While the people over at Faux News are feeding the public the false narrative that Tucker Carlson and the propaganda network agreed to "part ways," word on the street (and my gut feeling the minute I heard he was leaving) was that his actual firing is due to the discrimination lawsuit filed by Abby Grossberg, the producer Fox fired last month.
via Los Angeles Times:
Carlson’s senior executive producer Justin Wells has also been terminated, according to people familiar with the matter. A Fox News representative would not comment.
Murdoch is also said to be concerned over Carlson’s coverage of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, in which the host has promoted the conspiracy theory that it was provoked by government agents.
Carlson has called Ray Epps — a Texas man who participated in the storming of the Capitol but did not enter the building — an FBI plant, without presenting any evidence.
Carlson’s exit is related to the discrimination lawsuit filed by Abby Grossberg, the producer fired by the network last month, the sources said. Carlson’s senior executive producer Justin Wells has also been terminated, according to insiders.
Grossberg was moved off of “Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo” and onto “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” where she alleged she was bullied and subjected to antisemitic comments, according to a lawsuit in New York.
In deposition testimony, the former Fox News producer also said she was coerced by company lawyers to give misleading answers in the Dominion defamation case against the network. Fox News denied the claim and said she was terminated for disclosing privileged company information.
In a statement, attorneys for Grossberg suggested her suit was a key factor in Carlson’s exit.
“Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News is, in part, an admission of the systemic lying, bullying, and conspiracy-mongering claimed by our client, former top producer, Abby Grossberg,” said Tanvir Rahman, one of Grossberg’s attorneys. “Mr. Carlson and his subordinates remain individual defendants in the [Southern District of New York] case and we look forward to taking their depositions under oath in the very near term,”
Murdoch also was said to be concerned about Carlson’s coverage of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The host has promoted the conspiracy theory that it was provoked by government agents, and Carlson has called Ray Epps — a Texas man who participated in the storming of the Capitol but did not enter the building — an FBI plant, without presenting any evidence.
Epps was interviewed Sunday on “60 Minutes” and said he has been subjected to death threats as a result of Carlson’s statements about him. The FBI told “60 Minutes” that Epps has never worked for the agency.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy sparked a backlash among Democrats and others when he granted exclusive access to thousands of hours of surveillance footage from the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to Carlson.
Carlson’s ouster was not part of the $787.5-million settlement Fox News agreed to pay to Dominion Voting Systems last week, according to a representative for Dominion.
However, some of the comments that Carlson had made about Fox News management in communications that turned up in the discovery process for the case may have played a role in his demise.
Dominion accused Fox of knowingly making false claims related to the 2020 election.
I personally think it is a mixture of things. I believe with him acting as patient zero over at Faux News, by making the network millions spreading propaganda to rile up the loony radicals, the Trump/Biden election being the perfect example as well as the January 6th insurrection.
With Dominion settling with Fox for $787.5 million, and now Smartmatic coming after them for $2.7 billion, Tucker, who in my opinion is uncontrollable at the network had to be made an example out of.
Also, I'm hearing that Tucker is a huge antisemite behind the scenes, and there may be some recordings of him making anti-Jewish comments at the work place, and may have made some misogynistic comments towards his female employees.
There's also word that he may be considering throwing his hat in the ring for the 2024 presidency as a populist candidate. Since he has his fingers on the pulse of the crazies, his political ambitions just might work.
However, like Florida Governor Ron DumbSantis, I don't think he has a rat's chance in hell of becoming president of the United States.
So if his political aspirations don't pan out, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before he ends up on Rumble.
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