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General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Topic started by: mystery-ak on April 24, 2023, 08:47:42 pm
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Tucker Carlson 'blindsided by Fox News firing that was a direct order from Rupert Murdoch after Jan 6 conspiracy claims and producer's lawsuit alleging bullying, sexism and anti-Semitism'
Fox announced today that Carlson's last show was on Friday April 21st
He was the network's most successful host drawing in 3.5million viewers
By Jen Smith, Chief Reporter and Josh Boswell For Dailymail.com
Published: 11:34 EDT, 24 April 2023 | Updated: 16:40 EDT, 24 April 2023
Tucker Carlson was blindsided by his firing from Fox News and learned of it on Monday morning shortly before it was announced, sources tell DailyMail.com.
Even some of his closest staff were unaware that his show had been axed, reading about it for the first time on Twitter.
'No one I know was told about it beforehand. We were blindsided,' one senior staffer who works closely with Tucker's show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, told DailyMail.com.
Another insider revealed he still has no idea why he was let go so suddenly, and that many staffers are now questioning whether it's part of a wider plan by the Murdoch family to sell the media behemoth.
'Tucker still hasn't been given any indication of why he was taken off the air. His producer Justin Wells was fired too.
'We believe Rupert wants to sell the company and it's harder to find an institutional buyer with Tucker as the main star.
'Tucker gone makes it more of an appealing media company to buy,' the source said.
The Los Angeles Times reports that it was a combination of Carlson's coverage of the January 6 riot and a recent lawsuit filed by Abby Grossberg, a former producer, who says she was subjected to sexism, bullying and anti-Semitism while working on the show.
The Times' sources say Rupert Murdoch gave the order for Carlson to be shown the door.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12008059/Tucker-Carlson-leave-Fox-News.html
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I think Paul Ryano has more to do with this move than we care to believe. I still believe he still has is nuts surgically attached to the deep state elements in the GOP. And got the high 5 to proceed.
No sane business is going to sell your most valuable asset. And Murdoch is more of a business man than a political animal.
This is akin to an MLB team DFA-ing a Cy Young Player, while in the middle of a 20-7 season.
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I think Paul Ryano has more to do with this move than we care to believe. I still believe he still has is nuts surgically attached to the deep state elements in the GOP. And got the high 5 to proceed.
No sane business is going to sell your most valuable asset. And Murdoch is more of a business man than a political animal.
This is akin to an MLB team DFA-ing a Cy Young Player, while in the middle of a 20-7 season.
I agree...Paul Ryan is up to his eyeballs in this...
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Tucker was not let go for things that have already happened; he was let go for pending matters, yet unannounced.
Rupert wouldn't kill his golden calf unless that he calculated that his false idol was a net negative value proposition, on a go forward basis.
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I agree...Paul Ryan is up to his eyeballs in this...
What else would one expect an architect of the DeSantis take down Trump campaign do? Keep Tucker Carlson, Lara Trump, Dan Bongino and Lou Dobbs?
Look for more "exits".
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What else would one expect an architect of the DeSantis take down Trump campaign do? Keep Tucker Carlson, Lara Trump, Dan Bongino and Lou Dobbs?
Look for more "exits".
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@Right_in_Virginia you've never provided any proof of the supposed DeSantis, Ryan connection. I believe someone in here discredited that theory weeks ago.
Does spreading lies makes you feel any less paranoid about DeSantis' as a threat to Trump? Pretty pathetic as DeSantis hasn't even announced he's running.
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I've read just the opposite from people who claim to have reliable sources inside FOX, to-wit, that it was Tucker who chose to leave. :shrug:
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I've read just the opposite from people who claim to have reliable sources inside FOX, to-wit, that it was Tucker who chose to leave. :shrug:
Sure wasn't any evidence of any of that last week. I guess he may have quit after being told to muzzle it.
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Maybe he will be the next Rush. POTUS, no.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgFMV4RNx0Q
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I've read just the opposite from people who claim to have reliable sources inside FOX, to-wit, that it was Tucker who chose to leave. :shrug:
I think that's a possibility. He was provided with the J6 tapes and shut down.
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Paul Ryan doesn't have the (eye)balls to exercise such political courage.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgFMV4RNx0Q
What a classy, intelligent, honest woman.
