Tucker Carlson is out at Fox.
I never saw it coming. I have to wonder what’s going to happen to Fox’s ratings now. Sure Tucker Carlson wasn’t the only popular anchor on the network but he’s gotta be at least one of the top 5.
Honestly, I wonder if this is Fox caving into the woke mob who have been screaming for Carlson’s blood for a long time. This past year they’ve become more obnoxious and shrill. I’m sure Whoopi and the rest of the rancid cunts on The View will be having orgasms today.
[Please note, I do not know if the women on The View actually are, or have rancid cunts. That is simply my opinion of them based on their rather vile behavior.]
I didn’t watch Tucker that often, but when I did he generally made a lot of sense. I really appreciated his release of the Jan 6th films and wouldn’t be at all surprised if that had something to do with his departure.
I do firmly believe that the Democrats in Congress, and in power will do anything, threaten anyone, and abuse their authority to make sure that the farce of the Jan 6th insurrection continues on. I believe that they will also do whatever it takes to destroy their enemies or any threat, (real or imagined).
For the record, I say again. Jan 6th was not an insurrection. At worst it was some folks in a crowd getting out of control. The only people who died that day were civilians, both women. One shot by Capital Police, and the other appears to have been beaten to death by Capital Police.
No Capital Police officers were killed on Jan 6th. That is a verifiable fact.
Not that the truth or facts matter to our government today. Truth hasn’t mattered to our government for a very long time and there is little that can be done at this point to restore the faith of the people in their government.
LIke wise our faith in the news media has been tested and many of the media outlets have failed repeatedly. The sad part of the media failures is that at one point the media called out the corruption and lies of our leaders, by doing so the media provided the public at large, insight into issues that should be questioned.
Does The Watergate Scandal ring any bells?
I’m not so sure the media serves that vital purpose anymore. Tucker Carlson and Fox at least made a go of it. Now matter how outlandish a Fox report was, at least it gave us a moment of pause and reflection.
“Is that possible? Could our government really have done that? Isn’t there supposed to be oversight? Perhaps it’s time for me to write my worthless congressman and demand some fucking answers…”
Now listening to one outlet is much like listening to any of the others. They all sound the same. Worse, there is little dissent with a dominant narrative.
It wasn’t too long ago that all the media except Fox and one paper in New York, said Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation. After all, there was a letter signed by 50 intelligence people.
I reviewed alot of the laptop information that was available. I cannot verify that the data was from the exact laptop, but I can say the data I reviewed was very consistent. Even the pornographic sections appeared to be the same man. Given that there was so much information and it was so consistent I concluded that the laptop was most likely Hunter’s and was most likely not a fake.
Tucker Carlson said it might not be Russian disinformation and provided pretty credible reasons as to why that was. Now we know that Hunter Biden’s laptop was in fact not Russian disinformation but instead a narcissistic journal of drug fueled debauchery, apparent corruption, and repeated security risks committed by the son of the Vice President of the United States.
What we don’t know for sure is how much of this leads back to the now sitting President of the United States.
Another thing we don’t know is why, with this preponderance of verifiable evidence the President hasn’t been impeached. All the previous President had to do was send a “Mean Tweet,” or make an appropriate phone call asking about a foreign legal investigation(s) into an American Citizen, and he was impeached over it.
We also know that the former President was in fact impeached on far less substantial evidence.
Now with Carlson gone from Fox, AOC crowing about her victory over that mean hateful racist Tucker Carlson, and God only knows what machinations going on behind the scenes at Fox. I wonder if this was supposed to be a message sent not only to Tucker Carlson, and popular conservative voices, but to the American People in general.
There was a time when the very last thing I would have thought was that the United States Government might be trying to silence someone. I guess I’m more suspicious in my old age.
McCarthyism was long dead when I was old enough to understand what it was. But the memory of it lingered on. When I was sitting in my American History classes in High School it was generally accepted that censorship or persecution due to political belief or simple affiliation was wrong. Full damn stop!
We were supposed to defend anyone’s right to speak even if we disagreed with what they said. Back then, the teachers called it our duty. They said that if we demanded someone be silenced, then it wouldn’t be long before we were silenced ourselves.
And yet here we are. 40+ years later and our politicians fearlessly and thoughtlessly demand that reporters be silenced.
There was a time when a politician demanding someone be silenced would have in turn lost their next election, if not their political position immediately. Them losing would not be due to censorship or cancellation, but because by its very nature, demanding censorship is un-American.
Any politician that didn’t know that, clearly didn’t know enough to be in a position of political power.
I know Don Lemon apparently lost his job today too. That’s sad, but Don Lemon has been on the down slide for a while. He was effectively demoted to a morning time slot that was very unfavorable. Don, if he’d had any brains at all should have been looking for a new position. We all knew it was only a matter of time before he was out the door. So Don Lemon being dismissed from CNN today is not a valid comparison to Tucker Carlson leaving Fox.
Apparently, I’m not the only one thinking this. One need only look at Fox stock price today after the announcement.
This leads me to further believe that Tucker Carlson leaving Fox was not due to ratings, malfeasance, or anything other than politics.
I think that Fox caved to the whims of a “Woke” group of extremists and that Fox itself might not be any more reliable as a news source than any of the other outlets. It may never have been reliable but at least it was an alternative viewpoint.
I’m sorry to see that alternative viewpoint being eroded.
Carlson will end up just fine. I’m sure that he’s put away money for a rainy day, and that he’s got a couple of options. I’ll be curious to see where he lands and what he says about Fox when / if he decides to talk about it.