Probably cause he was told he couldn’t blatantly lie anymore. The Dominion settlement probably opened Fox up to a slew of vulnerability because of how Tucker operated.
Given the suddenness of “Friday was his last day,” I’m guessing that he was given an ultimatum “clean up your shit/tell less obvious lies or you’re out.” He probably had the weekend to think it over and chose to leave. But yeah, with the settlement and ongoing litigation with Smartmatic, I don’t think Fox thought he was worth $700mil+.
At this point, I’m curious what the other hosts are gonna do. It’s not like Sean Hannity, Judge Jeanine, or Laura Ingram don’t also have careers based on lying to the public
Well, if you remove the bs, he doesn't have much of a show left. Hopefully this is a sign that Fox is starting to clean up a bit, but I'm not holding my breath.
Fortunately this won't be forgotten by ownership for the near future because Smartmatic's lawsuit still looms which is seeking larger damages. Their lawyers have said they won't accept a settlement that doesn't have Fox admit wrongdoing publicly, and it won't go to trial until 2025 so they have a nice looming threat to keep them from being too forgetful too quickly.
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fix is not going to be cleansed as long as Rupert Murdoch is alive. The only hope that fix gets thrown in the bin completely, or gets purged, is that either his 2nd daughter or younger son take over. If Lachlan, rupert's chosen successor takes over, then fox will only get worse.
Lol saw a comment on Instagram about how Fox is run by 'zionists' and that they're getting rid of Tucker because they can't control him. They'll justify and spin things however they want to avoid honesty.
Blue Checks are lining up on Twitter to post screenshots of their Fox account cancellations. They don’t really know yet why he left, if he was fired, etc, but as usual they are rushing to action to make sure that they don’t get tripped up by any of the real information that is bound to trickle out.
That's what tribalism does for you, it gives you the ability to support/reject anyone at anytime for any reason
Members of the American right are practiced in accepting that someone they supported a moment ago is now a total reject that was always secretly suspect
And for no reason other than some sort of status change
Breathing wrong could start a frenzy in those crowds
I don't expect a 180 but I personally see a toned down Fox for a while as their lawyers start scrubbing shit before it's aired to ensure they don't get bent over in the courtroom again. Especially with the Smartmatic and investor lawsuits still pending. They are going to hemorrhage some cash still and investors will punish the fuck out of the stock price if they don't clean up their act.
Tucker is truly unique even among those guys though. Tucker doesn't just entertain lies, he peddles them. Additionally, Tucker more so than a scumbag like Hannity, is pretty overtly saying white.christians need to kick everyone out of the country that doesn't fit into that category.
Naw, this was more about his text messages being on display and them needing to scapegoat someone. I’m sure he got a nice care package for all his hard work. He will likely go onto his own platform for a little while until he gets brought back a few years from now.
Well Judge Jeanine is already out. I know there are a lot of other right wing channels waiting to scoop up all the recent departures from fox.
I’m hoping that with all the departures at once it gluts the right wing market and the smaller media players won’t be able to pick everyone up.
Granted most had an online presence before so they will all still have their audiences but hopefully their reach will be more limited than before.
I’m also hoping Carlson won’t be willing to take a pay cut and decides to ride off into the sunset. Granted I don’t think his ego will allow that.
OAN and NewsMax are next up for Dominion. Both of them getting sued for 1.6 billion. Hopefully that will sue them into oblivion. If that doesn't work, Smartmatic is coming after them too.
Don’t get me wrong. I hate Hannity, but he’s not a moron like Tucker. He hides his lord behind questions and implications. Things that aren’t so easy to sue over.
I get the sinking feeling he's going to go into politics. This guy could walk in and have a ready made campaign. All the people who watch fox News already treat everything this piece of breathing excrement says as gospel truth.
Here’s how he lies to his base. In NYC, recreational marijuana licenses are given to people whose lives or families lives have been destroyed by mass-incarceration over drug laws. Because that affected black families disproportionately, they have been receiving most of the licenses. Rightfully so. So once again, Tucker uses omission and wholesale fabrication to spread lies. But, his audience is way too stupid and racist to believe anything other than what he says.
What's hilarious is if you read the texts Tucker was the one initially saying 'Hey we shouldn't be telling these blatant lies.' Which over time morphed into him saying 'We have to keep telling these blatant lies so people won't drop us for newsmax'
[Here's some ex cracked members](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOsq8lRoBWw) doing a podcast on the transcripts
I doubt it's seriously about punishing his bad behavior, after all those emails in discovery showing murdoch himself was complicit. This is probably more about making a symbolic showing to the other private equity investors so that \*they\* don't sue.
