Judging by the tone, I’m gonna put a nickel on “Deep State”.
Thanks. I didn’t know what she was talking about either. She does mention the ‘Deep State’ from time to time though, so I should have known. So, yeah… FOX is part of the Deep State now.
One has to imagine that they’re very far toward the shallow end, though 
I think you got closer than maybe you imagined:
Anybody with even a perfunctory understanding of Occam’s Razor pretty much had to start with this hypothesis.
Yep; you can spread anti-vax propaganda 49 times, but, by god, the 50th time will get you fired 
Overall the situation sucks and is dangerous, but oh, the schadenfreude of seeing the rightwingers turning on each other.
In so many, many senses, eh?
I’m gonna go ahead with one of those comments that gives me minor trouble on these boards, but I’ve never really listened to Tucker Carlson until I saw that video yesterday. And the man has, without a doubt, the least masculine voice I have ever heard from a male anchor/commentator of his ‘stature’. It cracks. It whines. It is, frankly, unmanly.
Tucker returns for two minutes to announce, as far as I can tell, that he’s all in favour of Truth. But he says there aren’t many places left where you can find it. I can suggest a few, though, and you know it’s the real deal because it’s right in the name: Truth Social, Russian propaganda arm Pravda (Russian for “Truth”), and the magazine for far-right Christian lunatics who believe the Bible is the literal and inerrant word of a magical deity in the sky, and which is called, naturally, Truth, Unfortunately, we may not be hearing much from Tucker for a while because, according to truth-telling far-right Christian lunatics, after Satan fired him from Fox, they say that Satan signed Tucker to an exclusive 20-year deal. (I am not making this up.) Although said far-right Christian lunatics have not clarified what media outlets Beelzebub the Prince of Darkness actually operates. I always thought it was Fox News.
Truly, it is the voice of someone who should be wearing a bow tie. Oh, wait …
Hey, now. 
Say, how long am I supposed to tan these things, anyway??
[need answer fairly quickly]
/s
Yabbut – his shtick is intellectual; he’s not trying to appeal to violent macho lunatics.
Don’t go there.
OK, I may have to withdraw the bow tie crack since I’m getting heat for it.
But I will say something in all seriousness, looking at that punchable face of a young Tucker Carlson that I regrettably posted. The reason I despise him so much – as we all should – is that, just like his pal Trump, he’ll happily send his country down the shitter to make a buck. That tells us everything we need to know about his ethics and integrity, and why he cheerfully lies even as it weakens his own nation and bolsters its enemies. Does he care at all? Probably a little, since he lives in that same country whose politics and values he pollutes with noxious lies, but he probably thinks that there are enough decent people around to save it from assholes like himself, so he can just keep on profiteering. And if not, well, Russia has already set out the welcome mat.
More likely he thinks he has enough money to insulate himself from the unpleasantness he’s creating in the country.
That’s what they all think. Money or God.
Money always comes first.
There are a couple on this list that either ‘we’ haven’t talked about, or maybe just downplayed, including religion and (Murdoch’s) family turmoil:
But I could make a great deal of money in a high-stakes game of “Tucker’s an Asshole Bingo,” so … Fish. Barrel.
I kinda hope this is the reason. It would be well deserved:
Carlson has been a vocal proponent of a negotiated surrender in Ukraine that would involve the country giving up most of the territory now held by Russia. While implicitly an attempt to admonish the Biden administration, his views made him a star on Russian state TV, which only airs pro-Putin viewpoints.
Sources told The Washington Post that Murdoch joined a Fox newsroom meeting to loudly challenge Carlson’s message after he called President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “Ukrainian pimp.”
Blockquote
Rich enough, armed enough, or God-protected enough to endure whatever comes, so let it come.