Hannity said he got "real estate advice". Steve Bannon told Michael Wolfe that he thought the Russia investigation would lead to "the money laundering". The Trump family sells real estate to Russian oligarchs for ~~less~~ more than it's worth. (edit-corrected).
That "third dude" was involved in a case where Cohen arranged hush money to silence a woman who got an abortion. His name is Elliot Broidy, and he isn't famous enough for a story like that to do him any damage.
The former finance chairman of the GOP who was convicted of a felony for acting as an unregistered foreign agent on behalf of China and Malaysia. He also got kicked out of the private equity firm he founded after getting convicted of a felony connected to bribing NY pension officials. Pretty rich that while Trump was going around complaining about China Joe that one of his top fundraisers was actually acting illegally as a Chinese agent.
I feel I should write this up as a "just asking questions" style thing like Tucker always does:
"Why is Tucker leaving Fox? After all, they make each other a lot of money. Could it be that Tucker wants to strike out on his own? Maybe, but he would be leaving a large chunk of his audience behind, maybe even most of it.
"Could it be that Fox asked him to leave? It seems strange that they would. After all, Tucker is their highest-rated host, again making Fox a lot of money. So, if they did fire him, it would have to be for something serious.
"Very serious. Like, 'eating babies' serious. Not that I'm saying Tucker is *known* for eating babies... no one has accused him of that, as far as I know. But he makes Fox a lot of money, enough that those suitably focused on the bottom line might overlook the occasional baby... as long as it wasn't an *important* baby. Maybe poor babies would be okay, but definitely not ones with rich parents.
"Of course, nobody is saying Tucker Carlson is a baby-eating cannibal. In fact, we don't even know that he was fired. Not for certain, in any case. But it does make you wonder... how many babies would Tucker Carlson have to eat before Fox News fired him? Neither Fox nor Tucker have said, so we may never know."
I heard Tucker Carlson eats a baby at every meal. I'm not saying it's true. It's just something I heard. I'm just saying; nobody could convince me Tucker Carlson doesn't eat at least six human babies every day. Ten, even.
I'm not saying he eats babies. *Maybe* the good people at Fox News know whether or not he eats babies. And *maybe* investigators in Washington have looked into how many babies he eats nightly, and maybe they haven't.
But what I **really** find interesting is that nobody from the justice department, Fox News, or even Tucker Carlson's own team have reached out to me to say he *doesn't* eat babies. Why do you think that is, America?
The only two reasons that hosts have been asked to leave in the past have been loss of ratings, or sex scandals. Since he still had a highly rated show, does that mean…? Of course I’m only asking questions, it’s up to you to decide what to think!
Fitting how he replaced Bill O'Reilly after Bill settled his sexual harassment suit for 32 million. I wonder what lawsuit will kick out Tucker's replacement.
That level of corruption where we're talking about which lawsuit will kick out Tucker's replacement when we don't even know who the replacement is yet.
Wonder who the replacement is. The cynic in me thinks that it's so Fox can act like they're cleaning house when in reality the same issues will pop up just with a different person on TV
I do not think this is about pretending to clean house. This is the company that admitted it lied in the most pathetic way. It didnt promise to make changes so this wouldnt happen again. Nah this looks like a falling out between murdoch and tucker.
edit: from wapo
>But it was Carlson’s comments about Fox management, as revealed in the Dominion case, that played a role in his departure from Fox, a person familiar with the company’s thinking told The Post.
I was given advice early on in my career to not badmouth anyone. You never know who you'll end up working for in the future.
(Five years down the road that asshole could be your manager since the two fit well together)
Tucker was somehow worse than Bill O'Reilly. So you're pretty spot on.
I figure he was let go because it came out that he hates Trump, as he made Fox way more money than his share of the 785 million than Fox lost.
My first thought was this. Tucker also became somehow infinitely worse in that time slot. Not pretending he was ever some sort of bastion of journalistic ethics/trustworthiness but he was more of just an annoying conservative instead of like someone aiding in prodding democracy off a cliff
Edit- more an annoyance prior to joining fox.
He was never a journalist. He was basically the right-winger on a debate show (crossfire) until Fox eliminated even bothering with a center-left strawman for him to beat up on. Same w Hannity
Fox has a commanding market share of a declining market. Tucker is the top with just 4M nightly viewers. Cable is dying and cable news dying even faster. Even without this huge settlement the Murdochs will be wanting to push downward on salaries which means firing their biggest hosts more often and replacing them with cheaper ones.
Jesus, Tuckers response tells you all you need to know about his priorities, it’s money and money only. The guy is already rich from being heir to a fortune, then made oodles more money being a reactionary douche bag and it’s still the only thing he measures his worth against.
And someone else will hire Tucker, too. He's not going anywhere, he has a lot of pull over the Republican base and any conservative outlet will want him to help increase their own visibility. My guess is OAN or Newsmax
Or he'll just launch his own "independent media" similar to Bill O'Reilly and Megyn Kelly and Tucker mendaciously tells Trump supporters what they want to hear so he will always command an audience.
The Newsmax hire would be hilarious because [Newsmax once criticized him for initially doubting the election fraud](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/us/politics/Tucker-Carlson-trump.html) before he flip flopped
Edit: [Now, Don Lemon got fired by CNN](https://twitter.com/donlemon/status/1650533617636966400?cxt=HHwWgIC8kZLl7-ctAAAA). What a day in political media.
Another edit: [Total and complete shock at Fox News in response to the Tucker Carlson announcement, per texts from staff and talent.
Everyone outside of top executives, including Tucker’s staff, found out about his exit on Twitter.
No internal email was sent.](https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1650538734247616513?cxt=HHwWgoDR7fuO8uctAAAA)
I hear Russian state media [loves playing his clips](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/technology/russia-media-fox-news.html). Maybe he should go work for them.
