Tucker Carlson is out at FOX apparently.

[Beautiful Disaster]

Link to tweet

[Walleye]

1. Is this true, I'll be giggling like he does if it is

This is The scene in the movie “A Face in the Crowd” where Walter Matthau tells Lonesome Rhodes, “oh you’ll get a show, Saturday mornings or something. People will say, remember, who was that guy who used to be big, used to be real big, what was his name”

[AllTooEasy]

47. "earth-shaking moment" in conservative propaganda...not "news"

eom

[wnylib]

85. NPR is reporting it as fact, so I guess it's true.

Fox will just get another provocateur to replace him. I remember when Glenn Beck was canned. They just toss out the old scum in order to bring in new ones.

[GB_RN]

105. Every Major News Outlet Is Covering This

He’s gone.

Ding dong the witch is dead! The wicked witch is dead! 😂

[Walleye]

108. Tucker is an anti-American traitor, should be investigated by Congress

[GB_RN]

121. I Agree He's Anti-American...

But I’m not sure there’s much more to it than he was getting paid a shitload of $$$ by the Murdochs to say the shit he said. Hell, he was quoted in text messages stating he didn’t believe the election lies BS, but he spouted it on-air. Why? Because $$

I hate for us to turn into conspiracy nuts and investigate people just because. And spouting anti-American nonsense isn’t a good reason, IMO. That’s getting way too close to McCarthyism (and Gym Jordanism, et al) for me.

Just my take on it, though.🖖🤘

[Walleye]

122. I know it's not feasible but it was the Joe McCarthy committee I was thinking of

How many artists careers were ruined by him. Because they may have once subscribed to a magazine about communism

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. BREAKING: TUCKER CARLSON HAS BEEN FIRED BY FOX NEWS.

Link to tweet

[SledDriver]

3. When does he announce his bid for the 2024 Republican nomination?

[Takket]

21. Might be drumpf's running mate.

[Hortensis]

91. Just as long as he doesn't run as a Democrat.

I’d love to see him on the Republican primary. 😄

[DUar17]

114. Tucker-Green 2024

[housecat]

124. Then we'll have three monsters to choose from

[mysteryowl]

4. I've been hearing it too.

He is done on April 31st.

This is good for America

[unc70]

11. April 31? Really?!

[TwilightZone]

12. The 31st, eh?

Hmm.

It that was skepticism, I approve. Until I see a better source, I'm withholding my glee.

If it was a typo, I also approve, as it's rather hilarious if so.

[Abolishinist]

27. He is DONE as of last Friday.

No way they will let him go back on the air.

[LAS14]

72. What happened last Friday? nt

[SomedayKindaLove]

87. Just that it was his last show

And they are not giving him a last show tonight.

Apparently he spent his last clip eating pizza and talking about eating bugs. So at least he ends on a high note.

[KS Toronado]

78. Well I hope they let him on tonight

for a "farewell tour" and he informs all his rabid viewers how dishonest FO卐 is with their reQublican propaganda
and if they want a functioning Democracy to vote for Democrats because the alternative is Fascism.

[wnylib]

86. NPR is saying that last Friday was his last night.

[Sympthsical]

5. The highest rated program in cable news

Interesting. That wasn't done lightly.

[FrankBooth]

6. But I thought the Dominion settlement was just a painless

little bump in the road for FAUX, and spending 3/4 of a billion to settle would have no real consequences?

[azureblue]

58. who knows what the settlement had

Maybe a provision that if Fox lies about anything related to Dominion again, Fox will get sued again. And, of course, Tucker comes right out lying again.

[wnylib]

88. Maybe Trump wanted him out

because of his off air remarks about Trump.

However, I think that Fox is trying to break away from Trump, so probably not dine to please him.

[inthewind21]

135. That's what "some people said"

Immediate satisfaction often misses the big picture.

[thomski64]

7. ..so are they going to avoid the..

...middleman and just give Putin that
slot?...

