re: FoxNews just kicked Tucker Carlson to the curb

A Tucker, a Lemon, and a Trump walk into a bar

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they got rid of Tucker because he was telling the truth about vaccines. and has been right all along about the Ukraine grift. neocon cucks can't stand the fact that Tucker didn't bend over backwards for their fagghot Ukrainian midget boy Zelensky.

now Tucker can go full uncensored on the neocon cuck lords. they are losing in Ukraine, they are losing in Sudan and they are already cooking up another war on the Asian continent.

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This meme makes no sense. not once did I convey any anger towards Tucker being fired. I don't even have cable tv.

but then again, you're a retard.

FOX will take a little dip in ratings for a few weeks then they will be back to normal. For some reason, right wing conservatives smoke FOX News like crack addicts smoke crack

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The lawsuits are how the Uniparty cancels someone at Tucker’s level.

They can’t just fire him. They have to discredit him. Enter “he’s a bigot” or whatever the frick the Murdoch / Ryan dream team is trying to dream up about a devoted family man of 4.

Paul Ryan did this. And he did so to have his milquetoast message be the message Fox sent. The dude is sofaking delusional he thinks he’s some kind of kingmaker, even tho he ran for VP and lost his home state.

It’s irrelevant who wins 2024, we just can’t be questioning the MIC or the FBI, or “good” Republicans, much less have Fox giving oxygen to “crazy” republicans. And we ESPECIALLY can’t have him shaming Noem, Hutchinson, Abbot or that senator from Indiana whose name escapes me when they go all Uniparty bull shite talking points.

Tucker has the platform right now to get actual powerful ppl on his show, and to actually ask them tough questions for which their newspeak word salad is not adequate to address. He literally speaks truth to power and even the powerful on what FOX thinks is their side.

Tucker was fired bc the Paul Ryans of the world wanted to kill the messenger, the undefended lawsuits are designed to defame him.

Tucker will no doubt be fine. If he makes a podcast I’ll listen or watch or whatever, but his firing is a real blow to people who share Tucker’s policies. I just don’t think he’ll have the stroke to book guests like Noem, etc and ask them actual challenging questions.

Telling the truth is officially a revolutionary act.

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Tucker is a journalist and there are clear standards that have been in place since NYT vs. Sullivan (1964) which went to the SCOTUS.

I am a fan of Fox, and he was not in reality the ring leader of the Dominion machines were used to switch votes. That was Dobbs, Pirro, Maria Bartiromo among others. Hannity was as well.

But when you on the air say something that appears as Fact and then privately you say You don't believe it and have found no evidence, then you are subject to malice and defamation.

I don't believe any election was stolen anymore than I believed the Russia, Russia, Russia story because there is and was no evidence to support either claim.

The difference is Trump was a Political figure, Dominion is a Business Entity. So while Trump and the Russia, Russia, Russia story was BS, it was always couched and tied to this Steele Dossier done by a British Intelligence Officer given to the FBI and CIA. So as long as the left wing corporate media stayed in the lane of the Russia Steele Dossier suggests, 1, 2, 3, etc, they were covered under the 1st Amendment.

Legally the WAPO, NYT, etc edited what was said before their journalist wrote anything.

Many of the Fox Hosts put stuff on the air, that privately they were calling BS and no evidence. And they were targeting a Private US Business, not a Public Figure.

The $787 settlement in favor of Dominion kind of tells you what the facts are because Fox would not have settled had they had the goods to show Dominions machines were hacked and switched votes.

I deal in evidence, not speculation.

Fox has canned Dobbs, Bongino, now Tucker. I am surprised Pirro and Maria Bartiromo and Suzane Scott who is a major Executive Producer of the Nighttime TV shows who signed off on all the Dominion programing hasn't been fired yet.

While I would rather not go into the possibility that Fox is cutting all the Men loose and not Women because of prior sexual harassment settlements at Fox (Gretchen Carlson, Megyn Kelly vs the late Roger Ailes, unnamed accusations at Bill O'Reilly), this differential treatment of the Men vs. Women regarding Dominion stuff suggest that Fox Upper Mgt. is getting rid of the Men that were tied to it.

Maybe that will change in the future.

I don't buy it at all, but "the old man is crazy" theory is getting some run. Posting mainly just for completeness:

Vanity Fair

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A new theory has emerged. According to the source, Fox Corp. chair Rupert Murdoch removed Carlson over remarks Carlson made during a speech at the Heritage Foundation’s 50th Anniversary gala on Friday night. Carlson laced his speech with religious overtones that even Murdoch found too extreme, the source, who was briefed on Murdoch’s decision-making, said.

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“That stuff freaks Rupert out. He doesn’t like all the spiritual talk,” the source said.

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Rupert Murdoch was perhaps unnerved by Carlson’s messianism because it echoed the end-times worldview of Murdoch’s ex-fiancée Ann Lesley Smith, the source said. In my May cover story, I reported that Murdoch and Smith called off their two-week engagement because Smith had told people Carlson was “a messenger from God.” Murdoch had seen Carlson and Smith discuss religion firsthand. In late March, Carlson had dinner at Murdoch’s Bel Air vineyard with Murdoch and Smith, according to the source. During dinner, Smith pulled out a bible and started reading passages from the Book of Exodus, the source said. “Rupert just sat there and stared,” the source said. A few days after the dinner, Murdoch and Smith called off the wedding. By taking Carlson off the air, Murdoch was also taking away his ex’s favorite show.

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I’m pretty sure Carlson only speculated and never definitively said Epps is a fed.

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I don't recall exactly what he said regarding Epps. I think the Dominion one was enough for the Shareholders to cut him loose. What I am wondering now is that if he were to get let go and keep all his contract, which is reportedly $20 million, does he he have a non-disclosure clause where he can't comment publicly about any HR, Legal or Management issues at Fox while he was there.

Tucker has been very quite since yesterday.

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What did he say about Dominion?

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Dan McLaughlin at National Review online made the point about Dominion and another lawsuit involving Carlson. The claim is that Murdoch has stockholders breathing down his neck. It seems that Murdoch has no problem with cutting profitable moneymakers out, if they are posing potential legal/financial problems for him.
There are also claims that Carlson really trashed management in e-mails, and management felt that Carlson and some of the other talent were refusing to follow the decisions made by Production,and that something had to be done to reassert the “chain of command” that had deteriorated after the departure of Ailes.

Good post JKC. Might not agree with all of it, but good post. I'm puzzled about the reports that Suzanne Scott was involved in the decision as I agree she needs to be fired. The blurring of the lines between news and opinion shows is her doing.