THIS IS CNN: Don Lemon goes berserker on Kaitlan Collins

So would Tucker's $25M noncompete. The Fox breakroom would be filled with TV dinners for the next decade.

 

He's 100 percent thinking he has to do something, which is to start a new program to continue going after the left and now also "the media" that kicked him to the curb. That's his mission, or so he believes, and what his GOP pals believe.

I watched his little Tweeter trailer and it's clear that he believes the Big Media Powers stifle, put up roadblocks and won't let their employees tell "the whole story" or "the real story." Which, to him, means saying whatever the hell he wants without any oversight. I'd guess Lemon probably thinks that way, to some degree, about his former bosses, too. "They silenced me, fired me, terrible people!" or something like that.

If it was purely financial, sure, Carlson could sit on his ass. Or write "Secrets of Fox" that comes out in a year or two. Chill out with his money and buy more seersucker and bow ties.

They can't do it, though. They don't go away.

 

She is like one of the hosts in Westworld. Pure bot.

 

Tucker has to know O'Reilly has zero relevance these days - all those book deals he'd get, gone - because he doesn't have the platform to sell them on. But O'Reilly was closer to the end. Tucker probably knows this. Maybe he signs on for a grad school deal with Hillsdale or Yale finally admits him after stoning him as an undergrad. Or starts writing again. the problem is he know Fox News is what gave him credibility, now he's just another downgraded righty talker sent down to the minors.

 

In the past decade or so, O'Reilly has sold about 20 million copies of his "Killing" series of history books and seems to crank out one or two a year. Seems like all those book deals are still there.

 

I checked - yes - he is still selling. Figured his platform would put a dent in his sales and willingness of publishers to front him some cash.

 

Books are like movies. It’s a giant lift to get a viable franchise off the ground so once they manage to do so they ride it like Seattle Slew.

 

Or ride, ride, ride until it turns into a Ruffian.

 

I'm still waiting for O'Reilly's take on the end of his Fox run. "Killing My Career."

 

Radio is probably Tucker's best bet going forward for relevance. No shortage of that type on AM and he'll instantly be an 800-pound gorilla amongst the poo flingers.

 

Tuckums the new Rush , or has that ship already sailed?

 

I thought Hannity was the new Rush? I haven't checked into radio ratings in a while.