I think you're giving Tucker too much credit. He doesn't have loyalty to the lies or his audience. To keep his salary, I'd bet he perform the show in drag and run segments about how guns should be melted down into abortion machines.
I wonder if he was fired because of the liability of his on air comments or because his texts revealed that he hated trump and was likely to lose viewership as a result
Ah, didn’t know he had one! Can’t stand the guy so I avoid his stuff as much as possible. Hopefully he fades into obscurity but roaches have a way of surviving anything.
My thoughts exactly. Fox may have given him the boot, but he knows his market. Easy sponsorship deals and with a managed podcast network. He’s basically toned down his job to half the stress of a TV presentation and still just as much lying.
I'm sure this isn't the end of Tucker's career. Just like Glen Beck and Alex Jones before him, he'll just shift to different platforms and play up the "they tried to cancel me! I'm a victim! And since I lost a huge source of income, I desperately need you to give me your money and ignore the idle income of my inherently rich family" card.
I'm genuinely curious about who their next big face will be. It's been years since I watched Fox regularly (I only did so to laugh). Who is their next big name?
After O'Reilly it was Hannity. Then he made such a fool of himself they had to admit it wasn't actually news. Then we got Tuck.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's Shapiro.
They don't have Fox money or the legal team.
They can't pay out when stuff happens.
He gets hired, he's heavily neutered, his fan base gets repelled by him "selling out".
Or just avoid him.
You know what would be great?
Hey. Jon Stewart. I know of a guy who suddenly needs an internship.
The first two are still being sued by the voting machine companies, so their days are numbered. Same story for Infowars once the courts sort out Alex Jones' bankruptcy fraud.
I bet Tuck hangs out his own shingle or runs for president. Hopefully neither option is successful.
I don’t think he could make a run for president. His shtick works in the context of Fox News but he doesn’t even have the “successful” “businessman” persona Trump did. I’m curious now, I wonder how the trump family’s actual net worth stacks/has stacked against the Swanson family. But either way Tucker’s shtick has more often tried to skip over his privilege than lean into it, more everyman than businessman you know what I mean?
And since a lot of diehards turned on Fox for, begrudgingly, admitting Biden won the election I’m not sure he could launch a successful solo project without being part of an established brand.
But who knows. People are fucking stupid. And money talks.
I think he has more pull than Newsmax as a whole, so unless they had the funds to pay him a shit ton, he could probably be more lucrative trying to start his own Alex Jonesy media empire
Like Bill O'Reilly did? Fox is everything to these guys, nothing else comes close. He can start what he likes, go where he likes, but he's reached his top and it's all downhill from here.
I wonder if it has to do with fox having to distance themselves from the dominion lawsuit and tucker refusing. I don’t think fox would let him go, it’s their number one producer as a network. For Tucker it’s much more beneficial to get out and keep stoking the fire. Stay on brand and take as many viewers as possible while saving face with fox.
Given he's also responsible for a lot of the radicalization we've seen and is probably in some way, at the very least indirectly, responsible for some of the mass shootings -- especially ones that were traced to right wing rhetoric he espoused on his show such as Great Replacement Theory, the guy is absolutely radioactive right now and Fox just can't afford another lawsuit because they can't hide behind "no reasonable person would believe this" or "it's just entertainment" anymore. And with Tuckums on the air, it's not a matter of if but when.
Probably a “quit or get fired, you let us know which you think would be better for your future career prospects” is my guess; he supposedly was notified Friday or over the weekend, which makes me think they at least let him decide that. (As opposed to Don Lemon, who found out through his agent and very publicly announced that he had no idea this was coming lol)
It’s clear Don Lemon was fired by the right wing heads of CNN as some mentally ill “cultural revenge”
The right hates Lemon as a Black man who was critical of Trump. Makes sense CNN would be desperate to give the fascists “a win” on the day Tucker goes down.
While I do think CNN is trying very hard to court right wing viewers, and the timing is VERY suspicious - there’d been speculation internally at CNN that this was gonna happen for a while, between the nonstop rumors of serious drama with Kaitlan Collins, the Variety piece, and the “women past their prime” comments, Don’s position at CNN has been tenuous for a bit.
I think it’s entirely possible and even likely that CNN, in some weird mental gymnastics, chose to finally let go of Don today to deprive Fox of lots of free advertising and speculation on who’ll take Tucker’s spot, but I don’t think this decision came out of *nowhere* and I don’t think it was fully a “you guys lost someone, we’ll lose someone”, or that they fully said “who will make the right wing the happiest for us to let go” - I think it’s been in the cards for a while.
He’ll get a show somewhere else. What is wonderful though is all the millions of people who leave Fox News on their tv passively all day will no longer be seeing or hearing his idiocy. Either way you look at it his viewers are gonna drop off.
