I mean you’re trying to embarrass me, you’re definitely succeeding as I am embarrassed.” Carlson being nailed in court documents for his repeated use of the overtly misogynist C-word was a key factor in his demise, as Fox News had rid itself of Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly after years of sexual-harassment complaints and could not have its biggest star undermining any supposed progress. The Daily Beast reports that while a constellation of factors led to his ouster, Carlson’s comments about the conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell, revealed during the Dominion lawsuit, might have sealed his fate:īut most egregious, and what loomed large in his termination, people familiar with the matter told Confider, was how during his deposition with Dominion lawyers, when he was asked if “this wasn’t the only time you referred to Sidney Powell as a cunt,” the Fox News star responded: “You know I-I-I can’t know and I just want to apologize preemptively.
Both episodes showcased Carlson’s and his staff’s penchant for misogyny - a tendency that reportedly didn’t go over well with top brass.
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Pressed on his future, the flame-throwing former host of Tucker Carlson Tonight flashed a broad smile and joked: ‘Appetizers plus entree.’Ĭarlson’s misogynistic behavior is a leading theory for his ousterĬarlson’s departure comes less than a week after Fox News settled a defamation suit with Dominion Voting Systems but also in the middle of an ongoing lawsuit filed by former producer Abby Grossberg, who worked on Carlson’s show. ‘I haven’t eaten dinner with my wife on a weeknight in seven years.’ ‘Retirement is going great so far,’ chuckled Carlson, 53, as he emerged from his $5.5 million beach home in Boca Grande, Florida on Tuesday night. Carlson was in a jokey mood during a brief exchange with a Mail reporter: On Tuesday night, the Daily Mail reported that he looked “like a man without a care in the world” on his way to dinner with his wife in Boca Grande, Florida. See you soon.”Ī Fox News source told New York’s Shawn McCreesh that Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and Lachlan Murdoch made the decision to fire Carlson on Friday, echoing reporting in the New York Times and elsewhere.Īccording to The Wall Street Journal, Carlson heard the news only ten minutes before Fox announced it publicly, and the network plans to pay out the remainder of his current contract, last renewed in 2021, which amounts to about $20 million per year.Ī “person close to Fox leadership” commented to Semafor, “This is just classic Murdoch assassination - you’re their closest friend, their favorite child, and now you’re dead.”Ĭarlson has reportedly already hired entertainment lawyer Bryan Freedman, who has been representing ousted CNN host Chris Cuomo.Ĭarlson hasn’t commented publicly on the circumstances surrounding his departure. As long as you can hear the words, there is hope. Instead, he criticized the content and quality of debate on television, claiming that the most important topics “get virtually no discussion at all.” At the end, he wondered aloud: “Where can you still find Americans saying true things? There aren’t many places left, but there are some, and that’s enough. Carlson didn’t directly reference his termination in the two-minute video message, nor did he say anything about what he would do next. Carlson decries the state of debate in video messageĬarlson released a brief monologue on Wednesday night, his first appearance since being fired.
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