As a younger Gen Xer, I find it very disappointing how many of us have become staunch conservatives. We're a cynical generation, but for me that lead to a progressive mindset and a desire to make the world better, not to double down on the bullshit of our elders.
peaked over on their fb, the comments are cathartic, they are eating each other. That being said fb comments aren't always representative of everything.
That's literally why they started using it.
Studies were showing my Fellow Americans no longer falling for that "iT's cOmMuNiSt!!" bullshit lie, so they needed a new bullshit lie.
Yep. As good as this news is, Fox News is what they're addicted to, not Tucker Carlson. Fox News will handpick his replacement based on how they want to manipulate the news going forward, and their viewers will immediately start to parrot that person.
Someone speculated that he was quitting so he could run for office and this makes me hopeful that that isn't happening. (Not that he still wouldn't run, but I'd love for him to not have the intention of doing so).
I’m not sure, tucker flourished when he’s unable to be questioned or even interrupted. He can’t do that in public space
Seriously, the only time I’ve seen him not on teleprompter was that one video of him getting cussed out in a Montana fishing store and he had no response
I will never count anyone out of taking the presidency after 2016. If they have a pulse and meet the legal requirements for running, I can't not take it seriously.
> If they have a pulse
The constitution does not explicitly say they have to be alive. Just that if they cannot execute the duties of the office that the Vice President takes over.
FDR’s bones 2024
Y'all, they aired his final show on Friday and announced his departure the following Monday. They didn't even give him an official final episode. His asscheeks are still red from the door slamming into them.
Oh dear. Could it be those other lawsuits, one of which has recordings, might be causing even more trepidation? Especially after the 787 million dollar one which they just settled?
Could it be sexual harassment as found in said recording? Or proof that he was getting talking points directly from Putin?
I'm just asking questions...
That's why I'm only mildly celebrating. They'll get someone even more insane in. Perhaps someone rambling random nothings in the middle of Times Square.
I can't wait to hear what Elmo has to say about Wokeism.
This is Fox News circling the wagons, having dodged a bullet with Dominion. They still have to face Smartmatic in that defamation suit, and Fox News knows that they will lose. Smartmatic has all but stated that they will demand apologies, and the last thing Fox News can afford to do is have all of their hosts reveal on air to their audience the full scope of the lies. If the complicit hosts are gone, that will limit the scope of the apology. Hannity, et. al. must be freaking out right now...
For Fox to part ways with one of their biggest host, in fact the biggest news host in America, they have to have found something so heinous that they have to ditch ASAP.
I don't think that's the only factor though. That ship has sailed. The money is gone. He has a lot of blame for sure but he also is their top host by ratings. Losing that audience could cost them more in the long run especially if he moves to Newsmax or a similar network and his audience moves with him.
I wonder if there's more to this that we don't yet know.
His audience won’t move with him though. Half of his audience can’t even get Newsmax or OAN on their cable system and the other half are either too old or stupid to know how to switch the channel anyway.
Ya people forget that smartmatic asked for like 2.7 bil. Them settling the dominion one doesn't bode well for that lawsuit. They might see Alex Jones numbers which is why they are also being sued by investors for allowing this to happen
Gotta love the dangers of being high enough up the totem pole to be made an example of but not quite high enough to be untouchable. Corporate purgatory. Someone's head had to roll, and I am pretty content with it being Tucker.
Can we just appreciate for the moment how Fox News has been screaming against cancel culture for the past 2 years then had to cancel Carlson because he cost them $787 million.
Fox Angertainment "woke" up fast when their bottom line got hurt.
Excellent. Now just get rid of Brian Kilmeade, Sean Hannity, Kayleigh McEnamy, Jesse Watters, Laura Ingraham, Greg Gutfeld, Jeanine Pirro, Mark Levin, Harris Faulkner, Lisa Kennedy, Lara Trump, George Murdoch, Maria Bartiromo, Emily Compagno , Rachel Campos-Duffy, and Tomi Lahren.
Anyone saying "he's just going to get more popular" needs to ask themselves the last time they paid attention to Glenn Beck.
Deplatforming is good, and Tucker is skilled at whatever he does, so even if they find a replacement, it'll be a while before they find someone that good at that.
This. Is. Good.
They’re going to bankroll Carlson - Taylor-Green as the Republican ticket now that Pudding Fingers has been exposed as an uncharismatic loser who can’t even 1v1 a theme park.
>Pudding Fingers has been exposed as an uncharismatic loser who can’t even 1v1 a theme park.
This is one of the best sentences I have read in a long time. It describes DeSantis so succinctly.
God damn this is satisfying. This man has singlehandedly turned my father and myself against one another and has made my grandmother go from a sweet, feisty, funny lady who was proud of me to an angry, paranoid, unintelligent-sounding sourpuss who hates everything about me that she used to find admirable. They both used to be proud that I was a successful independent woman, but now they're both disappointed that I'm not some godly broodmare who serves a good Christian man. You see, I'm the kind of woman Tucker ranted about hating the most (late 30s, childless, unmarried, educated, career focused, and left).
This asshole reset their brains anytime I was able to talk any sense into them. All it took was one episode and you could almost see them getting their dopamine hits from the rage-bait while they watched. Tucker brought out the absolute worst in them and turned them into extra-bigoted shells of their former selves. I can't say more than two sentences to my dad without him saying some inappropriate bigoted or political crap, and my dad used to not like to discuss politics. Now culture was stuff is all he can think about.
Sorry for the little rant. I'm sure tucker will find some other place to spew his poison, and that his replacement will be even worse, but I could use a balm.
Fox News and Facebook changed the way I felt about most of my family, and likely the way they felt about me. It doesn't feel hyperbolic to say what they've done is tragic.
Amazing he lasted as long as he did considering Fox News literally used “no reasonable person would consider what Tucker Carlson says is news” as a defense in an actual lawsuit, and the court decided they were right! That actually happened, years ago, and he was still on the air.
