Fox News announced Monday that the network had parted ways with Tucker Carlson, the long-time host of the prime time spot ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight,’ a show that was consistently one of the highest-rated cable news shows out there.
The announcement came just after Fox settled a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million.
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On Wednesday evening, Carlson released a statement blasting the American media on Twitter in a video that has since garnered more than 60 million views.
Calling the bulk of the debates that take place on TV today “unbelievably stupid,” Carlson said that these debates will “mean nothing in five years, we won't even remember that we have them."
“Trust me as someone who's participated,” he added. “And yet at the same time, the undeniably big topics – the ones that will define our future – get virtually no discussion at all: war, civil liberties, emerging science, demographic change, corporate power, natural resources,” Carlson said. “When was the last time you heard a legitimate debate about any of those issues? It's been a long time. Debates like that are not permitted in American media.”
Carlson went on to say that both the left and right – and their donors – actively “collude” to shut down conversation that does not benefit them.
“Our current orthodoxies won't last. They're brain dead. Nobody actually believes them,” Carlson said. “When honest people say what's true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful. At the same time, the liars who've been trying to silence them shrink; they become weaker. That's the iron law of the universe. True things prevail.”
“Where can you still find Americans saying true things? There aren’t many places left, but there are some and that's enough. As long as you can hear the words there is hope.”
Carlson ended the video with a smile and a cryptic line: “see you soon.”