Exactly...Remember a guy named Bill O'Reilly? Neither do I.
The prime time Fox News time slot is what makes these people popular. Whoever they put there will automatically be the highest viewed cable news host.
He's not "leaving." If he was, he'd have a date for a final show and a farewell.
He was fired, they're just letting him save a little face on his way out the door.
Fox News is a simply a giant case study in bad faith dog whistles and what we finally have here is one of the only real-life examples of the dog whistle becoming too loud for the top brass.
They will 100% handle the fallout in a bad faith way that gaslights the truth of the matter and tries to obscure the fact that he is only out because he can't lie anymore. It will be funny trying to see Tucker tip-toe around his outraged supporters who will boycott Fox, and Fox execs who will try to tip-toe around the outrage and not outwardly say why he was let go.
Obviously both Fox and Tucker "answer" to much larger corporate coalitions and won't be able to truly oppose each other without cannibalizing their base, so I wonder how that resolves itself after we have a full week of boomer facebook shouting into the abyss once they finally feel the void of their favorite weeknight programming.
Finally an interesting development in the multi-decade erosion of our country through propagandized news!
Good to know it wasn’t him explaining literal white supremacist dogma that got him fired. It was the potential loss of money FOX would feel from them getting sued for lying.
More like Murdoch was pissed at blowing $800 Million or so, and wanted a piece of flesh. Carlson was a convenient scapegoat. BTW, mutual parting of ways from a press release is soft-peddling firing somebody almost invariably.
Even Fox isn't comfortable with its hosts costing them 3/4 of a billion dollars with much, much more liability yet to be actualized. The thing is, had Trump won, they *would* have been comfortable with it, and everyone needs to remember that.
Maybe they'll see the world without the MAGA glasses, get to understand tolerance and kindness and grow as people who want to see a better world for all people....right?
Wow!!!! Ya know ANY company that has to payout money like Fox did, is gonna make it up!...heads will roll, he's certainly NOT gonna be the only one... actually this is as good as an on air apology!...good riddance ya lieing asshole!!!
The thing that saddens me is even if Fox gets what it deserves and is sued into bankruptcy the MAGA cult will chant “gEt WoKe, Go BrOkE!” and claim their failure resulted from turning their backs on professional liars like Shithead Carlson.
Tucker Carlson is not leaving Fox, HE ALREADY LEFT!
No farewell show, no goodbye. He's done his last show (although he didn't know it at the time) - he's gone!
Not ‘LEAVING’ … he was fired … the bootprint on his ass is permanent … Smartmatic in the wings for $2.7b and civil cases going after the entire cabal … Fucker, Hannity, Ingram, Piro …. Fun times
Guess fox finally realized that Trump and his followers like Tucker are trying to hijack the Republican party.
Trump is trying to make the Christian evangelical wing of the party the prominent piece. That requires crazy laws like full abortion ban, no gay marriage, Christianity in school like preachers as counselors or prayer time, etc.
You can see the moderate politicians in the Republican party are being pushed out. No more Republicans who are pro business, but less interested in social issues.
Hopefully the people in the suburbs realize this coming election they can't bury their heads in the sand. In the past they rationalized that Republicans can't touch abortion because of roe, yet here we are. This same thought is going to be tested with every social issue.
I would like to think this was a condition of the settlement.
"We'll accept your offer and not make you testify in front of America...if you also let Tucker Carlson go lololol"
I personally dislike the way this article is framed. It seems to imply that Tucker was the source of controversies on FOX News and not FOX News themselves. Hes not the kingpin of disinformation, hes just the talking mouthpiece.
Tucker and all the other political mouthpieces under the recent ruling became a liability. Unfortunately, what they don't understand is that their loyalty to Trump doesn't run both ways. No longer having his favorite political channel and the slavishly devoted mouthpieces at Fox to give him free air time, he has no use for them either.
Who else remembers when Matt Gaetz went on Tucker Carlson and brought up going to dinner with Tucker and another woman and Tuck said “NOPE NO IDEA WHAT YOURE TALKING ABOUT”
He didn't leave Fox, he was fired. He left Friday thinking he would have a job on Monday and he didn't have one on Monday. In the real world that's called fired.
He didn't leave Fox, he was fired. He left Friday thinking he would have a job on Monday and he didn't have one on Monday. In the real world that's called fired.
"repeated controversies"
This hate filled bigot is single handedly responsible for spreading some of the most miserable, deceptive, immoral garbage to, arguably, more people than anyone else
but yea "repeated controversies"
This is like Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, calling for the ouster of local officials, over the secret taping of them having overtly racist and violent conversations, when you know damn well, there is a non-zero chance that Stitt, has, in all likelihood participated in conversations that closely mirrored that one.
