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links and the like well Tucker Carlson out at Fox News breaking news happening now this was

Tucker Carlson Friday night at the Heritage Foundation's 50th anniversary

gala in Washington DC do you look around and you see so many people break

under the strain under the downward pressure of whatever this is that we're going

through and you look with disdain and sadness as you see people you know become

quizlings you see them revealed as cowards you see them going along with a new

new thing which is clearly a poisonous thing a silly thing you know saying things you know they don't believe because they want to keep their jobs. If there's a single person in this room who hasn't seen that through George Floyd and COVID and the Ukraine war, raise your hand. Oh, nobody, right, you all know what I'm talking about. And you're so disappointed in people. You know, you are, and you realize that the herd instinct is maybe the strongest instinct. I mean, it may be stronger than the hunger and sex instincts, actually. The instinct,

which again is inherent to be like everybody else and not to be cast out of the group,

not to be shunned, that's a very strong impulse in all of us from birth. And it takes over,

unfortunately, in moments like this, and it's harnessed, in fact, by bad people in moments like this to produce uniformity. And you see people going along with this, and you lose respect for them. And that certainly happened to me at scale over the past three years. I'm not mad at people. I'm just sad. I'm disappointed. How could you go along with this? You know it's not true, but you're saying it anyway? Really? You're putting your pronouns in your email? You're ridiculous.

That was Tucker Carlson at the Heritage Foundation on Friday night, maybe alluding to more there.

There aren't a lot of reports about what's going on here. Everybody's got theories.

This is actually really big news, Fox News and its star host, Parting Ways. Tucker Carlson gets more viewers than anyone. And he, as a Friday, is done with Fox. No goodbye, no last show. His Friday show was it. I will speculate

because it's my job. I at least have some informed speculation. I was at Fox for five years.

I know Tucker. I don't know him well. He's one of the people who pushed me into fly fishing.

He's a very nice guy. He did his show from Maine and from Florida. He was not in the building at Fox News.

I don't think you can do anything other than draw a straight line from the $787.5 million verdict against Fox News,

or the settlement rather, in Dominion, upcoming lawsuits as well. And what has happened,

Dan Bongino, of course, out at Fox, they couldn't come to terms over a future for him. And now

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