This is why Tucker Carlson was axed
It wasn't for telling too many lies, it was for exposing too many critical ones
Tucker Carlson recently underwent an inimical separation from his employer, Fox News. Given that said employer just agreed to cough up close to $800 million—nearly one-tenth of the official annual U.S. Military budget—as a result of Fox News hosts allowing “election deniers” air time while deriding their claims in private, speculation from the left has linked Carlson’s exodus to this exorbitant settlement and the journalistic sins it implies.
This is not the case, although since leftists refuse to admit that they ceaselessly ladle fake news into their own brains and therefore farcically view Fox News as a stand-alone bogeyman, their perception is understandable.
Carlson himself actually pushed back on-air against Sidney Powell’s election-fraud braying, but even had he rubber-stamped it, this would have played no role in his ouster. His mistake, and it only looks like one if you assume he wanted to stay at Fox News, was telling his viewers—and bear in mind, he had the most-watched program on America's most-watched cable-news network—too much true, damning information about covid, the U.S. war machine, and other troublesome topics.
The segment below aired about a week ago. I watched it for the first time yesterday, and was genuinely floored by Carlson’s level of candor. You don’t have to believe him to be impressed if you know anything about the constraints under which he is supposed to operate.
Despite Carlson’s eminent popularity, he had lost most of his advertisers in a series of waves during the Trump administration for on-air comments about, mostly, racially charged issues such as Charlottesville and George Floyd.1 That may be why he felt the freedom to more or less directly call Pfizer, Moderna, and Raytheon criminal enterprises.
In this he is correct, and for this offense and other recent bouts of oversharing—such as openly questioning the U.S. security state (which has verifiably spied on him)—Carlson was deplatformed.
Also, even a year ago, Carlson had begun to attract too many bullshit-weary liberals for the Empire's liking.
All this while the squeaking wretch known as A.O.C. (and who gives a fuck what that flunky’s real name is) is calling for more censorship by the legislative apparatus to which she belongs, fretting to fellow establishment sociopath Jen Psaki that Fox News even being on air is a threat to national security.
Unlike most popular cable-news personalities, whose status is tied entirely to whatever network they jabber for, Tucker has independent star power. He could very likely command a multi-year streaming deal for more money than Fox News will be forking over to Dominion Voting Systems.
That is, if the government doesn't simply decide to simply outlaw independent media in the interests of national security. And who watching these purulent morbidities closely believes it and its puppet-masters aren't becoming desperate enough to go there?
Among Carlson’s costly comments was that Black Lives Matter “may be a lot of things, this moment we’re living through, but it is definitely not about black lives. Remember that when they come for you, and at this rate, they will.” Not only does this look prescient three years later, but Carlson—unlike alleged liberals—has defended the four black socialists recently indicted by the FBI for using their First Amendment Rights with regard to the mess in rapidly disappearing Ukraine. Where are rats like Ilhan Omar and Kamala Harris on this one?