I am seeing a lot of people not really understanding today’s events in cable news. Ha ha. Tucker Carlson is such a loser. Big dummy got fired!
That shows a very boomer era understanding of media consumption and overestimation of the power of a traditional news channel.
He didn’t need Fox. The last I saw his contract there was something like cheap, which is chump change to a guy with a reliable audience in the millions every night.
Tucker Carlson is now going to go sign a Joe Rogan size contract on a streaming service. He will make the most money of any news broadcaster in history and probdbly do so by an insane margin.
Meanwhile Don Lemon is a relative non entity. He won’t bring much of an audience with him wherever he goes.
One of these two will get a pay cut. The other is going to make orders of magnitude more money, and has the investment potential to boost any media corporation he signs with into a very competitive sphere.
And I don’t even watch Fox News at all, nor do I care about Tucker Carlson. But if you are too blinded by goofy partisan point scoring to grasp the business implications of this, it’s a bad look, but it ain’t my problem.
Thank you. I've been depressed all day. I know it's stupid, but Tucker Carlson was the first news show I ever watched because, while I did disagree with him from time to time, he was the first conservative I came across that did not lick the boots of the Republican Party, corporations, and the war machine, and he identified the same fundamental problems I did. Granted, I had been living in a Democrat bubble for a while, but, god, he was so refreshing. He seemed sincere.
And Ryan Gardner on here has it right. He calls it the "suits"; I call it the Machine. But he was giving voice to a truth many of us peons have understood for a while now. R or D, there ain't any difference. They all see us as obstacles or resources, but feel no compunction to treat us as individuals worthy of their time and attention.
But the fence on that particular gate doesn't even go a few feet into the woods. It's a wide open field thanks to platforms like Substack and Rumble and the like, and all you have to do is step two feet to the side and you'll be by it. And the only ones who don't understand that quite yet are those who actually think getting Tucker off cable will save them.
What a perfect metaphor. And I LOVE the guy at the gate who "absolutely didn't" tell you how to circumvent it. Those are the quiet rebels who bring it all crashing down. Here's to all of them/us/you.
Well, we don’t know if he was fired or whether he quit, but Tucker has a lot to say and anyone who thinks he’s done saying it isn’t paying attention. Listen to his Heritage Foundation talk earlier this week and you’ll know there’s more Tucker to come. The only question is where he will land.
I never watched FNC, but always watched Tucker. I subscribed to Fox Nation but only to see Tucker’s pieces. That subscription got canceled today within minutes of hearing the news. I suspect there might have been a few others who felt that way.
Apr 25, 2023·edited Apr 25, 2023Liked by Chris Bray
Yeah, they canceled Tucker. Meaning, now when he goes to an independent platform or creates his own and takes his sizeable audience with him, he won't have to toe the corporate line anymore. Meaning no leash, no muzzle, no carrot, and no stick. So they set him free to broadcast the truth even more loudly and explicitly than before. The ruling class would be dangerous if they could be as cunning and competent as they are evil. Fortunately for us, they are buffoons.
I love that picture of the gate. Yeah, Tucker can be the next Joe Rogan, only in a repp tie. Rogan has 100,000,000 followers. Not a typo. Tucker, the star of the top cable news show ever, had around 4.3 million on Fox. Tucker will do fine. And they are going to honor the rest of his contract. I don’t really know what Tucker’s actual politics are, but he has been a loud megaphone for freedom and traditional values.
Why the firing- Ray Epps? dominion? Some other insult to the corporate media losers? All the above? Doesn’t matter. Fox is the loser here. They are saying to marketing gurus at Bud Lite - “ You think you know how to destroy a brand? Hold my commemorative transsexual beer can.” Corporate suicide - they fired Bongino last week and other people prinevto telling the truth before that. Who do they keep?
Corporate mediocrities like Brett “My face is frozen with Botox”. Baer. They’re desperate to put the free speech genie back in the bottle. You can smell it. I know the Left is celebrating. But this will make Tucker stronger. Smells Iike we are winning.
My greatest regret about Tucker Carlson's departure from Fox is that Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, Michael Shellenberger, Harmeet Dhillon, Tulsi Gabbard, among many others, have lost an outlet where they can reach a big audience while speaking truth to power.
Assuming Tucker doesn't decide to pack it in (and I wouldn't blame him if he did), he'll definitely have a huge following, but that following is likely to be less diverse. The libertarians and left-leaning patriots who appeared on Tucker's show were an amplifier of sanity to the centrist part of Fox's audience.
Unfortunately, I fear that amplifier is now greatly diminished. Fox is being absorbed into the blob that is the uniparty.
"All necessities provided. All anxieties tranqualized. All boredom amused."
I have to believe that Fox was actually throttling Tucker back and now that governor has been removed those who wanted him gone have no idea what is about to hit them.
