April 26, 20232 yr 4 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said: Imagine being so stupid that you get duped repeatedly by random grifters on the internet:
April 26, 20232 yr 26 minutes ago, VanHammersly said: Kz is not taking this well He's a complete moron. Well done on believing (and posting here) something that is clearly from years ago. LOL
April 26, 20232 yr Link to Tweet if it doesn't embed properly, which doesn't appear to be doing on my machine: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1651361859163897858 The day before Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation trial against Fox News was set to begin in a Delaware courthouse, the Fox board of directors and top executives made a startling discovery that helped lead to the breaking point between the network and Tucker Carlson, one of its top stars. Private messages sent by Mr. Carlson that had been redacted in legal filings showed him making highly offensive and crude remarks that went beyond the inflammatory, often racist comments of his prime-time show and anything disclosed in the lead-up to the trial. Despite the fact that Fox’s trial lawyers had these messages for months, the board and some senior executives were now learning about their details for the first time, setting off a crisis at the highest level of the company, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. The discovery added pressure on the Fox leadership as it sought to find a way to avoid a trial where Mr. Carlson — not to mention so many others at the network — would be questioned about the contents of the private messages they exchanged in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. Two days after the board’s discovery, Fox settled that case for $787.5 million, believed to be the highest for a defamation trial. Several people with knowledge of Fox’s discussions said the redacted messages were a catalyst for one of the most momentous decisions Fox and its leaders — the father-son team of Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch — had made in years: to sever ties with the host of their highest-rated and highly profitable prime-time program and a face of the network in the Trump era.
April 26, 20232 yr Company executives have indicated that a variety of factors fed into the decision to fire Mr. Carlson after Fox stood by him for years as he drew protest and advertiser boycotts for trafficking in conspiracy theories and narratives of white grievance. But they acknowledge that the discovery of what was in the redacted text messages was an important factor in his ultimate dismissal. The role that the messages — produced in the Dominion discovery process — played in helping to end Mr. Carlson’s career at Fox demonstrates the severity of the damage the suit inflicted on the company. Fox was battered repeatedly by damaging disclosures as it proceeded to trial. If it had settled far earlier in the process, the company could have avoided having to hand over Mr. Carlson’s messages and those of others, including from the personal accounts of both Murdochs. Over the past two years, the Murdochs’ patience began to wear thin, said people familiar with their complaints. Mr. Carlson emerged as an almost unaccountable figure who drew new headaches with conspiracy theory programming that included falsely portraying the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as possibly orchestrated by the federal government. Then, as the Dominion case headed to trial, he told his audience last month that the rioting was, in fact, a peaceful exercise, using security footage that the Republican Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, had given to Mr. Carlson exclusively.
April 26, 20232 yr 31 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: Company executives have indicated that a variety of factors fed into the decision to fire Mr. Carlson after Fox stood by him for years as he drew protest and advertiser boycotts for trafficking in conspiracy theories and narratives of white grievance. But they acknowledge that the discovery of what was in the redacted text messages was an important factor in his ultimate dismissal. The role that the messages — produced in the Dominion discovery process — played in helping to end Mr. Carlson’s career at Fox demonstrates the severity of the damage the suit inflicted on the company. Fox was battered repeatedly by damaging disclosures as it proceeded to trial. If it had settled far earlier in the process, the company could have avoided having to hand over Mr. Carlson’s messages and those of others, including from the personal accounts of both Murdochs. Over the past two years, the Murdochs’ patience began to wear thin, said people familiar with their complaints. Mr. Carlson emerged as an almost unaccountable figure who drew new headaches with conspiracy theory programming that included falsely portraying the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as possibly orchestrated by the federal government. Then, as the Dominion case headed to trial, he told his audience last month that the rioting was, in fact, a peaceful exercise, using security footage that the Republican Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, had given to Mr. Carlson exclusively. The best part is Murdoch's old fiance was heavily religious and Tucker and her chatted about it. That bothered him, he dumped her and fired Tucker within weeks
April 27, 20232 yr On 4/24/2023 at 6:28 PM, Tnt4philly said: Another libertarian who makes the LP a joke. Imagine if our embassies were attacked and Biden didn’t send troops to protect and or evacuate them? Are they not evacuated?
April 27, 20232 yr Tucker is intelligent and talented. He is also a psychopath and a grifter of the highest order and was comfortable telling outright lies and heavily contributing to driving the country into political chaos and all for personal gains of fame and wealth. He is a low life scum of the highest order.
April 27, 20232 yr Tucker: both parties & their media are controlled by corporations, there is one corrupt deep state uni-party that doesn't want you to know the truth! But don't worry Tucker will tell you the truth!
April 27, 20232 yr 3 hours ago, NOTW said: Tucker: both parties & their media are controlled by corporations, there is one corrupt deep state uni-party that doesn't want you to know the truth! But don't worry Tucker will tell you the truth! Yeah Tucker, thanks for that. We'll just ignore the fact that you were one of the biggest contributors to the problem.
April 27, 20232 yr I, for one, hope all the trumpbots listen to Tucker and buy all this uniparty rhetoric now coming from him, thereby leaving them with the notion that there's no point in voting for the GOP anymore.
April 27, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Paul852 said: Yeah Tucker, thanks for that. We'll just ignore the fact that you were one of the biggest contributors to the problem. Lol, the guy had all the time and power in the world to have people on to debate those topics and didn't. I expected at least a few weeks before he attempted this rebrand. Pathetic.
April 27, 20232 yr Tucker is a liar and anyone who believes he tells the truth, needs a 48 hr. hold and serious anti psychotic medication. Clozapine. See MTG.
April 27, 20232 yr 13 minutes ago, Boogyman said: Lol, the guy had all the time and power in the world to have people on to debate those topics and didn't. I expected at least a few weeks before he attempted this rebrand. Pathetic. Quote Carlson's final show covered Hunter Biden, racist home appraisals, inclusive Mother's Day cards, and pizza.
April 27, 20232 yr 56 minutes ago, Kz! said: That laugh. I can still hear it when I close my eyes. Wait a minute, right wingers care about former President's raping somebody?
April 27, 20232 yr 2 minutes ago, Paul852 said: Obviously he felt M&Ms, pancake syrup, beer, Hunters laptop, and peddling election conspiracy lies (I'm missing a ton, I know), were far more important topics to cover than those other things he just mentioned.
April 27, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, VanHammersly said: Wait a minute, right wingers care about former President's raping somebody? Pathetic.
April 27, 20232 yr https://www.businessinsider.com/oliver-darcy-says-tucker-carlson-owes-him-1000-2023-4?amp Pay up, loser!
April 27, 20232 yr Author The perfect cable news program doesn't exi... 3 hours ago, Paul852 said: Carlson's final show covered Hunter Biden, racist home appraisals, inclusive Mother's Day cards, and pizza.
April 27, 20232 yr 15 minutes ago, Kz! said: The perfect cable news program doesn't exi... Well, technically it doesn't anymore
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