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
situation who were not authorized to comment publicly said the decision to fire carlson came straight from fox corp. chairman rupert murdoch. carlson s exit is related to the discrimination lawsuit filed by abby grossberg, the producer filed by the network last month. murdoch is said to be concerned over carler s coverage of the january 6th insurrection at the u.s. capitol the ouster of top fox news anchor tucker carlson is where we begin today with some of our favorite reporters and friends new york times political reporters jeremy peters and nick contessori are here. both have written extensively about tucker carlson and fox news including carlson s conspiracies at the network. and former senator claire mccaskill is back, lucky for us,
Fox Corp Chairman, Rupert Murdoch has testified that Fox commentators ‘endorsed’ Donald Trump s 2020 election lie. However, he remained sceptical about the conspiracy theory right away