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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: conservative98

LJ is pretty much a sweetheart……
…but he’s way over his head here….
….and I’m through with Fox


81 posted on 05/01/2023 6:44:45 PM PDT by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: conservative98

Dear Lawrence.

You’re next.


82 posted on 05/01/2023 6:46:52 PM PDT by Quilla
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To: Carriage Hill

He’s a good guy….unfortunately his boss is an evil SOB who doesn’t deserve not one red cent from conservatives! Screw that evil bastard Murdock… fake fox needs to sink to bottom of the abyss of ratings. Murdoch made a pact with the devil. Now he can stew in it! Pervert POS! He likes them young!


83 posted on 05/01/2023 6:46:55 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: conservative98

Wow, how very embarrassing for Fox. Picking a guy only for the color of his skin.


84 posted on 05/01/2023 6:54:29 PM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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To: conservative98

I’m sure Jesse Watters 7:00pm show will overtake the 8:00pm time slot. Not that I care about FNC anymore.


85 posted on 05/01/2023 6:54:43 PM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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To: rlmorel

He’s an uninteresting black libertarian which will have to fill his show with pap and filler, and very lame ‘man on the street’ interviews, and if you’ve seen one of those, then you’ve seen them all. He’s going to flop right out of the gate. Fox is doing this because they’re only paying him a tiny fraction of what they were shelling out for Big ratings Tucker.


86 posted on 05/01/2023 6:58:34 PM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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To: escapefromboston

His diction is horrible.

His inflexion is jerky..

Needs so bad to belong thar he calls the other hosts “family” all the time, they are all white.

Fox checked boxes with him from the very beginning.

That being said, he’s perfect for a show I will never watch on purpose.


87 posted on 05/01/2023 6:59:30 PM PDT by Syncro (Truth and Facts)
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To: conservative98

Won’t help a bit. In fact, it looks contrived. “Look! we have a black guy!”


88 posted on 05/01/2023 7:01:51 PM PDT by MNnice
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To: griswold3

So you really think Lawrence Jones is a Libertarian? Mr. Jones worked to get Barack Obama elected President. Barack is no Libertarian. IMO Barack is like his Grampa’s best friend, a communist.


89 posted on 05/01/2023 7:02:00 PM PDT by Yolanda (Jussie Smollett hoa)
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To: conservative98

I hadn’t watched any cable news since Gary Condit and Chandra Levy were the only people on the planet deemed newsworthy.. I came back for a few months after Sep 11, 2001 but quit again by November 2001.

I hadn’t heard of tucker carlson until I recently found him on youtube. I hope I can hear him again on some venue. I don’t need it to be video.


90 posted on 05/01/2023 7:08:41 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: conservative98

Lawrence is good, but very few people care about Fox News at this point.

I suppose that opens up his weekend timeslot.


91 posted on 05/01/2023 7:12:29 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: griswold3

Jones seems to be a great guy but no one has the guts of Tucker. It will be bland and boring. Not even going to tune in. Waters is the only other one with some of Tucker’s toughness


92 posted on 05/01/2023 7:13:12 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: frank ballenger

He’s been hosting a Saturday night program on Fox since they retooled the Saturday lineup. He was Hannity’s street reporter for a while. He’s a Blaze alumnus.


93 posted on 05/01/2023 7:14:07 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: conservative98

Who?

Never heard of him.


94 posted on 05/01/2023 7:14:42 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Carriage Hill

That’s how Watters got started too.


95 posted on 05/01/2023 7:15:27 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Bonemaker

He is a good man but I think he is setting himself up for disappointment.


96 posted on 05/01/2023 7:17:46 PM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: MtnClimber

Do you have a citation for that?

He worked for O’Keefe at Project Veritas, for The Blaze, and now for Fox.


97 posted on 05/01/2023 7:20:02 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: mosaicwolf

I loved that segment that Tucker did exposing the acting of that black politician in Tennessee that got kicked out. It was great. He exposed so many for being actors and actresses. No one will do that


98 posted on 05/01/2023 7:21:39 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: waterhill

Whitlock is working at The Blaze now. He has sat in for Glenn Beck a couple of times.


99 posted on 05/01/2023 7:22:43 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Yolanda

He “worked” for Obama? How? He would have been 14 years old when Obama announced. I’ll give him a pass on that if he supported a Democrat as a teenager. Kids do the darndest things. Tucker used to be Democrat, too and then was a “moderate” when he was on CNN and first joined Fox.


100 posted on 05/01/2023 7:22:45 PM PDT by conservative98
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