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Re: Tucker Carlson Fired by Fox News [Re: jnzy111] 2
#28296312 - 04/26/23 02:48 PM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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jnzy111 said: He exposed the criminally elites who rule the world..

He is the criminal elite, dude Tucker Swanson Mcnear Carlson.
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Re: Tucker Carlson Fired by Fox News [Re: ballsalsa]
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Re: Tucker Carlson Fired by Fox News [Re: ballsalsa] 2
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Re: Tucker Carlson Fired by Fox News [Re: The Blind Ass]
#28296487 - 04/26/23 05:11 PM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/business/media/tucker-carlson-dominion-fox-news.html
Apparently, Tucker Carlson's texts were significantly more vulgar, racist, and misogynistic than he is on camera. They also involved FOX senior executives. He actually seems to have believed himself untouchable. This was a bit problem for Fox.
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The day before Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation trial against Fox News was set to begin in a Delaware courthouse, the Fox board of directors and top executives made a startling discovery that helped lead to the breaking point between the network and Tucker Carlson, one of its top stars.
Private messages sent by Mr. Carlson that had been redacted in legal filings showed him making highly offensive and crude remarks that went beyond the inflammatory, often racist comments of his prime-time show and anything disclosed in the lead-up to the trial.
Despite the fact that Fox’s trial lawyers had these messages for months, the board and some senior executives were now learning about their details for the first time, setting off a crisis at the highest level of the company, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions.
The discovery added pressure on the Fox leadership as it sought to find a way to avoid a trial where Mr. Carlson — not to mention so many others at the network — would be questioned about the contents of the private messages they exchanged in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election.
Two days after the board’s discovery, Fox settled that case for $787.5 million, believed to be the highest for a defamation trial.
Several people with knowledge of Fox’s discussions said the redacted messages were a catalyst for one of the most momentous decisions Fox and its leaders — the father-son team of Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch — had made in years: to sever ties with the host of their highest-rated and highly profitable prime-time program and a face of the network in the Trump era.
The company dismissed him on Monday, with a phone call from Suzanne Scott, the chief executive of Fox News Media. ‘American Nationalist’ In 2022, The New York Times published a series on the rise of Tucker Carlson.
Takeaways: Our examination of Tucker Carlson’s career shows how his trajectory traces the transformation of American conservatism itself. Here’s what to know. Stoking White Fear: Carlson constructed what may be the most racist show in the history of cable news — and also, by some measures, the most successful. Reshaping Fox News: As civil war raged at the network, the prime-time host ascended — transforming Fox and becoming Donald Trump’s heir. Apocalyptic Worldview: We analyzed 1,150 episodes of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to see how he promotes extremist ideas and conspiracy theories.
In the end, according to one of the people with knowledge of the internal discussions, Lachlan Murdoch viewed forcing out Mr. Carlson as a “business decision,” just as he did the Dominion settlement.
Fox had no comment beyond its initial, terse statement announcing “Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.”
Mr. Carlson and Bryan Freedman, a lawyer representing him, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It is unclear why the Fox board and other executives did not know about the contents of the redacted messages until just before the trial, which was focused on whether Fox News had knowingly aired false claims about Dominion and its voting machines after the 2020 election. Unredacted portions of the documents, including some in which Mr. Carlson spoke derisively about former President Donald J. Trump, were widely reported on in the weeks before the trial.
The board considered using an outside law firm to investigate the top-rated host, concerned about the harm Mr. Carlson’s behavior might cause even beyond the Dominion case, the two people said.
By the time the board did see the redacted material, Lachlan Murdoch was already moving to find an out-of-court accommodation with Dominion, having given his negotiators the go-ahead to increase Fox’s offer to the company, according to one of the people briefed on the discussions. Image Rupert Murdoch is wearing glasses and a blue shirt and stands next to his son Lachlan, who is wearing a dark T-shirt. Over the past two years, Rupert Murdoch, left, and his son Lachlan began to lose patience with Mr. Carlson, said people familiar with their complaints.Credit...Drew Angerer/Getty Images Rupert Murdoch is wearing glasses and a blue shirt and stands next to his son Lachlan, who is wearing a dark T-shirt.
Company executives have indicated that a variety of factors fed into the decision to fire Mr. Carlson after Fox stood by him for years as he drew protest and advertiser boycotts for trafficking in conspiracy theories and narratives of white grievance. But they acknowledge that the discovery of what was in the redacted text messages was an important factor in his ultimate dismissal.
