Fox News never gave fans a straight answer about why management fired Tucker Carlson.
Now the audience got their first clue.
And Tucker Carlson let the cat out of the bag on the ugly truth of why he got fired.
Fox News announcing it fired Tucker Carlson back in April sent off shockwaves through the media landscape and the conservative movement.
The network shrouded the firing in mystery with a simple statement saying it wished Carlson well in his future endeavors.
For the first time, Carlson pulled back the curtain on his firing during an interview with Barstool Sports founder and once-again-owner Dave Portnoy.
Portnoy – who is no stranger to being the target of media smear campaigns – asked Carlson if he was still as gung-ho about the culture and on-air product at Fox News as when Carlson did his show there.
To the surprise of many, Carlson said he felt the same about Fox News and appreciated the fact that the network handed him carte blanche to do his show as he saw fit.
Carlson said Fox News allowed him to say whatever he wanted right up until the point they decided he said enough and canned him.
“My view on Fox hasn’t really changed. They let me say whatever I want, whatever I wanted really for 14 years and I’ll never stop being grateful for that. And then obviously, I said too much. And I’m not exactly sure what I said that was bad. No one ever told me. But one day, they were like, ‘Nope! Can’t have this anymore.’ And they fired me,” Carlson stated.
After the firing, many conservatives assumed founder Rupert Murdoch sacked Carlson over the fact that Murdoch is a strong supporter of the war in Ukraine and wants the Republican Party to ditch Donald Trump in 2024.
But Carlson praised Murdoch and his son Lachlan – who now oversees Fox News’s parent company.
“And I even told them as they were firing me, like, ‘It’s your business.’ I made a mental note. Never work for anyone else again and I never will. But I can’t be mad about it. I mean, they were great to me. The Murdochs were always nice to me and one day, for whatever reason they had enough. So, I wasn’t– my feelings weren’t hurt. I was not expecting it!” Carlson continued.
Instead, Carlson hinted that Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott was the one who dropped the axe on him.
Carlson told Portnoy that the company is “run by fearful women” who menaced his staff and made the day-to-day decisions at the network.
“Well, there was always internal– I mean, the Murdochs were always nice, They never got in my way at all. They were always super nice to me. But there were, you know, small-mind– it’s a company run by fearful women. You know what I mean? And there were always like, you know, second-tier people who were hassling my producers. But no one ever called me. I got along with everybody, but I mean, I think they knew like, the censorship, don’t welcome that. You know? So, but they never actually got in the way of anything,” Carlson added.
This morsel offered up by Carlson still does not answer the actual reason as to why Fox News fired him.
It provides a clue.
And a tantalizing one at that.
But it’s still an incomplete picture.
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