Tucker Carlson Obsession Thread (merged)

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Gandalf said:
You guys are dreaming. Tucker has a huge audience that completely distrusts Fox. He could set up his own streaming show. I am sure Newsmax would love to see if they can afford him - and considering whatever buyout they are going to have to pay him, he will not be hurting for cash. if they do get him, FN may lose something like 1/2 or more of their viewers for that hour.

This isn't a Greta VS situation or even a Bill O Riley - maybe like Glenn Beck but Tucker is bigger. Fox doesnt have the hold that it once did. There is too much competition. Someone with Tucker's following could easily put NewsMax or OAN on the map as a major player. Tucker's other programing TC Today and TC Originals is a huge opportunity as well.

Would not surprise me at all to see Tucker pick up equity in another news corp and overnight make it one of the top channels.
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He would fill the limbaugh vacuum.
 
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luthervol said:
Fox may simply be forced to conclude that they are no longer going to try and appeal to the right's lunatic fringe. Maybe they can start moving the line back from the 20% they helped to create to the more historical 3%.
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Fox can come back stronger than ever if they go back to their Roger Ailes roots. Get shows like Hannity & Colmes and O'Reilly Factor where they had liberals represented. I like the all sides presented like CNN Crossfire and PBS McLaughlin Report. No cable news station is doing that now so it's untapped market
 
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Sea Ray said:
Fox can come back stronger than ever if they go back to their Roger Ailes roots. Get shows like Hannity & Colmes and O'Reilly Factor where they had liberals represented. I like the all sides presented like CNN Crossfire and PBS McLaughlin Report. No cable news station is doing that now so it's untapped market
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NewsNation is pretty good. Cuomo on there, Bill O Reilly on as a guest a lot.
 
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Septic said:
He would fill the limbaugh vacuum.
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He did already fill it pretty much. He is pretty much the only one of his stature among Maga and core conservatives. Sure there are guys like Bongino and others who area affective rabble rousers but similar to Rush Limbaugh, nobody actually has Tucker's understanding of the populist mind with the erudition to have deep analysis that goes way beyond (and often challenges) GOP talking points.

Many people who looked to Rush to "sort things out" for them, have mostly looked to Tucker. Hannity and the rest are frankly for those who are the general side of the good guys but are dependent on milk rather than meat, as the scripture goes.
 
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So what are people's guesses as to the why?

a) TC's decision (I think we'd have heard about that by now)

b) A fight over money. Certainly has to be on the list.

c) TC genuinely conflicted about staying pro-Trump moving towards 2024 but the network was demanding it whereas TC thinks its time for new blood.

d) Murdoch embarrassed by revelations of how much TC protested the editorial influence of corporate leadership in 2020/21. Also in my view highly possible.

Those are just some theories. Complete speculation right now.
 
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lawgator1 said:
So what are people's guesses as to the why?

a) TC's decision (I think we'd have heard about that by now)

b) A fight over money. Certainly has to be on the list.

c) TC genuinely conflicted about staying pro-Trump moving towards 2024 but the network was demanding it whereas TC thinks its time for new blood.

d) Murdoch embarrassed by revelations of how much TC protested the editorial influence of corporate leadership in 2020/21. Also in my view highly possible.

Those are just some theories. Complete speculation right now.
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e) Ordered by Rupert Murdoch because it was a condition of the Dominion defamation suit settlement.

In other words, Dominion did not insist on a Fox News on-air apology as long as Tucker Carlson and Maria Bartiromo were fired ... and I think the ax falls on her tomorrow.
 
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lawgator1 said:
So what are people's guesses as to the why?

a) TC's decision (I think we'd have heard about that by now)

b) A fight over money. Certainly has to be on the list.

c) TC genuinely conflicted about staying pro-Trump moving towards 2024 but the network was demanding it whereas TC thinks its time for new blood.

d) Murdoch embarrassed by revelations of how much TC protested the editorial influence of corporate leadership in 2020/21. Also in my view highly possible.

Those are just some theories. Complete speculation right now.
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I think B could be a slight contributing factor; they let Dan Bongino go last week over a money dispute (his name hasn't come up at all in connection to the lawsuit), but I think it is mostly reason E from @BowlBrother85 post. I think the only reason they would let him go is if they were forced to.
 
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Would like to hear Tucker's side, but there is probably a nice financial settlement and NDA to go along with it.

Tucker was the only prime-time show I would watch in the evenings and that was only occasionally. Sometimes he had the tin-foil hat on, but he was the only one who would ask questions that needed to be asked or pushed back against the herd mentality. Some of the folks on here shouting with glee and good riddance, then (figuratively) say a few posts later they never watch him. How does that work? Just parroting whatever you read/heard elsewhere?
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
e) Ordered by Rupert Murdoch because it was a condition of the Dominion defamation suit settlement.

In other words, Dominion did not insist on a Fox News on-air apology as long as Tucker Carlson and Maria Bartiromo were fired ... and I think the ax falls on her tomorrow.
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Blind hog finds an acorn. Entirely plausible here, BB85.
 
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turbovol said:
Their goal has been simply to make money, and they found a nice formula for doing that---pushing a lot of fatuous nonsense on people who need fatuous nonsense to reinforce their political views. Fox found a very nice market--rural Americans--for fatuous nonsense. Same market that televangelists have been mining for decades--and not much difference between the two.
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You know, I hadn’t thought of that angle. Fox found a wave and rode it. There ain’t much difference in Donald Trump and Jimmy Swaggart or Jim Bakker. All three have an innate ability to swindle millions from unsuspecting rubes and none of them could keep their second brain under control.
 
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volinbham said:
People who never watch Carlson cheering his removal and people who never watch Don Lemon cheering his removal.

What a world.
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Both of them represent the opposite ends of the problem that have infected this country for quite awhile now. Win at all costs with no compromise and to heck with the damage left in the wake.
 
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