Tucker Carlson Is Out At Fox. What Happened?

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🗓️ 26 April 2023

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In a statement on Monday, the Fox News said it's parting ways with its biggest star, Tucker Carlson. Before his firing, Carlson had the most-watched show on cable news, with more than 3 million viewers each night.

His influence didn't just reach voters, but lawmakers too.

We discuss what Tucker Carlson's departure means for the future of conservative media and the Republican party.

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0:00.0	As you know by now Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News.
0:12.1	In a statement on Monday, the network said they're parting ways with their biggest
0:15.6	star.
0:16.7	Before he was fired, Tucker Carlson tonight was one of the most watch shows on cable news,
0:21.8	and he had a very particular way of getting his message across.
0:25.2	They care more about identity politics than they care about your life.
0:28.4	They care more about preventing a border wall than they do about raising the wages of American
0:32.6	workers.
0:33.6	They care more about putting Roger Stod in prison than about punishing looters and arsonists.
0:37.4	They care far more about foreigners than about their own people.
0:40.2	They seem to care more about Venezuela than they care about this country.
0:42.6	They care about Afghans far more than they care about you.
0:45.9	They don't care about you, and they're saying that as clearly as they possibly can.
0:48.7	They don't care about your kids, and they really don't care about your grandkids.
0:51.8	For more than six years on this prime time program, he railed against immigration, the
0:56.7	Black Lives Matter movement, and political correctness.
0:59.8	More recently, he promoted false claims about the COVID-19 pandemic, the result of the
1:05.0	2020 election, and he peddled the racist replacement conspiracy.
1:08.8	A white supremacist belief that non-white people are being ushered into the U.S. to replace
1:13.0	white voters.
1:14.4	His influence didn't just reach voters.
1:16.8	It reached lawmakers too.
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