Tucker and Bongino gone from Fox

Why?

  • Is Fox News trending left?
  • Was it money? (Bongino implied that.)
  • Is it a consequence of the lawsuit? (E.g., “we just paid almost $1 billion and it’s largely your fault.”)

I saw this online.

My sources are telling me: Tucker was all set to go live tonight. He probably had plans to talk about the lawsuit and clear his name. Producers were prepping guests and slots of Monday’s show. Corporate nixed the idea and Tucker up and quit!

Or … has Carlson gone too far, with speeches like this?

I like the speech. This was my favorite part.

Maybe we should all just take ten minutes a day to say a prayer about it. [“It” being moral corruption in society.] I’m serious. Like, why not? And I’m saying that to you, not as some kind of evangelist, I’m literally saying that to you as an Episcopalian. The Samaritans of our time. I’m coming to you from the most humble and lowly theological position you can. I’m literally an Episcopalian. Okay? And even I have concluded it might be worth taking just ten minutes our of your busy schedule to say a prayer for the future, and I hope you will.

He’s slandering the Samaritans by comparing them to the Episcopalians, but ….

I am more and more convinced that we have three possible futures.

  1. A domestic tyrant takes over.
  2. A foreign tyrant takes over.
  3. We have a religious revival.

I can’t see any other possible future based on the mess we’re in.

11 thoughts on “Tucker and Bongino gone from Fox”

  1. It could well be all three: Putin, Trump, and Kenneth Copeland. It won’t be pretty.

  2. I saw someone say it’s because Tucker tells the truth. I was laughing. That’s one thing we know he does not do–at least his texts doesn’t match what he says online.

    Others are saying it’s because he ragged too hard on his bosses in his texts.

    But he’s a lying ÎŚucker, that’s for sure. I’m 2:30 into that vid and he’s already told two gigantic lies. The second, …. in England he’d be sued. Here, he can get a way with it with our libel and defamation laws being somewhat weak…especially for public figures.

    He’s a cancer.

  3. Let’s see…he’s the most watched host on the most watched cable network and suddenly he’s gone…without a chance to say goodbye to his audience. Hmm….curious!?!?

    It’s not typical for an unethical, profit-driven organization to suddenly get rid of one its major cash cows without a ready successor. The same cow they stuck with through previous lies and lawsuits. It totally demolishes credulity to think it’s because of his “moral” stance. Seems Fox News may be doing some preemptive damage control.

    We’ll see if Mr. Carlson takes this opportunity to “clear his name”. If he doesn’t maybe the Smartmatic lawsuit will??? Such a “moral” man shouldn’t have his sterling reputation soiled by being associated with a corrupt organization.

    Oh well, maybe it’s just as well things have gone this direction given Mr. Carlson’s show was characterized in the following manner …

    U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil’s opinion, leaning heavily on the arguments of Fox’s lawyers: The “‘general tenor’ of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not ‘stating actual facts’ about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in ‘exaggeration’ and ‘non-literal commentary.’ Fox persuasively argues, that given Mr. Carlson’s reputation, any reasonable viewer ‘arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism’ about the statement he makes. Whether the Court frames Mr. Carlson’s statements as ‘exaggeration,’ ‘non-literal commentary,’ or simply bloviating for his audience, the conclusion remains the same — the statements are not actionable.”

    Bye Tuckems!

    https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3962900-what-fox-news-dominion-settlement-means-for-its-next-major-legal-fight/

  5. There seems to be various “theories” about Tucker’s untimely departure from Fox News:

    A) He purposely pushed the envelope to get fired so that he could be seen as a sympathetic figure by his rabid audience (Fox wouldn’t allow him to tell the truth) and use that as an impetus to launch a presidential campaign.
    B) He was costing the network too much money (law suits) and there was the potential for more with the Smartmatic and other impending litigation.
    C) There’s a risk that impending legal action from a former Fox colleague might reveal some very unsavory information about Tucker and reflect badly on the network (akin to when a former Carlson writer had to resign due to online racist/sexist activities).
    D) Endorsement of men tanning their genitals as a remedy to societal collapse might have been just a tad too much. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tucker-carlson-end-of-men-testicle-tanning-1338944/
    E) Management not liking his consistent promulgation of conspiracy theories like the FBI having a plant on Jan 6.

  6. Carlson’s virtue signalling about how we should pray against moral corruption just makes your heart melt, doesn’t it?

    Never mind that he has proved to be the most outstanding example of moral corruption in the news media. (Or is that “not literal commentary,” but just a form of highly flamboyant burlesque with a bow tie?)

    I think that FOX just needs to clean out the clowns from time to time: Beck, O’Reilly, and now Carlson. They try to keep up appearances that they are a serious news outlet and not just entertainment.

    1. QUOTE: Carlson’s virtue signalling about how we should pray against moral corruption just makes your heart melt, doesn’t it?

      It seems analogous to slave owners that publicly extolled the virtue of loving their neighbors as themselves but known for abusing their slaves.

      QUOTE: I think that FOX just needs to clean out the clowns from time to time: Beck, O’Reilly, and now Carlson. They try to keep up appearances that they are a serious news outlet and not just entertainment.

      So, does that mean personalities like Ingram and Hannity could be next? After all, wasn’t it Ingram’s mocking of a Parkland school shooting victim that initiated backlash that cost Fox advertisers? Oh, and who could ever forget her hypocritical… “shut up and dribble” retort relative to LeBron James but vigorous defense of Drew Bree’s first amendment rights. As well, Hannity once intimated the ‘deep state’ would be exposed for an attempted coup when he stated “this will make Watergate look like the stealing of a Snickers bar”. In actuality, it was one of his guys (Devin Nunes) that was at the core of the shenanigans. Speaking of shenanigans, per text messages, it appears Hannity had some curious connection to activities relative to the Capitol Building riot/insurrection of January 6. Imagine that?

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