Times also says that one of Carlson's former producers said he ran a "toxic" workplace.
And yet, is any of that worth giving up tens of millions in Tucker-related ad revenue? It seems that if you routinely question the regime, it is.
This was Tucker Carlson Tonight’s last moment.
Eating pizza with the hero delivery man who stopped a car jacker.
I can’t think of a better way for the greatest cable news show in history to end.
pic.twitter.com/cfzNZ6QY4l — Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 24, 2023
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Tucker Carlson, the highest rated cable news host in history, is out at Fox News. The news comes days after the network cut ties with host Dan Bongino 48 hours after the network settled with Dominion Voting Systems for nearly $800 million.
"Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways," reads a statement from the network, which thanks him for his service "as a host and prior to that as a contributor."
Carlson's executive producer, Justin Wells, is also out at the network according to Semafor.
According to the statement, Carlson's last show was Friday, April 21st as he continued to dominate, and his slot will now be filled by 'an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named."
TV RATINGS: Fox News was #1 in total viewers in cable news on Monday April 17, led by these hours:
1. @TuckerCarlson
2. @TheFive
3. @seanhannity
4. @jesseprimetime @PeteHegseth
5. @BretBaier
6. @maddow
7. @Gutfeldfox
8. @OutnumberedFNC
9. @DanaPerino @BillHemmer
10.… pic.twitter.com/FlYDu6zPHu — TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) April 19, 2023
Full statement from the network (emphasis ours),:
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.
Mr. Carlson's last program was Friday April 21st. Fox News Tonight will air live at 8 PM/ET starting this evening as an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named.
FOX News Media operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, FOX News Audio, FOX News Books, the direct-to-consumer streaming services FOX Nation and FOX News International and the free ad- supported television service FOX Weather. Currently the number one network in all of cable, FNC has also been the most watched television news channel for more than 21 consecutive years, while FBN ranks among the top business channels on cable. Owned by Fox Corporation, FOX News Media reaches nearly 200 million people each month.
From 8pm to 9pm on Fox, there was extreme, even fundamental, disagreements between Tucker and Hannity on those key issues - the kind of internal debate unthinkable on any other network: in lockstep.
I'd wager the new 8pm host will be far more aligned with Hannity: standard GOP. — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 24, 2023
Shares of 21st Century Fox dropped like a rock on the news, and is now sitting at January lows (the drop in FOXA's market cap is around the same as the settlement with Dominion).
One of Carlson's last monologues at Fox...
Were Carlson and Bongino sacrificed as part of the settlement?
And where to next?
Rumble..?
Twitter...?
ZeroHedge?
Well, Schumer told Murdoch to get rid of Tucker amd McConnell eched the sentiment. Right on cue, Tucker is gone. Kind of like a CIA bullet to JFK.
Is this why Fox News fired him? Was he planning to show this video?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1329596152862429185
Tucker was going to show more. He was stopped
Piers Morgan isn’t a reporter, he’s a busybody.
A regular Gladys Kravitz— getting all excited and bothered over things that aren’t his business...like guns.
Look at how many people over the years—top talent— have been fired. You could have 2 new network lines with the fired FOX people. You could never feel comfortable working there knowing that the whim of a Murdoch would destroy you at any moment. You could never trust them.
I wonder how much it would take to buy them out.
Unfortunately, the only video I can find of @SavageNation's @Newsmax interview about @TuckerCarlson's departure from @FoxNews comes form the corrupt, dishonest Media Matters. Dr. Savage raises some good points, as always. Watch the video. https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-guest-sean-hannity-may-have-had-hand-tucker-carlsons-departure-fox-news
Tucker Carlson last Tweet was 04/21/2023.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson
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04/21/2023
Tucker Carlson remarks at the Heritage Foundation:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/did-tucker-preview-fox-exit-at-heritage-this-weekend
EXCERPT:
“You look around and you see so many people break under the strain under the downward of whatever this is that we are going through. And you look with disdain and sadness as you see people you know become quislings. You see them revealed as cowards. You see them going along with the new, new thing which is clearly a poisonous thing, a silly thing. You know, saying things you know they don’t believe because they want to keep their jobs. If there’s a single person in this room who hasn’t seen that through George Floyd, COVID, and the Ukraine war, raise your hand? Oh nobody? Right. You all know what I’m talking about.”