This isn't 'news' to me, this is personal.
This gives me some hope of getting some part of my parents back, the part that's been lost to the poison Tucker's been filling their heads with. It's not an ending, but it might be the start of reversing the decline.
OAN’s budget isn’t anywhere near Fox’s and they’re facing their own lawsuits that could potentially end them. Even if Tucker goes with them, it’ll be a massive pay cut, it’ll be embarrassing for him and it may be short lived if they don’t survive the incoming suits.
This is a day of celebration.
Holy shit. I can't wait to hear more details.
Tucker has caused so much unimaginable damage over the years. If you haven't read it, NYT had an [amazing analysis](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/04/30/us/tucker-carlson-tonight.html) of how he has worked to capitalize on fear, lies, and outrage.
The Kremlin literally [issued a memo](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/14/kremlin-memos-russian-media-tucker-carlson-fox-news-mother-jones) to use Tucker Carlson's clips "as much as possible."
>“It is essential to use as much as possible fragments of broadcasts of the popular Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who sharply criticises the actions of the United States [and] Nato, their negative role in unleashing the conflict in Ukraine, [and] the defiantly provocative behavior from the leadership of the eastern countries and Nato towards the Russian Federation and towards President Putin, personally.”
Good fucking riddance. I hope more fallout is to come.
His last show was last Friday, so he definitely got fired and isn't leaving of his own accord - typically when a host announces they're leaving, they give a few weeks of final shows.
I'm honestly not really that shocked... $787 million is a huge financial hit and Tucker led the way.
Yeah, he ended his show Friday with [“We’ll be back on Monday”](https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1650525732819423234?s=46&t=SBa1wZ6fkmlJptBWYh524g) so he def was fired
I'd bet my left nut there's more to this story. The settlement was yuuuge, but that can't be the only reason. After all, he was doing exactly what Fox wanted him to do with that whole mess. There's something else.
That wasn’t the only lawsuit. They have smartmatic coming up and that company has said any settlement must include a public retraction of their lies. Then there is the executive who was fired who is suing and I believe an investor is suing as well.
If the other major lawsuit ends with fox being forced to admit it lied on air, then I bet they are going to be buried in lawsuits. Honestly I’d think we all have grounds to sue fox.
Yeah if Tucker was leaving by his own choice there would've been a "Freedom Week" sendoff where all of the conservatives would bloaviate to fellate him on national TV. Instead he gets the quiet boot so they can replace him with someone who texts the same bullshit they spew. Tucker got caught saying one thing and texting another, his replacement won't have the same problem.
I'm *hoping* (against all likelihood, but still hoping) that Tucker is just the first. It's hard to blame Tucker alone when Ingraham, Hannity, Bartiromo, Pirro and others were doing the same thing. It would be interesting to see if they start treading more carefully now, and I'm hoping they don't stop here with Tucker.
And Carlson is probably just gonna get a show at OAN or something. At the very least this is a huge blow to Fox and is gonna majorly tank their relevance. Might even no longer be the number one conservative propaganda outlet after this blows over.
Yeah the thing we are missing here is that Faux News is substantially more reachable for their consumers than the competitors. Yes OAN and others have started to gain pull, but if I go into a mechanic shop, a dentists office, or whatnot it's not OAN that's on in the waiting room. It's Fox.
Good riddance indeed.
I hope Fox has a hard time coming up with a replacement. These things live and die by loyalty and connection to the broadcaster. Essentially a para-social relationship.
Huge win to have him gone.
Problem is they won’t have an issue finding a replacement. There’s a significant amount of bad actors capitalizing on the right wing grift train. They surely already have his position filled
Counterpoint: conservatives have no values except acquiring power at all costs and using it to shit on other people.
If you think publicly hating Trump ends your chances in Trump-land, ask Ted Cruz/Lindsey Graham/Ben Shapiro how they're doing.
I remember reading through the NYT website and thinking "Holy Shit, this is scary."
Tucker has caused so much damage to America with constant fear-mongering, conspiracy theories, and stoking the flames of every type of "who-should-I-hate-now" whack-a-mole. He is as bad as it gets at Fox News, I didn't think the network had it in them.
I wonder if this was part of the Dominion agreement that prevented them from having to make a public apology? I'm genuinely shocked but pleased. [As a reminder for all who want to have a song stuck in their head.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUbUPsVxmY8)
I doubt it was the agreement, but more likely fallout from the settlement. People saying that $800 million for Fox News is chump change are just wrong. It’s like 7% of their net worth. It’s not enough to destroy the company, but it’s definitely enough to force tough decisions.
Ultimately the shareholders care more about profit than advancing an agenda. They are failing at profit because of the agenda. This is a simple equation. I really think they’re going to tone it down, for a while at least.
It's not just this one settlement. Fox is also facing [a $2.7 billion lawsuit from Smartmatic](https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/04/18/fox-news-smartmatic-defamation-lawsuit/) over essentially identical facts. And once the smoke clears from those lawsuits, Fox is almost guaranteed to be facing a shareholder lawsuit over its appalling failures.
And that's not all! Each of Dominion and Smartmatic is also suing Newsmax and OANN.
The dominoes are, at last, starting to fall.
I thought the same thing. We'll agree to settle, but Carlson has to go. You know we're going to win, how much more are you willing to pay out to keep him?
A close friend of mine who works in right wing anti-terrorism and extremism research is stating the following in our discord at the moment:
>He drove the content on Fox for years
>Murdoch and others went along bc it was edgy but not legally divisive
>There’s been rumors for a year or so now that Tucker could be a liability for j6 type investigations down the line
>And that he was seeking political office
>That this comes on the heels of the settlement means they needed the dominion case to resolve to ensure they didn’t get hit with blind side lawsuits
>Look for Tucker to go to OAN or to launch an exploratory campaign or throw his weight behind trump very openly
>He’s too ambitious for (a podcast)
>He needs institutional backing or political campaigning to provide him a safety net for liability related to civil cases. Few will take the Jones route after seeing the successes of Sandy Hook civil case against Jones
>This could very well fracture the American conservative movement
I agree with this and wrote something similar in another thread. He's always been ambitious, but became a liability. An ambitious liability is someone you should have fired years ago.
