The Firing Of Tucker - A Loss For Media Integrity

Tucker Carlson, host of Tucker Carlson Tonight, was fired this past weekend for reasons we do not know.

Fox News parts ways with Tucker Carlson

I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner because he didn't hold back from controversial topics. Tucker was the most-watched program on Cable news. He also had a program on the subscription site Fox Nation, where he interviewed many interesting people in one hour.

The people Tucker interviewed were not necessarily on the right side of politics. He interviewed people like Naomi Wolf, Robert Kennedy Jr. and evolutionary biologist Brett Weinstein.

I just cancelled my Fox Nation subscription. Tucker was the only reason I subscribed, and his evening show on Fox was the only reason I watched Fox News. There will likely be many more losses for the Fox organization.

Tucker was a unique individual in cable news. He was his own person, intelligent, articulate and fearless in the way he challenged sacred cows. As we say in Australia, his goal was to 'keep the bastards honest'. Some of these were the mainstream narrative on Covid, the Ukraine War, the transgender movement, the open southern U.S. border and the January 6 'insurrection', not to mention the worthlessness of many U.S. politicians.

What impressed me about Tucker for more than a year is that he exposed Covid fraud from the vaccines to lockdowns to masking. In one of his interviews on Fox Nation, he stated that he did not take any Covid jabs.

On his evening show and Fox Nation, he had people like Dr Peter McCullough, Dr Jay Battycharia, Dr Robert Malone, and Edward Dowd, to name a few. These were people decrying the Covid vaccines. Few dared to touch this topic on prime-time television in 2021 and 22. He was vindicated for his stance; as we know, the vaccines are ineffective and dangerous.

Robert Kennedy believes the Big Pharma gods finally reached the Murdochs to push for Tucker's dismissal.

I don't know if this is true. Still, Tucker was so daring on many topics that it stood to reason that somewhere along the line, he would cop it from the corporates at Fox, despite his high ratings.

Take Ukraine; the official narrative was that Russia was bad, Ukraine good, and America was justified in throwing billions of dollars into the black hole of Ukraine to conduct a proxy war against Russia. As Colonel Doug McGregor and others stated, Ukraine is losing the battle. U.S. involvement is more significant than Biden and his cronies have stated. The release of hacked documents verifies this fact. It indicates that the war is not going well for the U.S.-backed Ukrainian army.

Tucker has been on this story not because he is pro-Russian, but because he sought the truth.

Tucker was also the first to release a newly acquired video of the so-called insurrection on January 6. While both Democrats and many Republicans viewed the day as comparable to 9/11––totally preposterous––, the video showed that many inside the Capital were invited in by police, and most moved around peacefully. That was probably a bridge too far for the administrative state.

On many subjects, Carlson was clearly at odds with others at Fox News, including the higher echelon. For the longest time, they tolerated it, but something triggered them. It may have been the recent lawsuit payout of $800 million to Dominion Voting Systems who ran the voting machines in the 2020 election. Tucker didn't believe there was provable evidence that he could see for fraud and warned Fox to not go down the path of vilifying Dominion without concrete evidence. Fox didn't listen, and now they have paid the price.

No doubt Tucker, a wealthy man, will appear in some other format, either podcasting or on a platform like Blaze TV. To put it bluntly, Fox screwed up.