[Meadowoak]

8. Hannity next.

[GoCubsGo]

10. Or, LaLa Ingraham.

[Meadowoak]

15. Her too.

[dchill]

44. My guess is Bartiromo.

This is about "limited hangout."

[Meadowoak]

49. She's already gone. Last week, they fired Bongino, Barteromo, and judge winebox Jannine perriro.

[dchill]

52. Really? I'm definitely out of the loop!

[CTyankee]

70. Do you think SNL had a part in that?

The satire was pretty heavy...esp. on winebox Jeanine...

[onenote]

120. No they didn't.

Bongino left. Not clear he was fired or couldn't agree to a new contract. But you're flat wrong about Bartiromo and Pirro.

That would be big news. There would be a link. I don't think you can provide one.

[Meadowoak]

123. It was on Twitter, sorry not the most reliable source. I knew I read it somewhere

But nevermind.

Link to tweet

[oioioi]

134. Winebox... LOL ....

Tokyo Rosé

[blueinredohio]

95. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

[GoCubsGo]

9. Cucker was their biggest liability.

I'm not surprised they dumped him. Second biggest liability, LaLa Ingraham, should be worried...

[OldManTarHeel]

13. See ya Liar Tuck . .

[EarlG]

14. This looks like a tabloid source but it just showed up here too:

Tucker Carlson has been fired by Fox News. He’s been punished for being a cause of the company’s embarrassing $787 million lawsuit judgement won by Dominion Voting.

Maria Bartiromo may be next.

Carlson — it was shown in depositions — knowingly lied about the 2020 election being stolen. His lies were nightly and they have been for years.

Rupert Murdoch obviously approved this monumental change since Carlson’s show is number 1 on Fox News. It’s amazing.

https://www.showbiz411.com/2023/04/24/tucker-carlson-fired-at-fox-news-ousted-after-company-loses-787-million-in-lawsuit-judgement

[Abolishinist]

16. Breaking on CNBC as well...

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/24/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news-in-wake-of-dominion-defamation-settlement.html

[Johnny2X2X]

19. First legit placxe I saw it

Wow. Big big deal.

[Ellipsis]

24. The hill has it

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3966300-tucker-carlson-and-fox-news-part-ways/

[blogslug]

36. Variety has it and that makes it official in my book

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/tucker-carlson-fox-news-exit-1235592527/

Tucker Carlson will no longer be able to carry on his self-generated battle against lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink at Fox News Channel.

Carlson, Fox News Channel’s most-watched primetime host, will leave the network in an abrupt and surprise exit, leaving the network without a fill-in for one of its most popular hours and with dozens of questions hanging over it as it grapples with pressures resulting from a $787 million settlement it will have to pay to Dominion Voting Systems

“Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” the company said in a statement Monday. “We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.” A spokeswoman for Fox News declined to elaborate.

Carlson will not appear on Fox News again in his current role. His last broadcast, Fox News said, took place on Friday.

They wouldn't even let him say goodbye. LOL

[LAS14]

76. NYT was one of the first. nt

[MLAA]

80. Murdoch needs to fire himself, he didn't stop Tuckers lying for years.

[Sneederbunk]

17. Perhaps FOX does not want faces that remind viewers of the Big Lie.

[inthewind21]

137. Perhaps

Fox does not want to have to explain WHY they still employ the liar who lied knowing it was a lie based on his texts when the Smartmatic trial starts. Who, I might add, are saying they will force a trial with testimony.

[Ellipsis]

23. The hill

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3966300-tucker-carlson-and-fox-news-part-ways/

[Takket]

20. That seems silly

I don’t want to defend Fucker but even at $800M he’s still making them more money than he costs them. Must be more to this than is apparent to me. Maybe the advertisers and cable services said we’re done with you if you don’t fire this POS?

He’ll land on his feet with a day deal from OAN or newsmax where he can go from full racist to super full racist.

[TwilightZone]

31. The drama isn't over yet.

They still have to try to settle with Smartmatic. He could end up costing them way more than that $800 mill.

