All hell is breaking loose at Fox News.
The biggest shakeup in network history took place.
Fox News fired Tucker Carlson and you won’t believe what happened next.
News broke midday on Monday that Fox News got rid of Tucker Carlson.
“FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” a statement from Fox News read.
Fox announced that Carlson’s last program was the previous Friday meaning Carlson would not get a chance to say goodbye to his audience, the largest in all of cable news and that a rotating cast of guest hosts would get their chance to audition for the permanent role.
“Mr. Carlson’s last program was Friday April 21st. Fox News Tonight will air live at 8 PM/ET starting this evening as an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named,” the Fox statement added.
As soon as Fox News fired Tucker Carlson — the most popular host in all of cable news — Fox Corp. stock tanked, plummeting five percent on the announcement.
Appears Fox stock is crashing after announcing Tucker Carlson’s show is over: pic.twitter.com/4V1M3ww7r6
— Henry Rodgers (@henryrodgersdc) April 24, 2023
Many speculated Fox News fired Carlson to make him a scapegoat for the network paying out a $787 million settlement to Dominion Voting Systems to end a defamation lawsuit.
But Carlson was the one host on Fox News that called out Trump lawyer Sidney Powell for not presenting evidence that voting machines stole from Trump and switched them to Joe Biden.
It’s been widely reported that Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch made the final call to fire Carlson.
No one has landed on one reason why.
The morning Fox News fired Carlson, Fox was still promoting Carlson’s upcoming broadcast that night.
Some outlets reported that Murdoch — whose personal politics fit more closely with those of RINO Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — grew uneasy with Carlson’s reporting on the involvement of undercover FBI informants in the events of January 6.
Other reports indicated Fox fired Carlson in the wake of producer Abby Grossberg’s lawsuit alleging sexist bullying during her time on Carlson’s show.
Trump supporters believe Murdoch wants Carlson — and other pro-Trump hosts — off the air so Fox News can go all-in to defeat Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential primary.
Fox News firing Carlson is the biggest media story — and one of the biggest political stories— of 2023.
Conservatives will not be happy as ever since Donald Trump left office there was much reporting that establishment GOP figures — like Fox News board member Paul Ryan — want to use Fox to push the party left while purging Donald Trump and his supporters from the Republican Party.
Carlson’s firing is a warning that there may be more truth to those rumors than anyone thought.
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