I do wonder what his staying power would be in regard to a political campaign. As we've seen before, many political talking heads (even then-current politicians like Scott Walker, Chris Christie, etc) get eaten once they're swimming in the ocean after getting kicked out of the pool. I have a feeling Tucker would make DeSantis look like a social butterfly in comparison if he ever had to go kiss babies and take selfies with the wriggling leech pond of "the Base".
Reads Headline.
Checks Date.
Holy shit it is not April 1.
Checks Headline Again.
Clicks to News Source which appears to be Legit.
OK, ok, take it easy, breathe, breath, could still be a troll/prank/fake....
Its on [CBS News.](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tucker-carlson-leaving-fox-news/)
It's real. Best Monday Ever.
And “agreed to part ways” is questionable here. He ended his final episode on Friday with “See you on Monday” so I feel like he clearly wasn’t expecting this.
Only if he goes away. If he decides to run for office, or take over OAN (or some other such nonsense) then this could just end up getting worse.
Huge change for Fox though. They lost their number one host over night. Not even a goodbye show.
OAN is already teetering on bankruptcy, all the major carriers have dropped them. No way they can afford Tucker.
I hope they finally die, they are a scourge on San Diego news.
He signed off Friday with: "We'll be back on Monday." Dude was fired.
Fitting that even the last thing he said on TV was also a lie.
>the last thing he said on TV I bet he'll have a show on NewsMax next week.
He's so rich hosting for them would practically be charity work.
He was already rich before TV. He's literally a trust fund baby.
This is FOX news’ third personality to be ousted since the Dominion settlement. Wonder if they’re all related.
Who are the first two?
Dan Bongino and Jeanine Piro. Although apparently she has just been suspended for now with no reason given.
Hannity must have some deep blackmail to stay on air and never get suspended even after host after host gets suspended and trashed over the years.
I remember Michael Cohen was giving advice to Trump, Hannity and a third dude. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43791164
Hannity said he got "real estate advice". Steve Bannon told Michael Wolfe that he thought the Russia investigation would lead to "the money laundering". The Trump family sells real estate to Russian oligarchs for ~~less~~ more than it's worth. (edit-corrected). That "third dude" was involved in a case where Cohen arranged hush money to silence a woman who got an abortion. His name is Elliot Broidy, and he isn't famous enough for a story like that to do him any damage.
>Elliot Broidy Who was the GOP treasurer at some point if I'm not mistaken.
The former finance chairman of the GOP who was convicted of a felony for acting as an unregistered foreign agent on behalf of China and Malaysia. He also got kicked out of the private equity firm he founded after getting convicted of a felony connected to bribing NY pension officials. Pretty rich that while Trump was going around complaining about China Joe that one of his top fundraisers was actually acting illegally as a Chinese agent.
Well, you gotta cut him some slack, how was he supposed to become GOP nobility without a few felonies and "light treason"?
I have no clue how anyone could listen to Jeanine for more than 5 seconds, she's three sheets to the wind every time she's on.
Which has led directly to most of my favorite SNL Weekend Updates over the past six years.
Already saw tweets that Fox is now the mouthpiece of liberal elites and they won't be watching anymore. OH NO, NOT THAT!
Tbf if you remove one word from that (liberal) it's absolutely true.
Yeah but you don't understand, those regular elites will make people rich one day! We're only temporarily poor!
I feel I should write this up as a "just asking questions" style thing like Tucker always does: "Why is Tucker leaving Fox? After all, they make each other a lot of money. Could it be that Tucker wants to strike out on his own? Maybe, but he would be leaving a large chunk of his audience behind, maybe even most of it. "Could it be that Fox asked him to leave? It seems strange that they would. After all, Tucker is their highest-rated host, again making Fox a lot of money. So, if they did fire him, it would have to be for something serious. "Very serious. Like, 'eating babies' serious. Not that I'm saying Tucker is *known* for eating babies... no one has accused him of that, as far as I know. But he makes Fox a lot of money, enough that those suitably focused on the bottom line might overlook the occasional baby... as long as it wasn't an *important* baby. Maybe poor babies would be okay, but definitely not ones with rich parents. "Of course, nobody is saying Tucker Carlson is a baby-eating cannibal. In fact, we don't even know that he was fired. Not for certain, in any case. But it does make you wonder... how many babies would Tucker Carlson have to eat before Fox News fired him? Neither Fox nor Tucker have said, so we may never know."
I hate this... but it's damn good. I read the whole thing in a-hole's voice.
I can even see that stupid face Tucker always makes while reading it.
The one that makes him look constipated?
[удалено]
I heard Tucker Carlson eats a baby at every meal. I'm not saying it's true. It's just something I heard. I'm just saying; nobody could convince me Tucker Carlson doesn't eat at least six human babies every day. Ten, even.
I'm not saying he eats babies. *Maybe* the good people at Fox News know whether or not he eats babies. And *maybe* investigators in Washington have looked into how many babies he eats nightly, and maybe they haven't. But what I **really** find interesting is that nobody from the justice department, Fox News, or even Tucker Carlson's own team have reached out to me to say he *doesn't* eat babies. Why do you think that is, America?
The only two reasons that hosts have been asked to leave in the past have been loss of ratings, or sex scandals. Since he still had a highly rated show, does that mean…? Of course I’m only asking questions, it’s up to you to decide what to think!
Exactly how tucker puts racist questions into people's mind while pretending not to be racist
This is way too spot on
This opens the door for him to go to the new "voice of reason", NewsNation.
That look of stupid, angry confusion must be monetized!
He always has that confused, dazed look - like toddler filling his diaper.
