So what makes a huuuuugggge cable media company part with their most recognizable figure? Oh, let me count the ways--wait a minute, how about I don't, but just suggest that the ledger, even if it suggested losing Carlson was a big loss, was nothing compared to his potential liability. The Dominion settlement was a big hit, the Smartmatic one promises to be even bigger, Carlson's former booker is suing, and Ray Epps already sent a cease and desist letter.
This dude's alligator mouth has been writing checks even Fox News's hippopotamus ass can't cover. Long story short, they are disavowing him ahead of an ugly wave. Because when defamation suits against liars become profitable, who know who's next to say:
Here's what we know--Tucker Carlson is a notorious racist, anti-Semite, and misogynist with some pedo overtones. And given what we superficially know about Carlson, the deep and as-yet unearthed trove of emails and texts and whatnot is going to just give up any claims that Carlson's show under the Fox aegis was a hostile workplace. Of course it was!
And you know, Fox News' serious people aren't even mad to see him go. They just worry the next guy will be Jesse Waters worse.
So anyway, RT and the Blaze have offered him jobs, and that's great, but I kind of doubt he'll be seeing the same pay-rate, right? Also, whatever does happen with all the hours of footage Kevin McCarthy gave Tucker regarding 1/6 which he didn't do jack with? And what will become of all the poor post-left souls who wanted to rap about white supremacy and pro-Putin shit and bag on Democrats that looked to Tucker for that cable platform?
Welp. We'll just have to see. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
UPDATE: I neglected to mention his shitty executive producer, a gay dude running the show of a notorious queer basher, is also out because whatever.
UPDATE: Just to point out, Fox News knew who Tucker Carlson was, it's just only now it looks bad enough. Just now. That's all.
UPDATE: This would be a lovely time for hard-headed realists in cable-land to explain to Fox News why they are not going to get higher carrier fees. Sorry.
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Tuck doesn't need the money, doesn't 'need' the job, he's third or fourth generation Robber Baron, married to a Rothschild. He was just doing this for laughs. That's why he's been so quiet: doesn't need it, doesn't give a shit. Grant, it hasn't been twenty-four hours.
Another thought as to why both Fox and Tuck are keeping mum about this is that trove of 1.6 stuff McCarthy sent over, much of which I am sure that shall we say the government had a vested interest in not being made public, that Fox is now holding in a brown paper bag ...
I had to check that--his wife's father was the Episcopal pastor and headmaster of the boarding school where they met--they really are the WASPiest people, but his step mom was heir to the Swanson/Birdseye fortune. So, yeah, really wealthy folks.
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