Former Fox News host Glenn Beck said Monday that the departure of Tucker Carlson would “kill” the conservative news network.
“I think that’ll kill Fox, I really do,” Beck said. “I know so many people that still kinda like Fox, they watch other shows, but they’re like, Tucker is the only one I really trust. You lose Tucker Carlson; I think that really kills them.” “You’re getting rid of Tucker Carlson? Wow,” Beck added. “Letting him walk out the door even? Wow.”
Beck pointed out that Tucker just wrapped up a 3-day series with Elon Musk that was widely watched by those on both sides of the aisle.
“Tucker Carlson and I have become friends, and hopefully, I’ll be able to talk with him today,” Beck said. “I don’t know what the situation is, but Tucker, come to Jamaica. We would love to have you here, you won’t miss a beat, and together, the two of us would tear it up, just tear it up.”
Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch ordered Tucker Carlson’s firing over a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former producer on his show, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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According to the Times, Murdoch was also “concerned” about Carlson’s insistence that undercover government agents were involved in the January 6 insurrection.
Carlson is the focus of a lawsuit from his former senior booking producer, Abby Grossberg, who filed two separate suits.
In a lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York, Grossberg accused Carlson and Fox of sexism and harassment, alleging that his show’s workplace was flurried with examples of misogyny.
Her lawsuit claims, among other things, that mocked-up photographic images depicted then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “in a bathing suit revealing her cleavage” and that staffers were polled — on two separate occasions — on which of two female candidates for Michigan governor they would rather have sex with.
But the network gave no reasoning for the abrupt firing Monday.
According to a statement released on Monday, FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.
“We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” said Fox News in a statement.
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“Mr. Carlson’s last program was Friday April 21st. Fox News Tonight will air live at 8 PM/ET starting this evening as an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named,” said Fox News in a statement.
Tucker Carlson is an American television host, conservative political commentator, and writer. He has hosted the nightly political talk show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News since 2016.
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