I suspect they also have internal polling that indicates that they're losing a chunk of their audience and they're trying to rebrand. Again.

[Johnny2X2X]

22. FOX NEws press release about it

https://press.foxnews.com/2023/04/fox-news-media-and-tucker-carlson-part-ways

[Meadowoak]

25. Do you think Fox viewers will figure out Fox has been lying to them,

Last week, they fired Bongino, Barteromo, and judge Jannine, now Tucker. What will they think?

[allegorical oracle]

66. No. Faux viewers aren't very good at connecting dots. They'll probably follow *ucker wherever

he lands. Altho' he has enough $$ to just retire...or run for office, where he can join djt and uncle clarence in the grift and graft universe.

[lakercub]

110. I see Bongino is out

but when did they get rid of Pirro or Bartiromo?

[Hugin]

26. Maybe there were some caveats on the Dominion Settlement...

We were not aware of.

Fire them ALL!

:smirks:

[Meadowoak]

28. Whoopi just announced it on the view.

[ismnotwasm]

29. He will just go be a toxic little shit somewhere else

Still—-good

[Cosmocat]

113. Yep - somehow the clownshow that is Fox "News"

allowed a fringe, early 2000s bow tie wearing cable guest flunky to be the lord all of right wing stupidity.

[dmr]

30. What happens to the Capitol's J6 tapes?

They certainly don't belong to Tucker, do they? Nor do they belong to Fox either, do they?

I want them back. This is a National Security issue.

[Traildogbob]

33. Great question

I want to see financial hits to all 3 prime timers and the morning couch tumors.

[LittleGirl]

34. YES! nt

[allegorical oracle]

75. Unless there's a contract designating ownership, Fox would traditionally own them as "work product."

[DFW]

141. They've had time to make copies.

I'm sure that at this point, if the government asks, Fox Noise will say, "oh, those, sure, here they are."

[dmr]

142. That's my fear. McCarthy was just so stupid

to pass along those tapes. Stupid in so many ways.

[Paladin]

32. OH FUCK YEAH!!!!!! (nt)

[Goodheart]

37. I'm wondering if he said something on air last night that Rupert warned against

[allegorical oracle]

140. The 60 Minutes piece on that Epps guy was fairly powerful. Seems Carlson has really been dogging

him, alleging that he was a government insider who was egging on the insurrectionists to violence. Jan 6 video/audio of Epps clearly showed him trying to diffuse the crazies. Now, thanks to Carlson, Epps asserts that he and his wife had to sell their home and hit the road in an RV to escape all the threats they've received.

Could be the accumulation of all the dirty tricks Carlson's been pulling over these past years finally got to Fox.

[UTUSN]

38. Fan-TAS-tic!!!!!!!!!!!!! This will tide me over until Drumpf is *OUT* from us all!

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This must be especially *SWEET* for Stelter, since when LICHT fired him at CNN, *ucker and all the wingnut flying monkeys mocked him, called him a "hall monitor" and made sexual slurs at him.

[Demobrat]

39. I wonder why.

It can’t be because he lied every night. They knew that all along and were fine with it.

[Goodheart]

41. Maybe he crossed a line last night?

[LAS14]

79. Are you thinking of anything specific? nt

[Goodheart]

84. No, I don't watch that shit.

[inthewind21]

138. Or maybe

SOOOOO much came out in the Dominion case they weren't willing to risk keeping him when it is Smartmatic's time to extract a pound of flesh! Then there's the case with the shareholders.

[shelshaw]

40. Probably got a better offer at CNN

[TwilightZone]

43. Zero chance he's going to CNN.

OAN or Newsmax would be more likely.

There's always RT.

[Tomconroy]

112. He made an enormous salary, like 15 million p.a. no other network

Could match that. At least none of the little Fox like networks.

[Johnny2X2X]

50. CNN actually makes sense

They've made a hard right turn and he would help them get the Far Right audience they are currently courting.