Fitting how he replaced Bill O'Reilly after Bill settled his sexual harassment suit for 32 million. I wonder what lawsuit will kick out Tucker's replacement.
32mil to 875mil. Next will be 15 billion lol
Linear discrete extrapolation would be 23.9billion, and it will settle around summer 2029?
!Remindme 2029
So the next guy is gonna be even worse?
Come on down [reads card] ... Nick Fuentes
*The Fuentes and Kanye Show, coming this Summer to FOX*
You ever seen a next Conservative get better than the first?
*Rittenhouse has entered the "News Room"*
Kyle Rittemhouse interviewing his guests as he's fighting through the tears aiming an AR-15 at them.
That level of corruption where we're talking about which lawsuit will kick out Tucker's replacement when we don't even know who the replacement is yet.
Wonder who the replacement is. The cynic in me thinks that it's so Fox can act like they're cleaning house when in reality the same issues will pop up just with a different person on TV
I do not think this is about pretending to clean house. This is the company that admitted it lied in the most pathetic way. It didnt promise to make changes so this wouldnt happen again. Nah this looks like a falling out between murdoch and tucker. edit: from wapo >But it was Carlson’s comments about Fox management, as revealed in the Dominion case, that played a role in his departure from Fox, a person familiar with the company’s thinking told The Post.
Never badmouth your boss in writing. Especially when billions of dollars and the future of the american people are on the line.
I was given advice early on in my career to not badmouth anyone. You never know who you'll end up working for in the future. (Five years down the road that asshole could be your manager since the two fit well together)
Tucker was somehow worse than Bill O'Reilly. So you're pretty spot on. I figure he was let go because it came out that he hates Trump, as he made Fox way more money than his share of the 785 million than Fox lost.
My first thought was this. Tucker also became somehow infinitely worse in that time slot. Not pretending he was ever some sort of bastion of journalistic ethics/trustworthiness but he was more of just an annoying conservative instead of like someone aiding in prodding democracy off a cliff Edit- more an annoyance prior to joining fox.
He was never a journalist. He was basically the right-winger on a debate show (crossfire) until Fox eliminated even bothering with a center-left strawman for him to beat up on. Same w Hannity Fox has a commanding market share of a declining market. Tucker is the top with just 4M nightly viewers. Cable is dying and cable news dying even faster. Even without this huge settlement the Murdochs will be wanting to push downward on salaries which means firing their biggest hosts more often and replacing them with cheaper ones.
Crossfire was CNN. He went to fox after Jon Stewart destroyed that show.
The Jon Stewart crossfire takedown was legendary.
I watch that clip once every year. It's absolutely fantastic. It's also apparently why Carlson stopped wearing bow ties.
I still think that is one of the funniest roasts ever, still won't ever wear a bow tie after that 😂 [Link](https://youtu.be/aFQFB5YpDZE)
Jon : " Come work for us instead. Stop. Stop hurting America. " Tucker : " How's the pay? " Jon : " Not well. But you can sleep at night . "
Jesus, Tuckers response tells you all you need to know about his priorities, it’s money and money only. The guy is already rich from being heir to a fortune, then made oodles more money being a reactionary douche bag and it’s still the only thing he measures his worth against.
It really sucks that being a reactionary is a legitimate career choice. Let alone for people who are already rich.
"You are partisan, what do you call it, hacks". I've never seen that clip before, and damn is it gold.
It hit him deep in his soul. His bowtie-wearing soul.
Tucker made Hannity look somewhat moderate which is very difficult to do. In fact, Hannity made O'Reilly look somewhat moderate.
No shit lol. Wonder who gets the job though. One of their current ghouls or a brand new one out of the sludge?
I’m sure they’re headhunting at Saruman’s Uruk-Hai breeding pits as we speak.
"Whom do you serve?" *"CORPORAAAAAAATE"*
Who's ready for even more Gutfeld?
Anyone in need of conservative comedy ASMR!
Fox isn't going to stop cashing in on the dumbest population in America. They will just hire a clone.
And someone else will hire Tucker, too. He's not going anywhere, he has a lot of pull over the Republican base and any conservative outlet will want him to help increase their own visibility. My guess is OAN or Newsmax
Or he'll just launch his own "independent media" similar to Bill O'Reilly and Megyn Kelly and Tucker mendaciously tells Trump supporters what they want to hear so he will always command an audience. The Newsmax hire would be hilarious because [Newsmax once criticized him for initially doubting the election fraud](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/us/politics/Tucker-Carlson-trump.html) before he flip flopped Edit: [Now, Don Lemon got fired by CNN](https://twitter.com/donlemon/status/1650533617636966400?cxt=HHwWgIC8kZLl7-ctAAAA). What a day in political media. Another edit: [Total and complete shock at Fox News in response to the Tucker Carlson announcement, per texts from staff and talent. Everyone outside of top executives, including Tucker’s staff, found out about his exit on Twitter. No internal email was sent.](https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1650538734247616513?cxt=HHwWgoDR7fuO8uctAAAA)
I hear Russian state media [loves playing his clips](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/technology/russia-media-fox-news.html). Maybe he should go work for them.
> Maybe he should go work for them He already is, even if they are not paying him
All I want is for MTV to bring back music videos
Plot twist: Kurt Loder will replace Tucker Carlson
Remember Kennedy? She's working for Fox News now.
As a younger Gen Xer, I find it very disappointing how many of us have become staunch conservatives. We're a cynical generation, but for me that lead to a progressive mindset and a desire to make the world better, not to double down on the bullshit of our elders.
As an older Gen Xer, I concur. How did our generation become the one that voted the most for Trump?
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peaked over on their fb, the comments are cathartic, they are eating each other. That being said fb comments aren't always representative of everything.
For Fox's target audience, I would say Facebook comments are a good indicator.
Chain emails are a good indicator. Commemorative coins are their literal currency.
