Hi, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. The Fox News Empire had a crossroads today, having

paid more than three quarters of a billion with the B dollars for airing election fraud

conspiracies, facing more lawsuits and abruptly without its biggest brightest star, Tucker

Carlson.

New York Times reports that Carlson's departure this week is made all the more stunning by

the fact that the network did nothing. After Carlson pushed the envelope over and over

and over again, peddling inflammatory disinformation on multiple fronts.

Quote, the network stuck by him as did Lockland Murdoch chief executive of the Fox Corporation.

After Carlson claimed that immigration had made America a quote, poor and dirtier.

He seemed to shrug off his on air popularization of a racist conspiracy theory known as the

Great Replacement, along with revelations that he was a prodigious error of the company's

own dirty laundry. When Russia invaded Ukraine, Carlson show frequently promoted the

Kremlin's point of view, attacking US sanctions and blaming the conflict on American designs

for expanding NATO.

The ideological fallout from Carlson's ouster is at this hour unclear.

The Times reports this quote, Mr. Carlson's rise as a populist pundit and media figure prefigured

Trump's takeover of the Republican Party. His own conversion from bow tide libertarian

to vengeful populist traced the nativist insurgency that fractured and remade the party

during the Obama years.

But he prospered in tandem with Trump's presidency as the New York real estate tycoon made Frank

Nativeism and seething cultural resentment, the primary touchstones of conservative politics.

But if Fox and its star host once prospered because of Trump, their efforts to deny or overturn

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