Tucker Carlson out at Fox News

Discussion in 'Politics' started by gwb-trading, Apr 24, 2023.

  1. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Tucker Carlson out at Fox News
    https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/24/media/tucker-carlson-fox-news/index.html

    ox News and Tucker Carlson, the right-wing extremist who hosted the network’s highly rated 8pm hour, have severed ties, the network said in a stunning announcement Monday.

    The announcement came one week after Fox News settled a monster defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million over the network’s dissemination of election lies.

    Fox News said that Carlson’s last show was Friday, April 21.

    Tucker Carlson was a key figure in Dominion Voting Systems’ mammoth defamation lawsuit against Fox News, which the parties settled last week on the brink of trial for a historic $787 million.

    In some ways, Carlson played an outsized role in the litigation: Only one of the 20 allegedly defamatory Fox broadcasts mentioned in the lawsuit came from Carlson’s top-rated show. But, as CNN exclusively reported, he was set to be one of Dominion’s first witnesses to testify at trial. And his private text messages, which became public as part of the suit, reverberated nationwide.

    Dominion got its hands on Carlson’s group chat with fellow Fox primetime stars Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, and a trove of other messages from around the 2020 presidential election.

    These communications revealed that Carlson told confidants that he “passionately” hated former President Donald Trump and that Trump’s tenure in the White House was a “disaster.” He also used misogynistic terms to criticize pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and reject her conspiracies about the 2020 election – even as those wild theories got airtime on Fox News.

    The lawsuit exposed how Carlson privately held a wholly different view than his on-air persona.

    Carlson did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment.

    This is a developing story…
     
  2. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    LOL

     
  3. I wish I had the money to approach Tucker and Lemon to have them create a show together on another network for nightly takes and debates on political and social issues. I would make a fortune producing that show....ratings would be through the roof.
     
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  4. Mercor

    Mercor

    CNN is going to town with this wordage, more so then most other media
    Tucker Carlson, the right-wing extremist
    CNN is so sad
    Tucker was no fan of the Republican establishment
     
  5. ipatent

    ipatent

    Tucker shrieked like a girl sometimes and would laugh at his own jokes. I stopped watching a long time ago.
     
  6. Buy1Sell2

    Buy1Sell2

    Why would they be high?
     
  7. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    That show was a flop:

    https://ew.com/article/2004/07/30/crossfire/

    OP: quit making redundant threads.
     
  8. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    "That's odd, I don't remember leaving a cardboard banker's box outside my office.... Hey, why is the door padlocked??"

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  9. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

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  10. UsualName

    UsualName

    This is actually interesting. Congratulations, I guess?

     
    #10     Apr 24, 2023
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