Tucker Carlson Departs Fox News, Effective Immediately

[RZehr]

Tucker is gone.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tuc ... 46138.html
I wonder if Fox will try to reinvent themselves.

[Szdfan]

I'm shocked. I'll be interested in seeing more details emerge.

[Bootstrap]

Don Lemon is gone from CNN too.

[mike]

Don Lemon is gone from CNN too.

Maybe the Daily Wire can hire them

[Ernie]

Did Carlson actually hate Trump?

Does Carlson hate Trump now?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald ... -rcna76056

[Ken]

Did Carlson actually hate Trump?

Does Carlson hate Trump now?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald ... -rcna76056

He had lots of internal emails and conversations in which he voiced those thoughts privately within FOX news that were revealed in the Dominion lawsuit. Which differ dramatically from his public comments as a new host. Here is an article that compiles the private comments of Tucker Carlson with respect to Trump: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/04 ... -read.html

To answer your question, this is what he wrote back in early 2021:

“I hate him passionately,” Carlson texted Pfeiffer on January 4, days prior to the riot at the U.S. Capitol. He added, of Trump’s presidency, “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There really isn’t an upside to Trump.”

As for his opinion now? There is what he says publicly. But one also has to ask how much audience there is for an anti-Trump conservative commentator in our current political environment. Probably not a lot. Certainly not as much as there is for a pro-Trump conservative commentator. So if he wants to continue being a conservative talking head, he probably has to disavow his previous comments or he is done.

[Szdfan]

Apparently, Tucker was mad that the redesigned female cartoon M&Ms were no longer sexy enough.

[Robert]

Obe Wan's words really come to mind here.

“You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.”

[Szdfan]

Obe Wan's words really come to mind here.

“You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.”

My problem with this analogy is that I think Tucker Carlson is Darth Vader, not Obie Wan.

Tucker's show replaced Bill O'Reilly after he was fired for sexual harassment. O'Reilly still has a career and is writing books and podcasting, but he doesn't have the reach that he had while on Fox. Glenn Beck is still around but doesn't have the same reach either.

Liberals often consider Tucker to be worse than O'Reilly, and there is fear that whoever replaces Tucker is going to be worse.

[Ken]

Obe Wan's words really come to mind here.

“You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.”

My problem with this analogy is that I see Tucker Carlson as Darth Vader, not Obie Wan.

Tucker's show replaced Bill O'Reilly after he was fired for sexual harassment. O'Reilly still has a career and is writing books and podcasting, but he doesn't have the reach that he had while on Fox. Liberals often consider Tucker to be worse than O'Reilly and there is fear that whoever replaces Tucker is going to be worse.

My guess is that Newsmax or some other conservative media outlet snatches up Tucker as a way of eroding FOX's market share and he keeps doing exactly what he does.