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Fox’s firing of the most-watched host on cable news, Tucker Carlson, is still roiling Leftists and patriots alike, but now Carlson himself has said that it didn’t actually happen at all. In a text message to the news analysis site 19FortyFive, Carlson said flatly: “I’m still employed by Fox.” This doesn’t mean, however, that all is forgiven and that his show will be back on the air Monday. On the contrary, it could hinder Carlson’s plans to take his truth-telling elsewhere.
In his message to 19FortyFive, Carlson was actually confirming what another former Fox host, Megyn Kelly, revealed on Thursday: “I want to, I think, break some news for you. Tucker Carlson hasn’t actually been fired. He’s still an employee of the Fox News Channel. What happened was, Suzanne Scott called him, she’s the CEO, on Monday, morning, and said, um, he was not going to be allowed to do any more shows, and that he had been kicked out of his company email, and now they’re going to have to negotiate an exit. Um, some reporting to me, uh, suggests that she said it’s going to be an amicable parting. Right? Isn’t it?” That would be nice, but Scott’s own behavior, if Kelly’s report is accurate, makes it more unlikely.
If Tucker Carlson was so peremptorily told that he wasn’t going to be allowed to do any more shows and couldn’t even access his company email, he couldn’t say a proper farewell either to those who watched his show or to his staff. This was an odd way for Suzanne Scott and Fox to treat their principal attraction, and it doesn’t seem likely that it would allow for a friendly separation. Of course, stranger things have happened.
And as is so often the case in incidents of the dismissal or rejection of a strong patriotic voice, it gets worse. Kelly continued that all this was “completely catching Tucker off-guard. But Tucker’s not fired. That’s my information.” This doesn’t mean that he is going to land on some new show at Fox or anywhere else on the network. It just means that he might not find it easy to go anywhere else. Kelly explained, “that he still needs to negotiate the exit and that right now he’s not free to launch a podcast or a digital show or negotiate with other employers at all, because he’s still under contract.” So Fox could conceivably muzzle Carlson and prevent him from being able to go anywhere else. The network could simply pay him to do nothing.
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somehistory says
“muzzle” sounds about right. Keep him from telling things he knows to the rest of the country.
There are ways around that, legal ways, if he chooses to. If he has an attorney…and most likely does, for contract purposes if nothing else, the guy could advise him of ways to “outfox” the woman at fox.
TomSJr says
DOESN’T MATTER. FOXNEWS is not HISTORY for me. AND, FoxNews WILL continue to fall dramatically BECAUSE of their insane decision to get rid of their most popular DRAW for TRUTH.
TUCKER CAN DO SO MUCH BETTER ELSEWHERE!!!!
Whenever anyone restricts the truth, they just eliminate half their base and send them to competitors. FINE WITH ME.
I THINK TUCKER WILL START HIS OWN ENTITY AND I WILL SUPPORT HIM, JUST LIKE I ONLY SUPPORT A CANDIDATE AND NOT THEIR POLITICAL PARTY.
TomSJr says
DOESN’T MATTER. FOXNEWS is NOW HISTORY for me.
James Lincoln says
I’m not an attorney, but:
There is likely some kind of a noncompete clause in Tucker’s contract with Fox.
somehistory says
I’m not an attorney either, but it’s possible to get out of a contract. Each side promises something, and if fox is not upholding their side, …
Does his contract say he cannot *write* things, or just that he can’t be on air? A lot we don’t know; but a good lawyer likely will be able to help him move forward.
James Lincoln says
I sure hope so, somehistory.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
That’s there while he’s still employed by them. What’s happened here is that he’s been told not to appear for his shows any more, but has not been released from his employment. In other words, he won’t be able to do any shows either on his own program, which is now replaced, nor join someone else or go independent
Yeah, he should sue Fox for essentially paying him to be muzzled. Another wave of potential discoveries might persuade Fox to release him. Saw the Megyn Kelly show, where she also had on Melissa Francis (who ironically had prevented Newt Gingrich on ‘Outnumbered’ from talking about George Soros), as well as one before where she revealed that he’s still on the Fox Payroll
More is coming out about how Fox has been a pretty toxic work environment, and I am somewhat embarrassed about having followed it all those years. I’m now w/ the Left who want to burn Fox down: do that, and once it happens, use the same template against CNN, MSNBC, ABC and others
Rarely says
There are certainly clauses in his employment agreement which cover terminating the agreement by either side. In the interim he would still be technically employed by Fox.
I am a bit surprised that the Dominion debacle has not had more effect here. His integrity is clearly at issue..
