“Who organized those Black Lives Matter riots three years ago? No one’s gotten to the bottom of that. dollars we’ve sent to Ukraine? No clue,” Carlson asked with his trademarked conspiracy-drenched rhetorical style. “What’s happened to the hundreds of billions of U.S. Not that Carlson himself didn’t have a lot to say with thinly veiled antisemitic attacks on Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky as “sweaty and rat-like, a comedian-turned-oligarch, a persecutor of Christians.” Would be great to have shows from all parts of the political spectrum on this platform! - Elon Musk June 6, 2023 Battling a leak of incriminating texts and video out of his time at Fox, Carlson also faces a suit from TCT‘s former senior booking producer Abby Grossberg alleging rampant misogyny and harassment on the show.įrequently accused of taking racist and anti-immigrant positions while on Fox News, Carlson promised on May 9 that he would be debuting a show on Twitter because it is one of the few “platforms left that allow free speech.” While that might be debatable, tonight’s Tucker on Twitter premiere might be in violation of Carlson’s FNC contract - or a sign he is free of it. With his last show on April 21, Carlson’s departure from Fox’s airwaves came soon after the company paid out nearly $800 million to settle Dominion Voting System’s defamation lawsuit over false election fraud reports. Technically still under contract to Fox until January 2025 and paid more than $20 million a year, Carlson has engaged Hollywood heavyweight lawyer Bryan Freedman to negotiate his exit from the company. ET time slot, and they have generally garnered about half the size of that March audience. The network has been rotating hosts in his former 8 p.m. Setting the GOP agenda daily and hugging the far right, Carlson averaged 3.25 million viewers in March, his last full month on the air, according to Nielsen. While the topics and themes bellowed out Tuesday might have been right at home on the Rupert Murdoch outlet where Carlson reigned supreme in primetime for over six years before being suddenly dropped on April 24 - his numbers on Twitter left Fox in the dust, even though the metrics are apples to avocados.
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