[Beachnutt]

56. Actually

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/22/media/cnn-king-charles-announcement/index.html

[womanofthehills]

62. He will probably do a podcast - CNN has low viewers

And CNN has sponsors who would object. Top podcasts have 40 million viewers - way more than all cable shows combined.

[Beachnutt]

42. trump must have had enough of him

and told fox to fire him.

[TwilightZone]

45. I think it's more likely that major stockholders and/or advertisers told them to fire him.

As someone else noted, stockholders don't like billion-dollar lawsuits.

[FoxNewsSucks]

46. He'll just go to NewsMax, and Fox will have the next

liar in line go on the air. Probably for a lower salary.

[Aviation Pro]

48. Well, bye

&t=4s

And don't let the door hit you in that fucking face of yours, motherfucker.

[area51]

64. +1 n/t

[303squadron]

51. What if he's tfg's running mate?

[Demobrat]

54. After what he said about Trump in those texts

I think it’s more likely Trump ordered the firing. Surprised there hasn’t been a gloating post yet.

[housecat]

126. Carie Lake will have to put him out of his misery for good

[Demobrat]

53. Can't wait to hear what Lawrence has to say about it.

He despises the little worm.

[mtngirl47]

55. AMF!!!!!

[allegorical oracle]

57. Ding Dong! Champagne all around !

[barbtries]

59. if it's true,

it's a good day for America.

it's true

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/24/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news-in-wake-of-dominion-defamation-settlement.html

[TygrBright]

60. ohplease ohplease ohplease let Jeanine Pirro be next... n/t

[Meadowoak]

77. She was fired last week, along with Bongino and Barteromo.

[inthewind21]

139. No

no she wasn't. It was speculated she would be but there has been nothing official.

[CaptainTruth]

61. Being reported by all major news outlets now.

Looks like it's real!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

63. I think there might be a small chance he got fed up with having to lie, day-in, day-out

and told them so.

He's not a stupid guy (I will give him that), and I'm not entirely sure he's as fascist IRL as he seems on air. And he def. doesn't like Trump IRL.

Though I suspect it's more to do with the upcoming Smartmatic suit. They want to be able to tell the court/jury 'look, we fired the people responsible, so go easy on us!' type of deal.

[jaxexpat]

65. Now, sue the shit outa this unemployed loser.

He needs to walk into the world of consequential reality which he mistreated so cruelly, helpless, forgotten and broken, like those he mocked for decades.

What? sue a right wing fallen superstar? why, this is a job for Super Soros. Because it takes a lot of money to make exemplary justice in these United States.

[Beakybird]

67. It's so they have less perceived liability going into the Smartmatix trial.

They can say that all of the employees involved in the libel were fired.

[IcyPeas]

68. Never thought it'd happen. /nt

[Vogon_Glory]

71. Me neither n/t

[Vogon_Glory]

69. When I saw the headline and saw that it was true,

I immediately found a file of Ray Charles singing “Hit the Road, Jack.” I am enjoying this moment of schadenfreide.

[Mr. Sparkle]

73. Tucker has been fired by Cnn, Msnbc, PBS and now Fox

It couldn't happen to a nicer guy

[Roland99]

74. Excuse me while I collect my thoughts.....

BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
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BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
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**deeeeep breath**

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[MyOwnPeace]

83. That says it for me, Roland!

[Blue Owl]

81. He can go eat shit and die now

Good riddance, motherfucker

[Chili Pepper]

82. Part of me wonders if the firing was a condition of the settlement with Dominion

I know it probably isn't, but it's still fun to think about

[grantcart]

109. My guess is that you are correct

My guess is that there was an undisclosed unwritten agreement to cover non monetary issues.

I also expect Rupert Murdoch to take responsibility and resign from the board based on his deposition and the fact he is 91.

[Pepsidog]

89. What a way to start the week.

[Hortensis]

90. Fox didn't even give him a chance to say goodbye

to his viewers. He’ll have to go straight to “hi again” on OAN or Newsmax.