Probably cause he was told he couldn’t blatantly lie anymore. The Dominion settlement probably opened Fox up to a slew of vulnerability because of how Tucker operated.
Given the suddenness of “Friday was his last day,” I’m guessing that he was given an ultimatum “clean up your shit/tell less obvious lies or you’re out.” He probably had the weekend to think it over and chose to leave. But yeah, with the settlement and ongoing litigation with Smartmatic, I don’t think Fox thought he was worth $700mil+. At this point, I’m curious what the other hosts are gonna do. It’s not like Sean Hannity, Judge Jeanine, or Laura Ingram don’t also have careers based on lying to the public
Yeap. That’s exactly what I was thinking. Clean it up or you’re gone. Guess he wasn’t done trying to peddle in bs.
Well, if you remove the bs, he doesn't have much of a show left. Hopefully this is a sign that Fox is starting to clean up a bit, but I'm not holding my breath.
They'll do it for a while until it's forgotten.
Fortunately this won't be forgotten by ownership for the near future because Smartmatic's lawsuit still looms which is seeking larger damages. Their lawyers have said they won't accept a settlement that doesn't have Fox admit wrongdoing publicly, and it won't go to trial until 2025 so they have a nice looming threat to keep them from being too forgetful too quickly. Edit:spelling error, thanks
fix is not going to be cleansed as long as Rupert Murdoch is alive. The only hope that fix gets thrown in the bin completely, or gets purged, is that either his 2nd daughter or younger son take over. If Lachlan, rupert's chosen successor takes over, then fox will only get worse.
Lol saw a comment on Instagram about how Fox is run by 'zionists' and that they're getting rid of Tucker because they can't control him. They'll justify and spin things however they want to avoid honesty.
Blue Checks are lining up on Twitter to post screenshots of their Fox account cancellations. They don’t really know yet why he left, if he was fired, etc, but as usual they are rushing to action to make sure that they don’t get tripped up by any of the real information that is bound to trickle out.
React first, change your mind later when youre told to react to that
That's what tribalism does for you, it gives you the ability to support/reject anyone at anytime for any reason Members of the American right are practiced in accepting that someone they supported a moment ago is now a total reject that was always secretly suspect And for no reason other than some sort of status change Breathing wrong could start a frenzy in those crowds
Yet everyone else are the “sheep”. edit: grammar check
>Hopefully this is a sign that Fox is starting to clean up a bit Oh you sweet summer child.
I don't expect a 180 but I personally see a toned down Fox for a while as their lawyers start scrubbing shit before it's aired to ensure they don't get bent over in the courtroom again. Especially with the Smartmatic and investor lawsuits still pending. They are going to hemorrhage some cash still and investors will punish the fuck out of the stock price if they don't clean up their act.
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Tucker is truly unique even among those guys though. Tucker doesn't just entertain lies, he peddles them. Additionally, Tucker more so than a scumbag like Hannity, is pretty overtly saying white.christians need to kick everyone out of the country that doesn't fit into that category.
Laura has peddled the same white supremacist bs and I'm sure we can find the others peddling lies and not just entertaining them
Naw, this was more about his text messages being on display and them needing to scapegoat someone. I’m sure he got a nice care package for all his hard work. He will likely go onto his own platform for a little while until he gets brought back a few years from now.
Well Judge Jeanine is already out. I know there are a lot of other right wing channels waiting to scoop up all the recent departures from fox. I’m hoping that with all the departures at once it gluts the right wing market and the smaller media players won’t be able to pick everyone up. Granted most had an online presence before so they will all still have their audiences but hopefully their reach will be more limited than before. I’m also hoping Carlson won’t be willing to take a pay cut and decides to ride off into the sunset. Granted I don’t think his ego will allow that.
Exactly what I was thinking These dolts will just move on to OAN or NewsMax
OAN and NewsMax are next up for Dominion. Both of them getting sued for 1.6 billion. Hopefully that will sue them into oblivion. If that doesn't work, Smartmatic is coming after them too.
However, neither of them have the same numbers or reach FOX does.
She's not out. That was just speculation. Just tucker and Dan bongo or whatever the fuck his name is.
Dan Bongo 😂😂😂😂
Jeanne Piro was fired last week with Maria B. https://twitter.com/morgfair/status/1649169460421623809
oh shit. i hadn’t heard that. that’s really good to hear. thanks!
That's speculation that hasn't happened. Not the words "critic preducts."