Seriously, I haven't watched Fox for many years after having used it as my sole new source for a long time, but I would regularly tune in to watch Tucker as apparently many others did as well. So yes, they managed to get the dog kicked out of the yard but now he is on the outside of the fence where he can do serious damage to those who were taunting him. Nice job idiots, better invest in some mercurochrome because the dog can now bite and the last thing he heard on the way out of the yard was "Chopper sic balls".
I couldn't figure out why Fox settled the lawsuit with Dominion -- until today.
I believe the settlement was a ruse by the Fox suits to fire the outspoken thinkers on staff, including Bongino, Carlson and the next ones to be axed.
"Now Dan, Tucker, you guys pay attention! We can't mention any alleged "election anomalies" on air ever again, or Dominion could destroy our network! Oh, you can't do that? Ok then, buh-bye!" 👿🤡
People who have never actually listened to Tucker Carlson have heard his name, quoted by some trusted commentator or writer they observe regularly. They just never got around to lisitening to Tucker, mostly because they don't even live in the US of A.
But now they note he is quoted on some recorded video footage and so, alerted by his sacking... "Which means he must have said something good, right? they tune in. Holy fuck, this guys is really something. Why are they sacking the good guys. Like that presenter on Veritas. or the bloke on... forgotten, but he was good too.
Something very undemocratic is going on here. Actually, this is repression of free speech. What do they want to hide?"
And this is basically how we all were radicalised, five or fifty years ago.
The repression of information is ramping up, but in the process the noise is waking people up. This will be a global revolution, because it is a global repression, and the elite have not quite thought this through because the forces needed to shut you all down, are suddenly going to be needed in Ukraine, Germany, France, Australia, Central America, stateside, and to protect the 780 military bases around the world that are suddenly bulleyes for pissed off locals.
These three sackings are actually the begining of the end for the elite because they never did realise that some of the sheep can out-think them. Elites have always made the same basic error of believing they are the best and smartest. As every fighter in history has always learned to his cost, there is always somebody better.
I really only watched Fox for Tucker and Greg Gutfeld. I still love Greg, but have mixed emotions about turning on Fox at all. I liked Fox Nation too. Tucker Carlson today...where I was first introduced to your particular brilliance is bittersweet now. I want to watch his Eating Bugs show, but don't have the heart since they canned him. I want to cancel my subscription. I don't want to hurt the other decent people at Fox, but WHY don't they defend him?
We all know he goes for the truth. He hinted sometimes during his show that there were things he was not permitted to say on air. His snide veiled comments did not go unnoticed.
He should ring up Joe Rogan and do his podcast, then launch his own.
I think Rumble would be a good place to be....but Spotify might jump at it as well. He can now write his own ticket......and he did it on his own. FOX was just a vehicle, he was ALWAYS the driver. So many like me sensed his sincerity and that is a large part of why we watched. We know he WANTED to find the truth. He didn't shill for anyone on either side.
I think they fired him because of RFK Jr. I think FOX wanted to pretend they still had conservatives' views.....but they were becoming increasingly annoying and leftward leaning. RFK Jr was sincere and I could vote for him. He is an outsider now and we need more of him.
God Bless you and Tucker for always pointing towards truth...and doing it in a most entertaining way...his laugh just made me laugh. FOX can't really fire him.....they can just kick him off their network...only the public can fire him and we are not nearly done with him.
Apr 25, 2023·edited Apr 25, 2023Liked by Chris Bray
I am fixated on the guard that "didn't tell you the gate ends 50' into the woods." That is sooooo Boomer.
In the 2020s, the story goes: He tells you the work around and lets you "sneak in". You're walking around is captured on video you probably would TikTok your visit and take two or three selfies and plaster them all over Facebook. Meanwhile, the video survellience system captures you and is shared with the media and shown on an endless loop and Tweets of you are everywhere. Quickly you are identified by "law enforcement" by cell phone data, your bank records and the GPS on you phone. Accompanied by CNN, the FBI brings 20 SUVs and 35 heavily armed agents (with assault rifles no less) to your door at 5 AM and arrests you for trespassing, public urination (it is implied that during a 12 mile hike you had to wizz on a tree at least once) and starting an insurrection. Then you sit in jail for over a year and you plead guilty because you just want to get the hell out of jail. Then tapes are released that shows the conversation where the guard absolutely "didn't tell you the fence ends in the woods" and every news source in America ignores it but one. The sole man of the soulless network who dares to share that information is fired three weeks later.
Larry Correia, elsewhere:
I am seeing a lot of people not really understanding today’s events in cable news. Ha ha. Tucker Carlson is such a loser. Big dummy got fired!
That shows a very boomer era understanding of media consumption and overestimation of the power of a traditional news channel.
