Carlson Out at Fox, Biden 2024, Trump Rape Trial, Supreme Court Ethics

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Mike & Jay open this supporters’ midweek episode with a discussion of Tucker Carlson’s abrupt ouster at Fox and what it says about political media. They then turn to President Biden’s 2024 announcement, considering Biden’s likely opponent and chances of winning a second term. After that they get into the opening of Donald Trump’s rape trial and close the episode talking about what, if anything, should be done to improve transparency and ethical standards at the Supreme Court. The Politics Guys on Facebook | Twitter Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo, we’re @PoliticsGuys. Interested in starting your own podcast? Check out RedCircle, home of The Politics Guys. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Atheists, agnostics, long-haired, weirdos, short-haired widows, vandal,
0:05.6	Gula.
0:05.8	I'm the government, hug the government, love the government, hug the government, love the government, hug the government.
0:12.0	Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:17.7	I'm Michael Baranowski, Professor of Political Science at Northern Kentucky University.
0:22.1	I'm joined today by my conservative counterpart, Cleveland area attorney and defender of freedom,
0:27.1	Jay Carson. There was a lot that we didn't get to on our regular weekend show, starting with,
0:34.4	well, it was a huge story and unexpected story the last week,
0:39.6	Tucker Carlson being out at Fox in a move that surprised everyone, including Carlson.
0:46.2	And that came in the wake of Fox's $787.87.5 million dollar settlement in that
0:52.3	Dominion case in which car...
0:54.3	So maybe it shouldn't have been that surprise.
0:55.5	Well, you know, I am. But anyway, well, you know, and Carlson, of course, yeah.
0:58.8	When you've discussed the company, $780 million.
1:02.2	So, yeah, at least, well, certainly he was a big part of that, right? But also, you know,
1:07.2	Fox is facing another defamation lawsuit from Smartmatic, as well as from
1:12.3	Abby Grossberg, who is Carlson's former head of booking, who's alleging a hostile work
1:17.4	environment, and also that Fox's attorneys may have coerced her in providing misleading,
1:23.1	misleading deposition in the Dominion lawsuit. So this last week, Carlson made its first public
1:30.0	comments since the firing in a Twitter video saying how unbelievably stupid most political debates on
1:36.9	TV are, how there's virtually no discussion of truly important things like civil liberties,
1:42.1	emerging science, demographic change, corporate power,
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