Tucker Carlson out at Fox News.
Your reaction?
>> I mean, I think it changes things permanently.
That's one of the few voices in the Republican Party that would call out
the nonsense from GOP, senators, governors, and otherwise.
I think he's probably a once in a generation type talent,
and to see him go is mind boggling.
I don't know what they're thinking.
>> Don Jr probably didn't read the news about Tucker Carlson referring to
his father as a demonic force.
But nonetheless, now that Tucker has been ousted from Fox News,
there's a lot of coping going on among the MAGA crowd.
And so, of course, Don Jr is just one of them.
Charlie Kirk really had a rough go at things today.
It seemed like someone had passed away in his family,
when really it was just Tucker Carlson getting fired from Fox.
Now, Steve Bannon said, there's nothing in Murdoch's
empire worth watching anymore now that Carlson is gone.
He said this according to Mediaite, you got Maria in the morning,
meaning Maria Bartiromo, you've got Jesse, right?
He's getting there.
But Tucker is really the reason to watch Fox.
With this I don't know why anybody needs to watch anything on the Murdoch empire,
because Tucker was the mainstay of the populist voice over at Fox.
>> Well, he was the mainstay of the populist voice on Fox,
for worse, [LAUGH] in their case, with the populist right.
Pushing out the anti-immigration, anti-race,
the racist talk, he did it all over the top.
The conspiracy theories, the lies about the 2020 election.
He was their bulwark, one of the pillars of hate-driven right wing talk.
And so they're definitely gonna miss him.
But if you noticed, Donald Trump today put out a statement basically going
haha about Don Lemon being fired, but didn't say anything about Tucker Carlson.
That's because he's a little bit more savvy about politics than
Donald Trump Jr,.
Donald Trump Jr, I can't believe he's less bright than Donald Trump,
because I can't believe anyone is less bright than Donald Trump.
But his son is, he's like a clone of a really dumb person.
So Junior is like, [LAUGH] well, we really like Tucker, didn't we?
That Tucker's amazing.
Meanwhile, dad's in the corner going- >> [LAUGH]
>> There's some percentage chance that
Tucker Carlson is gonna run against Donald Trump.
And if he does, I mean, don't you know what he said behind the scenes?
How much he despises Trump, how much he thinks Trump is a destroyer and
a demonic force.
And you don't think that might turn against you?
That is so unsavvy of Trump Jr,.
Now, Bannon has a vendetta against Fox News, and that's a different story.
>> Yeah. >> And I'm curious to see how that plays
out now that Fox News all of a sudden is kind of missing their populist pillar.
>> And Tucker was a perfect little propagandist for Steve Bannon's purposes.
So, that probably didn't bode well for
Bannon because that tool that he likes to use to push the kind of messaging
that Tucker Carlson would push is no longer there.
But we don't know where Tucker is gonna end up, right?
We don't know if he's going to start his own media venture, if he's going
to maybe join an existing right wing media company like maybe the Daily Wire.
I know that that's been floating around.
We have no idea where he's gonna end up.
But I do really wanna turn to Bridget Gabriel,
who I still don't really know, what does she do?
Doesn't matter,
because she provides insightful commentary like what you're about to read.
Fox News has gone woke.
Now they must go broke.
She can rhyme.
>> Okay, well, if it fits, you must acquit.
>> [LAUGH] Okay, so Kat Turd, of course, has weighed in on this.
>> Thanks, God.
>> Yeah, Fox news just pulled a Bud Lite.
Marjorie Green has also weighed in.
Cable news is about to be taught a powerful lesson after Fox News caved to
the woke mob and fired Tucker Carlson.
But did they cave to the woke mob?
>> Was anybody even asking for Tucker Carlson to be fired?
>> I mean, a few years ago, I remember there was a campaign to try to get
advertisers to pull support from Tucker Carlson's programming.
That went nowhere.
So, I mean, what is this?
No, no one in this moment was asking for Tucker to get fired because, to be quite
honest, I didn't think it was even possible considering he was the highest
rated host at the network, I thought they would keep him no matter what.
But apparently even Fox News has its limits.
Let me read you the rest of Marjorie Green's tweet here.
Americans no longer blindly watch the news like they did decades ago.
Really?
[LAUGH] They only watch the ones who have courage to tell the truth.
Americans are about to quit watching.
>> Okay, there's one part that I do agree with, though.
So, now with Tucker Carlson getting fired and then Fox News going more towards
the establishment right wing that Murdoch likes, Don Lemon getting fired at CNN.
We're gonna get to that story later in the show.
But unbelievably, New York Times saying that Don Lemon was
doing thundering monologues and he was a fiery partisan.
On which planet?
But the point being, CNN is saying Don Lemon was way too far left for us, okay?
So they're gonna go back to the middle.
So when they all go back to the middle of establishment Republicans and
establishment Democrats, which is the same kind of hegemony that has been on
television my whole life, people do hate that.
And so now their audiences are already literally in the 70s,
their age, God bless.
But it's 68 for MSNBC and CNN and 70 for Fox News.
That is really, really old.
And maybe they just can't turn the channel, they'll stay, right?
But for everyone younger than that, what is the point of listening to
establishment propaganda, whether it's on Fox News or MSNBC or CNN?
And that's all you're gonna get wall to wall here.
So that's the one part where Marjorie Taylor Green does have
an element of truth.
People are just gonna search out things that they believe to be true in other
outlets.
>> Lauren Boebert had a very similar tweet.
Wherever Tucker Carlson goes, America will follow.
Yada, yada, just showing support for Tucker.
>> Yeah, I'll add one thing to that too.
