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?
[Tucker was the cable host who most:
* Opposed US proxy war in Ukraine
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He also exposed the lies surrounding the jab. That will earn the scarlet letter from the pro-jab crowd.
[untouchable]
It’s incredible - where’s the fat Pfizer chick running away from the camera?
Mark Steyn and Tucker Carlson should combine their talents outside of Fox.
“Fox ought to hire Steyn.”
There is NO WAY that Steyn would take that gig after what the Murdochs just did to Carlson. Steyn has/had spent years defending himself after something called the Canadian Speech Committee (or something similar) sued him for speaking his mind.
Perhaps Carlson and Steyn should start their own gig where REAL free speech would be the calling card. I’d be happy to join them.
If the New York Times says it, you can believe the opposite.
“I thought the violent actions I saw resembled Antifa tactics for the purpose of smearing the MAGA movement.”
Didn’t you get the message here on FR a few days before the rally? Someone had picked up something posted by Antifa making plans for a false flag operation. We talked about it and then I saw them acting exactly what they had planed. There were many patriots at those windows pulling down the Antifa bunch and yelling “it’s Antifa”, I heard them calling out against the breaking in and I was only watching the RSBN live video. I’ve wondered why they have not released that video.
[If the New York Times says it, you can believe the opposite.]
Yep. The New York Times always has an agenda.
Always.
Too many years of watching them in action.
Another upper management woman that hates conservative men.
Dominion, who caused joe biden on us all with the great steal and the ushering in of a regime to murder America named Tucker within their law suit with Murdoch to silence him, period. This other bullsh## is smoke and mirrors, my belief
“Fox News host Tucker Carlson is arguably the most powerful advocate of Trumpism in America. It turns out that he also privately hates Donald Trump “passionately.”
We know that because of new court filings from Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit against Fox. A huge trove of Fox News staffers’ private text messages and emails have been made public, and they are exposing the vast gulf between the public personas of Fox’s influential pundits and their private beliefs. The Carlson revelations have been particularly juicy because they show how Trump’s most prominent champion actually loathes him, and they illustrate how Carlson doesn’t respect his viewers enough to speak to them truthfully about the problems that he believes Trump poses to the country.
Carlson does not respect, like or trust the man he has spent years defending in front of the largest cable news audience in America.
According to the filings, Carlson texted a co-worker two days before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol expressing joy over Trump’s imminent departure from the White House: “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait.” He added later in the text exchange, “I hate him passionately,” and he confessed that he “can’t handle much more of this.”
According to an another exchange from an earlier filing, two days after the 2020 election Carlson told a producer, “What he’s good at is destroying things. He’s the undisputed world champion of that. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong. It’s so obvious.”
And in another exchange in the new filings, Carlson texted an unnamed person in November 2020 that he thought that Trump’s expected refusal to attend Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration was “hard to believe” and “so destructive.” When his interlocutor lamented that “millions believe every word he says,” Carlson replied, “It’s disgusting. I’m trying to look away.”
One such communication published in the briefs – a text message that was sent following the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021 – showed conservative Fox host Tucker Carlson referring to Trump as being “a demonic force” and “a destroyer.” He added, “But he’s not going to destroy us.”
1. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/tucker-carlson-hates-trump-rcna73974
IMO, it is so wrong to praise Trump to his face and stab him in the back privately.
ALSO:
“Pro-Trump on air, Tucker Carlson privately told his Fox News producer that he hates the former president with a passion”
Last Updated: March 9, 2023 at 6:33 p.m. ET
First Published: March 9, 2023 at 1:25 p.m. ET
Carlson told his producer in a text message that the show was ‘very, very close’ to being free to ignore Trump. That was on Jan. 4, 2021.
NEW YORK (AP) — A defamation lawsuit is revealing scornful behind-the-scenes opinions by Fox News figures about Donald Trump, including a Tucker Carlson text message declaring, “I hate him passionately.”
CARLSON’S PRIVATE TEXT COMMENTS WERE REVEALED IN COURT PAPERS AT VIRTUALLY THE SAME TIME THE FORMER PRESIDENT WAS HAILING THE FOX NEWS HOST ON SOCIAL MEDIA. Trump said Carlson was doing a “great job” in presenting excerpts of U.S. Capitol security video of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection — though Carlson used the video to produce a skewed narrative of the attack.
I think what got Tucker was after his DJT interview he said Trump was the only one who knew he issues everyday people faced, Praise like that is not allowed.
Trump admin's militarism? You mean the president who didn't get us in any shooting wars anywhere? That Trump? Seriously?
Tucker going to Rumble would cause Rumble to explode - and its already been growing very fast. Think Joe Rogan going to Spotify.
If anything, I think Tucker’s audience would grow.
Nobody who is not a gullible fool believes any of the crap that disgruntled woman who was a former employee says. She’s just trying to get $.
A lot has happened that Tucker Carlson has had to reconsider, and Tucker Carlson now speaks about, how he (Carlson) has been seeing the light.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4148182/posts
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This Clip Is Very Telling To Probably What Happened To Tucker (2 minute video):
https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1650662552408391683
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Mollie Hemingway tweet: Tucker Carlson Calls For Conservative Paradigm Shift In Dealing With Leftist ‘Evil’
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1650300470911541248
I suspect that Tucker Carlson's interview with Kellie-Jay Keen, may interest you. There is a point during the interview, when Tucker Carlson asks about Kellie-Jay Keen's own realization that she is in fact *not a leftist-liberal.* She admits, that she did not really know why she had been a liberal.
to hiring that fool Juan Willians.
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Who may also be a candidate to replace TC or DB or perhaps Watters.
Gutfeld is all Fox has left. He is both The Five as well as his own show which is #1 in late night.
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