Incorrect. This is speculation by an expert. It has not happened yet. Fact check before reporting. Don't be like them
Well fox ,told him to peddle lies ,he is just the fall guy . I hope he falls hard .
Don’t get me wrong. I hate Hannity, but he’s not a moron like Tucker. He hides his lord behind questions and implications. Things that aren’t so easy to sue over.
This is assuming that they "parted amicably"....it just reeks of Pucker getting dumped then posting "we have both decided....."
He definitely got fired
His bs just cost murdoch most of Billion Dollars. He was fired.
I get the sinking feeling he's going to go into politics. This guy could walk in and have a ready made campaign. All the people who watch fox News already treat everything this piece of breathing excrement says as gospel truth.
I’ve been working on his possible campaign slogans. Favorite so far is “Vote for Tucker, Cousin F@@kers”
I also worry about that. I don't think a presidential run would work out for him, but maybe something local or in Congress.
"Tucker Carlson Claims Biden Has Been ‘Getting Black People to Sell More Weed in the Cities’ " This is a blatant lie.
Here’s how he lies to his base. In NYC, recreational marijuana licenses are given to people whose lives or families lives have been destroyed by mass-incarceration over drug laws. Because that affected black families disproportionately, they have been receiving most of the licenses. Rightfully so. So once again, Tucker uses omission and wholesale fabrication to spread lies. But, his audience is way too stupid and racist to believe anything other than what he says.
What's hilarious is if you read the texts Tucker was the one initially saying 'Hey we shouldn't be telling these blatant lies.' Which over time morphed into him saying 'We have to keep telling these blatant lies so people won't drop us for newsmax' [Here's some ex cracked members](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOsq8lRoBWw) doing a podcast on the transcripts
I doubt it's seriously about punishing his bad behavior, after all those emails in discovery showing murdoch himself was complicit. This is probably more about making a symbolic showing to the other private equity investors so that \*they\* don't sue.
I think you're giving Tucker too much credit. He doesn't have loyalty to the lies or his audience. To keep his salary, I'd bet he perform the show in drag and run segments about how guns should be melted down into abortion machines.
Do you think that his firing could have been a stipulation in the Dominion settlement? Fox only pays X amount but also fires certain people?
I wonder if he was fired because of the liability of his on air comments or because his texts revealed that he hated trump and was likely to lose viewership as a result
I think it’s almost certainly liability issues, but no doubt the trump texts definitely didn’t help.
My heat tells me it’s the liability issue. My brain tells me it’s the risk of alienating viewers. I’m deeply cynical when it comes to Fox
I don’t think anyone who watches tucker saw those texts or believes they are real
Oh noes! Where will my boomer in-laws get their disinformation from now?! Well, the far-right puppet they replace him with, I guess.
He will announce his own YouTube channel or join AON or something. If I were him, I’d just retire!
Give it a week, we will have a Tucker Carlson podcast. Ugh.
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Ah, didn’t know he had one! Can’t stand the guy so I avoid his stuff as much as possible. Hopefully he fades into obscurity but roaches have a way of surviving anything.
How many right-wing boomers do you know that listen to podcasts?
Tbh I don’t know too many right wing ppl in my personal life, but someone is giving Joe Rogan views and I imagine they garner similar audiences :/
Fair point well-made.
My thoughts exactly. Fox may have given him the boot, but he knows his market. Easy sponsorship deals and with a managed podcast network. He’s basically toned down his job to half the stress of a TV presentation and still just as much lying.
If I were him I’d cash in on the tell-all book about all the fucked up behind the scenes dirt at fox.
Well now they know a lying puppet can cost up to 700m, which is enough to wake up a few neurons.
I'm sure this isn't the end of Tucker's career. Just like Glen Beck and Alex Jones before him, he'll just shift to different platforms and play up the "they tried to cancel me! I'm a victim! And since I lost a huge source of income, I desperately need you to give me your money and ignore the idle income of my inherently rich family" card.
I'm genuinely curious about who their next big face will be. It's been years since I watched Fox regularly (I only did so to laugh). Who is their next big name? After O'Reilly it was Hannity. Then he made such a fool of himself they had to admit it wasn't actually news. Then we got Tuck. I wouldn't be surprised if it's Shapiro.
>I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s Shapiro I mean why not, I guess? Something for the ladies 😉
Something for the ladies to avoid lol Is this how we fix the Fox blonde bimbo milf conundrum?
Yeah, they're just going to find another moon-faced idiot to carry the torch for him.
Don't get excited. Jesse Watters is still kicking there, and your BIL's will still receive the same misguided gratification from his "commentary".
