April 24, 2023 09:50 AM UTC

BREAKING: Tucker Carlson Out At Fox News

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• by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE #2: Colorado’s far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert stans up for Tucker: “Wherever Tucker Carlson goes, America will follow!” Even Newsmax?

Our prediction: even less fact-checking where Tucker lands.

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UPDATE: Washington Post suggests Tucker Carlson was let go for biting the hand that feeds:

Many of Carlson’s private messages were released in motions filed by Dominion, revealing that the host was skeptical of many of the election-fraud claims made on-air by Trump-affiliated attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani.

But it was Carlson’s comments about Fox management, as revealed in the Dominion case, that played a role in his departure from Fox, a person familiar with the company’s thinking told The Post.

Notably, Carlson was not allowed back on air to say goodbye to the mammoth audience he had amassed in his years as a primetime host.

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Huge news this Monday morning in the wake of last week’s $787 million settlement between Fox News and Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems: Tucker Carlson, one of the network’s biggest names and a major source of election misinformation including his fact-free defense of indicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, is off the air “effective immediately.” CNN:

Fox News and Tucker Carlson, the right-wing personality who hosted the network’s highly rated 8pm hour, have severed ties, the network said in a stunning announcement Monday.

The announcement came one week after Fox News settled a monster defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million over the network’s dissemination of election lies.

The statement from Fox News betrays nothing:

FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.

Mr. Carlson’s last program was Friday April 21st. Fox News Tonight will air live at 8 PM/ET starting this evening as an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named.

We’ll update as more information becomes available. But there’s no hiding this from the viewers.