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Look at how long they turned a blind eye toward Bill O’Reilly.

 

I'm not sure Rupert ever cared. The Times ran a piece last week or so that said the settlement (and likely subsequent firing of Carlson) only came about at the eleventh hour when the Fox Corp board of directors was finally made aware of Carlson's texts. You know Rupert and Lachlan had been told long before that. Sure sounded like the BoD forced them to take a different tack.

 

Might not have been the board.

Might have been Lachlan.

In any case, the leaks continue. Likely an effort to cut Carlson loose from his platinum parachute.

 

Wasn't he the guy who quit the Iran JCPOA because he said he could get a better deal.....then didn't get any deal?

 

Since there's nothing better to do

 

Tucker Carlson’s a racist? My, I need some pearls to clutch.

 

He cheated, but didn't lose his wife
Follow him too long, you lose your life
They got some pills to ease the pain
Can't find a thing to ease the insane
He's their king even though he don't wear a crown
He's their king even though he's a racist clown
Some gotta win, some gotta lose
Bad time Donnie's got the coups
Bad time Donnie's got the coups
Bad time Donnie's got the coups

 

Of course.

What I'm saying is that maybe firing Tucker right now - on the heels of the Dominion settlement - is Lachlan making a power play against Rupert to save some of the value of the company.

Before the Smartmatic trial.

 

This is the last straw?!?

In the message, he described himself watching a video of Donald Trump supporters beating up someone he referred to as “an Antifa kid.” Carlson wrote of his conflicting emotions, hinting at his dismay that he had found himself “rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him.”

But in the most startling passage, Carlson asserted flatly that “jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight.”

After seeing the message, the board alerted Fox executives that it planned to retain a law firm to investigate Carlson’s behavior, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive discussions.

The text message, first reported Tuesday night by the New York Times, added to a cascading set of concerns about Carlson within Fox News that led the company to fire him last week, according to several people familiar with the internal deliberations around his departure from the network.​

Tucker Carlson text on ‘how white men fight’ alarmed Fox board members — The Washington Post