As negative as I’ve been toward Tucker Carlson over the last many months (starting with his bizarre endorsement of gay marriage), it is looking like Fox wanted to neutralize him before the election, so they can roll everything back to George W. Bush era “conservative values.”
I think basically, Tucker was brought in to be a controlled face of Trumpism, and now they want Trumpism out completely and think they can get it out completely, so they have no need for this guy.
Of course they’re going to try to prevent him from doing a deal with Rumble or whatever.
As I understand it, he got into this contract in 2017 when he was basically a complete nobody, most famous for getting yelled at by that nasty Jew Jon “Stewart” Leibowitz in like, 2006.
RT:
Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson is ready to go on the attack against Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News if the network does not release him from his contract, Axios reported on Sunday, citing sources close to the pundit.
Fox fired its number-one host last month just hours before he was scheduled to go on air, but has not released Carlson from his $20 million per year deal, which forbids him to work elsewhere in the industry until January 2025.
While Carlson has made no public statement on his departure or his future plans, aside from a two-minute Twitter video promising his viewers that he would see them “soon,” he has retained entertainment lawyer Bryan Freedman to negotiate an exit to the contract. Sources claiming to be close to the newsman say he is losing patience with the network.
His team is preparing for war. He wants his freedom,” a “close Carlson friend” told Axios, noting that Carlson had previously said he wanted to “get this done quiet and clean” but his team was now “going from peacetime to Defcon 1.”
The conservative icon “knows where a lot of bodies are buried, and is ready to start drawing a map,” another insider source agreed.
Well.
That sounds cool.
Carlson’s allies in the media are supposedly prepared to go on the offensive against Fox, and outlets including video platform Rumble and cable network Newsmax have reportedly offered to pay him even more than his previous employer. Even billionaire Twitter CEO Elon Musk is reportedly interested, though the two have not discussed the details of any arrangement.
“The idea that anyone is going to silence Tucker and prevent him from speaking to his audience is beyond preposterous,” Freedman told Axios.
The network lost almost half of its audience in Carlson’s 8pm time slot in the week following his firing, and ratings for the network’s other shows have also declined precipitously – especially in the 25-54 age demographic desirable to advertisers. Carlson’s show drew over 3 million viewers per night, far more than the next most popular show.
People have been complaining to me that I haven’t been commenting on this enough.
Frankly, I just haven’t had a lot to say.
If Tucker is threatening to blackmail Fox News to get out of the contract, than this presumably creates an entirely new set of problems for him. There are various forms of legal blackmail, I think. I don’t know. But I don’t think you can say “release me from my contract or I’m going to start publishing dirt.”
If I were Tucker, I would move to China and just start broadcasting from there. But of course, Tucker believes that China controls the Democrats or the Jews or whatever, so I guess that’s probably not going to be the play. Plus, he wants his kids to be a part of the elite, and unless they marry Jews and disavow him Ivanka style, they would be punished for any attempt he made to disregard this contract.
It seems most likely he’s totally locked in, and out of the game in 2024, and it seems like that was probably planned. It seems unlikely he’s going to get a team of lawyers together to beat Fox.
But hey – the guy is promoting gay marriage, he says white people are Nazis, he says weirdo stuff about angels being space aliens. So, whatever.
In the end, I’m against this exploitative system of contract law, and I do think he should be able to do what he wants to do, regardless of what I think of him and his strange opinions.
So, best of luck, I guess.
Given his belief system, he might want to get his thetan levels checked and then try to contact Xenu for aid.