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Dominion was not the issue here! Tucker had dismissed Sydney Powell after an on-air altercation w/ her, and stopped covering the steal. Otoh, other hosts like Judge Jeanine and Maria Bartiromo were covering it at length, and to this day, they remain at the network
The clear consensus that is emerging is that Tucker had grown too big and could ignore the dictates of Murdoch and upper management. That is something that the Murdochs didn’t even tolerate of President Trump, so when one of their own is far bigger than the organization, they’re the last ones to tolerate it
Rarely says
There was no steal. Maybe others should be fired too but his actions put Carlson at the front of the line and he’s destroyed his credibility.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If his credibility is destroyed, why does his ratings exceed anyone else on the network? If anything, Tucker’s presence helped to prevent FNC from totally losing mindshare to others like Newsmax and OANN, who even though they have a more limited reach, have been doing pretty well w/ what they have. All the other shows on FNC that had any viewership at all had it due to any allegiances w/ Tucker: how much of support do you think the McConnell/Ryan Republicans have in the population?
What you are probably trying to say is that you don’t think Tucker is truthful, which is a matter of opinion. But that’s different from claiming that his credibility is shot, when he’s the #1 cable host in the country. For instance, I do think Rachel Maddow is a liar, but I don’t think she has no credibility!
Rarely says
When one is shown to be a liar his/her credibility is shot — pure and simple. Carlson was very entertaining as are others on Fox so perhaps Fox should be listed as a variety show and not looked to as a source of news. That he isn’t alone in creating false news is no defense. In fact it could be argued that, because he has such a large following, he has a greater responsibility to be honest than the less popular.
somehistory says
Whoever….no matter the *who* …should not be excused for pretending to tell others what they need, or even just wish, to know, yet lie about it. Even one who uses a fake name to say stuff, should still be truthful.
and I agree with Infidel. Carlson has more cred than most *news* people…and he has such fun telling a heck of a lot of what he does.
Rarely says
somehistory
So the idea isn’t who’s lying but who is the biggest liar. Carlson isn’t as big a liar as some others. What a sad commentary on the news media.
E T says
Rarely said it “When one is shown to be a liar his/ her credibility is shot pure and simple”.
Justine Trudeau testified before the Emergency Act “I did not call people who were unvaccinated names”.
“If you want to get on a plane, a train, you need to get vaccinated because everyone needs to get vaccinated”.
“Yes there is a small “fringe minority” of anti Vaxers, they don’t believe in science, you need to condemn those people, you need to correct them”.
“Anti vaxer mob”
“Misogynists, racists, extremists with unacceptable views. Should we tolerate them”?
CANADIANS who did not agree with his views had their bank accounts frozen, credit cards, insurance cancelled, lives destroyed by this World Economic Forum/ traitor clown. Was that OK with Rarely? For the love of God man, grow up.
And then there is Corn Pop!
Next Rarely will be lecturing us on the virtues of Bill C-11 aka the Canadian shhhh bill.
Rarely says
E T
What has Trudeau got to do with Carlson?
All I’m saying here is that when a news commentator is caught being dishonest how do you know when he/she is being honest? Which stories do you believe and which do you not believe? Being a liar is like being pregnant — either you are or you’re not.
BTW. You have no idea where I stand on the other issues you’ve raised. Because I question Tucker Carlson’s integrity doesn’t label me. I’m surprised that you don’t.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Rarey
One’s credibility doesn’t depend on whether he’s actually a liar: it’s whether people believe that he is one. You obviously think that he is, but all those 3 million people who used to watch him didn’t think so. You’re falling in the same trap as most leftists in branding opinions as facts
An overwhelming majority of people on the Right believe that election laws were violated in the process of electing Joe Biden, w/ a magnitude actually big enough to have flipped the results. You may object to the term ‘steal’ or sloganeering by people on this side, but it doesn’t change the fact that the legitimacy of this government has been in question from day 1. As we’ve argued at the time, there were enough witnesses willing to submit sworn testimony and affidavits to that effect in the disputed jurisdictions in question, and even now, courts are conceding that election laws were violated, but don’t think that those results should be corrected (as it happened once in California when a sitting GOP statehouse member lost his seat when the mail-in ballots were finally tallied). And at any rate, Tucker dropped this issue pretty early, so the claim that this issue was what brought him down is pure sophistry
somehistory says
Rarely,
I’ve listened to Mr. Carlson a lot and I have not heard him tell lies.
He used video to prove what people have said and done, for example kjp in her “briefings” with the news media.
