# Tucker Carlson Leaves Fox News **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 24, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119 "2023-04-24T16:08:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/381 "2023-05-04T21:16:05Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > We’re basically reading the inner conflict between his personal beliefs as a guy raised in the accepting and liberal regions of California Ain’t nothing “acceptable and liberal” about La Jolla. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/382 "2023-05-05T01:26:21Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Ain’t nothing “acceptable and liberal” about La Jolla. [The times they are a changin’.](https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2022/11/07/how-san-diegos-political-map-shifted-from-red-to-blue-and-what-comes-next). But yeah, when Carlson was a wee lad La Jolla was reliably Republican. The coastal CA breed, granted (i.e. Republicans that actually worried about oil spills), but still Republican. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/383 "2023-05-05T01:48:55Z")
I mean, Romney still has his house with its car elevator there, doesn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/384 "2023-05-05T13:11:33Z")
I grew up as a SoCal lower-upper class Republican. Other than wanting low taxes, we were hard left Commies by the standards of today’s Rs. And in many ways were more Progressive than the middle range of the current Ds. It’s difficult to really grok how much the spectrum of 1960s/1970s US politics is tilted on its axis versus the current spectrum. We still use the terms “left” and “right”, but within the multidimensional space that is actual political thought those vectors now point in radically different directions than they once did. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/385 "2023-05-05T15:18:56Z")
Drip, drip, drip: More texts come out. Another C-word violation. Bashing Trump. Fears of losing audience. Woman bashing. The usual hits: > **[Tucker Carlson’s ‘C-Word’ Use on Display in Unredacted Dominion Docs](https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlsons-c-word-use-on-display-in-unredacted-dominion-docs?ref=author)** > > Previously unreported text messages show Carlson dropping the misogynist slur again, and elsewhere scheming with newsman Bret Baier on how to win MAGA viewers back. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/386 "2023-05-05T15:47:50Z")
Which still sounds like Fox trying very hard to say they disapprove of nearly 100% of their own approved editorial content of the last certainly 10 and perhaps 20 years. If we and the MSM can’t bring ourselves to criticize Fox directly, can we at least, in the spirit of “when did you stop beating your wife?”, ask them “Why stop now, and not 15 years ago?” ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2023, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/387 "2023-05-05T16:00:11Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > Within the correct context – Tucker hosted a show that is _much_ more racist than these private comments, and that should carry a lot of the blame for Jan 6th, and white supremacist attacks and even _killings_ – I wouldn’t have any unease. > > _Without_ that context, yeah, the MSM is being played for chumps. A hundred percent. > Not only helping FOX, but also watering down a lot of what Tucker is. And you are becoming aware of what many liberals noted since time immemorial. (ok, ok, since I was a kid in the 70s) Most of the mainstream media was and remains a corporate one, they will normalize the craziness of one side because **if** there is a big advantage perceived for one side, their gravy train of political ad revenue will be reduced a lot when precedential or mid terms elections come. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@sinjin1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin1)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/388 "2023-05-09T02:17:26Z")
Marjorie is too fat and not beautiful enough for him to want to hang with much less run with. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/389 "2023-05-09T23:03:56Z")
> **[Scoop: Tucker Carlson accuses Fox of fraud, contract breach](https://www.axios.com/2023/05/09/tucker-carlson-fox-news-letter-fraud)** > > A letter to top Fox officials says the network broke agreements with Carlson. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/390 "2023-05-09T23:11:27Z")
Did he accuse them with a lawsuit, or did he accuse them on, say, twitter? (No, I didn’t read the story that you didn’t describe.) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/391 "2023-05-09T23:23:55Z")
Here’s a blurb from Past Tense’s link that I think explains it: > [@](#): > > **Why it matters:** The aggressive letter from his lawyers to Fox positions Carlson to argue that the noncompete provision in his contract is no longer valid — freeing him to launch his own competing show or media enterprise. The rest of it shows leopards eating each other’s faces…which should provide entertainment for the masses… Press on. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/392 "2023-05-10T00:58:47Z")
I’ve never watched Tucker or Fox. But he is moving his menagerie to Twitter. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/393 "2023-05-10T04:46:49Z")
> **[Elon Musk On Tucker Carlson’s Show On Twitter: “We Have Not Signed A Deal Of...](https://deadline.com/2023/05/elon-musk-tucker-carlson-show-twitter-fox-news-1235361509/)** > > Elon Musk is clearing things up after Tucker Carlson announced he was producing a version of his Fox News show for Twitter. “On this platform, unlike the one-way street of broadcast, people a… ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/394 "2023-05-10T12:18:34Z")
Oh. Thank Og: > For the ones worried that Carlson would use his show to spread lies and conspiracy theories unchallenged, Musk said that “Community Notes” will keep him honest if he says “anything misleading.” So … a bald-faced engagement play: > Community Notes aim to create a better informed world by empowering people on Twitter to collaboratively add context to potentially misleading Tweets. Contributors can leave notes on any Tweet and if enough contributors from different points of view rate that note as helpful, the note will be publicly shown on a Tweet. > **[About Community Notes on X | X Help](https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/community-notes)** ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/395 "2023-05-10T12:22:42Z")
Which means that Community Notes will be disabled shortly. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/396 "2023-05-10T14:30:16Z")
[bats eyes disingenuously] Why, whatever makes you say that? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/397 "2023-05-10T15:32:05Z")
Fox News “Carlson’s white supremacy comments, batshit lying and adversarial behavior towards management makes him a liability to this company and will cost us money. We’re cutting him loose.” Elon Musk “That’s my kind of guy! Sign him up.” \*\*(Not actual quotes) ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/398 "2023-05-10T15:35:06Z")
I don’t think Elon had anything to to with it. Anyone can sign up for Twitter and start a “channel”. Elon specifically said that it’s not official and Tucker isn’t being paid. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/399 "2023-05-10T16:07:42Z")
There’s no way he’s not lying. Tucker wouldn’t walk away from an offer to effectively run Newsmax with a blank check just to sign up for Twitter as a regular content creator. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2023, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/400 "2023-05-10T16:13:24Z")
Why not? He doesn’t need the money. Can’t he still have a monetized account based on ad revenue if he can manage enough subscribers? Can’t he use it to market whatever else comes next? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119.md?page=21)