Which is Kong and which Godzilla? Or maybe Fox is Ghidorah?
Is it Dershowitz? It’s gonna be Dershowitz, isn’t it…
ETA: I missed the name in the article, and it’s not Dershowitz. But man, that would have been so on brand.
I’m rooting for injuries.
I think the sexism is what finally hurt Tucker. That lawsuit by Abby Grossberg has been mentioned a lot in the things I’ve read.
I think there’s more to it than that, if you look at the twenty specific Instances that Dominion alleged were defamatory, only one is Tucker Carlson’s.
True, it only takes one -Lou Dobbs, who is long gone, was the worst offender by far, but Maria Bartiromo is still employed , as is Jeannine Pirro.
The defamatory statements scorecard is
Lou Dobbs 12
Maria Bartiromo 3
Jeannine Pirro 2
Sean Hannity 1
Fox and Friends gang 1
Tucker Carlson 1
The point being, I don’t see why Dominion would’ve singled out Carlson….unless there are more coming, the week’s still young.
I think it may have something to do with possible pending legal action by Ray Epps, a man who supported the Leopards for Eating Peoples Faces Party and later got his face chewed off. He’s a Jan 6th participant who was never charged in spite of being filmed on Jan 5th urging people to storm the Capitol on Jan 6 .
He wasn’t arrested for many reasons, chief among them being that despite what he said on January 5th, he never entered the Capitol on Jan 6th and was filmed assisting an officer who was being attacked by an insurrectionist.
MAGA has seized on this as proof that he was a federal agent of the Deep State sent to incite a riot, causing him to have to sell his home, move and go into hiding to escape the constant barrage of death threats. Tucker was a prime proponent of the Ray Epps theory, and has done multiple segments mentioning him by name.
The day before Tucker was fired, 60 Minutes did a sympathetic interview with Epps and his wife, the segment included multiple clips from Carlson’s show. I think this may have been a factor.
If you multiply defamatory statements by audience size, even though Bartiromo and Pirro may have said them more, Tucker’s may have reached more people.
Thanks for the more accurate tally (I had just guesstimated that Dobbs was the worst offender by far at “more than half a dozen” cites by Dominion), and also for the cogent analysis. As also alluded to before, at least part of Tucker’s antics were performance art for his delusional audience, but I’ve never heard Lou Dobbs sound sane either on the air or off, even back on CNN. It’s like someone in a hypnotic trance doomed to permanently channeling Trump.
Fox is just pulling out the long knives now so that they can at least pretend to be a serious news organization next year during the elections. Carlson’s ouster is a signal to their other charismatic/populist hosts that done of them are more important than the news channel as a whole and that the opinions expressed are all going to be coming from the top down in the future. The only crazy allowed will be that which has been previously vetted by Fox lawyers.
Today show reported that Mr Carlson was informed of his termination 10 minutes before the announcement to the press on Monday morning. As someone else around here said, if you cost your boss 3/4 of a billion dollars, you will not be getting a good annual review.
Brian Stelter intimated that the accusation of a hostile workplace, the accusations of government involvement (ie, false flag) in January 6th, and the overwhelming likelihood of what was ‘underneath’ the endless Fox News redactions in the reams of Discovery that came out of the Dominion lawsuit all became too much for Murdoch to bear.
What we saw of Tucker, Unplugged, in those documents was amazing. If what we did NOT see was worse … I can’t wait to find out.
Come on, Smartmatic!
NB: Some of what I heard was also via a Katie Couric interview with Brian Steinberg, Senior TV Editor at Variety. I may have mixed an attribution or two, but – in aggregate …
I’m rooting for a small black hole that would devour all concerned.
While I have zero doubts that Tucker earned the Murdoch ire for is attitudes and exposure, there’s also the beneficial effect common in corporate firings: Savings!
The classic “fire the guy at top (who we have to pay the most) and replace him with an underling (that we pay 10-20% as much) for the good of the team.”
No, I don’t think it’s anywhere near the top of their motivations, but down past Make an Example, You Cost us Hundreds of Millions, You’re a Legal Liability, You Said WHAT about US, and is part of Make an Example (part 2) wherein as stated by other posters, NO ONE is more important than the Murdochs.
Just financial, right?
Interesting…
Ousted Fox News host Tucker Carlson and CNN anchor Don Lemon seemed to have had little in common until now: The fallen cable news stars reportedly just hired the same lawyer to navigate their departures.
Multiple outlets say Los Angeles attorney Bryan Freedman is representing both. Freedman has facilitated favorable breakup terms for hosts before, including Megyn Kelly when she parted ways from NBC News in 2019 and “The Bachelor” host Chris Harrison in 2021, Insider reported. - per Huffpost
A small black hole, yes, that would do nicely. Doncha wish we could corral a tame one that would obediently go after certain other targets as well?

Just financial, right?
Oh, I see no reason to be so circumscribed.

There was something else going on with Tucker, and I’m inclined to suspect that his stature with the network made him so full of himself that he felt indispensable and invulnerable and had no qualms about criticizing upper management.
One possibility that occurs to me is that a memo came down putting everybody on a somewhat shorter leash in an attempt to keep them on the right side of the line between obnoxiousness and defamation, and Tucks stomped his foot and squealed “You can’t make me!”

Can anyone who maybe lives in midtown tell us whether the iconic picture has yet been replaced, and with what?
I like to imagine it evolving into something like the iconic X-Men #141 “Days of Future Past” cover.
I assume he’d have signed a non-compete agreement to prevent working for competition.
Not neccesarily since he was fired and walked out the door. Most people would not sign an NDA at that point. But his contract might have wording to such an affect if he recieved any payout of his contract upon release.
That’s been my question, did TC have a contract and did Fox pay him the remander of what was owed to him? If so, how much did he walk away with from this “firing” situation? Or was the contract null and void due to his behavior (released with cause)? Since Fox is a publically traded company I would think this would be knowable.