Not agreeing with the views of another, does not make the other a liar.
And telling lies, whoever is telling them, is wrong. Even if everyone else gets away with telling lies, it’s still wrong to say things one knows are not true.
Rarely says
Infidel.
That many people believe that there were sufficient election “irregularities” to categorize the election as a “steal” doesn’t make it so. All we have left to turn “belief” into “fact” is the legal system. That over 40 law suits initiated by Trump, with all the witnesses and affidavits you refer to available to Trump’s team, were all rejected should be an end to the matter. BTW that some of the judges were Trump appointed and the SCOTUS had, and still does have, a right leaning bias supports that position. Similarly, allegations against Dominion appear to be true only in the imaginations of those who wish those allegations to be true.
Don McKellar says
Recently it was revealed that Fox News is sitting on a lot of cash, thanks to big ratings from Carlson and others like Gutfeld. They used some of that to settle with Dominion. I would imagine this bizarre move to silence Tucker really puts pressure on Fox management. They are in a losing position any way you look at it. If they sit on Carlson’s contract they suffer a slow downward spiral from this initial steep drop. Nothing positive for the company is accomplished, anamosity builds behind the scenes. Who knows how it will explode. If they pay off Carlson they lose a lot of money and their ratings machine goes elsewhere and Fox ratings plunge to zero with direct competition in whatever time slot he’s in.
It’s hard to know if the Bud Light fiasco or this is the stupidest corporate move of the year. Disney is still trying real hard to destroy themselves, so who knows what’s next.
Woke is insanity. That much is clear.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Right now, the story is that they’re sitting on the contract, keeping him paid but not letting him do any show. That way, he can’t express his views outside, nor inside. If they manage it long enough, he gets to be somewhat forgotten in public, at which point it wouldn’t make a difference
Thankfully, he’s hired a major lawyer Brian Friedman to take on Fox’s shakedown. This lawyer has also been employed by Don Lemon and earlier by Chris Harrison (on ‘The Bachelor’): he’s a go-to guy to take on the networks. Hopefully, he can force Fox to release Tucker w/ everything he’s due
Rarely says
It looks like it’s all just a matter of negotiation under whatever termination clause exists in his contract with Fox. Nothing unusual or perverse.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I’m not normally a fan of Megyn Kelly, but she pointed out that this is the only profession where blue-chip employers try to destroy the reputations of employees and try to sabotage their future prospects of earning a livelihood
If Fox does not wish to have Tucker on its airwaves, they should honor whatever contracts they have w/ him and let him go. There is no reason to lock him up and prevent him from joining another company or going independent. In fact, Fox’s behavior has turned me from someone who previously simply stopped watching to someone who’s now w/ the left in rooting for their destruction
Walter Sieruk says
Many months ago , in a FoxNation ep 82 Tucker Carlson interviewed in investigative journalist Julie Kelly about the so called “insurrection” which occurred on January 6th 2021.
In this interview she explained that ”The Biden regime is turn against Americans on the political right.
Those pro-Trump American patriots in Washington DC that day had been ruthlessly denied their basic decent human rights and their US Constitutional rights .
Even to the most vicious malicious murderous extremes possible.
As one young woman, Ashli Babbitt , was shot through a closed door and her was unarmed and non –violent. The other young woman Rosanne Boyland, was beaten by them and chased in a nearby tunnel by them and murder by them. This is North Korea or America. ?
For some people vicious actions of the Capital “police” by how they harmed Rosanne Boyland so terrible that she because unconscious and they attempted to revive her but the Capital police stopped them “ Are they that Capital police of America ? This wicked murderous behavior is more fitting for the Capital police of Communist China.
Kelly speculated that the awful abuse against peaceful American citizens on “January 6th was an excuse to strip Americans of their Constitutional rights. “ Sadly she might be right, after all, there is an old saying that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
Rarely says
Patriots?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, the non-Democrats who don’t want to destroy this country at every level, starting from grooming kids into trannies, spending us into oblivion where it’s only a matter of time before the US$ is about as valuable as the currencies of Zimbabwe or Uzbekistan, destroying our credibility w/ countries to the point that they’re looking at alternatives to the US$ as a reserve currency, introducing race hatred at every level and so on
Those people who’re opposed to any number of the above are patriots. The Dems, and all the people who support what I listed above, are the traitors!
Rarely says
Is there no room for a difference of opinion? Does everything come down to agree with me and you’re a patriot, disagree and you’re a traitor? Somehow or other the rhetoric has to be toned down. (I’m not suggesting the right is more the cause than the left.)
