Fox News said Monday it has “agreed to part ways” with Tucker Carlson, its popular and controversial host, less than a week after settling a lawsuit over the network’s 2020 election reporting.
The network said in a press release that the last program of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” aired Friday.
“We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” the press release from the network said.
Carlson became Fox’s most popular personality after replacing Bill O’Reilly in Fox’s prime-time lineup in 2016. He’s also consistently drawn headline for controversial coverage, including most recently airing tapes from the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection to minimize the impact of the deadly attack.
There was no immediate explanation from Fox about why Carlson was leaving.
His name came up during the recently settled case with Dominion Voting Systems, primarily because of email and text messages that were revealed as part of the lawsuit. In some of them, Carlson privately criticized former President Donald Trump, saying he hated him passionately.
A few weeks ago, Carlson devoted his entire show to an interview with Trump.
“Fox News Tonight” will air in Carlson’s 8 p.m. ET prime-time slot, hosted by a rotating array of network personalities, for the time being.
(AP)
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Wait, is this because Tucker had the courage to say that he supports Kennedy? 😉 Sounds like it wasn’t convenient for folks from the nazi american deep state hahaha!!
Tucker and Ze truth united with Kennedy and the righteous!!!!
Carlson will go to Newsmax or OANN and boot their ratings to rival Fox. There is an audience for his antics.
Anyway he’s a heir to a frozen fish fortune and made lots of money while on Fox.
What took so long? In the end, probably because he helped cost them $787 million
Or maybe because he spoke about us nuclear weapons used for military purposes in ukraine.
Maybe he and Bill O’Rielly can commiserate. He will have to find another place to poison the airwaves.
He should join Bill O’Reilly or start his own network together with Lemon and Rice.
In 2020, Susan Rice warned Israel that annexing parts of the West Bank would harm ties with the United States, JTA reported.
Since we know what he really thinks about Trump and many leading MAGA figures from the emails released in the Dominion litigation, you’d have to be a total nitwit to believe he was fired because of his politics. Carlson was an entertainer, and a reasonably good one until he began to ridicule his bosses. Thats generally not a good move, no matter how strong your ratings. Perhaps, he can get together with Don Lemon and start some new “Point Counterpoint” podcast or cable news show.
Gad-dora-the-explorer, if he’s able to tell his “boss” this is a lie, it means he’s a reporter of integrity. The real job of a journalist is to inform and tell the truth not to stick with a narrative that they want to impose on the public.