The role that the messages — produced in the Dominion discovery process — played in helping to end Mr. Carlson’s career at Fox demonstrates the severity of the damage the suit inflicted on the company. Fox was battered repeatedly by damaging disclosures as it proceeded to trial. If it had settled far earlier in the process, the company could have avoided having to hand over Mr. Carlson’s messages and those of others, including from the personal accounts of both Murdochs.
Over the past two years, the Murdochs’ patience began to wear thin, said people familiar with their complaints. Mr. Carlson emerged as an almost unaccountable figure who drew new headaches with conspiracy theory programming that included falsely portraying the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as possibly orchestrated by the federal government. Then, as the Dominion case headed to trial, he told his audience last month that the rioting was, in fact, a peaceful exercise, using security footage that the Republican Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, had given to Mr. Carlson exclusively.
Although statements made on his show represented only a small piece of the Dominion lawsuit, the disclosures related to his messages took on an outsize role and added to the company’s public relations woes.
It is notable that even when compared with the extreme rhetoric Mr. Carlson was allowed to use on air, the messages released publicly had the ability to shock. In one, he referred to the lawyer Sidney Powell, a major proponent of the debunked theory that the Dominion machines switched votes, with a crude and misogynistic slur. Amid the cache of redacted messages was one in which he used a similar vulgarity to describe a senior Fox News executive, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
One person briefed on the contents of the redacted material said one of the messages was particularly offensive, adding to the concern at the top of the company. The Times has not seen the contents of the message.
Dominion lawyers planned to press the judge about using the contents of the redacted messages in their questioning of Mr. Carlson. The lawyers prepped dozens of potential questions for the host, along with hypothetical rejoinders they thought Mr. Carlson might use to deflect the toughest of them. And they planned to pin him down on the ones that were most demeaning toward women. The two sides had different views of whether much or any of Mr. Carlson’s unredacted messages would be seen in court — a difference that, at trial, would have been sorted by the presiding judge, Eric M. Davis of Delaware Superior Court.
The settlement of the Dominion case, however, has not ended the threat posed by the messages. The New York Times, The Associated Press and National Public Radio have challenged the redactions, meaning they could still become public.
And Mr. Carlson’s indiscretion has exposed him further. Given how polarizing he has been, both inside and outside Fox News, more evidence of embarrassing and inappropriate conduct could emerge. In video obtained by The Times, for instance, Mr. Carlson is shown off camera discussing his “postmenopausal fans” and whether they will approve of how he looks on the air. In another video, he is overheard describing a woman he finds “yummy.”
His texts could also factor in a pending defamation suit that the software company Smartmatic — often paired with Dominion in the wildest versions of the stolen-election conspiracy theory — has brought against Fox, as well as in a suit brought by a former Carlson producer, Abby Grossberg, alleging a hostile and discriminatory work environment.
All this was in the mix when the network finally cut Mr. Carlson’s program this week, according to several people familiar with the internal discussions. And, the end of his run followed a pattern.
His unceremonious departure made Mr. Carlson the latest in a list of prominent hosts and executives Fox has decided to show the door once the Murdochs concluded they were no longer worth the trouble: Glenn Beck (2011), Sarah Palin (2013), Roger Ailes, the network’s co-founder (2016) and Bill O’Reilly (2017).
Despite the political clout he could exercise and the money his top-rated show brought in for the network, ultimately, Mr. Carlson learned that he served at the pleasure of the Murdochs.
Their decision in the end was as swift and unsentimental as the two-paragraph statement the network sent in announcing his dismissal: “We thank him for his service.”
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Re: Tucker Carlson Fired by Fox News [Re: Kryptos]
#28296508 - 04/26/23 05:27 PM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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hmm sounds like the deep state silenced him for his anti war message. All this stuff coming out documenting other reasoning just proves it’s a cover up.
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Re: Tucker Carlson Fired by Fox News [Re: The Ecstatic] 1
#28296562 - 04/26/23 06:09 PM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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That's just what the elite want you to believe.
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Re: Tucker Carlson Fired by Fox News [Re: christopera] 1
#28296566 - 04/26/23 06:11 PM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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You mean this guy wasn't in character? It was his actual persona on display? Holy shit.
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Re: Tucker Carlson Fired by Fox News [Re: SirTripAlot]
#28296568 - 04/26/23 06:13 PM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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All he had to do is be himself, and it was pretty convincing.
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Re: Tucker Carlson Fired by Fox News [Re: The Ecstatic] 1
#28296572 - 04/26/23 06:14 PM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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Outsider, man of the people, Tucker Carlson has been silenced by the deep state. Sadly, since he's now been censored, we'll never hear his smug, condescending voice or see his affectation of bewilderment again.
