Tucker Carlson Leaves Fox
Here's a speech Tucker gave over the weekend. Apparently either something else he did, or something in the speech, has made him unacceptable at Fox. Whatever the reason is, he's not got a show there anymore.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1650543460057853963
He speaks critically in the speech, as he has always spoken on his show. I didn't hear or see anything new or potentially career ending.
What do you think?
Edit: These contribute some potential reasons and pressure to push Tucker off the air.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1650559735412953088
There's the Dominion lawsuit Fox settled, and Sen. Chuck Shumer called for Fox to get Carlson off the air afterwards.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1650546212108640256
I dunno. Everything seems to have been fine Friday, and both of those things happened well before then.
Re-edit: as I do not watch TV, I was unaware of the content of his last show on Fox. This is how it began, and it is obviously an indictment of Fox, and his own show.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1650627412172980226
I can see why they did not have him back on Monday.
Interestingly, Don Lemon was fired from CNN this morning.
https://twitter.com/donlemon/status/1650533617636966400/photo/1
I doubt it's related, but since I dunno why either 'journalist' was fired, I sure don't know.
Legacy media is withering on the vine.
Two tv greats fired almost at the same time, hmm, it's getting interesting, let's keep watching.
We could make a betting pool, and pick who's next.
Could be fun.
Chucky saying "special obligation" is a fascinating choice of words. Sounds like something "our democracy" would say to remind someone of a certain something you wouldn't want to happen.
They found a replacement pretty quick, they are using the dude on the beer cans and calling it 'Tonite with Tucker Johnson',...
lol
Wouldn't that be more like a Johnson Tucker?
It would depend on if one is pre-tuck, or post-tuck.
Of course, the 'her' part of 'tuck her johnson' is excellent absurdist humor to boot.
It's a twofer that is hard to discern.
I can't think this through. My head is full of tuck.
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I read excerpts from his speech earlier, I hadn't seen the video. I can one hundred percent say that came from the heart, having tuned out of Fox News several months ago because I was exactly where he is at right now. I know a few of those host like the back of my hand having watched them so long and I can genuinely say that Tucker has reassessed his contemptuous. Couldn't be prouder of him.
Just as I was starting to watch Fox News again after they sold out. Been giving them the benefit of the doubt.... Tucker had a show on a Thursday and said stuff like why are we in a hot war with Russia. On Friday someone else was hosting his show. This smells.
Less than a week ago, he revealed the fraud of big pharma pushing dangerous jabs that harmed millions.
Let's hope he finds another independent platform.
FOX is controlled by RINOs.
It turns out he was fired.
On another note though, he moved to Florida earlier this week.
So perhaps he knew this was coming?
There's some speculation that he could be planning to run for president, or rather pretending to run so he could eventually be selected by the front-runner to be their VP candidate. Presumably Trump, or Desantis.
Would be an odd situation as all three now live in Florida, and typically your VP pick is someone from a state with less political representation.
A shoe in for Press Secretary for whichever candidate wins. VP? I think he'd need to have some executive experience for that one. Then again, times have changed.
What are you talking about? He meets all of the qualifications necessary. He's a member of the ruling class.
To be fired with 10 minutes foreknowledge, it looks like he'd be a disgraced member of the ruling class if he ever was.
I was joking, but in general I don't think people need that many qualifications to get into the seats of power.
The 2nd George Bush was qualified in the fact that people felt he was the guy they wanted to have a beer with.
But the reality was he was the son of the former CIA director who happened to also become president.
Tucker himself is from old money. He's an heir to the Swanson food fortune. He's wealthy enough that he forgot he had inherited land in California, and when people looked into it the property is valued at $20 million. Imagine that being forgettable.
His father worked for the CIA, and Tucker "applied" to the agency, but somehow didn't make the cut. But then was hired for every media position he applied for directly after that.
A similar story is Anderson Cooper who only "interned" for the CIA for a few years before moving into media. Cooper himself is a Vanderbilt heir if I recall correctly.
Tucker has been the one guy on TV news who could talk about things like the revolving door between defense, pharmaceutical, and financial industries and the govt. and how legislation & policy is dictated by those interests rather than national interests. Speaking negatively about pharma alone flies directly in the face of Fox's biggest ad customer Pfizer.
It's hard to trust him, but also hard to dislike him.