BREAKING: Tucker Carlson Out At Fox
Tucker Carlson has parted ways with Fox News, the network said on Monday.
“We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” the network said in a statement.
Carlson was Fox’s top-rated prime time host, netting an average of more than 3 million viewers per night, the most of any pundit on cable television.
Well. Didn’t see that coming…
Given his ability to create a daily tsunami of lies, racism and misanthropy, I’m sure he’ll land on his feet.
but who can pay his salary?
A couple of quick thoughts. Fox fired him, that had to be the case. Otherwise, he would have signed off on Friday with a farewell. Instead, they didn’t want to give him the chance.
I don’t think there’s another propagandist of his stature who can attract 3 million viewers a night.
I wonder whether they fired him due to the Dominion lawsuit, or (more likely, IMO) because he said that he personally can’t stand Trump.
“I don’t think there’s another propagandist of his stature who can attract 3 million viewers a night.”
Nah. Those Fox viewing dolts loved Bill O’Reilly now they cant remember his name. They have others they can slot in there who can lie just as lustily. My guess, Greg Gutfeld gets the call.
Frees him up to run for office. He could probably tip the Senate. And that’s one job where you can’t be sued for lying.
Wonder how much of a buyout he got. Did he have to sign an NDA?
Who will Fox settle with next week?
Who will they get to out tucker, tucker?
His replacement will have to be on a leash. I assume Fox’s insurance company has weighed in.
From the Washington Post:
“But it was Carlson’s comments about Fox management, as revealed in the Dominion case, that played a role in his departure from Fox, a person familiar with the company’s thinking told The Post.
“Do the executives understand how much credibility and trust we’ve lost with our audience?” Carlson wrote to a colleague in a message a day after Fox, like other media outlets, called the election for Joe Biden. It was a sentiment echoed by others at Fox in the fall of 2020, as even network officials who disbelieved Trump’s election-fraud conspiracy theories fretted that countering them strongly would alienate their conservative viewers.
In another message, Carlson referred to management with an expletive: “Those f—–s are destroying our credibility.” He later wrote: “A combination of incompetent liberals and top leadership with too much pride to back down is what’s happening.”
If so, Carlson was right about the stupidity of management.
I also think that Puck may be right–what’s to stop Carlson from running for President?
Florida may be looking for a new fascist governor soon.
As noted the manic search for.. well, a new maniac, is under way. Reminds me of Glenn Beck, one day the idol of the Hitler set, next day just another disembodied voice on hate radio. As ever expecting more fun to come in the next few days.
The LA Times reports that Carlson was fired on orders of Rupert Murdoch, largely b/c of the discrimination lawsuit filed by an ex-producer:
Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch ordered Tucker Carlson’s firing over a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former producer on his show, the Los Angeles Times reports.
“Murdoch was also “concerned” about Carlson’s insistence that undercover government agents were involved in the January 6 insurrection, an allegation that has no factual basis, according to the Times.”
In March, Abby Grossberg, a producer who formerly worked on Carlson’s show, filed a suit saying that lawyers for the network “coached” and “intimidated” her into giving misleading testimony in the lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems. She also alleged a culture of sexism and misogyny at the network, and that executives tried to blame her and host Maria Bartiromo for the airing of 2020 election conspiracy theories.”
Yep, came to post this. It was my first thought this morning. The Ray Epps thing and Dominion settlement were just coincidences. This was the real upcoming problem for the network. And honestly? Not that many advertisers are on his show. It’s just MyPillow, gold and silver coins, reverse mortgages, and Fox’s own internal commercials. It was better to cut him loose.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
I do like how Fox’s stock fell over 5% in 25 minutes, as well.
The advertising isn’t the issue. From what I’ve read, Fox had been angling to up what they get from the cable companies per subscriber.
Losing by far your top attraction will, to put it mildly, not help.
Could this be Tucker’s replacement?:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Watters
If he is open to it, he could easily land a gig with Newsmax or OANN. That is where many people who share their conspiracy theories with me watch their news because Fox has gotten too liberal for them.