Tucker Carlson out at Fox
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Most vile? You sure about that? Did I trigger you? You seem triggered.
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New York Times: Tucker Carlson texted ‘It’s not how white men fight’
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In a newly revealed text message, ousted Fox News host Tucker Carlson made a racist comment and said he found himself briefly rooting for a mob of Trump supporters to kill a person, according to the New York Times.
“A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington,” Carlson wrote in the January 2021 text message to a producer, the New York Times reported late Tuesday. “A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living s**t out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it.”
The text message, which was included in redacted court filings in the Dominion Voting Systems case, was swept up in discovery as part of the voting machine company’s defamation lawsuit against Fox, according to the Times.
The text message alarmed Fox’s board of directors and played a role in Carlson’s abrupt firing last month, the paper reported.
Fox News declined to comment to CNN on the report. Tucker Carlson did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment.
The network announced last week that Fox News and Carlson had severed ties. The decision to part ways with Carlson was made by Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch and Fox News chief executive Suzanne Scott, a person familiar with the matter said.
The announcement came one week after Fox News settled a monster defamation lawsuit with Dominion for $787.5 million over the network’s dissemination of election lies. The lawsuit had exposed Carlson disparaging his colleagues. A lawsuit filed in March by his now-fired top booker, Abby Grossberg, also included a number of allegations of sexism on his show.
But the text revealed by the New York Times remains redacted. At the end of his text, Carlson reportedly continued that he does not condone violence.
“Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn’t good for me. I’m becoming something I don’t want to be,” Carlson continued, per The NYT. “The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?”
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said Carlson’s racist message wasn’t shocking considering his frequent anti-immigrant comments on his show.
“What’s not news is the fact that Tucker Carlson is a white nationalist,” Greenblatt tweeted. “What is news is the fact that this somehow is surprising to anyone.”
Fox has not publicly commented on Carlson’s departure other than to say, “We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.”
Tucker is back....with a new Show on Twitter called "Tucker on Twitter" the first show lasted 10.5 min and the first topic was the Ukraine Dam that was blown up and flooded parts of Ukraine yesterday killing 7 and displacing 2900+ have been evacuated. after 36ft deep flood waters
The Ukraine has blamed Russia for it
The US I don't think has released any official position on who did it but have leaned toward Russia
The Russians have blamed Ukraine for it and Putin even called it a barbaric attack on their own people.
Tucker spent the first topic of the Dam explosion suggesting it was most likely the work of the US and OR Ukraine.
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The Ukraine has blamed Russia for it
The US I don't think has released any official position on who did it but have leaned toward Russia
The Russians have blamed Ukraine for it and Putin even called it a barbaric attack on their own people.
Tucker spent the first topic of the Dam explosion suggesting it was most likely the work of the US and OR Ukraine.
Tucker Carlson’s New Show ‘Tucker on Twitter’ Launches With Report About Blown Dam in Ukraine
Though with a different backdrop and more natural lighting, the new show looks and sounds a lot like "Tucker Carlson Tonight"
So according to Tucker, Ukraine floods a region that was the most likely location of their imminent offensive.Tucker is back....with a new Show on Twitter called "Tucker on Twitter" the first show lasted 10.5 min and the first topic was the Ukraine Dam that was blown up and flooded parts of Ukraine yesterday killing 7 and displacing 2900+ have been evacuated. after 36ft deep flood waters
The Ukraine has blamed Russia for it
The US I don't think has released any official position on who did it but have leaned toward Russia
The Russians have blamed Ukraine for it and Putin even called it a barbaric attack on their own people.
Tucker spent the first topic of the Dam explosion suggesting it was most likely the work of the US and OR Ukraine.
Tucker Carlson’s New Show ‘Tucker on Twitter’ Launches With Report About Blown Dam in Ukraine
Though with a different backdrop and more natural lighting, the new show looks and sounds a lot like "Tucker Carlson Tonight"
That doesn't even pass the sniff test.
I'm pretty sure like 87% of this guys talking points are written directly by the Kremlin
Fox News tells Tucker Carlson he violated his contract with new Twitter show
Fox News told Tucker Carlson's lawyers that the former star anchor breached his contract with the conservative network when he launched a new show on Twitter.
Fox News told Tucker Carlson's lawyers Wednesday that the former star anchor breached his contract with the conservative network when he released the first episode of a new show on Twitter this week, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
Carlson, a firebrand right-wing media personality known for his conspiratorial rhetoric, parted ways with Fox News in late April, days after the network agreed to pay nearly $800 million to Dominion Voting Systems to avert a high-stakes defamation trial.
In a letter to Carlson's lawyers, Fox News general counsel Bernard Gugar said the broadcaster was "in breach" of his contract, which was signed in November 2019 and amended in February 2021.
In a statement, Carlson's lawyer, Bryan Freedman, insisted that any legal action by Fox News would infringe on Carlson's First Amendment rights.
"Fox defends its very existence on freedom of speech grounds," Freedman said. "Now they want to take Tucker Carlson’s right to speak freely away from him because he took to social media to share his thoughts on current events."
The news was first reported by Axios. NBC News has not seen a copy of the letter; the source with direct knowledge of the matter confirmed that all of the information in the Axios article was accurate.
Top spokespeople at Fox News did not immediately respond to an email and a text message requesting comment on the Axios report.
