Tucker Carlson Goes Independant

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    I'm sure Tucker can have his own platform if he chooses. Nothing has changed with the swamp except gotten worse with all the gouging from national corporations and just about everything tied to money. I have never seen such ignorance in 74 years and all because of one common low life thief and now a brain dead twit wearing suits designed for 20 year olds. Next thing you will see is him wearing shoes and no socks in the oval office cause he thinks it will make people love and adore him. Me I'm still just sitting on a tree top waiting for the half wit to fall over or down which ever comes first. I haven't had cable news going on two years now and I don't miss it because FOX was never my idea of a good news show. I watch very little TV news except local to get weather post. I watch videos on youtube for information. Flipping channels sometimes I see the same old media mouths still pumping out the BS a thousand miles an hour. Must be a huge audience of morons today. I watch Judge Judy and METV and Grit and may all the others just disappear.
     
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    I think Tucker noted that Murdoch was part of the swamp/elite. That was a big part of his departure.
     
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    Rupert Murdock is the old republican swamp member. You know who they are...
     
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    Dick Morris on why Tucker was fired..

     
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    OMG! I recognized Dick Morris by the way he holds his mouth when he talks! Haven't seen him since he became an advisor in the first Bill Clinton administration. He has aged a lot. Morris got into personal trouble with a prostitute and resigned. Then he sort of turned on the Clintons publicly.

    I would guess Morris is right about the Murdochs being tired of Trump. They can see the hand-writing on the wall. As far as Tucker Carlson, how can you continue employing a guy who gives one opinion on air, as if he really truly believes it, and the complete opposite opinion in private? Who would believe anything he said either way from now on?

    By the way, the rude interviewer would never let Morris answer the question.
     
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    I am not a Tucker Carlson fan but his speech at the Heritage Foundation was very good, and this occurred just before his firing at Fox.
     
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    I heard the current CEO being interviewed on Dan Bongino's program this morning and if I gave money to causes I'd give some to them.

    What was the purpose of The Heritage Foundation?

    Summary. A conservative think tank promoting public policy research and analysis based on free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.


    Coming from 60 yrs of being a Dem, I'm learning about the Right Party.
     
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    Newsmax has offered Tucker Carlson, not only his own control but control over Newsmax programming. That could put Newsmax on the news map, perhaps outplacing Fox News. -- Independent Journal Review

    Newsmax Ratings Climb After Tucker Carlson's Exit from Fox -- NY Times
     
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    I'd be surprised if he doesn't have a "do not compete" clause with Fox.
     
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    Somewhere else I was reading that Fox has not contractually terminated him, merely suspended him until Dec. 2024. They were saying he is actually, at this moment, still under contract with Fox while they work through things and that he cannot do much of anything. If so, I think that was Fox’s goal, to muzzle him until after the 2024 elections. True? I don’t know.
     
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    They would have to continue paying him a monstrous salary while receiving no revenue from him. They must be very desperate to muzzle him if that were the case.
     
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    I have also read that Carlson is still under contract with Fox News until late in 2024; so he probably can’t sign up with any other news company until that time, or until he and Fox work out an exit agreement for Carlson.
    I have seen the rumors that several news places are wanting him besides Newsmax, like OAN, and also that he might go into James O’Keefe with his news channel.
    Otherwise, Tucker might just use Twitter and make a channel there where people can subscribe to his channel, which would not be like a contract with another company, and he certainly is getting good exposure there.
    Elon Musk is working on making it more lucrative for content creators on Twitter, and for the first year, Twitter does not even take any commissions from people who have a commercial channel.
     
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