# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/101 "2023-04-24T22:53:21Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > The right just hates a different set of people from the Nazis. Some are different, some the same. I’m sure the Nazis were stauncher anti-Semites but, on the other hand, the American right wing isn’t quite finished yet. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/102 "2023-04-24T23:10:56Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > But I doubt that will happen. Trump hates Fox even more so he’ll probably praise Tucker for getting away from those losers. And the fact that Trump could go either way on the matter must be giving Tucker heartburn right now. I wonder if Trump is taking his calls? I suspect the fact that Tucker hates Trump in private but has to lick his boots in public is a big part of the appeal of their relationship for Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/103 "2023-04-24T23:35:27Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/UNgCerb.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/UNgCerb.png) ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/104 "2023-04-24T23:41:54Z")
And bunny suits. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/105 "2023-04-25T00:09:37Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > with his squeaky sing-song voice and the puzzled pee hole expression he makes when attentively listening. Pull a fucking Branson, and do something interesting with your worthless life. Prick. “Puzzled pee hole expression” and “prick” pretty much sums up my opinion of Tucker Carlson. Good riddance. I can’t get too excited though since it seems every time they cut the head off the snake at Fox another one pops right back up. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/106 "2023-04-25T00:21:33Z")
I posted this in the pit thread, but does anybody know how the Fox faithful found out about Tucker’s abrupt exit at the network? Do they think he just took the night off? Do they think he’s tuckered out, or do they know Tucker’s out? ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/107 "2023-04-25T00:28:13Z")
They had some expressionless Black woman read out a perfunctory statement. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/108 "2023-04-25T00:30:21Z")
What about those loyal followers who got home from work and tuned into their nightly dose of the gospel at 8 PM Eastern time, when Tucker gave it to ‘em good. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/109 "2023-04-25T00:33:07Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > He later wrote: “A combination of incompetent liberals and top leadership with too much pride to back down is what’s happening.” Incompetent liberals work at Fox. Competent liberals at CNN and NPR. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/110 "2023-04-25T00:38:55Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > What about those loyal followers who got home from work and tuned into their nightly dose of the gospel at 8 PM Eastern time, when Tucker gave it to ‘em good. A very short intro by Brian Kilmeade. “As you probably have heard, Fox News and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. . .” ---
**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:** [April 25, 2023, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/111 "2023-04-25T00:46:09Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > A very short intro by Brian Kilmeade. “As you probably have heard, Fox News and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. . .” …“And so we hope you enjoy the following puppet show, featuring a gnarled old man hitting a pig with a stick.” ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/112 "2023-04-25T00:51:26Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > “A combination of incompetent liberals and top leadership with too much pride to back down is what’s happening.” Yes, _that_ may have had quite a bit to do with how come Fox got rid of him first. More than just the issues with the reporting itself, he went directly into acting like _he_ should be calling the shots on _how to run the business_. Whatever its horrors, this is a private company, if he doesn’t like how management makes decisions, there’s the door. Notice they did not give him the chance to get in a last word, which signals both parties pissed off at each other. As to Tucker’s putative MAGA pseudo-alpha-ness… please. He is on record reneguing on His Orangeness, AND, hey, there’s that tape clip: this guy got run over _on his own show_ by Jon f&^%$ Stewart and that was the end of Crossfire (the end should have been years before, but hey, CNN management ain’t such geniuses either). Let Viktor Orban give him a contract. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/113 "2023-04-25T00:51:47Z")
I forget why Tan the Conman hates Fox now. After all, he hates so man people for a musical chairs marathon of reasons. Is the current hatred rooted in Fox daring to announce he lost an election in one state? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/114 "2023-04-25T01:30:04Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > > [@Moriarty](#): > > > > What about those loyal followers who got home from work and tuned into their nightly dose of the gospel at 8 PM Eastern time, when Tucker gave it to ‘em good. > > A very short intro by Brian Kilmeade. “As you probably have heard, Fox News and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. . .” “Amicably”, no doubt, by mutual agreement. Just like the small misunderstanding with Dominion was settled amicably, for some monetary sum not worth mentioning. Very amicable, those nice folks at Fox. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/115 "2023-04-25T01:43:33Z")
As happy as this news makes me I don’t think this is the end of TC by a long shot. I seriously doubt he will make a run for office beyond a House or maybe Senate seat. I can’t imagine why DJT would consider him as a running mate once he locks up the 2024 GOP nomination and I see no way TC would stand a chance in the GOP primary for POTUS. However, I don’t discount the ability of opportunistic trash like TC to reinvent and reboot themselves. He has had successful runs on CNN, PBS, FOX and lest we forget 3 years on MSNBC ('05-'08) with his show _Tucker_ which featured panelists that included the dreaded Rachel Maddow (!!!). He’s always been conservative and quite the capital A asshole but it wasn’t until his FOX years that his really nasty tendencies emerged. He’ll be back somewhere before too long. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2023, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/116 "2023-04-25T01:44:14Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Notice they did not give him the chance to get in a last word, which signals both parties pissed off at each other. I would not be at all surprised if he got the “security guard walks you to the parking lot with a box of your stuff” treatment. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2023, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/117 "2023-04-25T01:46:13Z")
This is an interesting problem that Fox is getting into now. The same one that eventually caused major headaches for their spiritual godfather, Josef Goebbels. Their narrative is now getting so far afield from reality that their timeline needs ever more retcons and patches to hold together versus the portions of real reality that are simply to big for them or their followers to ignore. Big frame jumps in real life are harder to write off than those in MMORPGs As in post-Nov 2020, they had to admit that Biden won; there was no way to stage a fake Trump inauguration to keep the series continuity alive. And now, 2-1/2 years later, we see the cracks sown then finally leading to public avalanches. As TC and others are shown the door and then pop up on competing media outlets of whatever tech, but all spouting their own version of Reactionary Right Hate-TV, Fox will lose control as the arbiter of Reactionary Right Post-Truth Truth. I for one look forward to watching these morons twist on the end of a rope of their own making. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/118 "2023-04-25T01:55:37Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > And if he has to wait, say, six months to go back on the air, will anyone want him by then,. He is WILDLY popular among the right wing. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/119 "2023-04-25T01:58:12Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > “Amicably”, no doubt, by mutual agreement. The word “amicably” was conspicuously absent in Kilmeade’s statement. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119/120 "2023-04-25T02:01:19Z")
Good article on this at Politico: > **[Tucker Carlson’s Exit Shows Who’s the Real Star at Fox](https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/24/tucker-carlson-departure-fox-news-00093559)** > > No one is irreplaceable at the network. It was designed that way. > [@](#): > > When Ailes finally cast the show with his types, Ferguson writes, he summoned them to his office and had them stand in a semi-circle around his desk to explain why he was calling the show _The Five_. “‘I’m calling it The Five because you are types, not people. You all are about to become very famous, and you’re going to make a lotta money. A lotta money. But don’t ever forget. Right behind you I’ve got somebody exactly like you ready to take your place. So don’t fuck up.” > > The brilliance of Ailes’ insight that everybody is replaceable by design faded into cheap irony in 2016 when he, too, was [forced to walk the plank](https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/roger-ailes-resigns-fox-news-ceo-n614396) over sexual harassment charges. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/983119.md?page=7)