@engineer,
Not yet, but she will be. I'll make book on it.
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Tucker finally issues a statement. He basically says that the deep state uniparty wanted to silence him because he was tackling the biggest issues of our time that nobody else would talk about.
Full statement:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217863419
@engineer,
engineer wrote:
Every broadcaster thinks they are bigger than the network that made them and to this point, every one of them has been wrong.
Yep. I read this week that this was one of the things that really irritated RM. That and his nasty comments about the upper echelon. I hope this cretin doesn't get another job.
@engineer,
Pragmatics should always temper ego. Tucker damaged his own goods. He is a living example of a bridge too far.
A lot of people are shocked because "Carlson makes Fox so much money!" I think this is because it is so hard to understand how the ultra rich live. If you had a net worth of five million dollars, you could comfortably earn $300k a year in interest. This would allow you to live a rich lifestyle without touching the principle and put you at the 95th percentile of US households. Rupert Murdoch is worth 17 BILLION dollars. The conservative interest on that wealth is $2.8 million PER DAY. Murdoch doesn't care how much money Carlson brings in because when you make close to $3 million per day, you can't spend it all anyway. The idea that you would allow your employee to diss you when you're that rich is absurd. The same thing is going on at Twitter. "Musk has lost $20 billion on Twitter! Musk fires anyone who disagrees with him!" Ok, but $20 billion is Monopoly money to Musk. All anyone needs is $1 billion to be one the world's richest people and Musk is worth close to $200 billion. He can fire everyone who disagrees with him, fill the company with incompetent yes men and lose it all and it's still just a fun project. Carlson never took time to realize that he was just a remora riding around and feeding off of a shark.
@engineer,
I'm wondering if there is a backlog of sexual harassment lawsuits against Carlson? And his insanely unprofessional and crass and misogynist nature is one major factor in Fox giving him the boot. Not the misogyny itself is a firable offense at Fox News and News Corp but the potential loss from so many more $MM lawsuits. A preemptive action per se.
Word is that Republican congresspeople— those of the "deep state uniparty" I assume Carson refers to—complained to Murdoch about Carlson's pro Russia propaganda. Political power trumped pecuniary power in this case.