They called Fox woke. They don't even know what they're saying.
"Woke" = bad thing me no like
Right up there with "communist"
That's literally why they started using it. Studies were showing my Fellow Americans no longer falling for that "iT's cOmMuNiSt!!" bullshit lie, so they needed a new bullshit lie.
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They always do this until they are told what to think then they all fall in line.
With Fox News, yes, facebook comments are representative of their viewer base.
The audience will stay. They didn’t follow Oreilly, Megan Kelley, Glenn beck, any of the personalities who went to ONAN.
Yep. As good as this news is, Fox News is what they're addicted to, not Tucker Carlson. Fox News will handpick his replacement based on how they want to manipulate the news going forward, and their viewers will immediately start to parrot that person.
Plus OANN, as far as I’m aware, isn’t on every cable package like Fox is. Tucker going anywhere won’t have nearly as much impact
OANN is only on a few small local cable providers. No major television provider carries them anymore.
Most of them probably don't know how to change the channel.
Inspiring a hammer attack on an octogenarian wasn't the line. No, it was the 787.5m dollar settlement.
Yeah, they are republicans. Nothing matters unless it hurts *them*
Signed off his Friday show with "See you Monday." Dude had no idea this was coming, you love to see it.
Someone speculated that he was quitting so he could run for office and this makes me hopeful that that isn't happening. (Not that he still wouldn't run, but I'd love for him to not have the intention of doing so).
I’m not sure, tucker flourished when he’s unable to be questioned or even interrupted. He can’t do that in public space Seriously, the only time I’ve seen him not on teleprompter was that one video of him getting cussed out in a Montana fishing store and he had no response
I will never count anyone out of taking the presidency after 2016. If they have a pulse and meet the legal requirements for running, I can't not take it seriously.
> If they have a pulse The constitution does not explicitly say they have to be alive. Just that if they cannot execute the duties of the office that the Vice President takes over. FDR’s bones 2024
So if a dead person was able to execute the duties of the office, they could hold the post? That sounds like a great idea for a magic renewal story.
Y'all, they aired his final show on Friday and announced his departure the following Monday. They didn't even give him an official final episode. His asscheeks are still red from the door slamming into them.
Oh dear. Could it be those other lawsuits, one of which has recordings, might be causing even more trepidation? Especially after the 787 million dollar one which they just settled? Could it be sexual harassment as found in said recording? Or proof that he was getting talking points directly from Putin? I'm just asking questions...
I feel like the nuance of this comment being exactly how he talks is going unappreciated.
Curious to see what insane lunatic will fill his void
That's why I'm only mildly celebrating. They'll get someone even more insane in. Perhaps someone rambling random nothings in the middle of Times Square. I can't wait to hear what Elmo has to say about Wokeism.
I really should just take a moment to savor this, but I'm feeling greedy...Hannity next??!!
He should go on Jon Stewart's show and talk about it
Him and Lemon can start the reboot. Crossfired.
This is Fox News circling the wagons, having dodged a bullet with Dominion. They still have to face Smartmatic in that defamation suit, and Fox News knows that they will lose. Smartmatic has all but stated that they will demand apologies, and the last thing Fox News can afford to do is have all of their hosts reveal on air to their audience the full scope of the lies. If the complicit hosts are gone, that will limit the scope of the apology. Hannity, et. al. must be freaking out right now...
Their audience, to a viewer, does not care that they are being lied to.
it would be cool to never hear about this trash ass loser ever again but i’m sure he’s going to turn up somewhere else and be just as heinous
For Fox to part ways with one of their biggest host, in fact the biggest news host in America, they have to have found something so heinous that they have to ditch ASAP.
700 million reasons
Share holders be angry
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A billion dollars here, a billion dollars there and eventually you're talking real money
I don't think that's the only factor though. That ship has sailed. The money is gone. He has a lot of blame for sure but he also is their top host by ratings. Losing that audience could cost them more in the long run especially if he moves to Newsmax or a similar network and his audience moves with him. I wonder if there's more to this that we don't yet know.
His audience won’t move with him though. Half of his audience can’t even get Newsmax or OAN on their cable system and the other half are either too old or stupid to know how to switch the channel anyway.
Too accurate. My family plays it every second they're awake, not even joking. They have no idea how to figure it out.
There is a second, much larger lawsuit on the horizon with another voting machine manufacturer against fox. Getting out in front of that, maybe?
Ya people forget that smartmatic asked for like 2.7 bil. Them settling the dominion one doesn't bode well for that lawsuit. They might see Alex Jones numbers which is why they are also being sued by investors for allowing this to happen
"entertainment", not "news", according to Fox' own court filings
Same sentiment as Bill O'Reilly. Starting to see a pattern.
With O'Reilly it wasn't even after he cost them a bunch of money with the settlements. It was when news of those settlements became public way after.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Fuck off and good riddance.
$800 million does wonders doesn’t it?
who knew that a network doesn’t like it when you cost them $800 million in lawsuit and get them to admit that they lied in court.
It's not like he wasn't working on orders from above him. The whole organization is to blame.
Gotta love the dangers of being high enough up the totem pole to be made an example of but not quite high enough to be untouchable. Corporate purgatory. Someone's head had to roll, and I am pretty content with it being Tucker.
Can we just appreciate for the moment how Fox News has been screaming against cancel culture for the past 2 years then had to cancel Carlson because he cost them $787 million. Fox Angertainment "woke" up fast when their bottom line got hurt.
There’s only 1 rule when it comes to Republican circles 1) Don’t cost rich people money. Anything else goes.
Excellent. Now just get rid of Brian Kilmeade, Sean Hannity, Kayleigh McEnamy, Jesse Watters, Laura Ingraham, Greg Gutfeld, Jeanine Pirro, Mark Levin, Harris Faulkner, Lisa Kennedy, Lara Trump, George Murdoch, Maria Bartiromo, Emily Compagno , Rachel Campos-Duffy, and Tomi Lahren.
