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We were all shocked when we heard the news that Tucker Carlson had “parted ways” with Fox News Channel and that Friday, April 21 was his last show. On that show he said he would be back Monday. When Nina wrote the post on the Carlson news, she said it was a “Game Changer”. It is. Bigly. It was a complete shock for most of us. Don Lemon’s firing was not. The fact that he was shocked is surprising. The writing was triple spaced on the wall for a while. For Carlson, now that the dust is settling, things are becoming clearer.
There were tons of speculation early this morning that Tucker Carlson’s firing is a result of the Dominion lawsuit that cost Fox $787 million. Maybe that was a piece of the puzzle, but not much. Apparently, there were other names mentioned almost as frequently in the lawsuit. The New York Times thinks it’s another lawsuit that brought the separation:
Tucker Carlson is facing a lawsuit from his former head of booking, Abby Grossberg, who says she was subjected to a hostile and discriminatory work environment.
Ms. Grossberg, who was fired by Fox News shortly after she filed two lawsuits against the company in March, joined Mr. Carlson’s team in 2022 after several years as a senior producer for Maria Bartiromo, another Fox host.
Ms. Grossberg said in the lawsuit naming Mr. Carlson that male producers regularly used vulgarities to describe women and frequently made antisemitic jokes.
On her first day working for Mr. Carlson, Ms. Grossberg said she discovered the office was decorated with large pictures of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wearing a plunging swimsuit. She said she was once called into the top producer’s office to be asked whether Ms. Bartiromo was having a sexual relationship with the House Republican leader, Kevin McCarthy.
Former Fox & Friends co-host, no relation Gretchen Carlson was jubilant:
Once again it's the bravery of a woman –Abby Grossberg — who really brought Tucker Carlson down — revealing the misogynistic environment where women were referred to as c**** & much more. If it was b/c of Dominion others would also be taking the fall. #TuckerCarlsonFired
— Gretchen Carlson (@GretchenCarlson) April 24, 2023
Of course, the biological females of a hag-like persuasion were celebratory:
NEW — The View announces Tucker Carlson's departure from Fox News with a loud cheer and the Wave. Proof the left knows all too well that Tucker represents an existential threat to their insanity. pic.twitter.com/jTjs6ZyC6r
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 24, 2023
By the way, we are a Republic and the contribution of The View to the downfall of culture is immeasurable. Megyn Kelly had an appropriate response to the females:
The Hill, while not jubilant or celebrating, still found items on Tucker Carlson’s inventory:
Carlson faced down multiple advertiser revolts early on in his primetime stretch, only to brush aside the backlash and to be rewarded by his audience that continued to stick around and grow.
Carlson also has come under serious criticism for his commentary. Among other things, he has said that the Jan. 6 attack featured “mostly peaceful chaos” and that rioters were “right” to think the 2020 contest was “unfairly conducted,” that some migrants coming to the U.S. were making the country “poorer and dirtier.”
Oh my stars and garters, Tucker Carlson told the truth. How dare he? I bet the legal immigrants who had to fill out paperwork for years would agree with this. Mediaite has written that Lachlan Murdoch and the Fox CEO made the decision Friday, just after Tucker said he would see us on Monday:
Tucker Carlson’s ouster from Fox News was officially decided in a Friday night conversation between Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch and Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, Mediaite has learned.
The cable news network announced that it was parting ways with the host of 8 p.m. show Tucker Carlson Tonight and that his last appearance on Fox was Friday. Fox’s statement shared no reasoning for why the network’s top-rated host was abruptly fired, prompting many to speculate about why Carlson was shown the door.
A source familiar with the decision told Mediate that Murdoch and Scott discussed Carlson’s fate on Friday evening after a tortuous week that saw the cable news behemoth settle a defamation suit filed by Dominion Voting Systems for nearly $800 million.-snip-
Details surrounding Carlson’s sudden exit are still emerging. Fox News insiders told Mediaite that the prime time host’s conspiratorial coverage and penchant for internal pot-stirring made him a pariah within the network. In the weeks before opening arguments were set to start in the Dominion trial — which put an unflattering spotlight on Fox’s reporting failures in the aftermath of the 2020 election — Carlson was casting the Jan. 6 rioters as victims.
