On his out. |
Fox board members are suing Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch. They want them out and they will force them out.
However, in the case of what I am discussing, I bet the longest serving Fox host is none too happy about his boss calling him "retarded."
I rather call him "Softball" Hannity since he literally begged former Nebraska Republican senator Ben Sasse to be on his radio show to debate his criticism of Washed Up 45. He said he will give him easy questions and let him get the floor. In reality, the annoying agitator will talk over him, call him a liberal, question his loyalty to America and grandstand.
I stuck to the title of Softball Hannity.
In an upcoming book by Michael Wolff, it was reported that Rupert Murdoch is none too happy about the softball's stale show.
Softball Hannity cost $787.5 million. The annoying agitator, Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs, Jeannie Piro, Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson lied about Dominion Systems. The company settled with Fox and now its shareholders are trying oust Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan.
Michael Wolff’s upcoming new book about the Fox News universe.
Michael Wolff reveals the corporate board is trying to oust Murdoch. |
The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty, due out Sept. 26 via Henry Holt & Co., purports to give readers a behind-the-curtains look into Fox’s handling of the Dominion defamation lawsuit over its 2020 election lies, its post-election clashes with former President Donald Trump, its shocking firing of Carlson, and the Murdoch family’s Succession-like turmoil.
In Wolff’s telling, both Fox News and the Murdoch empire are in a slow-motion decline.
“The fact that the last book by this author was spoofed in a Saturday Night Live skit is really all we need to know,” a Fox News spokesperson wrote The Daily Beast in a statement. Reps for the Murdoch family declined to comment, but a person familiar with the matter claimed to The Daily Beast that Wolff did not approach Fox News or Fox Corp for fact-checking. “Every principal character in the book including [Murdoch] was contacted for comment,” Wolff responded in a statement.
Wolff, who peppered his recent Trump-centric bestsellers with juicy (and sometimes refuted) gossip that caused shockwaves in the political media world, continues that trend in The Fall. For example, throughout the book a recurring motif is that Fox News star and Trump confidant Sean Hannity is viewed within Murdoch circles as a “moron.”
Murdoch wanted to get rid of him. |
At one point, Wolff alleges, Rupert Murdoch took to calling his star primetime host the dreaded r-word slur.
“When Murdoch was brought reports of Hannity’s on- and off-air defense of Fox’s postelection coverage, he perhaps seemed to justify his anchor: ‘He’s retarded, like most Americans,’” Wolff writes in one chapter that notes how Hannity had pushed Fox to stick by Trump.
Wolff further writes that before Murdoch fired Carlson, as Fox faced down Dominion’s defamation lawsuit, the mogul considered axing Hannity as a way of giving the voting-systems firm “a head” in exchange for a settlement. As a way to justify the hypothetical firing, Wolff adds, Lachlan Murdoch proposed citing the host’s previously secret romantic relationship with Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt, using ex-CNN CEO Jeff Zucker’s firing as precedent.
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