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BUH-BYE: A Post-Mortem on Tucker Carlson Following His Unusually Abrupt Departure From Fox News [1]
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Date: 2023-04-24
The recent settlement of the defamation lawsuit against Fox News by Dominion Voting systems may have had its second casualty. Last week Fox News and weekend blowhard Dan Bongino parted ways. This week it's Tucker Carlson.
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According to Fox News PR, "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."
It is exceptionally rare for a network to "agree to part ways" so abruptly. They didn't even give Carlson an opportunity to announce his departure and say farewell to his fans. His fans, of course, will be furious and take out their outrage on Fox.
This story is breaking and additional details will be forthcoming when they are known. In the meantime, Let's review some of the recent reasons that might have led to the surprising departure of Fox's top rated host.
Private internal communications revealed that Carlson "hates Trump passionately" and regards him as a "destroyer" and "a demonic force" What's more, Carlson badmouthed his now former employer...
“We’re threading a needle that has to be thread because of the dumb f**ks at Fox News on Election Day. We can’t make people think we’ve turned against Trump. Yet also call out the bullshit. You and I see through it. But we have to reassure some in the audience.”
SEE THIS: In Dominion v Fox News, Network Cries ‘We Can’t Make People Think We’ve Turned Against Trump’
Carlson also went after his (and Fox's) biggest advertiser at the time, Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy...
“[Mike] Lindell seems to really have gone off the deep end. He is definitely crazy… I agree there’s concern about Lindell being a conspiracy theorist now. But he has bailed us out loads of times when no one else would.” […]
“We can concentrate on cancel culture rather than his wild claims… If no one is buying him, he loses money to be able to advertise with us. And then we lose our biggest advertiser.”
SEE THIS: Fox News Caught Coddling Conspiracy Crackpots for Fear of Losing Audience and Advertisers – Again!
However, there's more grotesquery from Carlson that could have contributed to his downfall. Such as...
Actually, the examples above would probably have endeared Carlson to Fox News and their viewers. So the most plausible explanation for his getting canned remains his betrayal of Trump and Fox in the emails and texts that Dominion uncovered.
Carlson was also a devoted supporter of some of the world's most heinous dictators, especially Vladimir Putin. For instance...
This may still be just the beginning of the Dominion lawsuit fallout. The jobs of Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro, and Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, are likely in jeopardy. Time will tell.
One thing for certain though, is that Fox News isn't going to change their ultra-rightist editorial bias. Remember that Carlson was the replacement for Bill O'Reilly when he was axed for sexual misconduct. And the replacements for Carlson and others may actually be worse. So there's is no reason to give Fox any credit for throwing their biggest legal liabilities overboard.
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