Tucker Carlson reveals that CNN is trying to force Fox News OFF the air by pressuring cable carriers to drop it because they say the network 'is irresponsible and dangerous for failing to call MAGA mob an insurrection'
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson revealed on his Friday night show that CNN is allegedly attempting to force the network off the air and has contacted six cable carriers about discontinuing service.
Earlier on Friday, CNN journalists had blasted Fox for being 'irresponsible and dangerous' and slammed Carlson, in particular, for not saying that the rioting Trump supporters on Wedneday were mounting an insurrection.
‘With enemies like this, Fox News will be around for a long, long time,’ Carlson claimed at the end of a long monologue in which he tore into rival host Brianna Keilar and branded CNN’s president Jeff Zucker ‘the dwarf king’.
The Fox host voiced his anger after a scathing segment from
Keilar in which she accused him of being 'entirely fantastical'.
Keilar had also ripped into Carlson on her own Twitter account branding him ‘a propagandist. A liar. A parasite’ for his coverage of the riots and Trump’s presidency in general.
Carlson was also responding to an article from
CNN’s Oliver Darcy in which he questioned whether cable carriers should follow guidelines on the content they disseminate and if they should discontinue carrying Fox.
‘It’s hard, for instance, to imagine they’d carry a fringe and conspiratorial network like InfoWars,’ Darcy wrote.
‘So why do AT&T (which I should note is CNN’s parent company), CenturyLink, and Verizon carry OAN? Why do AT&T, CenturyLink, Verizon, Comcast, Charter, and Dish carry Newsmax?’ he questioned.
‘And why do they all carry Fox — which is, frankly, at times just as irresponsible and dangerous with its platform as its smaller competitor networks?
‘I asked all of these companies for comment on Thursday. I asked them if they have any guidelines governing the content that they carry on their platforms,’ Darcy continued.
‘I asked them if they have any regret over carrying right-wing channels that were in many ways partly responsible for what took place in our nation’s capital this week.’
Carlson was enraged by the article and used a segment of his show to berate his rivals for 'calling for censorship' of a competitor.
‘Friday morning, CNN announced that it is working to force the Fox News Channel off the air and run this company out of business,’ an angered Carlson said.
‘A number of prominent Democrats, including officeholders, support that effort. CNN staffers have already contacted the six major cable carriers in this country, the companies that carry our signal into your home, and pressured them to drop Fox News.
Tucker Carlson taunts CNN as he tells them 'Fox News will be around for a long, long time' | Daily Mail Online