Everybody keeps thinking, where's the audience gonna go on cable news?
They're not gonna go to cable news, they're gonna go to other places.
And yes, some will go to places like Steve Banner's War Room, right,
if you're on the right.
People have already come to progressive shows like ours and away from MSNBC, etc.
It's just, the old folks cannot think of it in any other way.
And I don't mean the audience, I mean the people in media.
In their world, there is nothing other than cable news.
Dude, no way, man.
Look at TikTok.
Look at all of the social media.
Whether it's bigger networks like us or individual commentators on the right,
left, and everywhere else, it's already gone, guys.
It's already gone.
So where is Tucker most likely gonna go?
Look, I don't know.
I don't think he's gonna get back in the media, that's my guess.
I think he's gonna go into politics.
But if he goes back in the media,
Daily Wire offered Stephen frickin Crowder $50 million.
How much do you think they're gonna offer Tucker Carlson?
>> That's a good point.
Now, speaking of Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro also tweeted about this saying that
Tucker Carlson is immensely talented and one of the most important voices on
the right, and he's going to continue to be those things no matter what comes next.
Now, there was some talk about what it would be like for The Daily Wire
if Tucker Carlson decided to expand on what he began with The Daily Caller.
Remember, the Daily Caller, which is a right wing publication,
was founded by Tucker Carlson.
So, if Tucker Carlson wanted to stay in the media bubble and
kind of build a media venture, building off of The Daily Caller,
that could end up being a competitor to The Daily Wire.
And I'm really curious to see how that would play out if it goes in that
direction.
There's no indication at this point that that is what Tucker is considering,
but something to keep in mind.
And so let's go to Kari Lake,
who says that the best decision I ever made was leaving Fox.
Good for you, Tucker Carlson, you're free and uncensored.
She worked at Fox?
>> No, I don't know if she's referring to Tucker Carlson, but
maybe she briefly worked at Fox- >> Maybe a local Fox affiliate,
because she was an anchor- >> Because she was a local news editor.
>> Right. >> But those two things are-
>> They're very different.
>> Yeah, they're not really that related.
>> No, local Fox affiliates can be very different news wise from Fox News.
And of course, some of our least favorite grifters
really tried hard to spin who Tucker really was.
It makes me sad reading these tweets, but let's go to Glenn Greenwald,
who has now lost an opportunity because Tucker Carlson, of course,
would have him on their show regularly.
Tucker was the cable host who most opposed US proxy war in Ukraine,
denounced CIA, FBI, and DHS for its systemic lies and
corruption, devoted himself to a pardon for
Julian Assange, objected to regime change efforts in Cuba.
Did he?
Criticize Trump administration's militarism.
There's some truth to that last one, for sure.
>> Yeah, and he did oppose the US proxy war in Ukraine,
partly because he loves Russia.
So, I know Glenn, get triggered, get triggered.
But all our brave white fellow Russians.
Dude, the Ukrainians are also white.
But I don't know why Tucker Carlson went down the road of Russia can do no wrong.
But you go back and watch his clips.
They're over the top, he doesn't say like, hey, I don't know that we should get
entangled in a war like this, maybe we could support but not with weapons.
No, he doesn't get into that kinda nuance.
He tells you how awesome the Russians are.
It's absurd.
The dictatorial imperialist Vladimir Putin.
No, no, no interest.
Anyways, look, Glenn is bitter because nobody else would have him on their shows.
And and by the way, there's a little bit of, again, a grain of truth in that,
Glenn Greenwald is in now the populist wing of the right wing, right?
And so he's in the cuckoo land of like, no,
the Republican party is not radical enough, right?
And so, yeah, Murdoch wants to turn away from that,
so they're not gonna have Glenn Greenwald on anymore.
And not only could that affect the attention that he gets, but
it could dry up funding as well, especially if he's not getting that
attention and driving into places where he collects subscriber fees, etc.
So this has a devastating impact on the grifters.
>> And Jimmy Dore compared him to Phil Donahue, [LAUGH].
>> [LAUGH] Okay, hilarious.
This guy, man, okay.
>> Okay, I'll read it.
No one else in all of corporate news ever brings on antiwar voices,
the one that did just got axed.
Does it matter that he's the most watched show in all of news,
much like when MSNBC fired Phil Donohue for his anti-Iraq war coverage.
But Jimmy, Fox didn't fire Tucker Carlson for his views on the war in Ukraine.
>> Exactly.
>> Come on.
>> Okay, guys, that's the most important part of this.
So, I write about how MSNBC fired Phil Donahue back in the day in my book Justice
is Coming.
And that was because there's internal memos that say,
we are firing him cuz he's against the Iraq war.
There's no question about that.
And they did it to Ashley Banfield, Jesse Ventura,
everyone who was opposed to the Iraq war, MSNBC, which was owned by G at the time,
a defense contractor, fired everyone opposed to the war.
So that is a very clear thing.
It's outlined.
It's historical.
There's no question about it.
There's a million reasons why Fox News fired Tucker Carlson.
One was that he was costing them a ton of money, but one of them isn't,
my God, he's just too right wing and true populace on anti war message.
[LAUGH] No, that's not what, Fox News is so opportunistic,
if they are pro war when a Republican is in charge,
they pretend to be anti war when a Democrat is in charge.
>> I mean, Fox News, they were the number one cheerleaders for the war in Iraq.
>> Yeah, I mean, look at these guys like Glenn Greenwald and
Jimmy Dore making it seem like Fox News was the bulwark for the peace movement-
>> It's insane.
>> Is insanity.
Total insanity.