hello there, everyone. it is 4:00 in new york when you pull back delayers and really try to understand how any one of the most damaging conspiracy theories that have over the last few years now seeped into the mainstream political conversation and corroded the body politic, from election denialism to its violent manifestation in the january 6th insurrection to putin s war in ukraine, to conspiracies about covid-19 and the vaccine and mask wearing, to the discuss around replacement theory, which has actually been cited in the manifestos of mass shooters it is fair to say it is not hyperbolic to argue that tucker carlson is the through line through all of them. he is the champion of conspiracy theories and until today he had one of the largest audiences in cable news for diss sem natting them not anymore. news broke today tucker carlson is out at the network that handed him the biggest microphone of his career that stunning announcement by fox news made this morning in a short
of him so all the bad press that s going to come from that suit and i predict there will be a lot of it. there will be a lot of juicy tidbits that will be consumed on social media and other places. i think that them being able to say, yeah, we got rid of him kind of protects fox in some weird way. i certainly agree with everyone else, that i don t think there was an epiphany when rupert murr kock watched the weekly episode of succession last night that he said, oh, i don t want to be like roy logan i don t think ruper murdoch had an epiphany about guilt over what they ve done to the political discourse in america i do think it is financial and they are worried about more damage coming, and this was the cleanest way financially to clean house without having to fire everyone who put their handle on the big lie and the