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Rick Wilson
@TheRickWilson
Paul Ryan taking the Tucker Carlson spot was the power move no one saw coming.
Reed Galen
@reedgalen
@realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk were just on @TuckerCarlson’s show. Now Tucker is OUT @foxnews.
Smells like @SpeakerRyan to me…
3:06 PM · Apr 24, 2023
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A damn good Trump interview it was ...... Ryan will tolerate no more of this :nono:
https://rumble.com/embed/v2f5huq/?pub=4
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Megan Kelly has HER head screwed on straight unlike the management at Fox News.
To be perfectly honest, I've known this would happen ever since they shut him down on the J6 stuff.
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Megan Kelly has HER head screwed on straight unlike the management at Fox News.
To be perfectly honest, I've known this would happen ever since they shut him down on the J6 stuff.
Me, too @Bigun I'll follow Carlson to wherever he goes ----- if only for the whole of this report.
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Snoop Bailey
@realsnoopbailey
I have a longtime friend at Fox News. He just texted me that Tucker was planning a segment to destroy the 60 Minutes Epps episode.
Exec Producer Jennifer Rauchet told him he couldn't run the segment so he quit.
10:33 AM · Apr 24, 2023
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Me, too @Bigun I'll follow Carlson to wherever he goes ----- if only for the whole of this report.
Tucker will come out of this smelling like a rose. Fox News not so much. They are Bud Light stupid! @Right_in_Virginia
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Tucker will come out of this smelling like a rose. Fox News not so much. They are Bud Light stupid! @Right_in_Virginia
Agree! On both counts :laugh:
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What a classy, intelligent, honest woman.
Yeah. I always felt she was forthright in her reporting, and that value only increased when she left FOX, albeit that she cusses more now, which some would find disconcerting.
I don't pay much mind to networks anymore - none of them - But I will probably go see what Megan Kelly presents on important issues.
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Rumor has it that FOX is going to be rotating guest hosts. I don't know who they think they're going to get.
Dan Bongino broke ties recently with FOX as well.
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I never expected much from Tucker, He's a tool, so I was rarely disappointed.
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Is Tucker ouster tied to his coverage of alleged videotaped J6 instigator?
https://www.wnd.com/2023/04/tucker-ouster-tied-coverage-alleged-videotaped-j6-instigator/ (https://www.wnd.com/2023/04/tucker-ouster-tied-coverage-alleged-videotaped-j6-instigator/)
'The Left hates all Jan. 6ers – except one, Ray Epps'
One day after the airing of a sympathetic CBS "60 Minutes" interview with controversial, videotaped, alleged Jan. 6 instigator Ray Epps — in which Epps played the victim and sought to shift blame for J6 violence to Tucker Carlson — the most popular host on Fox News was ousted by the network.
In the "60 Minutes" interview Sunday, Epps claimed Carlson is "obsessed with me," and said, "He's going to any means possible" to destroy his life to "shift blame [for J6] on somebody else."
Carlson was terminated directly by Fox owner Rupert Murdoch, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday: "Fox News announced the stunning departure of its top-rated host Monday with no explanation, but people familiar with the situation who were not authorized to comment publicly said the decision to fire Carlson came straight from Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch with input from board members and other Fox Corp. executives."
The newspaper reported Carlson's ouster was linked to his coverage of Jan. 6 in which he, speaking for millions of MAGA conservatives suspicious of "Deep State" machinations, repeatedly questioned why a Biden Justice Department that had so zealously prosecuted J6 protesters for seemingly minor, non-violent offenses like entering the Capitol, had refused to prosecute the man seen clearly in videotapes emphatically urging people to occupy the very same Capitol.
"Murdoch also was said to be concerned about Carlson’s coverage of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol," the Times reported. "The host has promoted the conspiracy theory that it was provoked by government agents, and Carlson has called Ray Epps — a Texas man who participated in the storming of the Capitol but did not enter the building — an FBI plant, without presenting any evidence."
That description by the left-leaning newspaper misses the salient point of why Epps and his non-arrest by the Justice Department have drawn so much attention on the right: he is shown so clearly on film doing more than other J6 attendees who were arrested and jailed for entering the Capitol.
