Posted on 04/26/2023 6:26:52 AM PDT by george76
In the wake of Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News, a speech that he gave after his final show aired drew attention on social media.
During the Heritage Foundation’s 50th-anniversary celebration on Saturday, Carlson gave a speech about society-wide moral decay. During the speech, the former Fox News host did not indicate he would be departing the network.
“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,” he stated. “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.”
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Carlson added to the audience: “And you’re so disappointed in people. 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.”
His speech to the conservative organization came just a day after his final Fox News show aired. Toward the end of the program, Carlson told his viewers that he would be back on Monday, suggesting that the decision for him to leave may have been initiated by Fox.
“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,” he said later in his speech. “Anyway, I look on at those people with the deepest possible admiration,” Carlson said. “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.”
On Monday, Fox News released a statement saying it parted ways with Carlson, and another anchor, Harris Faulkner, said the two parties came to a “mutual” agreement. Carlson hasn’t issued a public statement about the matter.
During that same event, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts made a joke to Carlson about him possibly losing his job at Fox News—days before he departed. Roberts said that “if things go south at Fox News, there’s always a job for you at Heritage.”
“You’ve saved me before,” Carlson laughed. “We do that for a lot of people, very happily,” Roberts said.
Before his departure, Carlson was the highest-rated Fox News personality, and at times, the No. 1-rated show in cable news. In recent days, he interviewed Tesla founder Elon Musk and former President Donald Trump, and broadcast never-before-seen Jan. 6 footage on his show months before that.
I guess now we’ll never know the truth about what actually happened during the government’s JaySix fiasco.
Tucker still has the rights to those videos. Not FOX. Annnnnnd, people need to hold McCarthy to his promise to release them to the public.
Fox News released a statement saying it parted ways with Carlson, and another anchor, Harris Faulkner, said the two parties
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Does this mean Falkner was let go also, or is it just bad writing/English?
Faulkner too??
How is that?
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I read the announcement and I also heard Faulkner deliver it on her program. It was quite clear that it only was about Carlson.
Full Speech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N32UPXGChgo
Stoopidly bad grammar by NBC. Faulkner read the statement on air about Carlson's departure.
“On Monday, Fox News released a statement saying it parted ways with Carlson, and another anchor, Harris Faulkner”
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I didn’t know Faulkner was gone.
It’s interesting, because Faulkner carried the water for George Soros, shutting down Newt Gingrich on her show when he stated how Soros through his “foundations” funds a lot of the Antifa and BLM violence.
It appears that didn’t buy her any loyalty in the end.
Disregard Post #11. It was just a poorly written sentence in the article.
Do you hate Trump or not Tucker?
she is still there. she only read the announcement.
Carlson already has a job offer from OAN for $25 million. He’ll be fine, financially.
Moreover, whatever he does next - he’ll will have 100% editorial control and will be an even better format than his hour at FOX News.
I can't even imagine what these guys like Tucker and Hannity and Laura Ingrahm go thru
Faulkner is a Soar-arse Bot.
You say that segment with Newt.
She covered for the con.
Carlson already has a job offer from OAN for $25 million. He’ll be fine, financially.
Moreover, whatever he does next - he’ll will have 100% editorial control and will be an even better format than his hour at FOX News.
And, I’d guess, he will want an equity position in any organization he joins, such as OAN, Newsmax, Blaze, etc.
This is going to go about as well for Fox News as Bud-light turning to a sexual pervert as a spokes”man”.
Really? Very surprised OAN has pockets that deep. Unfortunately OAN is not that widely available.
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