thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these truly extraordinary times. we re grateful the beat starts right now. hi, ary. hi, nicole. welcome to the beat. this is a top story tonight. fox news firing controversial host tucker carlson today. a total earthquake that comed amidst the rockiest period in the history of the conservative fox news channel, which of course recently folded in that record breaking $787 million penalty in the case of defaming a voting machine and lying about the 2020 election as well as heat on the company s wider reporting and errors in work place practices. now, carlson is one of fox s most watched and until now highest paid stars so by all accounts, today s firing surprised him, his own team, and most of his colleagues fox did not allow him a final show the decision and firing clearly came fast. this was his sign off on friday. we ll be back on monday in the meantime, have the best weekend with the ones that you love, and we
the most recent of whom is he a, the artist formerly known as kanye west, who today announced he was going to purchase parlor. do you know what parlor is the word might invoked the image of a fancy room or a cute little lady sitting in sitting there too from china. but parler is decidedly not that. parler it s a far right fringe, social media platform. and you first might have heard of it around the time of the capital insurrection, january 6th, 2021, because many of the violent rioters, organized on parlor. the podcaster, swisher, that very day ask one of the founders of parler if he felt any responsibility for the death and destruction to which he said this i don t feel responsible for any of this, and neither should the platform considering we are a neutral town square. and it just adheres to the laws. so, if people are organizing something, that s more of a problem of people are upset. they feel disenfranchised. yes, people were upset, and they felt disenfranchised.
who bob dylan documented just as the antiwar movement was narrated and shaped politically by songs like war and ccr s fortunate son. and elite america faced the facts of the reality of police brutality in this country, many artists forced the issue with sometimes peaceful amends about police brutality for some music fans and hippies, maybe it can feel like that kind of musical protest has faded in culture, just like in the news, it depends where you look. and if you re listening. are you? because that brings us to some news tonight call it social justice news or music news or don t worry about cot gorizing it and just listen. because an artist, idk has a brand new protesting song.
definitive book, and the connection to the opioid crisis. explain why the send settlement was significant? i think there were a lot of people who had been pushing for accountability for that sackler family for a long time. this is a family that until recently, their name was on museums, art museums, universities, and they were celebrated as elite america. nobody was really connecting them to this terrible overdose crisis that they had such a hand in helping to create. you end up with this kind of funny situation in which their company ends up and back on the, you might wonder how could a company that has generated 35 billion dollars in revenue for this one drug, could end up and back quincy, the reason is because the family has been quietly pulling money out of the company, for ten years leading up to this. for ten years, family has taken more than ten billion dollars out of the company, and they say, too bad, the company s bankrupt. so they ve got to keep the money. you end up with
between what sarah palin would call real america and elite america. yeah, you can ask our friends nicole wallace where the energy of those campaign events were late in 2008, michael beschloss, a lot of those crowds coming out to see sarah palin, she was exciting and talking to them in a language they have not heard before at least out in the public. as george describes, she started something we are reckoning here today. absolutely right, willie. i think i agree that nicole would be delighted of reminded of her role of the sarah palin s rise. i am waiting for a text from her right now. exactly with smoke coming off of her. that s what george wallace was talking about in the 1960s when he talked about