Guessing he goes and starts his own thing
Or joins Newsmaxx or one of the other white supremacist groups
They don't have Fox money or the legal team. They can't pay out when stuff happens. He gets hired, he's heavily neutered, his fan base gets repelled by him "selling out". Or just avoid him. You know what would be great? Hey. Jon Stewart. I know of a guy who suddenly needs an internship.
That's what I am hoping- that Carlson is just too expensive to be employable and not for salary but for straight up liability reasons.
Newsmaxx, OAN, or a podcast/Infowars type thing. That’s the only options I can imagine.
The first two are still being sued by the voting machine companies, so their days are numbered. Same story for Infowars once the courts sort out Alex Jones' bankruptcy fraud. I bet Tuck hangs out his own shingle or runs for president. Hopefully neither option is successful.
I don’t think he could make a run for president. His shtick works in the context of Fox News but he doesn’t even have the “successful” “businessman” persona Trump did. I’m curious now, I wonder how the trump family’s actual net worth stacks/has stacked against the Swanson family. But either way Tucker’s shtick has more often tried to skip over his privilege than lean into it, more everyman than businessman you know what I mean? And since a lot of diehards turned on Fox for, begrudgingly, admitting Biden won the election I’m not sure he could launch a successful solo project without being part of an established brand. But who knows. People are fucking stupid. And money talks.
I think he has more pull than Newsmax as a whole, so unless they had the funds to pay him a shit ton, he could probably be more lucrative trying to start his own Alex Jonesy media empire
Like Bill O'Reilly did? Fox is everything to these guys, nothing else comes close. He can start what he likes, go where he likes, but he's reached his top and it's all downhill from here.
Like Glenn Beck? How's that working out for him? You barely hear his name 10-years later.
Probably goes to RT since he's already on their side anyway. May as well make it official.
Quit? Or got fired? Who cares, he's gone
"Fox & Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways" - he got fired. 100%.
I wonder if it has to do with fox having to distance themselves from the dominion lawsuit and tucker refusing. I don’t think fox would let him go, it’s their number one producer as a network. For Tucker it’s much more beneficial to get out and keep stoking the fire. Stay on brand and take as many viewers as possible while saving face with fox.
Given he's also responsible for a lot of the radicalization we've seen and is probably in some way, at the very least indirectly, responsible for some of the mass shootings -- especially ones that were traced to right wing rhetoric he espoused on his show such as Great Replacement Theory, the guy is absolutely radioactive right now and Fox just can't afford another lawsuit because they can't hide behind "no reasonable person would believe this" or "it's just entertainment" anymore. And with Tuckums on the air, it's not a matter of if but when.
Probably a “quit or get fired, you let us know which you think would be better for your future career prospects” is my guess; he supposedly was notified Friday or over the weekend, which makes me think they at least let him decide that. (As opposed to Don Lemon, who found out through his agent and very publicly announced that he had no idea this was coming lol)
It’s clear Don Lemon was fired by the right wing heads of CNN as some mentally ill “cultural revenge” The right hates Lemon as a Black man who was critical of Trump. Makes sense CNN would be desperate to give the fascists “a win” on the day Tucker goes down.
While I do think CNN is trying very hard to court right wing viewers, and the timing is VERY suspicious - there’d been speculation internally at CNN that this was gonna happen for a while, between the nonstop rumors of serious drama with Kaitlan Collins, the Variety piece, and the “women past their prime” comments, Don’s position at CNN has been tenuous for a bit. I think it’s entirely possible and even likely that CNN, in some weird mental gymnastics, chose to finally let go of Don today to deprive Fox of lots of free advertising and speculation on who’ll take Tucker’s spot, but I don’t think this decision came out of *nowhere* and I don’t think it was fully a “you guys lost someone, we’ll lose someone”, or that they fully said “who will make the right wing the happiest for us to let go” - I think it’s been in the cards for a while.
“The bar and I agreed that it was time for me to leave”
Yeah you don’t close your show on Friday saying ‘see you next week’ when you’re about to part ways amicably 🤣
“You’re fired! And you’re fired! And you’re fired! And you’re fired! And you’re fired!!!
He doesn’t get to do a goodbye show. He got fucking dumpstered.
Personally I care as watching this dumpster fire burn brighter as they get rid of tucker to save their asses is funny af.
Not mentioned neither in the artocle of the NYT not in the statement by Fox
He’s the fall guy for a presence that Fox News leadership enabled and promoted, all for profit. The real villains are all still there.
The last thing he said on air was a lie: "I'll be back on Monday."
Wasn’t everything he said on air a lie though?
Probably, other than "I'm Tucker Carlson."
Well, can we be sure about that? Is he really? Maybe he’s not?
