FOX GOES FOR THE KILL AGAINST TUCKER CARLSON - 4.27.23
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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EPISODE 188: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:43) SPECIAL COMMENT: All the details are leaked to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Rupert Murdoch did TOO fire Tucker Carlson personally, just weeks after meeting with him. Murdoch was furious at Carlson calling President Zelensky a "Ukrainian Pimp" and even joined a Fox editorial meeting to complain, and furious that Carlson had called a NewsCorp exec (presumably communications mogul Irena Briganti) a C-U-Later.
Worse still, the C-word insult appeared in the Dominion lawsuit discovery product. Fox attorneys managed to get it redacted, told Carlson. But he replied he didn't WANT it redacted: he wanted everybody to know he'd said it. And the Fox Board and some executives didn't know until the day before the Dominion trial was to begin - another reason Fox settled.
Bottom lines: Fox is clearly revealing everything it has in its Carlson closet in hopes of making him eternally unemployable. Oh, and about 25 days ago Murdoch had dinner at his home in Bel-Air with his fiancee and his top Fox anchor and before the month was over HE HAD FIRED THEM BOTH.
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| 0:41.7 | So, the Dominion Soup was settled by Fox in part because of stuff discovered at the |
| 0:56.9 | last minute and that stuff was Tucker Carlson texts. |
| 1:02.5 | And Carlson was fired personally hands on not by Lachlan Murdock and Suzanne Scott but |
| 1:07.3 | by Rupert Murdock. |
| 1:09.6 | And Carlson really did call a woman executive at Fox the C word and all science point to |
| 1:15.2 | that executive indeed being the one I mentioned, Irina Bruganti. |
| 1:18.9 | And it is pretty clear her response was to open up the Oppo Research Files Fox had on |
| 1:24.3 | Carlson that I told you about yesterday and you know how I hate to say I told you so |
| 1:31.6 | and am ever reluctant to gloat when I am proven correct. |
| 1:34.8 | And when I say hate, I mean love and when I say reluctant, I mean I'm the first two. |
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