Fox Had Its Reasons!

Fox made a decision based off behavior.

Progressive watchdog group Media Matters for America celebrating the unceremonious firing of far right agitator Tucker Carlson. Perhaps one of the most watched television personalities on Fox, in April, Carlson was fired out the cannon on the same day that Don Lemon was fired from CNN.

Carlson's firing was a result of the Dominion Systems lawsuit and the federal lawsuit brought by Abby Grossman, a former Fox producer who is suing for sexual harassment and discrimination.

Media Matters obtained footage from Grossman. It has Carlson going on a rant against Fox. He also was reported calling his boss, Suzanne Scott, a c*nt.

The video below shows Carlson.

Media Matters shows him lashing out at Fox for the service’s “unbelievable” failings — apparently while doing some image rehab for misogynistic social media influencer Andrew Tate.

According to Carlson, “nobody watches Fox Nation because the site sucks” and doesn’t “work.” He called the site’s failings “a betrayal of our efforts,” adding that rather than posting his interviews there he would prefer to “dump the whole thing on YouTube.”

The video shows Carlson speaking on the phone on the set of his Tucker Carlson Today streaming interview show. He is discussing preparations for an interview in which he says he will act as “a representative of the American media now, speaking to an exile in Romania and welcoming him back into the brotherhood of journalists.” The person on the other end of the call asks if Carlson can wear a sweater for the interview because the subject was “panicking” about needing to wear a suit. Carlson becomes apoplectic, saying, “This is airing on the nighttime show, and I want it to look official” rather than “like bro talk.”

The interview in question appears to be with Tate, a Romania-based right-wing social media star whom Carlson gave a friendly August 2022 Tucker Carlson Today interview about Tate’s bannings from several platforms for misogynist content. Tate appeared in a T-shirt, while Carlson wore a sweater. After Carlson aired part of the interview on his Fox News show, he put up a chyron which read, “Go watch the full Andrew Tate interview on Fox Nation right after this show.”

In December 2022, Romanian authorities arrested Tate, who reportedly remains under house arrest while “being investigated on allegations of rape, people trafficking and forming an organised crime group.” Carlson subsequently declared Tate’s arrest “obviously a set-up.”

NewsNation and Newsmax are rumored to be seeking Carlson once his contract with Fox is resolved.