When Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox Information, the channel misplaced its greatest star. Conspiracy theories exploded about why it could do such a factor, so sloppily and abruptly. Was it a situation of its epic settlement with Dominion Voting Techniques? Was he getting on too effectively with boss Rupert Murdoch’s very non secular fiancée? Not one of the above, writes Brian Stelter for Self-importance Truthful. He was fired for a similar motive he acquired fired from MSNBC and from CNN earlier than: as a result of he is Tucker Carlson. He is the man who simply walks across the workplace calling girls “cunts” till somebody extra necessary has had sufficient of it.
In reality, Carlson had alienated so many individuals, instigated so many inner and exterior scandals, fanned so many flames of ugliness, that his firing was inevitable. …
Carlson’s inner critics, of whom there have been many, seen his remedy of the feminine executives as half and parcel with the misogyny displayed on his present. Greater than a dozen present and former Fox staffers introduced this downside as much as me, unprompted. “Tucker may be very titillated by misogyny,” a bunch mentioned. A number of the staffers theorized that his mom’s mistreatment—she deserted the household when Carlson was six—engendered a negativity towards girls. …
Carlson informed a good friend that the phrase fuck “is so overused it is misplaced all its energy and which means,” so cunt was more practical: “It is tremendous naughty, nevertheless it’s to the purpose.” His model, bizarre because it was, revolved round the concept he might name anybody the C-word, or the rest, at any time. He might say something, do something, and by no means be held accountable, as long as he commanded the eye and affection of thousands and thousands. On the within, that was partially true. Scott, for instance, was personally disgusted by a few of Carlson’s on-air feedback and off-air conduct however felt hemmed in by Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch.
One thing to remember is that Stetler’s sourcing certainly contains the white-shoe regulation agency that Fox employed to ensure Tucker is professionally wrecked. Nonetheless, that is significantly better than the Floating World pundits like Michael Wolff whose hypothesis is forensically indistinguishable from fabulation.