that opportunity obviously missed we ll see what happens moving forward. claire, i want to ask you about something that you talked about yesterday. that is, the limited impact that any cable news show host, as much as it, of course, would break our hearts to hear this. i ve always done the math when people say, oh, so and so is destroying america such and such is destroying america. i go, okay, well, pick the top news hosts they have 3 million viewers a day. top news host, 3, 3.5 maybe million viewers a day. 330 million americans. 150 million, 160 million americans vote in elections. you have this brilliant insight, the only thing that people like tucker carlson do is radicalize their base and make them unelectable to the other 125 million americans who don t watch cable news yeah. you know, in a backhanded way,
the truth, it seems, slipped out at first, and that is that this was a decision made by rupert murdoch. come on, who is going to fire the most popular host, one of the most popular hosts in fox history? it ain t going to be anybody under rupert murdoch, is it? impossible. it was their highest rated show. it was their show that made the most money you know, it goes up to rupert if anything goes up to rupert murdoch, it d be that. he d be he misremiss as the chan of the board not to have input in the decision. it s absolutely right. thestory that it was something made at a lower level is just popp poppycock. the fact of the matter is, susan scott has just, you know, almost as much culpability for what has happened to fox news and the $787.5 million payout as some of these anchors. she was the one, she was the deck officer