On Wednesday’s episode of “The View,” its hosts poked fun at Tucker Carlson’s career slide following his abrupt departure from Fox News earlier this year. The segment began with the panel discussing a preview excerpt from “Network of Lies,” the upcoming book by journalist Brian Stelter that will examine the messy aftermath of Fox’s historic $787 million Dominion settlement. Carlson was fired less than a week after Fox settled the defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems, an election technology company.
View co-host Sunny Hostin claimed Carlson got the boot because “he cost them [Fox] too much” in the wake of the settlement and in anticipation of the 2024 election. She added that Carlson was fired as “part of the deal” from the Dominion settlement, a claim that Carlson has also made and one that Fox News and Dominion have both denied. In his book, Stelter clarified that Carlson’s firing wasn’t a condition of the settlement. It was Lachlan Murdoch — the CEO of Fox Corporation and eldest son of media magnate Rupert Murdoch — who made the executive decision to fire Carlson, Stelter reported. Hostin’s fellow co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said Carlson has the “unique privilege” of being the only cable news host who has been fired by three cable outlets — CNN, MSNBC and Fox.
