Tucker Carlson’s ouster at Fox News shook up the political and media worlds.
Everyone wanted to get to the bottom of this bombshell story.
And the reason Fox News fired Tucker Carlson will make you sick to your stomach.
Vanity Fair reporter Gabriel Sherman was the latest figure to report on Fox News firing Carlson.
Outlets like Semafor and Insider reported that Fox News axed Carlson over Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s concerns about lawsuits alleging sexual harassment by a former producer and Carlson debunking the Democrat Party’s narrative about January 6.
But like the JFK assassination, there is a parlor game of multiple theories reported by different outlets.
Sherman claimed a source close to Murdoch told him that Murdoch reached his breaking point with Carlson over Carlson’s strongly held Christian beliefs.
The source, Sherman reported, said Murdoch fired Carlson after Carlson’s speech at the Heritage Foundation where Carlson cast American politics as a biblical battle between good and evil.
“According to the source, Fox Corp. chair Rupert Murdoch removed Carlson over remarks Carlson made during a speech at the Heritage Foundation’s 50th Anniversary gala on Friday night. Carlson laced his speech with religious overtones that even Murdoch found too extreme, the source, who was briefed on Murdoch’s decision-making, said. Carlson told the Heritage audience that national politics has become a manichean battle between ‘good’ and ‘evil.’ Carlson said that people advocating for transgender rights and DEI programs want to destroy America and they could not be persuaded with facts,” Sherman reported.
Carlson slammed liberals that support amnesty, transgenderism, and critical race theory as radicals that hate America.
“We should say that and stop engaging in these totally fraudulent debates…I’ve tried. That doesn’t work,” Carlson told the audience at Heritage.
Carlson explained to the crowd that he believes in the power of prayer and that they should pray for America’s future as the best way to see the nation through these troubled times.
“I have concluded it might be worth taking just 10 minutes out of your busy schedule to say a prayer for the future, and I hope you will,” Carlson continued.
“That stuff freaks Rupert out. He doesn’t like all the spiritual talk,” Sherman’s source added.
Sherman wrote that his source informed him Murdoch broke off his engagement to Ann Lesley Smith after the couple had dinner with Carlson and Smith called Carlson a “messenger from God” and reportedly discussed scripture with Carlson.
“Rupert Murdoch was perhaps unnerved by Carlson’s messianism because it echoed the end-times worldview of Murdoch’s ex-fiancée Ann Lesley Smith, the source said. In my May cover story, I reported that Murdoch and Smith called off their two-week engagement because Smith had told people Carlson was ‘a messenger from God.’ Murdoch had seen Carlson and Smith discuss religion firsthand. In late March, Carlson had dinner at Murdoch’s Bel Air vineyard with Murdoch and Smith, according to the source. During dinner, Smith pulled out a bible and started reading passages from the Book of Exodus, the source said. ‘Rupert just sat there and stared,’ the source said. A few days after the dinner, Murdoch and Smith called off the wedding. By taking Carlson off the air, Murdoch was also taking away his ex’s favorite show,” Sherman exclusively reported.
Until Rupert Murdoch goes on the record with why Fox News fired its most popular host the media will continue to dig into this story.
The outrage on the right shows no signs of slowing down as Fox News ratings in Carlson’s own timeslot tanked following Fox News showing him the door.
It’s doubtful Fox News can come up with a good explanation to calm down furious conservatives.
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