He didn’t need Fox. The last I saw his contract there was something like cheap, which is chump change to a guy with a reliable audience in the millions every night.
Tucker Carlson is now going to go sign a Joe Rogan size contract on a streaming service. He will make the most money of any news broadcaster in history and probdbly do so by an insane margin.
Meanwhile Don Lemon is a relative non entity. He won’t bring much of an audience with him wherever he goes.
One of these two will get a pay cut. The other is going to make orders of magnitude more money, and has the investment potential to boost any media corporation he signs with into a very competitive sphere.
And I don’t even watch Fox News at all, nor do I care about Tucker Carlson. But if you are too blinded by goofy partisan point scoring to grasp the business implications of this, it’s a bad look, but it ain’t my problem.
https://www.facebook.com/larry.correia/posts/pfbid029UUXAm4DDMiGBVxeYgi4MiKTWKHgtrUg32niBjfAyrEzZbh5vVj9zcXoifRm6hvFl
(EDITED to fix borked link.)
Thank you. I've been depressed all day. I know it's stupid, but Tucker Carlson was the first news show I ever watched because, while I did disagree with him from time to time, he was the first conservative I came across that did not lick the boots of the Republican Party, corporations, and the war machine, and he identified the same fundamental problems I did. Granted, I had been living in a Democrat bubble for a while, but, god, he was so refreshing. He seemed sincere.
And Ryan Gardner on here has it right. He calls it the "suits"; I call it the Machine. But he was giving voice to a truth many of us peons have understood for a while now. R or D, there ain't any difference. They all see us as obstacles or resources, but feel no compunction to treat us as individuals worthy of their time and attention.
But the fence on that particular gate doesn't even go a few feet into the woods. It's a wide open field thanks to platforms like Substack and Rumble and the like, and all you have to do is step two feet to the side and you'll be by it. And the only ones who don't understand that quite yet are those who actually think getting Tucker off cable will save them.
He was hitting a little too close to home with the suits.
What a perfect metaphor. And I LOVE the guy at the gate who "absolutely didn't" tell you how to circumvent it. Those are the quiet rebels who bring it all crashing down. Here's to all of them/us/you.
Well, we don’t know if he was fired or whether he quit, but Tucker has a lot to say and anyone who thinks he’s done saying it isn’t paying attention. Listen to his Heritage Foundation talk earlier this week and you’ll know there’s more Tucker to come. The only question is where he will land.
I never watched FNC, but always watched Tucker. I subscribed to Fox Nation but only to see Tucker’s pieces. That subscription got canceled today within minutes of hearing the news. I suspect there might have been a few others who felt that way.
Yeah, they canceled Tucker. Meaning, now when he goes to an independent platform or creates his own and takes his sizeable audience with him, he won't have to toe the corporate line anymore. Meaning no leash, no muzzle, no carrot, and no stick. So they set him free to broadcast the truth even more loudly and explicitly than before. The ruling class would be dangerous if they could be as cunning and competent as they are evil. Fortunately for us, they are buffoons.
You are a bright light Chris Bray. Thank you for this post.
I love that picture of the gate. Yeah, Tucker can be the next Joe Rogan, only in a repp tie. Rogan has 100,000,000 followers. Not a typo. Tucker, the star of the top cable news show ever, had around 4.3 million on Fox. Tucker will do fine. And they are going to honor the rest of his contract. I don’t really know what Tucker’s actual politics are, but he has been a loud megaphone for freedom and traditional values.
Why the firing- Ray Epps? dominion? Some other insult to the corporate media losers? All the above? Doesn’t matter. Fox is the loser here. They are saying to marketing gurus at Bud Lite - “ You think you know how to destroy a brand? Hold my commemorative transsexual beer can.” Corporate suicide - they fired Bongino last week and other people prinevto telling the truth before that. Who do they keep?
Corporate mediocrities like Brett “My face is frozen with Botox”. Baer. They’re desperate to put the free speech genie back in the bottle. You can smell it. I know the Left is celebrating. But this will make Tucker stronger. Smells Iike we are winning.
It is serendipitous that I cancelled my cable subscription a few months ago, which I was keeping only for Tucker. Fox will fade into the rest.
My greatest regret about Tucker Carlson's departure from Fox is that Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, Michael Shellenberger, Harmeet Dhillon, Tulsi Gabbard, among many others, have lost an outlet where they can reach a big audience while speaking truth to power.
Assuming Tucker doesn't decide to pack it in (and I wouldn't blame him if he did), he'll definitely have a huge following, but that following is likely to be less diverse. The libertarians and left-leaning patriots who appeared on Tucker's show were an amplifier of sanity to the centrist part of Fox's audience.
Unfortunately, I fear that amplifier is now greatly diminished. Fox is being absorbed into the blob that is the uniparty.