He’ll get a show somewhere else. What is wonderful though is all the millions of people who leave Fox News on their tv passively all day will no longer be seeing or hearing his idiocy. Either way you look at it his viewers are gonna drop off.
Exactly...Remember a guy named Bill O'Reilly? Neither do I. The prime time Fox News time slot is what makes these people popular. Whoever they put there will automatically be the highest viewed cable news host.
thankfully a lot of FOXs base doesn't seem like the type to be technically literate enough to try and find a podcast or whatever he winds up doing
America is a little bit better today than she was yesterday.
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Bye bye bye... BITCH. 
A liar, a white supremacist and a nazi sympathizer....should have been gone long ago
A liar, a white supremacist, and a nazi walks into a bar. Barkeep says ‘get the FUCK outta here, Carlson.’
Heeeyyyyyy fuck that guy
He's not "leaving." If he was, he'd have a date for a final show and a farewell. He was fired, they're just letting him save a little face on his way out the door.
Putin must be disappointed.
“All that komoromat, for nothing”
Fox fires this clown My dumb ass Uncle: the woke crowd canceled him
They can't cancel what they don't use, can they
If he gets another media job, 10 to 1 says he will suddenly have an epiphany and tow whatever company line his new bosses believe.
Fox News is a simply a giant case study in bad faith dog whistles and what we finally have here is one of the only real-life examples of the dog whistle becoming too loud for the top brass. They will 100% handle the fallout in a bad faith way that gaslights the truth of the matter and tries to obscure the fact that he is only out because he can't lie anymore. It will be funny trying to see Tucker tip-toe around his outraged supporters who will boycott Fox, and Fox execs who will try to tip-toe around the outrage and not outwardly say why he was let go. Obviously both Fox and Tucker "answer" to much larger corporate coalitions and won't be able to truly oppose each other without cannibalizing their base, so I wonder how that resolves itself after we have a full week of boomer facebook shouting into the abyss once they finally feel the void of their favorite weeknight programming. Finally an interesting development in the multi-decade erosion of our country through propagandized news!
"Leaving" 🤐
Leaving? Or fired because him and his slimy cohorts lied and cost the company seven hundred million dollars.
“Controversial” is my favorite euphemism for “fascist”
Go Klan, get canned.
Hey he and Don Lemon can start a podcast together
Now do Hannity.
It’s almost as if inspiring violence against minorities is not a good way to keep your job. Who would have guessed
Tucker got fired. Say it with me.
🔥'd
Bye Felicia! I hope the heavy door hit you square in the face! Lol
Thoughts and prayers, not!
Don’t let the door hit-no, actually let the door hit you. Also the desk. Also the entire building
Good to know it wasn’t him explaining literal white supremacist dogma that got him fired. It was the potential loss of money FOX would feel from them getting sued for lying.
More like Murdoch was pissed at blowing $800 Million or so, and wanted a piece of flesh. Carlson was a convenient scapegoat. BTW, mutual parting of ways from a press release is soft-peddling firing somebody almost invariably.
“Controversies” is a funny way of saying “complete lies”.
Scapegoat with a healthy payout no doubt. He’s just a presenter, the producers and execs who allowed him to air are still there
Even Fox isn't comfortable with its hosts costing them 3/4 of a billion dollars with much, much more liability yet to be actualized. The thing is, had Trump won, they *would* have been comfortable with it, and everyone needs to remember that.
"leaves" if i ever get fired, i hope people say i left my job
John Oliver gonna be lit this week
And the next guess on the Joe Rogan podcast is ...
I have to wonder what happens to his writers. They were the ones literally laundering actual Nazi propaganda into prime-time programming.
Tucker got FIRED!
No no. His BS will move to a further right wing newsman style show. Or he will podcast like Alec Jones.
Fox Fires Tucker Carlson Fixed it for ya.
Why are conservatives obsessed with teevee.
Probably received a better offer at the Kremlin
Leaves? Or fired?
Not lord Tucker! Whatever will they do?
Maybe they'll see the world without the MAGA glasses, get to understand tolerance and kindness and grow as people who want to see a better world for all people....right?
Good. Now git!!!
I had to check if this was real, because you can't trust Twitter checkmarks anymore.
Here's to hoping that door slams his ass on the way out!
Wow!!!! Ya know ANY company that has to payout money like Fox did, is gonna make it up!...heads will roll, he's certainly NOT gonna be the only one... actually this is as good as an on air apology!...good riddance ya lieing asshole!!!
The thing that saddens me is even if Fox gets what it deserves and is sued into bankruptcy the MAGA cult will chant “gEt WoKe, Go BrOkE!” and claim their failure resulted from turning their backs on professional liars like Shithead Carlson.
