Tucker out at FoxNews

[George K]

@Jolly said in Tucker out at FoxNews:

a return of a show like Firing Line

That would be great. Rather than having a pair of idiots shouting at each other, or worse, amplifying each other, a real discussion.

Maher has been trying that lately, I get the feeling.

[jon-nyc]

@Jolly All reports? Seems like some say he walked out because he couldn’t do a story.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Tucker out at FoxNews:

@Jolly All reports? Seems like some say he walked out because he couldn’t do a story.

Saw that. Seems like the latest is crystalizing around the decision by Murdoch.

To be honest, everybody is just guessing right now, but this won't stay hidden for long. Too big.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in Tucker out at FoxNews:

To be honest, everybody is just guessing right now, but this won't stay hidden for long. Too big.

I think there's a real danger of overestimating the importance of this soap opera.

[Copper]

@George-K said in Tucker out at FoxNews:

bringing far-right ideas and racism to mainstream audiences.

That is pretty outrageous.

I guess it shows how there are many ideas about the meaning of the word racism.

[jon-nyc]

Wow.

[Jolly]

Where did that piece of trash come from?

[George K]

@Jolly said in Tucker out at FoxNews:

Where did that piece of trash come from?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/04/tucker-carlson-leaving-fox-news-alex-jones-infowars/673838/

[Copper]

@Jolly said in Tucker out at FoxNews:

Where did that piece of trash come from?

Calling it trash is too kind.

[jon-nyc]

It makes a couple of good points: As we saw with Bill, the platform is bigger than the man. And though he’ll likely resurface somewhere, it won’t be with anywhere near as much influence.

And yes, his show did serve the purpose of finding message-board garbage and feeding it upward and outward.

What was he on about last week? The global conspiracy theory to get you to eat bugs?

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in Tucker out at FoxNews:

It makes a couple of good points: As we saw with Bill, the platform is bigger than the man. And though he’ll likely resurface somewhere, it won’t be with anywhere near as much influence.

And yes, his show did serve the purpose of finding message-board garbage and feeding it upward and outward.

What was he on about last week? The global conspiracy theory to get you to eat bugs?

Except the author of that "interesting" polemic of tribal hatred is off the deep end about Tucker and his influence.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jon-nyc said in Tucker out at FoxNews:

The global conspiracy theory to get you to eat bugs?

Link to video

[Jolly]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Tucker out at FoxNews:

@89th said in Tucker out at FoxNews:

Overall I liked Tucker. He got better every year. I fear he’s yet another body in Trump’s wake for regurgitating election fraud conspiracies, to which it sounds like he didn’t even really believe.

Poor Tucker Carlson, deciding to lie like that?

Well, there's been a few lies at the C network...

"Don't say gay" was in a Florida bill
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi an Austere religious scholar
Andrew Cuomo provided best COVID leadership
Border agents whipped migrants
Bubba Wallace garage door noose pull
Build Back Better will pay for itself
Cloth masks prevent COVID
COVID lab leak was a conspiracy theory
Covington kids
Governor Whitmer kidnapping
Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation
If you get vaccinated you won't get COVID
Ivermectin is a horse dewormer and not safe for humans
Jussie Smollett
Kavanaugh rape
Mostly peaceful protests
Muslim travel ban
Office Sicknick was murdered by J6 protesters
Putin price hike
Russian bounties on US soldiers
Russian collusion
Steele dossier
SUV killed Wisconsin parade marchers
Trump built cages for migrant kids
Trump called neo-nazis "fine people"
Trump had nuclear launch codes at Mar-a-Lago
Trump overpowered Secret Service for steering wheel
Trump pee tape
Trump said drinking bleach would fight COVID
Trump tax cuts only benefited the rich
Trump used teargas to clear a crowd for photo-op

[jon-nyc]

@Jolly said in Tucker out at FoxNews:

Mostly peaceful protests

That was Tucker’s lie over at Fox

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Tucker out at FoxNews:

@Jolly said in Tucker out at FoxNews:

Mostly peaceful protests

That was Tucker’s lie over at Fox

Actually, when you look at the number of people, that's true.

[jon-nyc]

@Jolly

I imagine it’s true in most if not all of the blm protests of 2020. And just as dishonest and misleading.

[Jolly]

Not as dishonest or as misleading as that pack of lies listed above.

[George K]

Link to video

[Jolly]

Recommend bouncing through Bongino's 4/25 podcast. Not sticking around for the whole thing, but for the inside baseball of cable news, streaming, podcasts and on demand video.

Interesting stuff.

Tucker will soon be richer. A lot richer.

[jon-nyc]

Lavrov is understandably upset.