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Re: Tucker Carlson Fired by Fox News [Re: ballsalsa] 1
#28296576 - 04/26/23 06:20 PM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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I'm looking forward to Tucker and Bannon teaming up, maybe a little Mike Pillow. The golden age of right wing commentary is just getting started.
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Re: Tucker Carlson Fired by Fox News [Re: christopera] 1
#28296743 - 04/26/23 07:50 PM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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Tucker did a vid on Twitter that maybe teases a move to am radio or a podcast
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Re: Tucker Carlson Fired by Fox News [Re: ballsalsa] 1
#28296766 - 04/26/23 07:59 PM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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Remember Bill O'Reilly, that guy was huge on fox until they fired him. Don't hear about him much anymore. Same with Glenn Beck. Fox News seems to be key to these peoples popularity, not the other way around. Just a random observation that popped in my brain
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Re: Tucker Carlson Fired by Fox News [Re: ballsalsa]
#28296770 - 04/26/23 08:01 PM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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He will be rewarded for being the notorious too bad for Fox News commentator. I am thinking
Big Alphabet channel then OAN/ podcast then Stormfront mod.
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Re: Tucker Carlson Fired by Fox News [Re: SirTripAlot]
#28296782 - 04/26/23 08:07 PM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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They might also be hanging him out as bait for Smartmatic.
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Re: Tucker Carlson Fired by Fox News [Re: Ice9]
#28296896 - 04/26/23 09:29 PM (8 months, 28 days ago) |
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Ice9 said: Remember Bill O'Reilly, that guy was huge on fox until they fired him. Don't hear about him much anymore. Same with Glenn Beck. Fox News seems to be key to these peoples popularity, not the other way around. Just a random observation that popped in my brain
O'Reilly and Beck are still grifting away, just not at the same scale.
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Re: Tucker Carlson Fired by Fox News [Re: ballsalsa]
#28297005 - 04/26/23 11:11 PM (8 months, 27 days ago) |
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I could spend hours digging up Tucker Carlson lies but one masterful lie was that Nancy Pelosi could've called reinforcements in and stopped Jan 6th but that's just not true. I decided if I were to show you links of CNN explaining why you'd just say I'm a sheeple for CNN(or insert any news media that isn't fox, oan or newsmax). So I've been doing research since Jan 6th and I asked AI to explain it to see how close it was and I think it has a pretty good explanation from what I've found since then:
As the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi was a high-ranking official in the United States government, but she does not have direct control over the deployment of law enforcement agencies. The Capitol Police Board, which oversees the United States Capitol Police (USCP), has the responsibility for ensuring the security of the Capitol building and surrounding areas.
While the Speaker of the House does not have direct control over the USCP, she does have the authority to make requests for additional security measures, including increased police presence, to the Capitol Police Board. Pelosi has stated that she made such requests before the January 6th riot, but it is unclear whether these requests were denied or not acted upon.
It is worth noting that the decision to activate the National Guard is ultimately made by the Department of Defense, and it is unclear to what extent Pelosi or other officials could have influenced that decision in the context of the events of January 6th.
Honestly though when it comes down to it you could still disagree and say AI is programmed by progressives so in the end I can think he's lying and think I can prove it and you can think he's as clean as a whistle, the most honest newscaster out there and anything saying elsewhere is fake news. It's just fine. let's not let political pundits, Fandom or dislike of them make us feel like we're on opposite sides and start hating each other because we like or dislike someone
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Re: Tucker Carlson Fired by Fox News [Re: The Blind Ass]
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Seriously_trippin said: Yup had nothing to do with losing fox 700 million dollars or consistently lying. Good to see you haven't changed 
It's not about lying, because many others like Rachel Maddow lie more than he does. And as has already been stated, there are many people who share responsibility for the $700 million, who are safe, so it's not that either. 
Source or make believe?
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Re: Tucker Carlson Fired by Fox News [Re: koods] 2
#28297466 - 04/27/23 11:03 AM (8 months, 27 days ago) |
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Can we not have a 50 page debate about whether Maddow lies as much or more than Tucker, or point out that both cable news networks claim to be entertainment…
Even if she did lie more, at least she wasn’t pushing the great replacement theory or advocating white nationalism.
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Re: Tucker Carlson Fired by Fox News [Re: The Ecstatic]
#28297486 - 04/27/23 11:18 AM (8 months, 27 days ago) |
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What does she lie about ?
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