Moreover, Gateway Pundit, which has been at the forefront of coverage on J6 issues, reported that Epps is wrong when he claimed (in congressional testimony) that he never violated the law on Jan 6. GP reports that while several J6 protesters were prosecuted for touching a large Trump sign that was thrown at police, Epps was not, although he also is allegedly shown on video touching the sign.
More at link.
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One of the rumors I read today said that Tucker was fully expecting to be on tonight...guests had been booked he was going to address the Dominion settlement and Anne cap Ray Epps in his response to the 60 Minutes fluff piece last night.
And executive producer told him that wasn't going to happen.
He quit right there on the spot.
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I hope Tucker teams up with James O'Keefe and takes the right media by the wavos.
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I never expected much from Tucker, He's a tool, so I was rarely disappointed.
pointing-up This is the silliest thing I've read all day.
"AMEN, TUCKER!!!". (Video)
https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1650583116493340672
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Maybe it had to do with Tucker costing FoxNews a lot of money.
Maybe he can pimp for Russia elsewhere.
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Maybe it had to do with Tucker costing FoxNews a lot of money.
Maybe he can pimp for Russia elsewhere.
:silly:
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I hope Tucker teams up with James O'Keefe and takes the right media by the wavos.
That would be cool.
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I am hoping the fact Musk gave TC 3 days of interviews in his last week, is no accident.
Can you imagine a news organizaton funded by Musk, but coordinated and anchored by Carlson. With maybe TW as its platform?
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I am hoping the fact Musk gave TC 3 days of interviews in his last week, is no accident.
Can you imagine a news organizaton funded by Musk, but coordinated and anchored by Carlson. With maybe TW as its platform?
And perhaps coordinating with James O'Keefe?
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I am hoping the fact Musk gave TC 3 days of interviews in his last week, is no accident.
Can you imagine a news organization funded by Musk, but coordinated and anchored by Carlson. With maybe TW as its platform?
"TW"?? :pondering: what is that? :shrug:
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Tucker Carlson leaves Fox News: Hosts offer limited commentary on high-profile departure
by Rachel Schilke, Breaking News Reporter |
April 24, 2023 10:03 PM
Political commentator Brian Kilmeade filled in for Tucker Carlson on Fox News Tonight on Monday. The substitute host provided limited information on Carlson's departure.
Kilmeade introduced the show by reminding viewers that Carlson and the network agreed to "part ways." He then jumped into the rest of the segment. Fox News announced Carlson's departure Monday after seven years of hosting the slot.
"I wish Tucker the best," Kilmeade said Monday night. "I'm great friends with Tucker and always will be."
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fox-news-hosts-continue-carlson-show
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"TW"?? :pondering: what is that? :shrug:
Me lazily calling Twitter, TW You know.... the guy who owns it. sorry.
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Last night was truly bizarre with Kilmeade disaster. Did anyone else notice his strangeness of him looking to the side while on Camera? My watching last night was just morbid curiosity that content.
From my POV, Murdoch starting with this guy was just a poke in the eye to Tucker's fans. Kilmeade is almost the opposite in competence and content, and as expected....... "bombed".
Entire salute to Carlson's totalled 9 seconds at the start... Yeah, I'd say the split was not amicable.
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And perhaps coordinating with James O'Keefe?
That would be an investigative team of the ages.
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Most of us will get it!
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Me lazily calling Twitter, TW You know.... the guy who owns it. sorry.
:beer:
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Most of us will get it!
This pretty describes Kilmeade too.
I just thought of a wild assed mud against the wall platform that just might work, and it would include one of Fox's best future bench strenght talent:
Host: Bill Melugin
Location: Various and near national events
Format: Studio Audience, with panel of news makers, focusing only on the events of that location.
Melugin has recently done some desk time, and I thought he did a damned good job.
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This pretty describes Kilmeade too.
I just thought of a wild assed mud against the wall platform that just might work, and it would include one of Fox's best future bench strenght talent:
Host: Bill Melugin
Location: Various and near national events
Format: Studio Audience, with panel of news makers, focusing only on the events of that location.
Melugin has recently done some desk time, and I thought he did a damned good job.
You can't do that at 8PM on a weekday. Hannity is attempting it at times in his 9PM slot, but on National topics.