"All necessities provided. All anxieties tranqualized. All boredom amused."
I have to believe that Fox was actually throttling Tucker back and now that governor has been removed those who wanted him gone have no idea what is about to hit them.
Seriously, I haven't watched Fox for many years after having used it as my sole new source for a long time, but I would regularly tune in to watch Tucker as apparently many others did as well. So yes, they managed to get the dog kicked out of the yard but now he is on the outside of the fence where he can do serious damage to those who were taunting him. Nice job idiots, better invest in some mercurochrome because the dog can now bite and the last thing he heard on the way out of the yard was "Chopper sic balls".
This represents the death of MSM, not tucker. He was their pacemaker, and they just took out the batteries.
That'll shut him up.
I couldn't figure out why Fox settled the lawsuit with Dominion -- until today.
I believe the settlement was a ruse by the Fox suits to fire the outspoken thinkers on staff, including Bongino, Carlson and the next ones to be axed.
"Now Dan, Tucker, you guys pay attention! We can't mention any alleged "election anomalies" on air ever again, or Dominion could destroy our network! Oh, you can't do that? Ok then, buh-bye!" 👿🤡
Oh and worse, Chris.
People who have never actually listened to Tucker Carlson have heard his name, quoted by some trusted commentator or writer they observe regularly. They just never got around to lisitening to Tucker, mostly because they don't even live in the US of A.
But now they note he is quoted on some recorded video footage and so, alerted by his sacking... "Which means he must have said something good, right? they tune in. Holy fuck, this guys is really something. Why are they sacking the good guys. Like that presenter on Veritas. or the bloke on... forgotten, but he was good too.
Something very undemocratic is going on here. Actually, this is repression of free speech. What do they want to hide?"
And this is basically how we all were radicalised, five or fifty years ago.
The repression of information is ramping up, but in the process the noise is waking people up. This will be a global revolution, because it is a global repression, and the elite have not quite thought this through because the forces needed to shut you all down, are suddenly going to be needed in Ukraine, Germany, France, Australia, Central America, stateside, and to protect the 780 military bases around the world that are suddenly bulleyes for pissed off locals.
These three sackings are actually the begining of the end for the elite because they never did realise that some of the sheep can out-think them. Elites have always made the same basic error of believing they are the best and smartest. As every fighter in history has always learned to his cost, there is always somebody better.
Amen.
I really only watched Fox for Tucker and Greg Gutfeld. I still love Greg, but have mixed emotions about turning on Fox at all. I liked Fox Nation too. Tucker Carlson today...where I was first introduced to your particular brilliance is bittersweet now. I want to watch his Eating Bugs show, but don't have the heart since they canned him. I want to cancel my subscription. I don't want to hurt the other decent people at Fox, but WHY don't they defend him?
We all know he goes for the truth. He hinted sometimes during his show that there were things he was not permitted to say on air. His snide veiled comments did not go unnoticed.
He should ring up Joe Rogan and do his podcast, then launch his own.
I think Rumble would be a good place to be....but Spotify might jump at it as well. He can now write his own ticket......and he did it on his own. FOX was just a vehicle, he was ALWAYS the driver. So many like me sensed his sincerity and that is a large part of why we watched. We know he WANTED to find the truth. He didn't shill for anyone on either side.
I think they fired him because of RFK Jr. I think FOX wanted to pretend they still had conservatives' views.....but they were becoming increasingly annoying and leftward leaning. RFK Jr was sincere and I could vote for him. He is an outsider now and we need more of him.
God Bless you and Tucker for always pointing towards truth...and doing it in a most entertaining way...his laugh just made me laugh. FOX can't really fire him.....they can just kick him off their network...only the public can fire him and we are not nearly done with him.
I am fixated on the guard that "didn't tell you the gate ends 50' into the woods." That is sooooo Boomer.
In the 2020s, the story goes: He tells you the work around and lets you "sneak in". You're walking around is captured on video you probably would TikTok your visit and take two or three selfies and plaster them all over Facebook. Meanwhile, the video survellience system captures you and is shared with the media and shown on an endless loop and Tweets of you are everywhere. Quickly you are identified by "law enforcement" by cell phone data, your bank records and the GPS on you phone. Accompanied by CNN, the FBI brings 20 SUVs and 35 heavily armed agents (with assault rifles no less) to your door at 5 AM and arrests you for trespassing, public urination (it is implied that during a 12 mile hike you had to wizz on a tree at least once) and starting an insurrection. Then you sit in jail for over a year and you plead guilty because you just want to get the hell out of jail. Then tapes are released that shows the conversation where the guard absolutely "didn't tell you the fence ends in the woods" and every news source in America ignores it but one. The sole man of the soulless network who dares to share that information is fired three weeks later.