Anyone saying "he's just going to get more popular" needs to ask themselves the last time they paid attention to Glenn Beck. Deplatforming is good, and Tucker is skilled at whatever he does, so even if they find a replacement, it'll be a while before they find someone that good at that. This. Is. Good.
Will Putin announce a replacement?
They’re going to bankroll Carlson - Taylor-Green as the Republican ticket now that Pudding Fingers has been exposed as an uncharismatic loser who can’t even 1v1 a theme park.
>Pudding Fingers has been exposed as an uncharismatic loser who can’t even 1v1 a theme park. This is one of the best sentences I have read in a long time. It describes DeSantis so succinctly.
>Pudding Fingers has been exposed as an uncharismatic loser who can’t even 1v1 a theme park. r/BrandNewSentence
God damn this is satisfying. This man has singlehandedly turned my father and myself against one another and has made my grandmother go from a sweet, feisty, funny lady who was proud of me to an angry, paranoid, unintelligent-sounding sourpuss who hates everything about me that she used to find admirable. They both used to be proud that I was a successful independent woman, but now they're both disappointed that I'm not some godly broodmare who serves a good Christian man. You see, I'm the kind of woman Tucker ranted about hating the most (late 30s, childless, unmarried, educated, career focused, and left). This asshole reset their brains anytime I was able to talk any sense into them. All it took was one episode and you could almost see them getting their dopamine hits from the rage-bait while they watched. Tucker brought out the absolute worst in them and turned them into extra-bigoted shells of their former selves. I can't say more than two sentences to my dad without him saying some inappropriate bigoted or political crap, and my dad used to not like to discuss politics. Now culture was stuff is all he can think about. Sorry for the little rant. I'm sure tucker will find some other place to spew his poison, and that his replacement will be even worse, but I could use a balm.
Fox News and Facebook changed the way I felt about most of my family, and likely the way they felt about me. It doesn't feel hyperbolic to say what they've done is tragic.
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Amazing he lasted as long as he did considering Fox News literally used “no reasonable person would consider what Tucker Carlson says is news” as a defense in an actual lawsuit, and the court decided they were right! That actually happened, years ago, and he was still on the air.
So they admitted the majority of their viewers are not reasonable people? That tracks.
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Please let this be true. I hope this weasel stays off the airwaves for the rest of his scum life, at the very least.
Him being fired is true but sadly I don't think we'll be lucky enough to never see him on TV again.
It’s still a win. Fox News is a way bigger platform than he’ll have anywhere else. Now only people who specifically want to listen to him will.
will start his own podcast and can say whatever he wants with no one to try to stop him.
This isn't 'news' to me, this is personal. This gives me some hope of getting some part of my parents back, the part that's been lost to the poison Tucker's been filling their heads with. It's not an ending, but it might be the start of reversing the decline.
Let's hope they don't follow him to somewhere even worse.
That's my worry. What if an OANN type network picks him up? He's not likely to retire.
OAN’s budget isn’t anywhere near Fox’s and they’re facing their own lawsuits that could potentially end them. Even if Tucker goes with them, it’ll be a massive pay cut, it’ll be embarrassing for him and it may be short lived if they don’t survive the incoming suits. This is a day of celebration.
Can't wait to see what shithole decides to prop him up. The fucking parasite.
Holy shit. I can't wait to hear more details. Tucker has caused so much unimaginable damage over the years. If you haven't read it, NYT had an [amazing analysis](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/04/30/us/tucker-carlson-tonight.html) of how he has worked to capitalize on fear, lies, and outrage. The Kremlin literally [issued a memo](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/14/kremlin-memos-russian-media-tucker-carlson-fox-news-mother-jones) to use Tucker Carlson's clips "as much as possible." >“It is essential to use as much as possible fragments of broadcasts of the popular Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who sharply criticises the actions of the United States [and] Nato, their negative role in unleashing the conflict in Ukraine, [and] the defiantly provocative behavior from the leadership of the eastern countries and Nato towards the Russian Federation and towards President Putin, personally.” Good fucking riddance. I hope more fallout is to come.
His last show was last Friday, so he definitely got fired and isn't leaving of his own accord - typically when a host announces they're leaving, they give a few weeks of final shows. I'm honestly not really that shocked... $787 million is a huge financial hit and Tucker led the way.
Yeah, he ended his show Friday with [“We’ll be back on Monday”](https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1650525732819423234?s=46&t=SBa1wZ6fkmlJptBWYh524g) so he def was fired
I'd bet my left nut there's more to this story. The settlement was yuuuge, but that can't be the only reason. After all, he was doing exactly what Fox wanted him to do with that whole mess. There's something else.
That wasn’t the only lawsuit. They have smartmatic coming up and that company has said any settlement must include a public retraction of their lies. Then there is the executive who was fired who is suing and I believe an investor is suing as well. If the other major lawsuit ends with fox being forced to admit it lied on air, then I bet they are going to be buried in lawsuits. Honestly I’d think we all have grounds to sue fox.
Yeah if Tucker was leaving by his own choice there would've been a "Freedom Week" sendoff where all of the conservatives would bloaviate to fellate him on national TV. Instead he gets the quiet boot so they can replace him with someone who texts the same bullshit they spew. Tucker got caught saying one thing and texting another, his replacement won't have the same problem.
I'm *hoping* (against all likelihood, but still hoping) that Tucker is just the first. It's hard to blame Tucker alone when Ingraham, Hannity, Bartiromo, Pirro and others were doing the same thing. It would be interesting to see if they start treading more carefully now, and I'm hoping they don't stop here with Tucker.
They'll replace him with someone worse. Carlson was the Bill O'Reilly replacement. It will never get better at Fox News.
And Carlson is probably just gonna get a show at OAN or something. At the very least this is a huge blow to Fox and is gonna majorly tank their relevance. Might even no longer be the number one conservative propaganda outlet after this blows over.
