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Fox Picks Lawrence Jones as Tucker Carlson Successor
Newsmax ^ | Monday, 01 May 2023 01:37 PM EDT | By Eric Mack |

Posted on 05/01/2023 5:37:35 PM PDT by conservative98

Fox News picked Lawrence Jones to be the temporary replacement for the time slot that used to feature the highly rated Tucker Carlson, who was unceremoniously ousted a week ago.

Jones, 30, is considered to be the "youngest black solo host of a cable news show in history," according to the Daily Mail. Newsmax had Joe Pinion, now 39, as a host before he left the network to run for Senate to vie for the seat held by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

Jones, a self-described libertarian, is expected to host starting Monday night after Fox News has struggled to keep viewers in Carlson's time slot. Its audience plummeted from an average of 3.2 million viewers with Carlson to 2.6 million tuning in Monday, 1.7 million Tuesday, and just 1.3 million Wednesday.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cleanandarticulate; foxnews; lawrencejones; tuckercarlson
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To: frank ballenger; All
"P.S. Who is he?"

Indeed... Hannity was announcing this on his radio show today, and showed his rear-end as usual: Called the guy "My very dear friend...." But couldn't remember his name and his producer or board operator had to rescue him, but it took long enough to show that if Hannity ever even met the guy, he didn't make much of an impression.

101 posted on 05/01/2023 7:23:14 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: conservative98

The Not Ready for Primetime host.


102 posted on 05/01/2023 7:26:17 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Bernard

Kat would be an interesting choice. I wonder if she’s want to do it. She did show a more serious side on that short-lived show with Eric Bolling and (I think) Eboni Williams.

BTW, she’s an alumna of my alma mater.


103 posted on 05/01/2023 7:26:27 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: conservative98

NO FOX!


104 posted on 05/01/2023 7:26:53 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: Cobra64

No more Mister Nice Guys!

Jones has been fine as a roving reporter, especially on the Idaho college murder case, but I do not consider him a serious journalist.

I watched a few minutes this evening. Lawrence seemed very nervous during his audition.

But he is miles better than that crackpot, Kilmeade, that they had on last week.


105 posted on 05/01/2023 7:29:16 PM PDT by miserare ( "Equity" is the new word for Communism.)
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To: conservative98

You know sometimes you have a good bench player and you try to make him a regular, or you try to make a supporting actor a lead? I like Lawrence Jones. He’s a good person for The Five or as a panelist on Gutfeld. But I think he’s a supporting actor, a good bench player. I don’t think he’s strong enough to carry a show.

He may prove me wrong. I won’t be watching.


106 posted on 05/01/2023 7:30:32 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: existentially_kuffer

Wasn’t that how Tucker got the 8 PM hour?


107 posted on 05/01/2023 7:31:38 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: LegendHasIt

Which is funny because one of Lawrence’s gigs at Fox was as Hannity’s street reporter (sort of like Watters was for O’Reilly.)


108 posted on 05/01/2023 7:34:50 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Yolanda

Lawrence was 15


109 posted on 05/01/2023 7:35:11 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness ; Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementa)
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To: TBP
Do you have a citation for that?

https://www.dallasnews.com › arts-entertainment › tv › 2023 › 01 › 17 › from-garland-to-dc-lawrence-jones-marks-full-year-as-fox-news-host From Garland to New York, Lawrence Jones marks full year as Fox News host Jan 17, 2023He's the host of Lawrence Jones Cross Country at 9 p.m. Saturdays and enterprise reporter for Fox & Friends throughout the week. ... When I was 15 years old, I worked on the Obama campaign then ...

He was only 15 so I can give him a pass for not knowing much at the time.

110 posted on 05/01/2023 7:36:04 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: TBP
For the fun of it, can you name three Fox programs (two current, one former) that got their titles form segments on The O'Reilly Facto?
111 posted on 05/01/2023 7:36:49 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

That is the impression I get.


112 posted on 05/01/2023 7:43:23 PM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: TBP

Maybe it just slipped his mind then.


113 posted on 05/01/2023 7:43:31 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: traderrob6

I didn’t base it on a stereotype-I based it on the fact that he filled in a checkbox on another woke media outlet.

I’ve never laid eyes on the guy. But I have no doubt that when considering the job opening, they said “We just let a black guy go, we have to hire another black guy”. I don’t think that is racist to point that out, because that is what they did. It is what they do.

And I will say I don’t blame this guy, whoever he is, for glomming onto that ride. I blame the media entity for providing that vehicle.

That said, overall, I am not a big fan of the Libertarian mindset, though I do respect them more than Leftists because at the very least, they value the individual over the collective. But as others have pointed out, that means they are often socially more liberal and fiscally more conservative, which is just leading us down the same path the Left is going, but I see Libertarians walking that path to the side and behind Leftists, not directly in trail as Liberals do. But they go to the same destination in the end, IMO, whether they intend it or not.


114 posted on 05/01/2023 7:58:43 PM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: conservative98

I like Lawrence Jones, but he’s the hero’s best friend, not the lead.

O’Reilly, love him or hate him, was a strong personality with the oomph to anchor an hour. His successor, Tucker Carlson, is a strong personality with oomph. Lawrence has some good insights and some good arguments, but he’s better in a panel setting or as the man on the street guy than anchoring the lead primetime hour.

Maybe get him in in mid-afternoon and see if he can grow into this kind of role.


115 posted on 05/01/2023 8:00:21 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: conservative98

No one can replace him. There was no one like him on television.


116 posted on 05/01/2023 8:03:51 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: lizma2

In reading the thread, it sounds like he was a young skull-full-of-mush, the kind the Left grooms and nurtures when he was 15. I give him a pass on that.

Heck, Thomas Sowell was a self-professed Marxist until he gained life experience and saw the light.

I think most young people are susceptible to Leftism, simply because it is an emotionally based childish ideology not based in logic or reality, which most (but not all) young people, lacking life experience, are vulnerable to.

So I give him a pass on that.

I assume every black person hired by the media is an Affirmative Action hire because that is the curse of Affirmative Action, and that is the way the media (and business) operate now. That doesn’t mean that black person won’t have talent or won’t succeed.

It just means they have to wear that albatross around their neck (because it is what they undeniably are from the hiring perspective) until they prove otherwise. And that is the double-edged sword of Affirmative Action.


117 posted on 05/01/2023 8:11:16 PM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: conservative98

LMAO.


118 posted on 05/01/2023 8:16:10 PM PDT by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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To: JennysCool

It is indeed a form of pandering. I don’t watch television, but I do walk by one often since my wife usually has it going, so I see trends based on snippets of what I see as I pass multiple times.

And there is a lot of pandering of all kinds on talk shows, news, and commercials.


119 posted on 05/01/2023 8:19:10 PM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: frank ballenger

Black homosexual guy.

Checks some boxes.

Seems like a nice guy, with right opinions, but I don’t know that he is a major host.


120 posted on 05/01/2023 8:37:38 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.e)
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