Tucker Carlson is a great replacement
Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News amounted to a revelation of bullying, bullies and conspiracy-mongering by Grossberg
“Tucker Carlson’sdeparture from Fox News is an admission of the system lying, bullied and conspiracy-mongering claimed by our client,” said TanVaughn Rahman, one of Grossberg’s lawyers. We are waiting to take depositions of Mr. Carlson and his subordinates in the very near term.
Fox said Carlson’s last day hosting his show was Friday, April 21. On Monday, after Fox made its statement, the network continued to promote an interview between Carlson and Ramaswamy that had been scheduled for that night.
While the exact circumstances of his departure remained murky on Monday evening, the dismissal came amidst a series of high-stakes legal battles to appease Mr. Trump’s base and win back viewers who believed his defeat was.
Carlson featured in Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit. He is being sued by his former senior booking producer, who has two separate suits against him.
Grossberg’s other lawsuit, filed in Delaware, focuses on the actions of Fox’s legal team. She says that the attorneys told her to lie regarding what she saw at the network.
The network stuck by him after Carlson said that America was a poor and dirtier place because of immigration. He seemed to ignore the on-air popularity of a racist conspiracy theories, as well as the fact that he was an airer of the company’s dirty laundry. Carlson promoted the view that the conflict was due to U.S. sanctions and the expansion of NATO.
Despite his shocking departure, Carlson had endured more controversies than most cable news stars could hope to survive professionally. In July 2020, his top writer was forced out after it was discovered he had posted racist, sexist and homophobic commentaries. The Daily Dot discovered that one of Carlson’s staffers had a habit of liking the posts of white nationalists on VDare.
His work on his show led to controversy by trying to exonerate people who took part in the U.S. Capitol siege.
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That contributed to the decision by several prominent Fox figures to depart — including Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace and conservative commentators Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg.
Carlson’s standing inside the network didn’t get knocked off by the boycotts on his more racist and inflammatory segments, as long as the audience stayed around. Disdainful of the cable network’s top executives, Mr. Carlson cultivated the impression that he was close to the Murdoch family and, perhaps, untouchable.
The rise of Mr. Carlson prefigured Mr. Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party because of his own conversion from libertarian to populist. He prospered due to Mr. Trump making nativism and cultural outrages the primary resentments of conservative politics.
Murdoch was in my office at The Wall Street Journal in the summer of 2011. He was just back from London, where he had given testimony to a parliamentary committee investigating the phone-hacking scandal by his British tabloids (and where he was attacked with a shaving-foam pie). One of the world’s biggest-selling English-language newspapers, News of the World, closed down as a result of the scandal.
I don’t remember many specifics about the conversation — Murdoch loved to talk politics and policy with his journalists, sometimes by taking us to lunch at the Lamb’s Club in Midtown Manhattan — but I do remember the gist of what he said about the fiasco: Never put anything in an email. His private lesson wasn’t about his companies adhering to high ethical standards. It was to leave no trace that investigators might use for evidence against him, his family or his favorite lieutenants.