IMO, what made Tucker 'Special'...his sense of humor and abundance of common sense. Nothing better than listening to an engaging person who articulates and thinks on their feet.
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You can't do that at 8PM on a weekday. Hannity is attempting it at times in his 9PM slot, but on National topics.
IMO, what made Tucker 'Special'...his sense of humor and abundance of common sense. Nothing better than listening to an engaging person who articulates and thinks on their feet.
That's why I called it mud on the wall. What I was thinking though, is that the concept of bringing it to the news would be kind of new and at least somewhat innovative. Plus you got a guy like Melugin who has the chops in that element.
I could see it going either way.
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Wow, I can't believe Kilmeade agreed to it, what a corporate monkey. He has just made himself one of the most hated people at Fox.
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Wow, I can't believe Kilmeade agreed to it, what a corporate monkey. He has just made himself one of the most hated people at Fox.
I think a lot of Gutfeld's on air depreciating humour and disdain toward Kilmeade is more fact than show.
Carlson was well respected by his peers at Fox, Kilmeade the weasel? No so much.
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Time to Bud Light Fox News
So - the little boy Murdoch got upset...
Needed to show what kind of 'man' he is.
He did.
https://www.rightjournalism.com/tucker-carlson-has-his-own-theory-on-why-he-was-fired-huge-changes-are-expected-at-fox-news/
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Time to Bud Light Fox News
So - the little boy Murdoch got upset...
Needed to show what kind of 'man' he is.
He did.
https://www.rightjournalism.com/tucker-carlson-has-his-own-theory-on-why-he-was-fired-huge-changes-are-expected-at-fox-news/
Your article brings up an interesting premise..... Kind of brings to mind one of the plot lines of Potter from It's a Wonderful Life.... If a behemoth like the entire MSM apparatus (Potter) starts feeling like the competition is like a pesky fly, just buy them. Except in this case Murdoch (George Bailey) sells out.
Of course this isn't 1946, and I wonder if the dim, Soros, Blackrock, Schwab et. al machine can fund long term what might amount to an elaborate game of Whack-a-mole, as you can kill the messenger, but you can't kill the message.
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Report: Tucker Carlson Suspects Fox Ended Show Because Murdoch Children Aim to Eventually Sell Fox News
Tucker Carlson reportedly suspects that Rupert Murdoch’s children are looking to sell Fox News eventually and that it influenced the ending of his hit show Tucker Carlson Tonight, according to a report.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/25/report-tucker-carlson-suspects-murdoch-children-looking-sell-fox/
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I strongly suspect this had a lot to do with the coming disassembly of the most recent Ray Epps narrative, which was pre-empted by this separation.
Hopefully, Tucker can take that to Rumble or a similar platform. He had little to do on camera with the recent Dominion lawsuit as far as I can tell, so that means he was shown the door despite being FOX's biggest draw, leaving others on staff who cost the company millions.
Hmmm. Makes you think but for me, FOX just joined ABCNNBCBS.
I hope Carlson finds a new platform, and soon.
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Last night was truly bizarre with Kilmeade disaster. Did anyone else notice his strangeness of him looking to the side while on Camera? My watching last night was just morbid curiosity that content.
From my POV, Murdoch starting with this guy was just a poke in the eye to Tucker's fans. Kilmeade is almost the opposite in competence and content, and as expected....... "bombed".
Entire salute to Carlson's totalled 9 seconds at the start... Yeah, I'd say the split was not amicable.
Kilmeade does that weird side eye thing on Fox and Friends too. Most likely he's looking at the segment clock to see how much time he has before the next break.
It can't be one of the producers or a floor manager because they stand right next to or right below Camera 1 to give instructions or hand signals to the anchor.
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I hope Carlson finds a new platform, and soon.
According to Megyn Kelly, the scuttlebutt says he ain't technically fired. Just locked out - So he is technically under contract, which is why his side of the story is missing.
That makes sense as to why he is quiet.
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According to Megyn Kelly, the scuttlebutt says he ain't technically fired. Just locked out - So he is technically under contract, which is why his side of the story is missing.
That makes sense as to why he is quiet.
....and why he has hired an attorney. Certainly FOX didn't think he was just going to go quietly into the night.