“And you’re so disappointed in people. You know you are. And you realize that the herd instinct is maybe the strongest instinct. I mean it may be stronger than the hunger and sex instincts actually. The instinct which again is inherent to be like everybody else and not to be cast out of the group not to be shunned, that’s a very strong impulse in all of us from birth. And it takes over unfortunately in moments like this and it’s harnessed in fact by bad people in moments like this to produce uniformity and you see people going along with this and you lose respect for them and that has certainly happened to me at scale over the past three years.”
“…But there is a countervailing force at work always. There’s a counterbalance to the badness, it’s called goodness, and you see it in people. So for every 10 people who are putting he and him in their electronic JPMorgan email signatures there’s one person who’s like, ‘No I’m not doing that. Sorry I don’t want to fight but like I’m not doing that it’s a betrayal of what I think is true. It’s a betrayal of my conscience, of my faith, of my sense of myself, of my dignity as a human being, of my autonomy. I am not a slave. I am a free Citizen and I’m not doing that and there’s nothing you can do to me to make me do it and I hope it won’t come to that but if it does come to that, here I am. Here I am.’”
“...There’s in one case someone who I made fun of on television and certainly in my private life in vulgar ways who was really the embodiment of everything I found repulsive, who in the middle of COVID decided, ‘No I’m not going along with this.’”
“And once you say one true thing, and stick with it, all kinds of other true things occur to you. The truth is contagious. Lying is, but the truth is as well. And the second you decide to tell the truth about something, you are filled with this, I don’t want to get supernatural on you, but you are filled with this power from somewhere else.”
“Try it. Tell the truth about something. You feel it every day. The more you tell the truth, the stronger you become. That’s completely real and it’s measurable in the way that you feel.”
“And of course the opposite is also true. The more you lie the weaker and more terrified you become. We all know that feeling when you lie about something and all of a sudden you’re a prisoner of that lie and you are diminished by it. You are weak and afraid.”
“Drug and alcohol use is the same way it makes you weak and afraid. But you look around and you see these people and some of them really have paid a heavy price for telling the truth and they are cast out of their groups whatever those groups are but they do it.”
“Anyway, I look on at those people with the deepest possible admiration. I’m paid to do that. I face no penalty. Someone came up to me, ‘You’re so brave.’ Really?!?! I’m a talk show host. It’s like I can’t have any opinion I want. That’s my job. That’s why they pay me. It’s not brave to tell the truth on a cable news show and if you’re not doing that you’re really an idiot, you’re really craven. You’re lying on television? Why would you do that? You’re literally making a living to say what you think and you can’t even do that please.”
He might be right, Fraud Hackity chop blocked all invites of Savage on Faux News and Hackity, is not a good guy at all.
Tucker had his own web site with his content on it. Fox can suck it
I’m assuming the “toxic workplace” narrative is a lie.
No need to assume, OF COURSE it is a lie, NOW the destruction of Tucker will begin to TRY to save their viewership!! It won’t work WE ALL have had ENOUGH of this BS!! The ONLY WAY for us to stand up to this tyranny is to boycott in HUGE numbers, we DO outnumber them they just have LOUD SCREAMING mouths!!
war, war, war!!!
23 April: White House: Letter to the Speaker of the House and President pro tempore of the Senate consistent with the War Powers Resolution (Public Law 93-148)
from: Joseph R. Biden
At my direction, United States Armed Forces personnel have conducted an operation to evacuate United States personnel and others from Khartoum, Sudan, in response to the deteriorating security situation in Sudan. To conduct and support this operation, United States Armed Forces personnel with appropriate combat equipment deployed to Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Sudan. United States Armed Forces personnel will remain deployed in Djibouti to protect United States personnel and others until the security situation no longer requires their presence, and additional forces are prepared to deploy to the region if required.
I directed this action consistent with my responsibility to protect United States citizens both at home and abroad and in furtherance of United States national security and foreign policy interests, pursuant to my constitutional authority as Commander in Chief and Chief Executive and to conduct United States foreign relations...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/04/23/letter-to-the-speaker-of-the-house-and-president-pro-tempore-of-the-senate-consistent-with-the-war-powers-resolution-public-law-93-148-3/
Tucker Carlson Calls For Conservative Paradigm Shift In Dealing With Leftist ‘Evil’
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1650300470911541248
What behavior of air? Never mentioned
Did he kill someone? Break up a marriage? Spit on the sidewalk?
Tucker good.
Fox bad.
Great post.
Tucker is cool.
Well Hannity is beating her but not by much. Ten years ago Hannity beat her by a mile in the ratings. Now he’s ahead by inches. It is a s&%t-show performance in anybody’s book. Plus
Maddow is just doing the same show she’s been doing for years. Unfortunately so is he.
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