[Ray Bruns]

92. So I suppose they are handing out parkas in hell right now

[twodogsbarking]

93. He was only doing his job. Sound familiar?

[Demobrat]

100. He was just reading off of a teleprompter.

He didn’t make the news. He just reported it.

[twodogsbarking]

104. He knew they were lies. Does following orders to tell a lie make you less of a liar?

[Demobrat]

111. Well if you do it for money

there are other words for it.

[twodogsbarking]

115. Maybe The 700 Club will hire him.

[SomedayKindaLove]

94. Great to see Carlson go but

They are just going to replace him with more of the same.

Basically it seems FOX fired him because he disagreed with their direction about the stolen election and texted it to others.

The Monster still remains, it just changes face.

[Hortensis]

96. DON LEMON also out at CNN

CNN had him notify his agent notify him. Lemon said that after 17 years he’d never think they would do it this way. Fox lite in more ways than just content.

[Demobrat]

98. Well that's that then.

Time to cancel the cable.

[Hortensis]

99. Genuine journalism subscriptions are a lot cheaper too..

[cstanleytech]

97. Maybe this should be declared a national holiday?

[ffr]

101. Step up, one and all!!! Who will be the next lying whore to take his place?

Place your bets.

[EnergizedLib]

102. My only concern

What cockroach is taking his place?

Good riddance to that racist.

[FailureToCommunicate]

103. Oh great. Now will he be "spending more time with his family"? Gotta feel sorry for...

any of his neighbors.

And, hey, SOMEBODY has to post the goodbye song...

[The Conductor]

106. Bounced

Funny how costing your bosses $800 million bucks will get you fired.

The fun thing is, this still doesn't get old Tuck off the hook for the lawsuits, he just doesn't have Fox covering his ass now. He can pay for his own lawyers, and that ain't gonna come cheap, not even for a right wing millionaire asshat like he is (was?).

[sunonmars]

107. Tucker about to go through things without Fox covering up his shit for him.

[PortTack]

116. OMG!! Never thought I would live to see the day!

[lindysalsagal]

117. When I asked my husband to take the garbage out this morning, he really over-did it!

[Beartracks]

118. LOL Rachel Vindman's response on Twitter...

... "He Tucked around and found out."



============

[LetMyPeopleVote]

119. The cable tv Triple Crown!

Link to tweet

[liberalla]

125. "earth shattering" ??? BWAH HA HA HA !!!

Ridiculous!

[Torchlight]

127. Five excuses so far by one nearby rw coworker.

1. Obama bought Carlson's loyalty (for real, that was how I was introduced to the story).

2. Deep state hates Carlson almost as much as Trump.

3. It's a network play for ratings!

4. He's promoted himself to a better paying future with a podcvast.

5. Fox was never conservative enough, and he'll transfer to (insert media outlet names I've never heard of here).

Then there is the standard litany being sung by our office's little rw cabal this afternoon that people so often say when defeated but can't admit it: "I'll wait for a more legitimate source before I believe anything ever"

[Cha]

128. A beautiful moment Indeed !

TY

[orangecrush]

129. Bye, Russian tool

[Hassler]

130. Rupert learned something from Billo--unload the abuser before the trial starts

[GoodRaisin]

131. Fox News watchers will not like it at all. It's "Cancel Culture"! Heavens forbid.

Fox is “Woke”! They can use all their favorite words. The stupid is about to come spilling out.

Time for “Newsmax” and “OAN”!

[ecstatic]

132. I wonder if it was due to the mounting bodies

People are literally dying because of the garbage they spew.

[Emile]

133. Free Republic is taking it really hard. Most are

saying it will be the end of FOX.

[Mosby]

136. Don Lemon was fired from CNN.

Because of his misogyny.

[GypsyTejas]

143. Let This Be A lesson

So let this be a lesson to everybody: If you try to topple America’s democracy, you can stay on TV for two more years and that’s it!” — DESI LYDIC

[StClone]

144. Can't believe a netwok so anti-trans

cut off their own....meme.