On Wednesday, Tucker Carlson delivered a scathing analysis of today’s United States. The “people in charge” are stifling dissent and acting “hysterical and aggressive” out of “fear,” he claimed, making the country seem “very much like a one-party state.”
Two days after being let off from his position as host of America’s most-watched cable news show, Carlson posted a video to Twitter that lasted for two minutes. He mysteriously addressed his supporters in the video and discussed being muzzled.
He claimed that the leaders of the United States no longer bother trying to persuade the public and instead resort to coercion. He was confident, though, that the ‘honest people’ would emerge victorious.
In his words, “the liars who have been trying to shut them up get smaller and weaker.”
To paraphrase a famous philosopher, “That’s the golden rule of the universe: the truth always wins.” Within the first five hours after the film’s online release, it had already been seen almost 30,000,000 times.
The 53-year-old’s statements were a retaliatory rant against the Fox News executives who had just sacked him.
The Monday morning phone conversation from Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott reportedly caught Carlson off guard. The decision was apparently taken on Friday night by her and Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch. This came after the corporation settled a defamation case with Dominion voting systems for $787.5 million less than a week prior.
Dominion’s argument relied heavily on text messages sent by Carlson to his co-hosts and colleagues, in which he acknowledged the ludicrousness of his on-air comments about the stolen 2020 election and mocked those pushing conspiracy theories against Dominion.
It has been reported that Carlson’s additional messages, some of which have not been made public, are much more insulting and critical of Fox News’s upper management.
The Wall Street Journal, which is controlled by the same family as Fox, reports that in one communication he referred to a high-ranking female Fox employee as a “c***.”
Not only that, but a former booking producer sued the presenter and the network for alleged abuse and unfair treatment.
The network did not provide a reason for Carlson’s dismissal. Instead, the statement said, “Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.”
To quote the show’s producers, “We thank him for his work as a host and before that, as a contributor to the network.”