࿗Infidel࿘ says
There is room for a difference of opinion when all the stakeholders simply have different ideas of how to make the country better for its people, as used to happen w/ the classic Liberals. That’s not what the Left in this country wants. They think this country is intrinsically evil, founded on slavery and racism, and that has to be corrected by racism not just against Whites, but also against Asians – the “White-adjacents”. None of the ideas I listed above – trans grooming, budget busting, race hustling, has anything to do w/ making this country better
So yes, they are traitors. They’d like to pull off a revolution similar to the civil war in the Soviet Union b/w the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. I’d say we’re headed that way b’cos one side wants it that way, and usually, you only need one side to start a war
E T says
“Is there any room for difference of opinion “? NO – C-11
Why are Liberal experts always right and Conservative experts wrong?
Rarely says
It’s possible to agree with some Liberal positions and not others. That is unless you buy into a total platform on every issue. That just polarizes. Are you unable to look at an issue with an open mind and take a position on the merits? It would, of course, require some thought and reasoning. You have a mind for a reason and it’s not just to have knee jerk reactions. It’s better to be wrong sometimes (even often) than to be brain dead. The “other side” isn’t ALWAYS wrong and aren’t necessarily traitors.
Walter Sieruk says
A good number of months ago Tucker had made a much earlier video about that schemed left. wing set up on that terrible day On a Fox News program listed on FoxNation ep 82 Tucker Carlson interviewed in investigative journalist Julie Kelly about the so called “insurrection” which occurred on January 6th 2021.
In this interview she explained that ”The Biden regime is turn against Americans on the political right.
There relating to Biden and the many leftist judges who are now in power are actually condemning Conservatives Americans for even doubting the legitimacy of the 2020 November election.
This is as terrible as it’s also unjust that people in this country can now be condemned for ideas, “thought crimes.”
This injustice and violation of the American Patriots Constitutional rights and basic human rights on that day and afterwards after Joe Biden took Office is an affront to all that is good, decent just and right.
For example on patriot at the pro –Trump rally even though he didn’t break any laws by was arrested anyway by the Capital police. I use the word “police” loosely when referring to some of those Capital “police.”
That man had the leftist judge sentenced him to prison because he discovered that this man a keyboarded and posted some negative comments about Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and his questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 national election results.
Then Carlson, rightly, said about that “This is America and the US Constitution guarantees freedom of speech.”
That “guarantee” must be meaningless with that Un-American Biden sitting in the White House Oval office and his politically correct judges in power.
It’s unbelievable how corrupt and tyrannical since Biden took Office. No wonder he favors Red China in his international polices .For he must like such dictatorial powers.
In the interview, it was revealed that the only people who were murder at that place at that time had been Trump supporters and the report that a Capital police officer was beaten to death by Trump supporters as a lie and a complete fabrication.
That was probably made up to that fact of two young patriot woman who were killed by Capital “police.” One young woman, Ashli Babbitt , was shot through a closed door and her was unarmed and non –violent. The other young woman Rosanne Boyland, was beaten by them and chased in a nearby tunnel by them and murder by them. This is North Korea or America. ?
For some people vicious actions of the Capital “police” by how they harmed Rosanne Boyland so terrible that she because unconscious and they attempted to revive her but the Capital police stopped them “ Are they that Capital police of America ? This wicked murderous behavior is more fitting for the Capital police of Communist China.
Furthermore that police officer who was falsely claimed have had killed by Trump supporters had actually about a month later by unrelated cause.
Nevertheless Joe Biden , went along with the lie as to how that police officer died and went to viewing putting on an act by shaking his head, This willful and deliberated deception by Biden further reveals what a scoundrel Biden actually is.
This fiction about how that officer died was done to make the Patriotic Trump supporters look terrible and distract the public’s attention away from the brutal murderous behavior of the Capital “police.”
Kelly speculated that the awful abuse against peaceful American citizens on “January 6th was an excuse to strip Americans of their Constitutional rights. “ Sadly she might be right, after all, there is an old saying that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
It should be mad made known that the Department of Justice in have involvement, along with the FBI , they must now be infected with extreme leftism . Those two government organizations are far from the grand institutions that they had been in the past.
Now the FBI is directly involved enticement and entrapment of peaceful Conservative Americans, calling “domestic terrorists.”
One conservative man American was also arrested an imprisoned only being nearby the Patriot January 6th rally , he was outside and didn’t even enter an government building.