Well, I didn’t keep a ledger, but haven’t most of the “conspiracy theories” turned out to be true. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. thinks it was an interview with him several days ago that got him fired:
“Fox fires @tuckercarlson five days after he crosses the red line by acknowledging that the TV networks pushed a deadly and ineffective vaccine to please their Pharma advertisers,” the 69-year-old nephew of late President John F. Kennedy and son of late U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy wrote on Twitter. “Carlson’s breathtakingly courageous April 19 monologue broke TV’s two biggest rules: Tucker told the truth about how greedy Pharma advertisers controlled TV news content and he lambasted obsequious newscasters for promoting jabs they knew to be lethal and worthless.”
He continued: “For many years, Tucker has had the nation’s biggest audience averaging 3.5 million — 10 times the size of CNN. Fox just demonstrated the terrifying power of Big Pharma.”
AND, because of the discrimination lawsuit Fox may not have to pay severance:
Fox told Tucker Carlson’s lawyers he was fired “with cause” — related to the ex-producer’s lawsuit which claimed sexism, antisemitism, and harassment, RadarOnline.comhas learned.
The “with cause” label means the company will likely seek to avoid severance payments to Carlson. Most executive contracts contain language stipulating different scenarios of how their separation from the company would be treated financially.
Xi Van Fleet, survived Mao. She is a hero and she thinks Tucker is brave too.
Tucker’s speech at Heritage Foundation after his last episode on Fox last Friday.
Tucker personifies the courage he talked about in his speech.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” —— George Orwellhttps://t.co/7geBmdGTiA
— Xi Van Fleet (@XVanFleet) April 24, 2023
Was it lawsuits, pot stirring or conspiracy theories? Maybe, it was the need to homogenize and support the narrative. We’ll see.
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Stephen C says: Agreed. Its a narrative and presentation business. Leave uncovering malfeasance to Nancy Grace. The parting with Tucker Carlson was a warning to others who remain at Fox to stay in line. Forward dystopia. We have an election to narrate. Come’on Jack, the last thing the State wants is Snake Plissken in front of the camera.
Let’s also applaud Carlson’s willingness to call evil EVIL. His speech last Friday at the Heritage Foundation Gala will be remember for a long time for that reason among others.
I’ve been saying for decades that political harmony is only possible when we agree on ENDS, no matter how greatly we differ on MEANS. That hasn’t been the case for quite some time — and Tucker Carlson said it without any pretense to the contrary. We are in a war with evil. It’s time to fight.
Kevin says: I don’t think I’ve ever been able to watch an entire show to Tucker Carlson’s before my gagging reaction kicked in and I had to turn it off. His “private communications” that were exposed in the Dominion voter fraud case were telling … his ability to pathologically lie so easily without even the slightest hint of shame or remorse. How do you write, “I hate him passionately” (referring to the 280 pound malignant tumor) and then turn around and spend an hour tossing him soft balls (and TFG still strikes out but that’s another story).
Here’s the one thing we should all take away from his (and Lemon’s termination … whom I’ve never seen as well) sudden and humiliating termination … no one is unreplaceable and if you think that, you’re going to make a lot of missteps. Everyone is replaceable. Period.
rbj1 says: Tucker never bought into the idea 2020 was stolen, aside from mentioning irregularities, which a Democrat boasted about in a Time magazine article.
He focused off Big Pharma buying tons of ads and news channels pushing Big Pharma. As well as asking questions about Ray Epps.
Harassment lawsuits can be bought off for petty cash, despite dubious merits.
Tucker went off the reservation and thus had to be canned. But I will follow where he goes, meanwhile Fox is dead to me. Rupert wound up shooting himself in the head.
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