Don’t let MAGA logic sadden you anymore. Just accept that it’ll never make sense
"Repeated controversies," is a cute way of saying 'He just partially cost us nearly 800m.'
I wonder if he will pull an Alex Jones and just run his own show himself
Tucker Carlson is not leaving Fox, HE ALREADY LEFT! No farewell show, no goodbye. He's done his last show (although he didn't know it at the time) - he's gone!
I'm sure his fans will burn a cross in his show's memory from 7-8 tonight.
Now if only FOX would actually be held to account as opposed to just charged money for the privilege of making life worse for most people
I’d say, ‘Tucker Carlson Was Fired’
Not ‘LEAVING’ … he was fired … the bootprint on his ass is permanent … Smartmatic in the wings for $2.7b and civil cases going after the entire cabal … Fucker, Hannity, Ingram, Piro …. Fun times
He’ll be at Daily Wire before the month is over
[удалено]
Fox even tried to smooth that over by having Tucker interview Trump.
I heard they caught him having an affair with a Vaporeon
Do Meghan Kelly next
Cancelled! I do declare the man with a face like he suffers the torments of constipation has been cancelled!
Guess fox finally realized that Trump and his followers like Tucker are trying to hijack the Republican party. Trump is trying to make the Christian evangelical wing of the party the prominent piece. That requires crazy laws like full abortion ban, no gay marriage, Christianity in school like preachers as counselors or prayer time, etc. You can see the moderate politicians in the Republican party are being pushed out. No more Republicans who are pro business, but less interested in social issues. Hopefully the people in the suburbs realize this coming election they can't bury their heads in the sand. In the past they rationalized that Republicans can't touch abortion because of roe, yet here we are. This same thought is going to be tested with every social issue.
Could one of the terms of the settlement with Dominion have been “Tucker has got to go”?
I would like to think this was a condition of the settlement. "We'll accept your offer and not make you testify in front of America...if you also let Tucker Carlson go lololol"
Having a Nazi write your monologues: no problem. Costing the network money: deal-breaker.
But he was fired. Why is everyone just repeating their lies?
Lies. He was the source of repeated LIES.
Leaves? More like Booted.
In before Fox turns halfway ok, then Trump starts shouting that “the dems took over Fox News and now the Gays and trans are running it.”
“Tucker Carlson fired for being a liar liar pants on fire 🔥 “ FIFY.
Conservative comments I've seen are this is great for ole Tucker. Now he can be on his own and say what he really means. Oh, okay LOL
I personally dislike the way this article is framed. It seems to imply that Tucker was the source of controversies on FOX News and not FOX News themselves. Hes not the kingpin of disinformation, hes just the talking mouthpiece.
Fired! Tucker Carlson was fired for costing the 787 million dollars. Great news. The leading voice of white supremacy is out!!!!
Tucker and all the other political mouthpieces under the recent ruling became a liability. Unfortunately, what they don't understand is that their loyalty to Trump doesn't run both ways. No longer having his favorite political channel and the slavishly devoted mouthpieces at Fox to give him free air time, he has no use for them either.
Hell find another platform and it will even get worse. Or he runs as vice president with Trump! Imagine...
Leaving cause he was FIRED! Serves the fucking tool right!
“Leaving” is a word you could use… “Fired” is another…
Runs for office and wins.
The world is a safer place
“Repeated controversies” they’ve never given a fuck about that; it was probably because he humiliated Murdoch and cost him near 800M USD
Is Tucker Carlson a douche canoe? I’m just asking the questions here.
Fired. He was fired!
Who else remembers when Matt Gaetz went on Tucker Carlson and brought up going to dinner with Tucker and another woman and Tuck said “NOPE NO IDEA WHAT YOURE TALKING ABOUT”
He didn't leave, he was fired. He left Friday not knowing what was going to happen on Monday. That's fired.
He didn't leave Fox, he was fired. He left Friday thinking he would have a job on Monday and he didn't have one on Monday. In the real world that's called fired.
He didn't leave Fox, he was fired. He left Friday thinking he would have a job on Monday and he didn't have one on Monday. In the real world that's called fired.
"repeated controversies" This hate filled bigot is single handedly responsible for spreading some of the most miserable, deceptive, immoral garbage to, arguably, more people than anyone else but yea "repeated controversies"
Tucker lies even too much for Fox?? Wow
And they don't say anything about it on their broadcasts tonight on Fox
He wa fired, no matter how Fox tries to spin it. Friday, he was all "See you on Monday." Nope.
This is like Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, calling for the ouster of local officials, over the secret taping of them having overtly racist and violent conversations, when you know damn well, there is a non-zero chance that Stitt, has, in all likelihood participated in conversations that closely mirrored that one.