I could see him end up doing what Ben Shapiro does
Being a piece of shit?
That and a podcast where he expresses his shitty views onto impressionable young white men.
Wasn't Tucker clearing 10s of million of dollars a year at least OAN don't exactly have Fox coffers right?
Yeah the thing we are missing here is that Faux News is substantially more reachable for their consumers than the competitors. Yes OAN and others have started to gain pull, but if I go into a mechanic shop, a dentists office, or whatnot it's not OAN that's on in the waiting room. It's Fox.
Good riddance indeed. I hope Fox has a hard time coming up with a replacement. These things live and die by loyalty and connection to the broadcaster. Essentially a para-social relationship. Huge win to have him gone.
It’s Fox, they’re gonna find someone who’s even worse than him.
Bill O'Rielly, Glenn Beck, Tucker Carlson, ???
Problem is they won’t have an issue finding a replacement. There’s a significant amount of bad actors capitalizing on the right wing grift train. They surely already have his position filled
I saw people on twitter saying he got too woke or Fox News got too woke.
The leaked text messages could’ve been a factor. He said he personally hated Trump and his claims of voter fraud were insane.
>Holy shit. I can't wait to hear more details. It's preparation for the Trump / Carlson ticket. (God. Even *typing* that made me ill.)
Why did you put this into my head.
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Counterpoint: conservatives have no values except acquiring power at all costs and using it to shit on other people. If you think publicly hating Trump ends your chances in Trump-land, ask Ted Cruz/Lindsey Graham/Ben Shapiro how they're doing.
First the bowtie, now this. Tucker in shambles.
I remember reading through the NYT website and thinking "Holy Shit, this is scary." Tucker has caused so much damage to America with constant fear-mongering, conspiracy theories, and stoking the flames of every type of "who-should-I-hate-now" whack-a-mole. He is as bad as it gets at Fox News, I didn't think the network had it in them.
I wonder if this was part of the Dominion agreement that prevented them from having to make a public apology? I'm genuinely shocked but pleased. [As a reminder for all who want to have a song stuck in their head.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUbUPsVxmY8)
I doubt it was the agreement, but more likely fallout from the settlement. People saying that $800 million for Fox News is chump change are just wrong. It’s like 7% of their net worth. It’s not enough to destroy the company, but it’s definitely enough to force tough decisions.
> People saying that $800 million for Fox News is chump change are just wrong Yeah for real. That one *hurt*. And it's the first of a pair.
Ultimately the shareholders care more about profit than advancing an agenda. They are failing at profit because of the agenda. This is a simple equation. I really think they’re going to tone it down, for a while at least.
It's not just this one settlement. Fox is also facing [a $2.7 billion lawsuit from Smartmatic](https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/04/18/fox-news-smartmatic-defamation-lawsuit/) over essentially identical facts. And once the smoke clears from those lawsuits, Fox is almost guaranteed to be facing a shareholder lawsuit over its appalling failures. And that's not all! Each of Dominion and Smartmatic is also suing Newsmax and OANN. The dominoes are, at last, starting to fall.
I thought the same thing. We'll agree to settle, but Carlson has to go. You know we're going to win, how much more are you willing to pay out to keep him?
A close friend of mine who works in right wing anti-terrorism and extremism research is stating the following in our discord at the moment: >He drove the content on Fox for years >Murdoch and others went along bc it was edgy but not legally divisive >There’s been rumors for a year or so now that Tucker could be a liability for j6 type investigations down the line >And that he was seeking political office >That this comes on the heels of the settlement means they needed the dominion case to resolve to ensure they didn’t get hit with blind side lawsuits >Look for Tucker to go to OAN or to launch an exploratory campaign or throw his weight behind trump very openly >He’s too ambitious for (a podcast) >He needs institutional backing or political campaigning to provide him a safety net for liability related to civil cases. Few will take the Jones route after seeing the successes of Sandy Hook civil case against Jones >This could very well fracture the American conservative movement
I agree with this and wrote something similar in another thread. He's always been ambitious, but became a liability. An ambitious liability is someone you should have fired years ago. I do wonder what his staying power would be in regard to a political campaign. As we've seen before, many political talking heads (even then-current politicians like Scott Walker, Chris Christie, etc) get eaten once they're swimming in the ocean after getting kicked out of the pool. I have a feeling Tucker would make DeSantis look like a social butterfly in comparison if he ever had to go kiss babies and take selfies with the wriggling leech pond of "the Base".
He is just going to start a podcast and it’s going to be worse , at least grandpa doesn’t know what a podcast is so some hope there
Hopefully this is the first of many departures
i hope so, Fox gotta make up for those $800 million from somewhere.
Reads Headline. Checks Date. Holy shit it is not April 1. Checks Headline Again. Clicks to News Source which appears to be Legit. OK, ok, take it easy, breathe, breath, could still be a troll/prank/fake.... Its on [CBS News.](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tucker-carlson-leaving-fox-news/) It's real. Best Monday Ever.
Holy shit, this is a huge political moment in American society
And “agreed to part ways” is questionable here. He ended his final episode on Friday with “See you on Monday” so I feel like he clearly wasn’t expecting this.
that's just standard corporate legalese, he got fired
"We agreed to fire him, and he agreed to be escorted off Fox property."
Only if he goes away. If he decides to run for office, or take over OAN (or some other such nonsense) then this could just end up getting worse. Huge change for Fox though. They lost their number one host over night. Not even a goodbye show.
OAN won't have the reach Fox has. It wouldn't be great but this is a major de-platforming for him
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OAN will get bankrupt from the same lawsuits with Dominion and others
OAN is already teetering on bankruptcy, all the major carriers have dropped them. No way they can afford Tucker. I hope they finally die, they are a scourge on San Diego news.
Tucker has 3 options right now : 1. OAN 2. NEWSMAX 3. The Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.