Source: Tucker Carlson departs Fox News, pushed out by Rupert Murdoch
“Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News is, in part, an admission of the systemic lying, bullying and conspiracy-mongering claimed by our client, former top producer Abby Grossberg,” said Tanvir Rahman, one of Grossberg’s attorneys. “Mr. Carlson and his subordinates remain individual defendants in the [Southern District of New York] case, and we look forward to taking their depositions under oath in the very near term.”
Indeed!
Comedian Jon Stewart ridiculed Carlson to his face on CNN, telling him that “Crossfire,” was “hurting America.” Carlson was told by one network boss that he was too fat.
I remember this, and it was one of the most hypocritical things ever said. Stewart was doing the same thing, but hid behind the fact that his show was “comedy,” as though he wasn’t purposely trying to achieve the same effect as Crossfire, but with a different schtick. The exchange infuriated me at the time, and it still infuriates me today when the LA Times uses it to promote the idea that Stewart caught Carlson out on TV, and made a fool of him, but it’s just another perfect example of the blatant and shameless hypocrisy of our politics and media in the US.
History is already showing itself to be unkind due to these heavily-biased polemical platforms. This is why — love him or hate him — I am very excited about Musk’s promise that they will only censor Twitter according to the law, as I said they should, months ago, but cannot find to reference now.
