Tucker Carlson speaks in the course of the Politicon conference in Los Angeles, October 21, 2018
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Tucker Carlson broke his silence on Wednesday night, two days after his unceremonious exit from Fox News.
The appropriate wing former primetime TV host, nevertheless, didn’t address his firing or what’s next for him. As a substitute, in a video posted on Twitter, Carlson discusses his view on U.S. politics and the conversation happening on cable news.
“Once you take a bit of time without work, you realize how unbelievably silly the debates you see on television are, they’re completely irrelevant. They mean nothing. In five years, we can’t even keep in mind that we had them. Trust me as someone who participated,” Carlson said in his video message on Wednesday.
On Monday, Fox News fired Carlson, noting his last show aired on Friday. Neither Carlson, nor his recently hired attorney Bryan Freedman, have responded to requests for comment since then.
“FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” the corporate said in a press release Monday. “We thank him for his service to the network as a bunch and prior to that as a contributor.” Fox News representatives, which have not commented past their Monday announcement, didn’t immediately reply to comment Wednesday.
His departure from Fox Corp.’s cable-TV network – which carries the best cable news rankings – got here within the wake of the corporate’s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems. Fox and Dominion settled the defamation lawsuit just because it was about to go to a six-week trial that may have seen Carlson, a few of his fellow anchors and top brass including Rupert Murdoch testify on the stand. Dominion sued Fox and its cable networks for airing false claims that the voting machine maker helped rig the 2020 election in favor of Joe Biden.
Although the Dominion lawsuit was unlikely to affect Fox’s bottom line an excessive amount of – its stock price remained stable until Carlson’s departure on Monday, when it took a slight dip – the implications of what was already unveiled in discovery, and what could possibly be later revealed, were likely a much bigger concern. Carlson was an enormous rankings draw for the network.
Since Monday, media reports have emerged that non-public messages from Carlson that were unearthed in the course of the discovery process for the Dominion lawsuit helped seal his fate at Fox News. Vulgar private messages about his colleagues pushed Fox leadership toward letting go Carlson, The Wall Street Journal reported. Executives at Fox discovered in regards to the messages on the eve of the trial, in keeping with The Latest York Times.