One conservative man was unjustly imprisoned because he recanted his conservatives views [thought crimes]
Another man was sent to prison by his probation officer for viewing information on politics the internet.
This is all unbelievable absurd and wickedly dictatorial. This is like its right out of the George Orwell novel entitled “1984.”
libertyORdeath says
Just more leftist/globalist election rigging that will not end until we make it end.
Don’t fall for the trap this time (I’m lookin at you Q). We don’t need to claim fraud or CIA shootouts without evidence.
Stick with the facts – the unconstitutional changes to voting laws, the illegal ballot harvesting, the election interference by the federal government, the CIA, the FBI, and others exposed by the Twitter Files, the injection of hundreds of millions by tech oligarchs to rig the election, the irregularities such as the ridiculously low rejection rate or the middle-of-the-night ballot dumps, the eyewitness testimonials and so on.
Most seem to forget that the Republican congress was ready to debate and possibly audit the 2020 election UNTIL the J6 fedsurrection caused many reps to change their vote. Stick to the evidence and avoid the traps. They’re DYING to get you to act out in the face of their corruption.
Trouble says
It’s about censorship. Eradicating dissenting views, the truth and debate or anything resembling a democracy and freedom. This is the US? The main reason being according to what is said about the contract is to keep him tied up ( not going anywhere) and mainly stop Tucker giving a platform to Trump or any opposition from either party to Biden, maybe till after election which equates to election interference at least and third world country antics at best. Noted that Schumer had a word with Murdoch about Tucker and all in lockstep with what happened in Ireland and what is happening in Europe presently. The disinformation brigade of Zoro Schwarz and the Wef ‘s schwarb , and schumer pressuring the media is a blow to freedom of information which overrides the US constitution and nobody does anything about . So remember everyone just SCHhhhhh!
E T says
Exactly. Two weeks to flatten the curve. Stay home, stay safe and shut up. Prepare yourself for climate lockdowns brought to you by Pfizer and the WEF Climate Clowns and all the little municipal collaborators.
Liar – A person who tells lies.
Spin doctor – A spokesperson/ peoplekind for political party or politician employed to give favourable interpretation of events to the media.
MSM – spreaders of disinformation —-information which is intended to mislead.
Misinformation- give false or inaccurate information to….
Sully – damage purity of integrity ( make dirty)
Poppycock – Nonsence
E T says
Rarely you call Tucker a liar and when I point out Trudeau lied and the MSM it is OK. Oh my goodness, I just remembered you were the pompous ass who called me Typhoid Mary. Spare me your condescending bullshit.
You are right and the whole bloody world is wrong, you are a Liberal.
E T says
I hope you are keeping up with your booster shots. Is it number 6 they are now offering to the useful idiot hypochondriacs?
Rarely says
E T
What does Trudeau lying have to do with Carlson lying? Don’t think I approve of him or the media lying. So what if Trudeau is a worse liar or not? So Gacy was a worse mass murderer than Jack the Ripper. That doesn’t let Jack off the hook.
Hitler was worse than Stalin and Mao was worse than both. Is that a defense for Stalin?
So you don’t believe Covid exists? Is it unreasonable to take at least minimal precautions against getting and spreading it? You have the right not to be vaccinated just as you have the right to wave your fists around BUT your right to wave your fists ends at my nose.
You accuse me of having “condescending bullshit” yet you accuse those who have been vaccinated as being “useful idiot hypochondriacs”. Anyone who gets their “facts” from Alex Jones and his ilk is destined to wallow in ignorance.
E T says
Never ever have I listened to Alex Jones. I can think for myself. As for the useful idiots: I have been called a lot of names for not getting vaccinated, by so called long time friends, family members, neighbours, my only sin was sending them information on the shots.
I know an awful large number of people who were healthy and have died suddenly. Some are having trouble walking, going blind, hearing loss, sudden fast acting cancers- doctors informing them they are too far gone for treatment. I am not going to debate you on what I have seen. So give it a rest, I am not on this earth to try and fix stupid.
Just keep calling me Typhoid Mary, Tucker a liar, and anyone else you wish to degrade, and I, because I am so ignorant, shall call you little dickweed.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Interesting conversation b/w Bo Snerdley and Mark Steyn on Tucker. I do root for Tucker and Mark re-uniting in a future enterprise: my favorite moments on Tucker’s show used to be Mark’s appearances
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7lt3egw7xg
Hillel Yaari says
I have NEVER caught Tucker in a lie, He has, in fact, admitted several times when he turned out to be wrong. In this world of lies, the truth teller is an outcast.